Karen’s Articles
Does Your Spot Award Lack Momentum?
Have you ever gotten mail or phone call telling you that you’ve won a cruise or timeshare? Likely you have. And likely you hung up the call or discarded the letter in the trash as ‘junk-mail’ without giving it a second thought. Then again – if you had entered...
Are You Stealing ‘Widgets’ From Work?
Back in the 1950’s stealing in the workplace was pretty black and white. If you worked on a production-line creating widgets and you took a widget home - you knew very well that you had stolen this physical property. Nowadays however, not everything falls neatly...
The Kids Are Off to College – Time to find the ‘New You’
So your son or daughter is off to college. Now…what about you? You will have more time now than you have likely had in about 18-25 years. Below are what my friends who have enjoyed the challenge have done with the time. Dating - That’s right, why should the kids...
Musings On Staying in Touch with Your College Student
A few days ago, my friend posted a picture of the most beautifully decorated dorm room I have ever seen. It looked like a catalog ad. Knowing my friend, she placed as much effort and thought into preparing her daughter emotionally for college as she did in...
Thanksgiving Overload!
Yesterday, I was meeting with a senior manager - we'll call him Saresh - and he was telling me about a problem he had with one of his employees, Chris. Saresh told me that Chris hadn’t been sharing information with the team. Saresh also told me about a number of...
Have you met In? Isn’t she cheerful and easy to work with?
While vacationing last week we went to the local Kmart to purchase everything we had forgotten to pack. While shopping, my son Josh pointed out this sign: And don’t get me wrong, I espouse making mistakes. In fact, in organizations where there are few mistakes,...
What to Cover?
I looked at my calendar last week, and there it was, the Fourth of July. Time to haul out the red, white, and blue. Except--a lot of the decorations were already up. America the Beautiful. Land of freedom and choices. The past couple of years, we've had choices we...
The more rigid the employee, the more gently to introduce change…
It was on 5:45am and 4 degrees when I left for my yoga class. Chilled to the bone, the frigid air washed away my drowsiness. I was looking forward to quickly forging into deep stretches easing my tense and tight muscles. You can imagine my disappointment when my...
Thirteen Tips When your Team is Blessed with High Performers
*Think about the high performers on your team often. Too often we spend “thinking time” on our problem performers, rather than focus our attention on how to nourish and support the parts of our team that are working. *Encourage them to take breaks in order to...
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