The Cost of Not Caring

Organizations that do not show proper care to their people lose employees. Losing employees cost employers money. In her June 30, 2015 article in Bloomberg News, Rebecca Greenfield reported that more employers are changing their emphasis from higher salaries to...

The Loneliest Kid

This week the Surgeon General announced that we have in America a crisis of loneliness. According to the doctor, the effects of loneliness are equivalent to smoking twelve cigarettes a day. In other words, this emotional problem can result in physical consequences....

Falling Down a Mountain Can Change Your Life

I’ve got to admit it. When I think of the name Hank Williams, I think of Junior. He is so embedded in American culture, particularly for those who have been fans of Monday Night Football, hearing his song “All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight” adapted for the...

Back to the Nineties

Last week I spoke to members of the Better Business Bureau. I don’t know if anything I said made an impression, but I do know that something someone else wrote did. Back in the nineties, a newspaper writer included many sad and disturbing items about what was...

When People Trash Your Best

Many years ago, a lady wrote in Readers’ Digest about an act she did to demonstrate her gratitude. She lived in Chicago, and her city was suffering from a heat wave. Newspapers wrote that Chicago’s workers were in danger of dehydration. This woman decided...

3 Ways to Show Empathy to a Person

1. Note the individual’s arm and leg movement. 2. In a discreet ad non-threatening way, mirror the movement. 3. Do this to improve your ability to build a connection with and demonstrate the importance of the other person. See Richard E. Maurer and Jeffrey H....