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Most victims of violence feel powerless and alone.  I’d argue most bystanders and witnesses feel the same. Most of us want to believe that folks are basically decent, not monsters that erupt at work or at home or anywhere and take lives with them. It can’t happen here. Which is why many employers don’t plan [...]

Originally posted by Matt Charney, one of #TChat’s moderators, on MonsterThinking Blog “The Dark Side of Workplace Culture: Workplace Violence and Security Risks,” the theme of this week’s #TChat, is one we don’t spend a whole lot of time thinking about until we’re forced to by tragedy. The reaction to workplace violence and security risk tends [...]

The majority of organizations today have employee support programs to help with workplace absenteeism.  Examples include sick days, short term disability, long term disability, return-to-work, workplace accommodation, vacation, emergency family care, and the list goes on.  The goals of these programs are to reduce costs to employers, improve employee productivity and ultimately top and bottom [...]

A colleague recently told me she was suffering from anxiety about heading back to work, after a week off.  In gory detail, she described a nightmare in which her manager littered her office with big black hairy spiders. Pretty much how she feels at work, she effused.  “The creepy crawlies never seem to go away.” That type of stress [...]

It was Q2. In “Employment Rage”, Howard Adamsky wrote, “Corporate America is not human.” If this is so, does culture really matter? My answer: It’s not human, but we are and we drive the culture. Top down, sideways, bottom up. So yes, it does matter. Sure there were many other responses much brighter than mine [...]

Hello, TC Community.  My name is Judy Martin, and I am the newest addition to the team.  Below you will find my latest post from my blog.  I am very excited to be a contributor and look forward to what’s ahead! —————————————– I’m only human despite being a self-proclaimed work life pundit. Fess-up time.  My [...]

Offer professional development opportunities. Professional development doesn’t have to be time-consuming—or expensive. There are many inexpensive or free resources available today to continue the learning process for talented employees. Follow industry blogs, read magazines and whitepapers, and check out the latest books in the field for opportunities to share with your current employees. Be on [...]

“In the fields I have studied, emotional intelligence is much more powerful than IQ in determining who emerges as a leader. IQ is a threshold competence. You need it, but it doesn’t make you a star. Emotional Intelligence can.”    -Warren Bennis, leadership pioneer, author and researcher My dad was in the business of chasing [...]

Every year as the holiday season ends and the New Year becomes the present year, we all seem to be filled with renewed hope and excitement in anticipation of what the incoming year may bring: new opportunities, experiences, jobs, relationships. Whether we make resolutions or not, the calendar change represents a fresh start we are [...]

It’s tempting, in an end-of-year post, to mourn and dwell what didn’t happen in the year past, to give cheery career tips for the new year, or to speculate on emerging innovation trends. I thought about it briefly and then simply decided not to. It’s likely already been done. I’d like to take a different [...]