Morale Busters and Boosters
Many things can bring workplace morale spiraling downward. Some all-too-common Morale Busters in law offices (and other offices as well) include: Rules applied sporadically and unfairly among employees (e.g. starting time, length of lunch breaks, # of vacation days) An ongoing frantic pace — day after day — caused primarily by a supervisor’s poor planning [...]
Celebrating Great Holiday Moments … Ignoring the Not-So-Good!
Some of the best advice I ever received was to cherish the good moments during the holidays. In other words, instead of our lamenting over the presence of a loud, obnoxious relative or your grumpy ol’ Uncle’s sour outlook on life, celebrate the one or two moments they actually laughed, shared a rare hug or [...]
Avoiding Vacation Procrastination
My husband and I recently returned from our first extended vacation in 11 years. Embarrassing to admit because if you’ve been to one of my workshops, you know how strongly I advocate for and teach the importance of making time for regular mini and extended vacation breaks. I remind all clients and seminar audiences that [...]
What's Your Brand?
Below are the initial sentences of a succinct and excellent blog post at www.biziboom.com by attorney Scott Gibson. I encourage all my readers and clients to read and reread this well-written post on such a critical subject for us all. If you’re on Twitter, don’t miss Mr. Gibson’s great tweets as well (@tradesecretlaw). Everybody Has [...]
Greed & Unresolved Disputes
I’ll be writing more on this down the road, but recently heard of yet another family that split apart for all the wrong reasons. This is a family I would have NEVER expected to splinter or to allow greed or desperation or any unresolved other issues to trump family love, commitment and loyalty. Far too [...]
Employee Considerations in Law Firm Mergers
I just sent the suggestions copied below to an attorney looking for merger tips to pass along to a client law firm about to merge w/another firm. Doing so made me realize how often in mergers (whether law firms or other businesses) there’s too little attention paid to our employees and what they are going [...]
More on the Management of Telecommuters
Greetings! I’ve previously blogged about telecommuting in regard to handling in-house employees who may be disgruntled over remote working employees (http://lawbusinesstips.com/2009/06/24/telecommuting-disgruntled-co-workers/) and experiences shared by other companies (http://lawbusinesstips.com/2009/07/08/telecommuting-cost-savings-cisco/). Today, I found this blog post that is also worthwhile reading about the management of telecommuters: http://bit.ly/3NxO3N. In addition to the tips and discussions found in the [...]
Blog Update in the Works, Paralegalmentorblog.com & the Word “Non-Lawyer”
Hello and Welcome! My very heavy summer business travels and client visits to our farm lately have prevented me from posting as often as I’d like. I will do better come September, but in the meantime, grateful for all the business, my GREAT clients and our wonderful farm, family and friends! Be on the lookout [...]
Lawyers USA Online:Nancy's Crusade Against Word,"Non-Lawyer"
Just got the link for my most recent column for Lawyers USA (click here) which I first wrote about in my blog. Wishing everyone a great day in spite of any one or thing that may try to louse it up for you! Don’t let’em!
True Friends ~ Treasures to Be Nurtured
True friendships are the treasured, incredibly beautiful, multi-colored roses amidst the many thorns of our lives. And like the colorful blossoms of a beloved flowerbed, a friendship neglected for too long will fade quietly away. (nbj) Just thinking today about easy it is some times to take our closest friends for granted. If you’re guilty [...]
Respecting Employees: Do You Talk It, Show It or Both?
Ongoing business success stories can only be achieved with certain cornerstones in place. One of these critical foundations is feeling and showing respect for your employees. If it’s genuine (and not just the politically correct thing to say), leaders and managers consistently demonstrate this in many ways including: RESPECT IS 24/7 ….. you appreciate, value [...]
Law Office Mental Health Policies for Well Known & Our "Other" Addictions
Alcoholism, substance abuse and depression; these three afflictions usually receive the most attention at CLE programs and in legal publications. This makes sense in light of the continuing (and alarming) rise in the numbers of attorneys suffering with these impairments. What we don’t hear as much about, statistically or otherwise, are the more subtle impairments [...]
Telecommuting Cost Savings @ Cisco
Further to my prior post re tips on handling co-workers who are disgruntled over their telecommuting peers (http://bit.ly/Frk8W), I just found this blog (http://bit.ly/Jz09T)on tech giant, Cisco’s, telecommuting cost savings and other data. Let me know what experiences your office has had with telecommuting…allowed, not allowed, cost savings data, other benefits, disadvantage? Thx and have [...]
Reducing Our Personality "Fireworks" In & Out of the Office!
Just posted this “RT” on Twitter: RT@TulsaBankruptcy Wishing you a happy & safe 4th of July. How about some Recession Fireworks? http://tinyurl.com/lbzqqo Great cartoon although the painful truth behind it is sad. I wish you and yours a 4th of July weekend that’s full of fun, good times with family and friends and a safe [...]
Telecommuting & Disgruntled Co-Workers
Good Afternoon…here’s an informative (quick reading) blog post on telecommuting: http://bit.ly/ZFF0N entitled: “Telecommuting: How to Approach Your Boss.” A few words re my two cents worth on this subject….it’s been my experience that it’s often more difficult dealing with disgruntled co-workers who are NOT telecommuting than it is to convince your employer to let you [...]
