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This monthly newsletter will provide a career tip of the month and updates on what is happening at Inspire Your Career. Please feel free to forward to your friends and colleagues. I’d love your feedback or ideas on topics for this newsletter. Drop me a line at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

This Month’s Tip – An Enlightened Workplace

This week I stopped in to see a colleague of mine who co-founded a company called Nurse Next Door. The company has won many awards and been recognized for best employer and most admired corporate culture. What struck me immediately when I walked through the door was the positive, uplifted energy. You could literally feel it. Team members were friendly, respectful and open. It was so refreshing. An enlightened workplace doesn’t mean things are perfect. The same workplace issues will always be there; personality clashes, a looming crisis, processes that are imperfect. What is different is how people react and interact with these issues. An enlightened workplace occurs because people choose to react constructively, to interact with skill and openness. Each of us has the power to contribute to a sane, positive work environment. It starts with you.

Contributing to a healthy workplace requires intention and awareness. We need to take responsibility for our words and actions and be willing to look at whether we are helping or hindering a situation. I often wish that in addition to the automatic Spell-check, my emails had an automatic Happy-check. I want to be reminded when, in my haste, I am about to press send on an email that sounds critical, harsh or curt. Our interaction with others has a direct impact on them. Why not make that interaction as positive as possible? This doesn’t just help the other person; paradoxically, it does a lot for us too.

1. Don’t take things personally. Other people might be having a bad day and you can acknowledge that; you don’t have to join them.
2. Be kind. Always.
3. Be yourself. We do not need to waste our time trying to guess what others are thinking, or trying to please people, or impress people. Being you is powerful enough.
4. Know what you believe in, and stick to it. As soon as you wander from your ‘core’, from your values, it is a slippery slope to discontent.
5. Laugh. ...a lot; after all, it’s just work

Workplace Culture Assessments

roxanneemmerich.com/cultureassesment
soulofanorganization.com/Assessment.htm
businessperform.com/downloads/free/Workplace_Culture_Checklist.pdf

Survey Winner

Thanks to everyone who completed the survey last month. I received really helpful information and used it at a national conference last week. Congratulations to Shilpa Mandan who won our draw prize.

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