Category: Manager
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Listening and Questioning: A Powerful Tool for Managers
Learn to Listen WellActive listening is a communication technique that combines hearing with understanding and requires a connection between the speaker and the listener. Your goal as an effective listener is to understand the speaker’s experience and point of view entirely. It is not just about using the ears to hear. Effective listening involves using other…
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5 Steps to Success on the New Job
You’ve worked hard to land that new job. After spending a lot of time polishing your resume, interviewing skills, and image, you arrive on your first day at the new job. Although you are eager to dig in, there is a period of adjusting to the company culture that often feels like someone put the…
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A Severe Accident Causes Workplace Trauma
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Most days going to work follows a fairly routine pattern. Up at the sound of the alarm, shower, dress, perhaps eat breakfast if time allows. For some, the day’s routine includes getting children off to school or daycare as well. For the most part, we don’t give much thought to the routine or expect much…
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WHAT IF TRAUMA TOUCHES YOUR WORKPLACE?
This weekend’s deadly shootings have highlighted the need for Human Resources professionals and company officers to prepare their staffs to handle workplace trauma. As the weekend’s events have shown, any company, in a moment, could be dealing with loss at their workplace. The deaths of the victims of this weekend’s violence will touch the lives of…
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A New Employee’s Serious Illness Dilemma
Cheryl Corin-Bonder, a new employee at a small company discovered she had a serious blood disorder which resulted in the need for extended days off and a stem cell transplant. Cheryl was devastated by the lack of support, compassion and the decisions the company made. Here’s her story. I was working with a small company that dealt…
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Double Grief – a Beloved Pet and a Cherished Grandmother
Pamela Putman talks about the lack of understanding and support two different companies showed during two different losses in her life and how each company could have handled the employee’s need for understanding and leave time in a more compassionate & practical way. WANT TO HEAR EARLIER EPISODES? Listen Now Share this valuable information with Line…
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Loss of a team member
Teresa Bittner talks about her experience as a new IT manager when her team member was killed on their way home after a long work shift and her inexperience navigating through minimal company support.WANT TO HEAR EARLIER EPISODES? Listen Now Share this valuable information with Line Managers & HR Managers Insert your tweetable quote/phrase here…
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The Devastating Impact of September 11th Years Later
Carrie Green talks about her experience watching the World Trade Center Towers fall on September 11th and the aftermath of helping those crossing the Hudson River to escape the horrors of that fateful day. As someone who worked in the World Trade Center as well as for the New York Stock Exchange, she and her fellow…
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GRIEVING THE LOSS OF A CHILD TO DRUGS
Jeffery Veatch talks about living with the painful loss of his son Justin, a talented musician who tragically died of an accidental drug overdose at the age of seventeen and how he and his wife, Marina struggled with surviving. He describes the unbearable moments he experienced after reaching work early one morning and being told to…
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DOWNSIZING GRIEF TAKES ITS TOLL
Share this valuable information with Line Managers & HR Managers Pat Werscherl talks about how downsizing affected her and her team, which she considered to be like family. During a large corporate merger and subsequent layoffs, Pat and her team experienced many of the emotions associated with grief. She talks about the denial that the…
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An Executive’s Unexpected Journey
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Ron Gold talks about a bike ride that put him on a path he never expected to take and forever changed his life. After being hit and seriously injured by an SUV, Ron’s successful 25-year career on Wall Street ended abruptly. He went through five months of hospitalization and therapy and returned home to begin…
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Grief’s Ebb and Flow
There is no doubt; these are difficult times on many levels. Some of the people I speak with talk about losing their savings in the down market. Others talk about job loss and how frightened they are of a future that is uncertain. These and many other life losses lead to profound grief. Its one…