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While hope is generally a good thing in life, it can be problematic when managers use it as a performance management strategy. An all too common scenario is: A manager hires someone who never should have been hired, or keeps [...]
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**Editor’s note: the following is an excerpt from the Respect Effect: Leveraging Emotions, Culture & Neuroscience to Build a Better Business by Paul Meshanko. Another excerpt, Our Literal Connection to Each Other, was posted last month. Why Respect Matters In order to understand [...]
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The other day I saw a car in a library parking lot with a ‘pay it forward’ sticker on it. It was a gentle but powerful reminder in such an unexpected place. It got me thinking about how we can [...]
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While I usually write about respect from a behavioral perspective and how people treat each other in the workplace, I’ve never written about respect for your actual workplace, until now. After several requests, I thought it was about time to focus [...]
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Kindness is one of my favorite topics. Last fall, I wrote a respect tip on being kind to everyone, but the topic is so important that sometimes it needs repeating. And even more so, it requires an example of kindness at [...]
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A couple of weeks ago, I was driving home from a situation in which I felt deeply disrespected. I rarely ever cry, but that day, I bawled all the way home until my mascara dissipated down my face and my [...]
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The other day I was reading an article about tardiness in the workplace. The basic premise was that if for some unforeseen reason you are 20 minutes late for work and your job does not depend that you clock in at a certain hour [...]
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I started my research into ‘respectful language’ having delivered a number of workshops on the subject as part of Equality and Diversity programmes. People often requested this session because in their professional roles they felt scared to use ‘wrong words’. [...]
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