Empowering you to
Stop gossip and negativity through insight and understanding, to create a productive and positive workplace
High price of negativity
There is a high price to pay for negativity. High turnover, low productivity, wasted time and resources.
7 Habits
Negativity can be a habit, and like many habits we may not even realize we are engaging in negative behavior. Learn to spot and fix negative habits.
You Will discover
How to deal with negativity and stop gossip. Get practical tools to stay productive & positive while working to create a positive workplace.
About April Callis Birchmeier
Organizational Change Management and Positive Workplace expert.
Popular speaker and workshop leader helping people and organizations create a productive positive workplace. Featured in Time Magazine, The New York Times and Yahoo Hot Jobs! Author of "Springboard to Success: Strategies to Keep Business Casual from Making Business...Casual." April uses Agile change management to help organizations and individuals prepare for and thrive through change.
$13 billion a year
Amount that could be saved in productivity with increased positivity annually, according to The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
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A positive workplace means cost savings, reduced stress, and lower health care costs
Significant Improvement
The latest in companies showed an 8% increase in productivity
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UK workers back Labour to improve workplace happiness
A recent survey by Office Genie reveals Labour is deemed the party with the most potential to affect working lives for the better by British voters. In an article for SmallBusiness.co.uk, Owen Gough writes, “When asked which party they believe would have the most positive impact on their working life, 36 per cent of respondents chose[…]
Former President of AFT Vermont Launches New Leadership Firm
According to an article by VTDigger.com, Ben Johnson, former union president, launched a new firm on June 13 called Progressive Labor Solutions (PLS). PLS will provide services to management and the leadership team that will help them more effectively deal with union negotiations, plan for the possibility of a union coming to its workplace, help[…]
Compassion in Business Yields Positive Results
In a recent article for the Epoch Times, Emel Akan writes, “The move by United Airlines to drag a passenger off an overbooked flight in April evoked public resentment and anger. Compounding the damage was the company’s failure to show immediate compassion for the victim.” “In the digital age, it has become harder for companies[…]
Workplace well-being is now embedded in the very bricks and mortar of the building
Well-being is about business ethics, recruitment and retention, productivity, physical and mental health, work-life balance, absenteeism and the management of a flexible workforce, and all the other things that underpin the success and health of an organization and each individual. In an article for Workplace Insight, Sion Davies writes, “For some time now, the debate[…]
Yoga and free fruit won’t solve the scourge of workplace stress
Does your workplace provide some sort of perk like free fruit, or yoga lessons in the boardroom? Or have you done a staff engagement survey in the past year? Did you see a tangible reduction in stress as a result of either? In an article for the Sunday Morning Herald, Caitlin Fitzsimmons writes, “If you’re[…]
Harnessing experience to address bullying and improve performance
Workplace bullying affects not just employees themselves, but the productivity of the whole organization. Yet it can be difficult to stamp out. In an article for The Mandarin, David Donaldson writes, “It’s a wide-reaching phenomenon — in the Victorian public service, for example, around 20% of employees report having been bullied in the workplace, a[…]
5 Smart Ways to Deal With Workplace Stress
Feeling stressed at work? Sorry to say, you’re in excellent company. In an article for Next Avenue, Nancy Collamer writes that “according to an American Psychological Association survey, Americans are more stressed than at any time during the past decade.” Collamer shares five helpful coping strategies she picked up from two experts while attending the recent Indeed.com[…]
How Inclusion Creates A Positive Workplace Culture
Just as parents should teach their children about diversity, company leaders should instill the importance of an inclusive workforce. However, parents have a strong advantage over companies when teaching crucial life lessons: innate trust. In an article for Business.com, Dan Harris writes that “children are naturally wired to trust their parents, but the same isn’t[…]
Workplace bullies can affect everyone
Bullying does not just exist in the playground. In an article for IOL, Vuyo Mkize writes that it extends into adulthood and into the workplace all too often. Mkize writes, “According to international estimates, one in six people experience bullying in the office – unwanted behavior that takes an insurmountable toll on employee’s health and[…]
Positive change to the workplace
As the workplace continues to change with workers and clients making use of new updated technology to communicate and manage operations, some HR & Payroll departments still cling to outdated processes, arguing that it’s the way they’ve always done things, and they work for them. In an article for R News, Natacha Wilken writes that[…]