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Customers come in all shapes, sizes, and attitudes. Unfortunately so do the people businesses choose to put on the front lines of customer service. How well we make these choices has an enormous impact on our company’s reputation and bottom [...]
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It’s commonly referenced that as a millennial I will have 5-7 careers in my lifetime. These reports on millennials in the workplace state that we are willing to leave a career – substantial salary and all – simply for the [...]
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As employees are increasingly burdened with caregiver responsibilities – not just for their own children but for aging parents and relatives – workplace flexibility is an increasingly attractive employment perk. What does this mean? Offering employees flexible and individually tailored [...]
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**Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from The Respect Effect: Leveraging Culture, Emotions and Neuroscience to Build a Better Business by Paul Meshanko. Nowhere is the insidious creep of incivility and disrespect more apparent than in our political processes. And [...]
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I’ve been a regular contributor for Respectfulworkplace.com since 2009. While I have never personally met either Melanie Sklarz or Paul Meshanko, I consider them colleagues and friends. I see us as “respect collaborators,” sharing a core belief in the “transformational” [...]
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There are offices, and then there are offices. Whatever line of work you choose, if an office is part of the equation, so too is interacting with co-workers. In a frightening downward spiral, the way most of us dress to [...]
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I am in the middle of a fairly sizable harassment training project for a client. Lucky for me, the client’s new HR manager comes to all my sessions and chimes in. The employees often have to deal with, shall we say, a [...]
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Respect seems like such a simple concept. One that we were all taught growing up. Something that our family and community instilled into us. A way that we live our lives. But respect is not defined the same way by everyone. And [...]
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