May is Mental Health Awareness Month, so it’s a great time to open up the dialogue with your employees about this once taboo topic.

Every year in May, the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) promotes mental and physical well-being with “Mental Health Awareness Month”. It’s an opportune time for people to evaluate where they are in terms of their own lives, and seek help if they need it. It’s also a sound reminder that the person that sits at the desk across from you at work could be dealing with some pretty serious mental illness problems in secret.

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Most people assume PEO services are for large companies only. In reality, many small to medium-sized companies find extreme benefits in working with a PEO. According to NAPEO “small businesses that use PEOs grow seven to nine percent faster, have 10 to 14 percent lower employee turnover, and are 50 percent less likely to go out of business."

The people who stare at their laptops or phones during my workshops or presentations undoubtedly think they can effectively listen to me and use technology at the same time. After all, they’ve probably been told that multitasking is not only possible - it’s necessary.

"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." This African proverb neatly explains why you should get your employees to work as a team: individuals can go fast, but a team can go far.

How do you do it? People who have been there, done that, and wrote a book about it said you need to have a variety of things in place to make it happen.

“You can have everything you want if you will help other people get what they want,” said motivational speaker Zig Ziglar. If you’re in business, you want customers. What do your customers want? Good customer service. In fact, according to a Customer Experience Report by RightNow, 86 percent of consumers surveyed said they stopped doing business with a company because of receiving bad service. I know I have.

Here are four elements to providing good customer service:

Cinco de Mayo is coming up and while many may think it's Mexican Independence day it's actually not.

Lots of studies have shown that dogs and other pets are good for the workplace because they have the same effect that Hazel has on us. That’s why about seven per cent of U.S. employers allow pets at work, according to the Society for Human Resource Management. However, before allowing employees to bring their pets to work, here are some things to consider (courtesy of 14 rules for creating a bring-your-dog-to-work policy by Jennifer Lonoff Schiff). 

We’re all negative sometimes; negativity becomes a problem when it becomes a lifestyle.

Negativity is bad for individuals because: