Do you engage others with questions? Showing interest makes you interesting. Always come armed with good questions. Whether you are in a classroom, workplace, or networking event, the people that ask the best questions get the best answers/...
Company Culture
By Keely T.
The article Why Company Culture Matters More to Employee Than Pay, by Richard Pearson discusses that money used to be the main motivator for people to work hard. However, now with Generation Y stepping into the limelight, money is...
Offering Benefits to Employees by I. Galindo
Why would a company want to offer a nice benefit package? I would think to keep their employees content with their employer. Companies offer employees benefits to keep them returning to the job. Not only to keep them but...
It is the little things that count. Small ways to show appreciation to employees. – by Karen Garcia
Most employees, or people in general, spend their entire lives trying to earn acceptance. They desire to earn it from their family, friends, acquaintances, significant others, people they respect, and even people they resent (Garcia, 2013). Since everything we do...
I Was Carried Along By The River of Dreams In The Middle of The Night
I wanted to kill myself when I was 20. I was the only one who knew this and what I did was hang the lyrics to Billy Joel's River of Dreams above my bed and I'd read it every night...
Lebron James Miami Experience – College after College
What we learn in the ivory walls and lecture halls is meaningful, but very often our best experiences come by traveling to new places and meeting new faces. For me, it was spending nearly 5 years at the Walt Disney...
Stepping out of your Comfort Zone and Facing your Fears
By: Faryal Parvez
Recently I went on an adventure and stepped out of my comfort zone. I went indoor skydiving. At one point I wanted to back out and did not want to go. One of my biggest fears is heights. I usually...
Motivating Employees with the Right Language by Adam Floerchinger
Motivation in the workplace is a cornerstone requirement for high productivity and efficiency. Mayfield & Mayfield (1995) suggest a theory of using Motivational Language (ML) as a means to working more efficiently, thus increasing productivity. Most of us have worked...
Life’s Opportunities to Update to a New Operating System
I realized a few weeks ago that life gives us an opportunity to (like a computer or phone) reboot and start fresh with a new "operating system". Braathe 4.0 "launches" today New features: Wakes up earlier Less susceptible to b.s...
7 Ways to Inspire The Internally Motivated
As one of my favorite professors, Fred Tesch shared with us often in my MBA classes, "external motivators destroy internal motivators". Here are 7 ways to inspire those that are internally motivated. 1. Give them interesting work 2. Leave them...