by karlyn | May 28, 2013 | All Articles, For Employers & Leaders, Workplace Bullying
Managers beware: Sometimes employees who receive your highest performance reviews may be wrecking havoc on your organization behind your back. We know over 50 million Americans (and possibly many more) suffer as a target of workplace bullying and, even worse, in over...
by karlyn | Mar 8, 2013 | All Articles, For Employees, For Employers & Leaders
Note: This is a repost of a blog I wrote several years ago on another website, but think it’s a great story for a bit of inspiration. This is my grandmother. She is the quintessential little old lady – no more than 4’10″ tall, soft spoken and god forbid she...
by karlyn | Feb 20, 2013 | For Employees, For Employers & Leaders, Stress & Coping
Back in the 1950s, Hans Selye first wrote about the concept of stress from a medical perspective. He said that when the body undergoes stress, it goes through three distinct stages: the recognition of a stressor, resistance to the stressor when the body attempts to...
by karlyn | Jan 10, 2013 | All Articles, For Employees, For Employers & Leaders, Making Good Choices
It’s not your co-workers. It’s not your boss. It’s not that nightmare project that just won’t go away. Eliminating any or all of these things from your working life may make you temporarily relieve a bit of your stress, but they are just a...
by karlyn | Nov 27, 2012 | All Articles, For Employees, For Employers & Leaders, Managing Employees, Working With Others, Workplace Bullying
Many of us grow up having the golden rule repeated to us over and over again: Treat others the way you would want to be treated. In theory, this sounds great. It creates a baseline of acceptable behavior with a yardstick that we all have at our finger tips – we...
by karlyn | Nov 26, 2012 | All Articles, For Employees, For Employers & Leaders, Happiness
With the holiday season upon us, I’m sure more than a few of you are considered what your new year’s resolutions will be. This year, don’t consider the tried and true resolution of losing those extra 10 pounds just because you want to fit into that...
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