Category Archive for Work Environment

Category Archive for Work Environment

Top 5 Ways to Celebrate Halloween at Work

Top 5 Ways to Celebrate Halloween at Work

As working professionals, we may not get the same organized costumes parades and festivals that children do, but there is no reason we can’t also have fun in the workplace! Halloween is right around the corner and a fantastic venue to bring joy and teamwork into your atmosphere. Whether you work on a large team, have a small office, or a huge manufacturing plant, here are the Top 5 Ways to Celebrate Halloween in the workplace: Wear a…

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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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Take Control of Your Employee Experience

Take Control of Your Employee Experience

Let's be real: finding talent is hard, making the chance of finding top talent nearly impossible! Hiring Managers are left scrambling to pick up the slack and living in fear of losing another employee. In the end, an overall feeling of powerlessness takes over and productivity is at an all-time low. In an effort to bust the status quo, our team sought out help and found Stephan Vincent, the founder of eX Summit, a podcast that strives to…

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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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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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Daily Habits That Can Help You Accomplish More Goals

Daily Habits That Can Help You Accomplish More Goals

We are all busy. Time seems to slip away from us often. What can we do to stop time? Nothing. We cannot stop time. Unfortunately, we are not magicians. But, we can practice certain habits each and every day to help us accomplish our goals in a shorter amount of time. The following habits can help with time-management and can assist in reaching goals in daily life…let’s take a look at what habits the most successful people have sworn…

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Take Breaks and Regroup at Work…Get Rid of Stress

Take Breaks and Regroup at Work…Get Rid of Stress

We know that life and work can be stressful. The fact that life is stressful is not something new. But there is more focus on how to deal with the stress that we have in life. In today’s world, people are not just settling for being stressed out everyday and at work all the time. There is more and more focus on how to get relief from stress. The big focus lately has been how to get relief from stress while you are at work and…

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No Pain No Gain

No Pain No Gain

There is a popular show on television that I’m sure all of you know about…Shark Tank. Robert Herjavec is on Shark Tank and is the founder of his own company, is a bestselling author, and is even a race car driver. How does he accomplish so much? How did he get so far? He says he worked hard and worked through the pain. He says that pain is temporary. Let’s see what he says about work stress and the pain that comes with working hard…

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Be Healthier This Year

It’s a new year…you know what that means! Resolutions! But not just resolutions for the month of January or February. Lasting change is what matters. Are you living a healthy lifestyle? Do you want to be healthier in 2016? In the age of social media, smartphones where we are connected to work emails all day and all night, and constant stress in our lives, it seems there is little time to focus on improving in a healthy…

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