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!
Workplace shootings covered in the news remind human resource professionals that monitoring potential violence and unsafe behavior in the workplace is crucial. Planning for any performance intervention or termination conference must include an evaluation of the risk for dangerous behavior. This article includes a comprehensive series of questions to support …
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 …
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 …