Training Day Blog

The practice involves “opening” an organization’s financial performance results to employees, so they understand long-range goals and what the company is up against.

There are still perceptions that make it harder for middle-aged and older women to attain the same level of professional gravitas men of the same age enjoy.

Your employees are more than the narrow niches that represent the focus of their work. Encouraging them to bring more of themselves to work every day can result in greater power beyond what they are able to deliver to your customers.

A recent survey shows that young people entering the workforce may have received too much positive reinforcement growing up.

With so much capacity to enhance collaboration, should augmented reality technology also be used to sooth the psyches of introverts, who get reenergized by spending time alone?

I’ve been lobbying for dogs in the workplace for years. How seriously can you take your ruined project when a dog down the cubicle aisle is chasing his own tail? Dogs remind us that we, too, often are chasing our tails, and not to take ourselves too seriously either.

Training managers to be aware of employee stress, including preventing it in the first place, is essential to creating a productive workplace that employees find livable.

Collaboration can be a great thing, like a jazz band that makes music together that’s greater than what each could make on their own, but it also can hinder, creating a dependent, fearful mentality that’s afraid to follow personal inspiration, jump in, and get it done.

In the cases of job applicants’ public Facebook pages, is it OK for a company to “snoop” and see what it finds?

What role does non-verbal communication savvy play in your manager and leadership development training?