How to Deal with Petty Bullshit at Work (& Life)

workplace, gossip, work and life balance

I’ve never been that girl at work.  I’ve certainly never been that guy.  You know the type.  The one who workplace drama and just crap at work seems to be drawn to, attracted like a magnet.  It’s like they can’t get away.  Whether its work place gossip, drama, or just general petty bullshit, this person’s […]

PUSH: Productivity at Work, Part 4: Creative Blocks

Pushing Through Creativity and Innovation at Work

Pushing Through Creativity and Innovation at Work This is the fourth and final article in a series on PUSHing through obstacles at work. We’ve covered obstacles your co-workers present, obstacles in yourself, and obstacles in projects. Today we’re going to cover creative obstacles. What do I mean by creative obstacles? These are often just obstacles […]

TEDx: The Art of Workplace Innovation

Innovation at the Workplace

What is Innovation? Innovation is the development of new customer value through solutions that meet new needs, unarticulated needs, or old customer and market needs in new ways. This is accomplished through different or more effective products, processes, services, technologies, or ideas that are readily available to markets, governments, and society. (from Wikipedia) Workplace Innovation Defined […]

Disengaged Employees Cost US Employers $350 Billion Per Year

How Disengaged Employees Cost the Organization

Manager and Employee Involvement Key to Successful Organizations Disengaged employees are expensive.  They cost your organization time and money either in workplace unproductivity, turnover costs, training, and lost opportunities.  They also suck the vital life force out of your organization and can ruin the dynamics of a once functioning and flourishing team.  Happy employees or […]

Workplace Neuroscience: How the Brain Works at Work

Using Neuroscience at Work

Change is hard especially at work and studies now show that because we are reluctant to change we are also programmed to fail.  In 1995, seventy percent of all major changes in an organization failed.  In 2008, we are still sitting at a thirty percent rate of success.  The rise of importance and use of […]

PUSH: Productivity at Work: Part 3 – Projects

prodictivity, pm. project management, workplace

This is part three of a series on PUSHing through obstacles at work. Be sure to check out part 1 and part 2. In the first two of our series on PUSHing through obstacles at work, we’ve covered how to use the PUSH technique to clear obstacles related to your co-workers and how to PUSH […]