A friend who is in the Communications department at the American Psychological Association kindly provided me with the just-released results of their Stress in America survey, broken down by generations.  As soon as I read it, I was itching to share the key findings with you:    The Stress in America survey was conducted online ...

Can you imagine a workplace with no pointless meetings, no boss hovering over your shoulder, and no punishment for arriving at 9:05AM?  Two online friends of mine, Cali Ressler and Jody Thompson, have just released a new book based on their popular Results-Only Work Environment (ROWE) concept, which they pioneered with electronics giant ...

Most people know that high levels of stress are associated with a number of negative physical and psychological consequences.  Physical problems include high blood pressure and cholesterol, and an increased risk for heart disease, ulcers, and cancer.  Psychological side effects include anger, anxiety, irritability, and boredom as well as ...

As you’ve heard me mention from time to time, my husband is a clinical psychologist.  He’s currently studying for the Illinois licensing exam, and in this study materials I found a great section on industrial/organizational psychology (I/O).     What is this, exactly?  Wikipedia defines it as the application of psychological ...

This week, I’m on a speaking tour at several corporations in the U.S. and abroad, training twenty-somethings and their managers on what recent college grads need to do in order to succeed in today’s business climate.  As a result of meeting hundreds of twenty-somethings over the course of the last few years and reading all of the research I ...

[ImageAttachment] A topic that’s been coming up a lot in my discussions with twenty and thirty-something employees is empowerment.  Today’s younger workers want to come into a job and have the autonomy to take hold of projects and run with them self-sufficiently.  However, their baby boomer managers, more often than not, hold them back ...

[ImageAttachment]   Over at CareerHub, Andrea Kay has a great post about people seeking career assistance who claim they have attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).  She names some workplace strategies for coping with the disorder – including executive assistants, coaching, personal organizers, software and timers – but ...

[ImageAttachment]   I'm both frightened and intrigued by a new Center for Work-Life Policy study I found via the Fast Company blog.  According to the new research and the CWLP study, work for many has become the ultimate extreme sport - high level, high impact workers pushing themselves beyond their limits; working around the clock and ...

Did any of your co-workers manage to scare you more than usual this Halloween?  According to staffing firm Accountemps, ghosts and goblins that traditionally make their appearance on October 31 may have office counterparts whose behaviors bedevil their managers throughout the year.  Executives polled in a recent survey say that almost a ...

[ImageAttachment] Michelle Medley over at Worthwhile had an interesting post this week about lifetime laziness.  She cites the message of Stanton Ballard, geologist, geophysicist and inventor of ''Mr. Ballard's Lazy Lecture:” if you want to be lazy over a lifetime, work harder in high school, college or grad school.  Ballard's view is, ...