Happy at Work?
Workplace stress can leader to disease and lower productivity. While you can’t avoid deadlines and all stressful situations, there are ways to create an environment where you want to work.
Being happy and feeling fulfilled always motivates you to do more.
For the high stress organization:
- Create organizational changes to make work flow easier.
- Set realistic deadlines.
- Be inclusive in decision making.
- Hire and delegate. Establish equitable division of responsibilities.
- Team build. Throw an office party, host a dress-up day, and celebrate birthdays.
- Get involved in community causes outside of the office.
For the entire article go to TechExecPartners.com
Corra can tell you nobody likes a demoralized work force. Corra has seen a few in its time. Your employees hate to show up for work and after awhile even your most loyal customers don’t want to deal with you anymore. To say this is a lose-lose situation does justice to the garden variety lose-lose situation.
Treat your people well, and they in turn should do good work for you. If they don’t then talk to them and find out what is wrong. If that doesn’t work, get rid of them and find new employees who appreciate decent treatment and who will work for you. This theory is so old it is almost new, which is a comment itself on the state of things in the work place.
But Diane Gubin, author of the above article is quite correct in suggesting your stimulate your employees through interaction. Everyone wants to feel part of something greater than themselves. Well, almost everyone.
And if you do need new employees, run background checks. The criminal background check, especially and other background reports that address your candidate and the position he desire.
Check them out before you hire.
