Introduction Quick Links to SLA Our website Services Contact Us Articles Simma in the News Testimonials I’ve been writing and speaking about work/life balance for over 18 years. Hundreds of thousands of people have taken workshops on work/life balance and tried to make changes in their lives. Senior leaders have supported wellness programs for their employees and lent words of…

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…

Three Things You Can Do Immediately to Create The Dynamic Workplace Where Employees Love to Go, and Customers Love to Buy 1) Assess how you impact your employees, colleagues and customers. Are people comfortable giving you feedback, presenting new ideas and even saying hello to you? The next time you are at work, notice how people react to you. Do…

The Six Components of a Dynamic Workplace That Every Leader Needs to Know Do you want employees who love to do their best work, and customers who bang down your doors to do business with you? If your answer is yes, it’s time you use your dynamic leadership skills, and use the six “I”s, to create that dynamic workplace where…

There are six “I”s, that are necessary to create a dynamic workplace where employees love to do their best work and customers love to do business. In my previous newsletter, I featured the first “I” in this process, which is “Insight.” Use the link below to view that issue. March 2010 Newsletter This month we focus on the second “I”,…

1- Employee engagement has become a buzzword with no meaning in some workplace. What some managers really mean, is that they are engaged in theoretical discussions employees. They seem to think that if they loudly declare that their whole workforce is engaged, even if few people are, they will be considered a great place to work. Research has proven, what…