Ergonomic Positioning Explained: Part Four, Office Chair Checklist

With the hours that employees spend seated in their office chair in this, the computer age, it is important to remember to practice good ergonomics and keep the correct positioning throughout the day. Ergonomics are the key to a healthy body, back and neck when working long hours in your task chair. When you sit in your office chair, you should adjust it to the proper position first, remembering a simple checklist of setup motions.

The Personality of Business: Manage Your Style for Greater Success

While gaps in hard skills, like understanding a balance sheet, are relatively easy to identify and fill in, it’s often quite difficult to pinpoint the personal assumptions and beliefs that can limit effectiveness. An individual's personality style includes strengths that when over-used can narrow perception and result in habitual ways of reacting that may not be the best choice for all situations. Becoming aware of limiting patterns makes it possible to learn new ways of thinking that offer a more balanced perspective.

Decorating Your Workplace with Tropical Office Furniture

Bring the tropical flair of the islands to your own home office or workplace. Tips to selecting Caribbean Office Furniture, Tropical Computer Armoires, and more.

Bridge Over Troubled Waters: 3 Questions for Group Problem Solving

We have all had the experience of sitting in a staff meeting discussing some important issue to be solved or challenge to be overcome. Everyone is throwing out there thoughts and suggestions with one idea being trumped or dismissed by the next. The knowledge and ability to solve whatever problem you're facing is sitting around the table. The challenge is learning to access it in a way that leads to collaborative problem solving.

Safe Workplaces – Eight Pointers to Safer Premises

The majority of businesses have premises; getting the safety of your premises right is a good place to start. Eight questions to ask yourself about safety on your premises - and some answers.

Managing Conflict In The Workplace

Employees Who Don't Get Along? Here's How To Manage Conflict In The Workplace...

4 Problem Personality Types All Professionals Must Learn to Deal With

Sometimes personalities clash, and when they do it becomes difficult to remain professional and continue to work effectively. Dealing with these 4 personality types presents an ongoing challenge, but one that must be mastered in order to be truly successful.

4 Tips on Dealing with Sexual Harassment in the Workplace

The way to deal with sexual harrassment in the workplace.

Six Steps to Effective Meetings

Most people in medium and large businesses, government, non-profits and other organizations spend the majority of their time in meetings. This article discussed six steps that anyone can take to make meetings more productive.

Empowerment Equals Abandonment?

Empowerment is a frequently used word and excuse that often leads to abandonment of an employee...

Is Appreciation in the Workplace Contagious?

Is appreciation contagious? It should be. How important is it? Do we show or receive appropriate amounts of appreciation? Day after day we go to work, put forth our best effort and don't expect much for an honest day's work. But how does the day totally change when you get that unexpected thank you?

Increasing Retention, Warding Off the Cost of Attrition

For several years, industry experts have warned of a pending retention crisis and the need to have a retention plan in place. How prepared is your organization?

When You're Afraid to Talk to Your Boss

Learning to communicate effectively at work is a common challenge. It gets easier when you recognize how your own history may be creating the mis-perceptions that are blocking your success.

Getting Along with Co-Workers

According to turnaround expert Lee Iacocca, the major reason capable people fail to get ahead is because they fail to get along. Here's how to make sure you're considered a team player.