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Work-Life Balance Tips: There’s an App for That!
In today’s workplaces, more people have mobile devices and laptops — which offers new flexibilities, but also creates new pressures to be online 24/7. The traditional “9 to 5” workplace is quickly fading away. How can employees manage increased demands at home and at work? Effective work-life balance is often…
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Work vs. Life — The Ultimate Showdown
Work-Life Integration: Supporting the Future of Work Life Balance The only constant is change, and how we see work-life balance is no different. Workplaces are evolving to focus more on knowledge work than factory work, and to focus more on real-time service to customers. Here are some future-focused tips and…
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Continuing Education: The Business Case
Continuing education is an investment that benefits both organizations and employees; to sell its importance, employees need to communicate the value of that investment in a win-win way. Too often though, employees try to justify continuing education by describing its benefits to them individually —rather than by describing the benefits…
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How to Love Lifelong Learning: Five Options for Continuing Education
Continuing education is part of lifelong learning — and we are never done! Whether you have been out of school for years, or you are looking for the next educational experience after finishing your MBA, learning opportunities are everywhere. This post reviews five different types of continuing education that professionals…
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Conduct a Training Needs Assessment in Five Easy Steps
You know that your organization is facing some difficulties – mistakes, inefficiencies, inconsistencies, revenue and customer losses and more, all indicate as much. The question is, what should you do to address them? The first solution that springs to mind is almost always “training,” and that is a great start!…
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Women in Leadership
We recently worked with a female leader who had gotten feedback from a 360-degree feedback exercise. The feedback was positive, with constructive comments on the leader’s strengths and a few suggestions for expanding her impact as the organization grew. This leader was clearly making a positive difference in her organization.…
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Leadership Skills for the Future
The world is an uncertain and fast-moving place, and the leadership skills needed in the past are not the ones that will get you to the future. Here are four leadership skills and characteristics that are particularly important in this environment: Technology and Process Savviness: While a lot of leadership…
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Emotional Intelligence and Safety
Safety leaders are strong in technical skills — hazard assessment, risk management and safety controls — but soft skills can vary widely. In fact, a common question raised in many safety workshops is “How can I get the employees to take the time to practice safety on the job?” Consider…
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OSHA Reporting Requirements 2019
June is National Workplace Safety Month! To make workplace establishments and industries safer, OSHA gathers data on injuries and fatalities. This information helps analyze industries to create standards to protect workers and prevent future accidents. OSHA launched the Injury Tracking Application (ITA) to collect this data electronically. The following employers…
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From a Distance: Team-Building for Remote Workers
Many of today’s workplaces include a mix of local and remote employees. How does a leader conduct team-building with employees who cannot be here face-to-face? This article shares some ideas. Embrace video and build team member awareness. Today’s technologies, like Microsoft® Skype®, Google™ Meet, Zoom and Apple® FaceTime®, offer easy…
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