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Comment on Preventing Burnout Through Engagement Practices by Niosh burnout | Swineflustoper

Niosh burnout | Swineflustoper — Tue, 22 May 2012 01:47:42 +0000

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Comment on Should you or shouldn’t you? by John Creegan

John Creegan — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 18:11:31 +0000

Providing feedback can change things that need to be changed, and cause us to face the issues that need facing. Steve’s story reminds me of another incident nearly two decades ago, in which I was sufficiently moved to provide such feedback.

A TV commercial was showing a teenage girl facing the camera and speaking. After a couple of seconds we figure out that she was speaking with a friend, and not to us. Then we learn that she was using a computer-based telephone system (remember when those first came out?) and was telling her friend “and then, can you believe it, they took away my phone privileges!”

Now we’re certain that the young girl was proud of herself for figuring out that using the computer to make the phone call wasn’t actually using the phone, and therefore she wasn’t going against at least the letter of her parents wishes.

As a parent of teenagers myself, this wasn’t a very impressive concept for me, and I found the creators of the commercial and let them know how I felt. I imagined several other, if not hundreds of parents doing the same.

The commercial disappeared…for sever weeks. Then it reappeared. Frustrated, I headed to my sent email list to find the address of the producer and send another email, and then I saw it. The commercial had a new ending that totally satisfied my original complaint.

I completed crafting my email, but now with a congratulatory and thankful tone for both their willingness to deal with my (and hopefully others’) concern, and the creative way in which they saved their original investment. I imagine that canning a commercial like that cost some money, which was craftily salvaged with 10 seconds of additional of footage. None of that would have happened had we not provided the producer our feedback.

Steve, I’m a believer. Provide the feedback. It’s what we all need to learn and improve. Thanks for sharing your experience and insight!

Comment on Do Socially Responsible Actions Lead to Positive Employee Attitudes? by bpeick

bpeick — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 14:12:48 +0000

I understand that your blog is about companies making deliberate choices about being socially responsible – I have another spin on this. If a company is people-oriented, and not process heavy, the employees might make grass roots efforts to be socially responsible. In this case, it’s good for the company to get out of the way . See our team’s video at http://vimeo.com/21094049

Comment on Psychologically Healthy Workplace Conference 2010 by Employee Assessment

Employee Assessment — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 10:36:41 +0000

Good examples. Continue spreading the important contributions of workplace entities.

Comment on Company Culture Across Borders by Questar

Questar — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:45:55 +0000

Great point Brian! While companies do want to keep consistent in their practices across various locations they also need to be courteous to culture sensitive customs that differ from one country to the next. Your question is certainly interesting but also difficult because there is no one answer. There are so many variables to factor in when making management decisions that it is impossible to have one cookie cutter way of running a business.

Have you had a time in particular when you’ve needed to have a difference in culture because of the location of one of your offices?

Comment on Company Culture Across Borders by Brian Johnson

Brian Johnson — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:10:47 +0000

Great advice! I think one of the most difficult things to understand and plan around is actually the fact that there sometimes NEED to be differences in culture from one location to another. Whether it is a result of local customs, viewpoints, or other geographic cultural considerations, sometimes the same culture will not work from one place to another.

So how do manage your company from one location to another, and to what extent can you try to remain consistent culturally from one location to the next? I don’t have the answers, but it is definitely an interesting thing to think about.

Comment on How to Improve Employee Engagement by Wayne Owens

Wayne Owens — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:32:38 +0000

Great ideas,

Thanks for posting,

Wayne

Comment on The “Dirty Work” of Fast Food by Bryan Carl

Bryan Carl — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 02:50:18 +0000

Our Country needs to re prioritize our wages. $7 to $9 is not live able. Between 800 and 1000 a month will barely get you your own apartment. These people making 100,000 or more a year need to remember who feeds them when they “drive through” and tip them, or something. I make 40K and tip when the food is good. But, Really, In the end we need to re-prioritize the pay system. Big time.

Comment on How smart phones are changing the way we interact with our favorite stores by SecretShopperNationwide

SecretShopperNationwide — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 05:03:49 +0000

I was just having a conversation today with an elderly friend (87 yo) who said technology that he has seen has been tremendous, but, “I don’t see how it will get much more advanced than what I’ve seen; from having to go to the neighbor’s house to use their phone because we didn’t have one to these kids who text all the time.” I said, “I think you’re wrong. Ten years from now, what we will have will make today’s advances seem like horse and buggy.” This article is just scratching the surface (IMHO) of what we’ll witness through the next decade. Good job, Beth.

Comment on Should I stay or should I go? by Betti

Betti — Thu, 05 May 2011 03:07:57 +0000

Thanks for srhinag. Always good to find a real expert.