How to Offer Employees Comfort & Assistance After Tragedy
My life was permanently altered on May 20, 2013. I reside in Moore, Oklahoma, and for a few hours I was unsure if my house was still standing. Thankfully, no harm came to my house, me, or my family. Many of our treasures were not in my storage unit. One of the fortunate ones was […]
Mental Health Is More Than a Work Perk
A growing number of companies, startups and venerable giants alike, are addressing mental health at work in a big way. Google offers stress management classes. Appster has regular and anonymous venting sessions where employees can let it all hang out. Apps like Joyable claim to aid in self-help. Services like PeopleSpark aim to improve communication between […]
Turnover Isn’t Always a Bad Thing*
*This reminder provided by Lady Gaga and American Horror Story The entire concept of American Horror Story has always been interesting to me. You bring together an immense amount of talent for one season to bring a story to life. Some of those people return in the future recast, some don’t. How do you ensure […]
Top Five: Work Perk Watch
So you may have noticed that I have a fascination with startup work perks. I’ve written about good perks and bad perks, family-oriented perks and performance boosting perks. I’ve written a lot about perks. While it’s true that perks are rarely on the top of a job seeker’s list of priorities and play less of […]
How to Show that You’re Thankful for Your Employees
With the explosion of Christmas decorations that seemed to happen before the last of the trick-or-treaters returned home, it is hard to remember that there is another major U.S. holiday between now and December 25. What I like most about Thanksgiving is that it is one of the only holidays that is not consumed with […]
Personal Growth Through Crisis
New opportunities for growth almost always follow a crisis. When this occurs to me, it’s usually in context of world events and quotes from famous people. If you google “never waste a good crisis” you’ll find quotes by everyone from Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill, to Rahm Emanuel and Hillary Clinton. But, we probably learn […]
