Using your heart in the workplace may feel like a contradictory idea, but when you really love what you do it will increase your productivity and make you feel better along the way. “Having a heart”, by way of compassion, will help in any role at work – whether it’s improving your relationships with your coworkers, learning to better understand the needs of employees, or even pushing through the more unpleasant parts of your job.
There are many different ways you can learn to use your heart at work, give a few of them a try and notice the way it improves both your productivity and happiness!
1. Communicate Your Gratitude
It makes us feel good to know that our hard work is acknowledged, and sincerely thanking people […]
Doing business is complex. With so many factors to consider, both internally and externally, influencing the experience and the results for everyone involved, goals and strategies to account for all of the statistics and information gathered while doing business can become incredibly complicated and even more difficult to translate to the team expected to execute these specific and detailed plans. Whew! — Much like the previous sentence, complexity needs to be simplified in order to be effectively communicated and understood throughout an organization.
At the moment all you really want is to tell that person off or throw your computer monitor across the room…or perhaps you are quietly seething about the promotion you didn’t get or how a co-worker dissed your ideas. When people are angry, their ability to reason and communicate effectively decreases in proportion to the intensity of their anger. Here are a few tips for dealing with anger at work: Instead of giving into anger walk away from the situation, take deep breaths, and give your self time to cool off Try to identify what is really underneath your angry feelings Take time to think about your response Avoid texting or e-mailing when upset! Speak up assertively – don’t attack or blame others Be willing to listen to the […]
In today’s workplace, it’s so easy for the only focus to be on productivity. We’re constantly pushing for more, more, better, better. Although productivity is fantastic, we have to be careful not to become unbalanced. You can have too much of a “good thing”. Striving for productivity is just that, striving. Striving for anything without balance becomes detrimental to the health of the employees and the workplace as a whole. When we lose sight of the opposite of striving, allowing and receiving, a healthy drive turns into a stressful, mindless struggle. The key is finding and maintaining receptivity.