Alexander Kjerulf over at “The Chief Happiness Officer” has an interesting post on negative sayings at work. A couple of my favourites are: “What’s wrong with people today?!”If every single person you interact with seems incredibly annoying… the problem may be you. Say this instead: “Hmmm… I seem to be easily annoyed today.” [Personal note […] … Read More »

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Here’s your weekly wallpaper. I know it’s not Friday but I’m off on holiday tomorrow (hoorah – first holiday in 8 years!) and I wanted to check the advanced posting feature I’ve implemented works, so here it goes! You can click on the image below or right click and save here. … Read More »

Communication Nation has an excellent post on dealing with frustration at work. Which is quite appropriate as I’ve had 3 people “doing a letter c” on me this week. You’re frustrated. Somebody, somewhere in your organization has done something that made you mad. They made extra work for you; or they didn’t do something that […] … Read More »

The short answer: Yes! Yes! Yes! Okay, that was a bit longer that I thought, but I can’t stress the importance of how communication affects morale, motivation and productivity. I don’t usually blog about my work any more as mainly I don’t have anything to gripe about (this is 50% to do with the company […] … Read More »

I’ve been wandering around the internet for the past couple of hours looking at various motivational websites – quite a few of which were quite uninspiring (surely if you want to motivate people the design of your site itself should be motivating – or is that just me?!) when I came across a rather interesting […] … Read More »