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Recession Anxiety: Making it Work For You

Recession anxiety is at the top of the news every day. It's inevitable that your team and staff will be affected.

Symptoms of recession anxiety include: chronic worry about job security and financial issues. Is your business going to survive? Will you have to lay people off? Arguments, gossip, stress-related ailments, and loss of productivity due to managers and employees taking sick days can reduce your company's effectiveness at the time you need it most.

Here are some guidelines for proactive management:

. Keep information flowing. Employees who sense that management is holding out on them by witholding information tend to lose motivation. Even if the future of your business is uncertain, keep your team informed and make sure the flow of information reaches everyone in the company.

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May 26, 2008 Posted by Laurie Nadel, Ph.D. | opportunity, motivation, leadership, fear, enhancing productivity, effective, decisions, communication, anxiety | Comment (0)

bus stop

All of us encounter a critical bus stop sometime in our lives.

B- Building

U- Unbelievable

S- Skills

through

S- Surviving

T- Testing

O- Outlasting

P- Performing

In THE OTHER AMERICA, the defining year remains 1931--a year when more than one fourth of all American were ill clad, ill fed and ill housed. That's surviviving.

In THE OTHER AMERICA, there are continual layoffs, no affirmative action or equal opportunity, no health insurance and no unemployment insurance. That's testing.

In THE OTHER AMERICA. there are endless challenges to be overcome-- aptitude testing to exclude, overpriced courses and training and rigid and frequent certification requirements. That is outlasting.

In THE OTHER AMERICA, one's best is never good enough. New data skills, new regulations and rules and new circles of friends must be endlessly mastered. Now that's performing.

But the proud, the fe

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November 30, 2007 Posted by Anthony Cooper | visualization, story board, self-help, over 50 fitness, opportunity, extraordinary living, effective, coaching, career, business success, baby boomer fitness, assertiveness, aging | Comment (0)

HOLDING ONTO THE GOOD IN A SEA OF NEGATIVITY

You wake up one morning and the world seems to be collapsing around you. Your tenuous time living with you parents because you are running out of money has gotten worse because you placed a bowl in the wrong place in a washing machine or forgot about a coupon to purchase a scooper for cleaning out leave troughs. The previous week a job hunting trip went bad because your car with 120,000 miles on it broke down on highway with steam coming out from underneath the hood. One day late in paying off your membership in your health club, you ask the owner if you can discount for doing some work around the gym. You are told that the gym has more than enough people working for them. Even if they did, you wouldn't be the one they would want. So it goes.

You can develop a real bad feeling about yourself if all this continues. Just because others suggest bad things doesn't mean they are true.

Life occassionally sends each of us life perservers. If these life persevers ar

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October 22, 2007 Posted by Anthony Cooper | workplace wellness, wellness, stress, strengths, over 50 fitness, opportunity, meet people, imbalance, financial coaching, fear, extraordinary living, expectations, employee values, control, business coaching, bridge, balance, backup, baby boomer fitness, anxiety | Comment (0)

I Know Better Than That!

The days are long and the Sun is going down, as an employee who shall remain nameless, driving a Rough Terrain Fork Lift, in rough terrain. Returning to the yard for the evening, at to high rate of speed, the folks bouncing, and as the road dipped, the forks caught in the ground. At about 13 MPH the machine comes to a sudden stop as one of the folks is bent at 30 degrees below horizontal and the right side fork rolls up in circle. Some good comes of this in that as the safety lap belt is in place and on, the operators is saved from more than embarrassment.

As he called me on the raido I heard him say to some one in the background" I know better than that" " How could I be so stuipd?" Any time we take our mind off Right Now we establish a zone of accident.

In the root cause investigation the employee stated, that he was tired beone belief, and was just thinking about getting home, to the hotel. The rough ter

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June 29, 2007 Posted by Tom Sims | Team Building, professional development, organization, opportunity, online presence, notes, MVPBlog, finding a trainer, enterpreneur, effective management, control, communication, business | Comment (0)

Seizing the Opportunity

"Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind." Bulgarian Proverb

by Dwight Edwards

Let us be careful what we dismiss or disregard. Things you and I consider impractical, improbable, or downright insane, may turn out to be golden opportunities we pass by a bit too quickly. Consider this true story

Some years ago an energetic young man began as a clerk in a hardware store. Like many old- time hardware stores, the inventory included thousands of dollars' worth of items that were obsolete or seldom called for by customers. The young man was smart enough to know that no thriving business could carry such an inventory and still show a healthy profit. He proposed a sale to get rid of the stuff. The owner

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May 21, 2007 Posted by Dwight Edwards | opportunity | Comment (0)

Rx: For 'the blah's'...some 'Aha's!'

The holidays are over. You might think that putting the end-of-year frenzy behind them would mean your staff and team are revving up for the first quarter.

But instead, they have 'the blah's:' a mix of diminished enthusiasm and stress that seems to hit each year after the holidays. The good news is: 'the blah's' are cyclical. When business picks up, so will your staff's energy and productivity.

But why wait? Sure, all things change and this, too, will pass. But what if you could take charge of 'the blah's' with a few "Aha's!" ?
In other words, use this low cycle for teambuilding and motivational activities.

Set aside time to meet with your managers and brief them on the inevitable peaks and valleys of the coming year. Even experienced managers sometimes forget that post-holiday stres