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Hearing the Message

Office Dynamics

Do you hear the ‘ Ring, Ring’ of the Get-a-Clue phone? Not long after, I had phone call with a close friend that has known me since high school. Eerily, you happened to have just picked up a book two weeks prior, again, dissecting the same issue. It’s a message, folks! Are you hearing it? Are you hearing it? Friend: I miss you.

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29 Beautiful Stories That Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity

Success

A Sudanese woman, Alik, who was pregnant and had two young children in tow, arrived in Fort Worth, Texas, without her husband, Dyan, in 2012. One afternoon, while mopping the floor, she overheard a phone call that left him in a terrible frown, Insurance asking for more money than he had, and her heart began to drown. Unsolicited Help.

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From the archive: The role of workplace design in employee engagement

Workplace Insight

Far fewer employees have laptops (39 percent), mobile phones (40 percent) or tablet computers (13 percent) available to them at work. That will differ quite dramatically from what you need for a training session, interacting with a client or supplier, or for a videoconference with a colleague based on the other side of the globe.

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Holiday Messages Made Easy

Laughing all the Way to Work

I just received this article written by Lynn Gaertner-Johnston of Syntax Training and wanted to pass it along to you as it has some great tips for holiday messaging. If you are a job seeker, send a greeting to every person you talked with about your career search this year, whether that talk was in person, by phone, or by email.

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5 Ways To Work Smarter | PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement

www.pickthebrain.com

Turn off your cell phone, close your email, get off Twitter, stop checking Facebook, stop listening to music, and focus while you’re doing your work. At my last position I had actually trained myself to fall asleep for the duration of my break. The result? Much better efficiency and morale while working. link] Chris Ginsburg.