Staff Meeting Success: Must Do & Definitely Don’t!

#1 “Must Do!” Hold regular, pre-planned and productive staff meetings. #1 “Definitely Don’t!” Without adequate preparation and the right facilitator to ensure employee meetings are productive, positive and efficient, don’t go there. I could stop writing now as the most critical points of my message are listed above.  A checklist is offered below, however, with [...]

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 [...]