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ISSUE 775 - May 29, 2019 |
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Three Tips to Help You Influence Your Culture |
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If you're a front line employee and you're feeling helpless when it comes to making changes to your workplace culture, here are three tips:
1. Enlist allies - not an angry mob with pitchforks (as tempting as that may seem), but other coworkers who share your concerns, who can act as positive champions and articulate their concerns in a constructive way.
2. Focus on what's best for your overall team, company, and customers. If you make it only about you, it will come across as self-serving, or worse, like you're being a high-maintenance "sea gull" crapping all over everything. So, keep the conversations focused on the end result and how it will impact your company's financial bottom line, reputation, or customer service.
3. Don't come armed only with complaints or concerns - bring well-thought out suggestions and ideas, and provide options so managers feel they have choices and the opportunity for input as well.
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Mike's Fun at Work Tip |
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A simple and kinda zany way to add a little fun to your workplace is to assign fun names to not only your meeting rooms, but your hallways, lunchroom and even stairwells! You could do it through an employee contest, you could name spaces to honor employees (on a permanent or rotating basis), or get creative and look for names that link to your values, products, customers, or culture. Consider some of
the creative meeting room names companies use: A Washington Google office has meeting rooms named "The Situation Room" and "The Secret, Undisclosed Location." A Yahoo office has meeting room names such as, "Coherent" and "Disposed," so that when someone asks where Mike is, you get to reply, "Mike's in coherent!"
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Quote of the Week |
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"I think about the Hereafter a lot. Every time I go into a room, I think to myself, what am I here after?" Tim Conway
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It's a Wacky World |
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June is upon us, so the offbeat June theme days and observances are up on our website, including such notables as:
June 1: Say Something Nice Day
June 3: Leave the Office Early Day
June 4: Hug Your Cat Day
June 7: Donut Day
June 8: Companies That Care Day/Bike Naked Day
June 12: Peanut Butter Cookies Day
June 15: World Juggling Day
June 17: Ride Your Motorcycle to Work Day
June 19: World Sauntering Day
June 20: Recess at Work Day
June 23: Eat at a Food Truck Day
June 24: PLEASE Take My Children to Work Day
June 27: Micro, Small and Medium Sized Enterprises Day
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Cost-Savings to Bring Mike in to Energize Your Workplace!
Calgary: Savings on dates in May and June!
Halifax: June 25-27
Denver: July 26-31
Montreal: August 17, 21
Toronto: Sept. 10 or 11
Challenging Bosses
Mike is quoted in the article, Genius Strategies for Dealing With 3 Difficult Boss Types
Inspiring Workplaces Webinars If you want to reinforce Michael's inspiring messages and keep those ideas alive or you've never heard Michael speak but would love to "beam" him into your workplace for an idea-packed, energizing presentation to
inspire your leadership team or employees, then reply to this email or go to Inspiring Workplace Webinars for more information.
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