Category Archive for Work

Category Archive for Work

Preparing for a Successful Plant Shutdown

Preparing for a Successful Plant Shutdown

Gearing up for a plant-wide hiatus can be an exciting and nerve-wrecking time. While some folks take advantage of a likely upcoming holiday and choose to use up that PTO burning a hole in their pocket, other employees (usually maintenance professionals) are checking their task list – twice!) As a well-known employment consultant to primarily manufacturing plants, Omni One strives to provide solutions, in addition to top talent. During…

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Smile While You Work

Smile While You Work

Cheerful people are magnets; they naturally attract other people and tend to be more productive as they have positive emotions. In a normal crazy life, it can be tough to be energetic every single day of the work week, but research shows that finding something to smile about everyday can lead to people working smarter and harder. Shawn Anchor, author of  The Happiness Advantage, has found that the…

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14 Work Days of Love

14 Work Days of Love

With Valentine’s Day around the corner, you are sure to begin swooning over the word “love”. Perhaps you’ve already made plans to treat your spouse to a romantic evening (or upon reading that sentence, are currently Googling romantic restaurants for last minute dinner reservations.) You may be assisting your second grader in making the coolest Valentine’s Day card box for school, or just trying to forget about…

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Fostering a Positive Workplace

Fostering a Positive Workplace

Beware: The Negative Workplace. You’ve all been there. In fact, you’re probably having flashbacks right now to your worst job, or maybe even thinking of your current position. Feelings of exhaustion, reluctance to show up, and hurtful comments are probably flooding your brain. You would give anything to be anywhere but at work. Fortunately, there is an alternative to the daily stress you had been - or are currently - enduring! While…

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Want to Be More Hirable? Read Below

Want to Be More Hirable? Read Below

Finding the right job can be difficult. You want to be a good fit in your job and the companies that are hiring want you to fit their culture. A Forbes article contributed by The Muse online looked at this topic.  So, what did the article explain about making people more hirable? What can you do to be more hirable? Let’s find out: What makes others get new gigs while you are still stuck in your job and not getting noticed? You might need to…

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Sleep Matters and We Need to Get More of It to Be Productive

Sleep Matters and We Need to Get More of It to Be Productive

Sleep much? Just how much sleep do you get? Do you think you are sleep deprived? Let’s explore. “The problem of chronic sleep loss is treated as a personal one, hashed out between patients and doctors, most often with sleeping pills, which themselves prevent normal sleep, and which have not been approved for long-term use. But we can’t fix this problem without addressing its systemic causes. Organizations like the CDC are beginning to…

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Want to Be a Leader? How Can You Change Your Environment and Lead?

Want to Be a Leader? How Can You Change Your Environment and Lead?

We all strive to be great leaders. Who wouldn’t want to inspire others and lead a group of people down a path to success? Being a good leader takes work, and this work includes creating a positive environment in order to lead others in an effective manner. So…how can you change your environment around you as a leader? What can you do? An online article from The Nation explores this topic of changing your environment around you as a…

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