Simma’s Tips for Managing Your Stress in This Stressed-Out Economy By Simma Lieberman Inside-Out & Top-Down Stress Management Introduction To say the economic crisis in the US and the world has been stressful is to put it lightly. Many people currently feel as though they have no control over their financial situation and they don’t know what will happen in…

Stress is Bankrupting Us! Stress in the workplace costs businesses $300 billion a year, according to a recent study conducted by the American Psychological Association (APA). Be it loss of productivity, absenteeism, turnover or increased medical costs, stress is clearly expensive to organizations. What’s more, stress is costly to individuals. This same study by the APA shows that 80% of…

Do Your Employees Know There’s Been a Culture Change? A senior leader from a Fortune 500 company contacted me to ask for my help. They had developed a diversity and inclusion/culture change initiative that they thought would increase employee engagement, and help discover and utilize the talents and skills of individual employees. There was one problem. While senior leadership was…

Do Your Employees Know Your Name? Do your employees know your name? Do they even know why your organization exists? If the answer to one or both of these questions is “no,” you cannot possibly have an inclusive culture in your organization. And if that’s the case, you are not optimizing your business results. Two revealing interactions with employees in…

If you want to recruit, retain and leverage the skills and talents of brilliant employees, you need to provide a workplace where people love to come to work. Employers that treat their employees like recalcitrant children, micromanage and demonstrate their distrust of them will not only lose good people to their competition but will eventually end up miserable, broke and…