Training Day Blog

How can you make the most of people’s proven affinity for nature in reducing your employees’ stress levels, and, thereby, boosting productivity?

How do you manage interruptions in your workplace, so employees are able to get what they need from each other in a way that helps everyone complete their work on time?

The challenge of surviving tight quarters with people you wouldn’t necessarily invite to a dinner party means you’re forced to acknowledge those people’s strengths, and make the most of them.

Should corporate training programs be viewed solely as a way to equip employees to serve a company’s own needs, or should such training programs also provide employees with the opportunity to advance in their career and earn more money, so their lives can be improved, too?

I’ve never felt a desire for a women’s club at any of the companies I’ve worked for. What does appeal to me is being assigned a mentor, a seasoned woman at my company I could think of as a corporate big sister.

Do employees say, “I do,” to conflict or do leaders use additional social opportunities that arise from weddings and other life events to improve team cohesion?

When an employee is asked to be on call all the time, with a boss who texts at night and on the weekends, the time to disengage the brain as a workhorse is lost. The brain is never taken out of its harness to stretch itself and have a strong flow of ideas.

To me, being truly ethical means striving to be more than just a rule follower. It means avoiding actions that create suffering for others you wouldn’t want to experience yourself.

What is it about many corporate cultures that makes employees afraid to take ownership, and then, heaven forbid, admit a mistake?

Many people these days find their life mates using online dating sites, some of which have assessments people take to determine the personality traits that go best with potential matches. Could that same technology be applied to a company’s intranet to match managers with employees?