In the course of HR professional’s work with individuals in transition, they encounter employees in distress. This puts them in a position to either ignore it or provide support to lessen employee suffering. They can also prevent distress through sound planning and implementation of company change. Read more to learn some basic techniques to support employees.
How do healthy people stay grounded at work? How can you make the workplace less stressful? Part of the answer is to be more aware of the human behavior and systems around you. Read on to learn how a healthy approach to your coworkers and the boss, can greatly reduce the stress we all feel from deadlines and the imperfect humans around us!
Toxic employees can control a unit, a department or even an entire company division. Much depends on your observational skills to detect it and the standards your company applies to disrespectful behavior. Read more about how these dynamics can develop and thrive without some guard rails in place.
Performance Evaluation Input For supervisory staff especially, it’s helpful to get constructive feedback from other supervisors (peers), supervisees, and perhaps external contacts with which this supervisor has regular contact. Many companies try this only to abandon the activity when the feedback is less than helpful. I’ve tried various techniques to …
Years of the same strengths and weaknesses A hidden challenge results from long service employees’ strengths and weaknesses. I have, more than once, been appointed nonprofit interim Executive Director where the former director had very long service. Say that an individual in a leadership position has weak performance areas and …
What is it called when a person discloses something too intimate for the setting or social company? Teaching clinical psychology to college students is to truly experience the term: overshare. “Overshare” describes the phenomenon that prompts the listener to think “TMI.” I’ve started covering social norms about the proper level of …
As companies operate with ever-leaner staff the prospect of losing a key employee can be overwhelming. No matter the size of the company, IT, Finance or HR professionals are key positions. They interact with everyone: they play a key role in business planning; and they have a strong role in …
Cooperative gain is a phrase I heard once used in a scientific context and adapted to Human Resource management here . Cooperative gain This is what happens when company goals and values are shared by employees, supervisors and owners. Job design and employee activities are aligned for working productively and respectfully toward …
This post is a Human Resource-oriented comment on this wonderful article, link below: Responding To Mental Illness in Your Workforce: Leading a Culture Change Tweeted by @psychcentral 8/3/2011. The author, Carol A. Kivler, MS, CSP takes an enlightened and sensitive approach to individuals suffering with mental illness in the workplace. The article …