Comments on: 5 Ways To Improve Employee Morale

By: Holly

Holly — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:41:21 +0000

Thanks for your advice. I work as a recruiter in Boston for Hollister and always looking for ways to improve my work and I think improving employee morale is a great place to start. Thanks!

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5 Ways to Ruin Employee Morale — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:44:28 +0000

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By: Phil Gerbyshak

Phil Gerbyshak — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 21:38:36 +0000

CK – You move to Wisconsin, we can talk about a job :)

I feel your pain. Wish I could help.

Corinne – Be yourself. Great advice! Thanks for sharing it.

Chris – Glad to share your post. Definitely a great one!

You also make some good points for CK. I hope they can help him!

Bill – You make a good point, though I’d do you one better: treat people as THYE would want to be treated. Ask them what they want and need…and then deliver it!

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By: Bill

Bill — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 02:00:44 +0000

I could think about quit a few more important factors for an employee to wake up each day and enjoy coming to work. But, I will only mention one, the one I consider the most important. This is to “treat people as you yourself would like to be treated.” I was surprised when reading the articles on this subject that this specific quote was not mentioned.

By: Chris Young

Chris Young — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:17:53 +0000

Thank you Phil, for sharing our passion and post!

Your suggested addition of “Being supported when I make decisions, even when they are wrong” is very good… I like that… a lot!

Thank you!

CK… It is important to do what we love… And love what you do… Life is too short to go to a “prison” called work… If you do not love what you do, your personal brand will suffer for it and your life story will take note.

Regarding Personal Accountability – remember… It is personal – it is an “inside job”. It is between you and you. Accountability to Others is a separate subject and one that I believe you are referring to.

Two thoughts come to mind… Ask yourself, “What can I do to make the best of what I have here?” or “What can I do to find work that calls me.”

By: Corinne

Corinne — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:21:07 +0000

Ditto. What you can do now: You have a team – manage it the way you want. Do not let other people define who you are – you are good – be yourself. Read Davids “Retire now” blog and make the changes so that you can move on to where you want to be.

By: CK

CK — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:42:52 +0000

Phil – Can I come to work for you?!?

Where I work …

Job Fit – Get the person management wants (or recommended by the buddy system) and train them how to do the job they are hired to do. And if that doesn’t work out, hire a contractor to do the job and the employee to boss the contractor around.

Job Clarity – There is none. If managment doesn’t like you they give you only half the information and watch you fail. This is dispite you asking for additional clarity!

Personal accountability – Only to the clique or the upper boss are you accountable. It’s a good thing the boss is a clique member as well!

Passion for work – WHY?!? You’ll get the same pay raise as everyone else! When you start out with more go-get-ers than slackers and they recieve the same amount of raises you’ll end up with more slackers!

“Take the shot” – is putting the gun to your head! No risk taking here! And if you fail – failure is not tolerated!