Unless an employee entirely understands what they do, they can easily fail on WHY they are there. However, good communication provides a better understanding to all employees of their job, and more importantly how they fit into the WHY or the mission of the company. Employees, who believe that what they do is the only
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A light bulb Manufacturing Company hired a consultant to analyze the cause of continuing problems among its various divisions. The management suspected communication issues and the consultant was asked to focus specifically on this aspect. The consultant went into the plant and started by spending some time asking a few key questions of a number
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In today’s schools, we find many elementary schools using the zero-tolerance policy when it comes to bullying. Putting a strong hand down and not tolerating bullying in any way seems like the right approach. Parents seem to be happy that schools say no to any bullying that maybe occur at their child’s school. So how
From the National Education Society they have found that 98% of teachers believe it is their duty to intervene , document and follow up with bullying incidences. The fact is that less than 50% of teachers are properly trained to deal with bullying. I have attached a YouTube video to help teachers and parents deal
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I had the great opportunity of speaking in Sioux Lookout just north of Thunder Bay Ontario this week. This school was a First Nations school. The students were so polite and excited about reducing bullying in their school. I have been at this school on three other occasions and the last two times when I
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I’m here in the eastern part of Toronto where I’ll be speaking to 4 middle schools and 2 high schools about how to become proactive in reducing bullying. What I like the most is how excited they are to implement our anti-bullying program. It is critical to have a follow-up after an assembly to keep
I just had the privilege of being at Barstow Unified School Board where they are in phase one of implementing our reportbullying.com program. What will make this program work is that everyone who is on top is on board. Joni James who is head of pupil services was instrumental in getting all the schools on
Making a change starts from the top When any change is mandated and pushed by the top management, implementation of the same gets percolated very easily all across. Similarly, in the case of our initiative, we need to start with the school management, the principals and the teachers. Unless we have them onboard, simply educating
We just got back from a two week intense training for students and parents. We spoke at 13 schools teaching students the role of the bystanders so that the school system could use our follow up to keep the message going strong. For some schools you could see that the principal and staff where on
Since bullying behavior can happen anywhere, at any time, and with anyone, it is imperative that we all understand our responsibilities when it comes to bullying. Bullying is a community problem and it is of utmost importance that all of us get involved to reduce the bullying around us. To