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HIGH PRICE OF NEGATIVITY
There is a high price to pay for negativity. High turnover, low productivity, wasted time and resources.
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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.
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What is the Goal of Gossip Stoppers?
Gossip Stoppers is not some sort of super nerdy shhhhh squad, roaming workplaces to squelch gossip at water coolers around the globe. Gossip Stoppers is simply the name of programs to help people who have unintentionally developed negative habits or behaviors – break those habits and create a more positive workplace. We also focus on[…]
How You Can Encourage More Women Into Your Workforce
Women made history in the US on Tuesday night, winning a record 112 seats in Congress. How can you reach similar results in your workplace? In an article for Forbes, Dr. Pragya Agarwal writes, “Diversity in the workplace is still a huge issue, especially the lack of women in our workforce. Although the Bureau of Labor[…]
How To Create A Positive Workplace Culture
How can you measure something that surrounds you? In an article for Forbes, Dr. Pragya Agarwal writes, “Culture is the environment that surrounds us all the time. A workplace culture is the shared values, belief systems, attitudes and the set of assumptions that people in a workplace share. This is shaped by individual upbringing, social[…]
The Price of Incivility
Rudeness at work is rampant, and it’s on the rise. In an article for the Harvard Business Review, Christine Porath and Christine Pearson write, “Over the past 14 years we’ve polled thousands of workers about how they’re treated on the job, and 98% have reported experiencing uncivil behavior. In 2011 half said they were treated[…]
Proof That Positive Work Cultures Are More Productive
Gossip Stoppers, 1st place at ATD Detroit, 2018 What’s the best way to improve both employees’ experiences and a company’s bottom line? In an article for the Harvard Business Review, Emma Seppala and Kim Cameron write that too many companies bet on having a cut-throat, high-pressure, take-no-prisoners culture to drive their financial success. Cameron and Seppala write,[…]
Millennial Women: You Have so Much to Offer the Workplace
Ongoing gender obstacles have challenged millennial women from growing in the workplace and their careers, as they faced a corporate culture that favored men, preconceptions regarding gender stereotypes and sexism. In an article for Forbes, Sarah Landrum writes, “Millennial women in the workplace have endured insufficient health care and the gendered pay gap.” “Millennials are[…]
Here are the top motivations for people in these 4 career stages
Independent public relations and communications company Padilla recently released the Engage by Stage Research Report, breaking down employees into four distinct career stages — namely, “Newbie,” “Sophomore,” “Tenured,” and Sage,” showing what factors motivate each group the most. In an article for Ladders, Jane Burnett writes, “The research found that two in five workers were “completely[…]
Choose Happiness in the Workplace
When leaders choose happiness, businesses thrive. In an article for the Credit Union Times, Chairman & CEO Stuart Levine writes, “In my decades of working with CEOs, and in occupying the position myself, maximizing the CEO’s positive effect on the culture organization is always on my mind. We know that there is no “one size[…]
The slippery slope
We are so very perceptive, aren’t we? Have you ever traveled quite a distanst from home, only to run into someone from your home country, state or town? Do you think it’s a coincidence that we strike up a conversation only to find we are from the same place, or did we perceive something aobut[…]
Time is Money: Nearly Half of Workers Would Take Extra Vacation Time over a Pay Raise
How priceless is time away from the office for today’s workers? Markets Insider reports, “According to new data from the 2017 Emerging Workforce® Study (EWS) commissioned by Spherion Staffing, nearly half (41 percent) say they would accept more paid vacation time in lieu of a pay raise if given the choice.” “As businesses face greater[…]