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Helping People Work Better Together
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Helping You To Make Meaningful Change In Your Workplace So People Enjoy Going To Work - - And Being More Efficient And Productive.
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Welcome to excellentworkplaces.com. I've created an informative and interactive WEBSITE that should give you ideas for improving your own workplace, whether or not you even contact me to help you further.
So enjoy browsing through, click on the Workshop subjects at the bottom of each page, pick-and-choose among some thoughts and tips, and see how they work for you. For a special treat, click on the links on the Time Management, Stress Management, and Contact & Links pages!
In my own varied professional, educational, political, and volunteer worklife and as a lifelong resident of this area, being involved and interacting with many businesses, business people, and organizations - - and conducting Workshops for over 20 years - - I've often been surprised at the fact that many of us just don't enjoy being at work. And it's not usually the work we do that bothers us, but the attitudes we have to put up with.
We spend some 40 or 50 hours a week at our workplaces. Whether you're the business owner, a manager, or an employee at any level, you're spending about 2,000 hours or more a year at your workplace. Yet the smiles aren't on our faces enough, and the fun in our lives seems to be when we're NOT "at work."
To further hit that point home, I've talked with hundreds of people - - business owners, managers, and employees - - about how they feel going to work. Many describe that anxious "butterfly" feeling when they have to start a workday, worried about how they'll be treated and what problems with other employees they'll encounter that day.
And during the day, that drained and blah feeling sets in as the exhaustion of frequent negativism in the workplace wears us down. Go ahead: ask your employees how they feel. Most employees like the job itself, but it's more often than not the people they have to work with and the attitudes they face from those people that gets in the way of enjoying the workplace.
It doesn't have to be that way.
Many workplaces have great "employee orientations" when people are hired, but those trainings don't usually include how to enjoy your job, how to cope with stress, how to use your time well, or how to get along with fellow employees at all levels.
My own business, "excellentworkplaces.com," tries to change all that. If you agree with my philosophy of business and my definitions of an "excellent workplace" on the following pages, perhaps I can help you and your employees find ways to work better together. In any work environment, when employees and management put their thoughts together to figure out how to work well, the work gets done. And customers are better served. Thus, the business does much better.
Invest in your workforce. The people who work with you ARE your workplace, and they are the ones who can make it prosper. Maybe I can help.
Jim Splaine, E-Mail: JimSplaine@aol.com, 201 Oriental Gardens, Portsmouth, NH 03801. Telephone & FAX: [603] 436-0718.
excellentworkplaces.com (tradename) / The 2050 Vision Project (tradename)
Jim Splaine's Time Capsules, Etc. (tradename) All sections of this WEBSITE other than links are copyrighted. Please request permission to reproduce or quote any portion other than incidential reference, with credit requested.
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If we spend 8 hours a day, 5 days a week at work for 50 weeks a year, that's 2,000 hours a year we spend "at work." So, finding ways to work better together lets all us enjoy work more. Otherwise, instead of becoming a valuable part of our life experience, our "work" just becomes a way of making money.
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In almost any workplace, conflict and problems between employees at all levels will occur. That's human nature. But the way we handle those problems and the way we solve them affects the way each of us enjoys and performs our work. Finding ways to work better together is hard work, but it makes for good work.
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We often hear of the cliche of "finding the win-win scenario." Fact is, laugh at that if you wish but there always is one. When employees find great ways to work together and become "stars" in the business, AND feel appreciated and respected - - that's a win-win for management as well as the business.
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