Human Resources :  Office Culture

One of the challenges of working from home is how to draw the line between your personal and professional life. Family members (especially young children) may not understand that you're "busy" when you're just in the house, and may distract you right in the middle of an important call or letter. It may also be near impossible to stay...

What do you do for families when you're ready to demand a lot from employees? Are families even a part of your plan? Experience shows that stress levels go up when people are concerned about other family members. The military has years of experience in dealing with the stress of long-term training and deployment to combat. These same principles...

The Worker, the Manager, and the Entrepreneur Welcome to the three. These are the people that are within you, the business savvy technical master. These three represent the three parts of your business personality that you probably do not know that you have. The worker is the part of you that wants to be at work all night, get work done, meet budgets...

Everyone gets stressed at some point in time in their life and one major contributor to stress is work. Most people are able to deal with a little bit of stress, but there are times when there are several contributing factors that may make it hard for a person to deal with it resulting in them having a meltdown. Having a meltdown at work is not only...

Businesses large and small succeed due to superior business practices. Small, growing companies will ensure their maximum competitive advantage when they establish best practices at the outset. In many ways, it can be much easier to effect change and establish best practices in a small business than in a large one that has been laboring under bad habits...

The Benefits of Organizing Your Space and Life What are the health benefits of organizing your space and your life? There are many benefits to maintaining an organized environment. Besides being more efficient (i.e., finding things more quickly) and more productive (i.e., completing tasks fully and on time), living in an organized home or office space...

I attended a women’s college in the 1960's at the beginning of a different social revolution, the modern Women's Movement. At our college, there was a quandry as to how to define ourselves: girls’ school or women’s college? Fast forwarding to today's business world, have you ever heard anyone say that organizations for...

Companies can benefit greatly from adopting and maintaining employee wellness programs. Employee wellness programs can include things like health risk assessments, onsite health screening, health coaching, alcohol and drug counseling, mental health assistance, safety in the workplace, preventing violence in the workplace and diversity education. The...

Workplace violence has become one of the biggest concerns for managers, corporate executives and Human Resource Departments in the past several years. In fact, the shear number of incidents of workplace violence is staggering. A report issued by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) after an extensive study, showed that "homicide...