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Monday, July 15, 2019
Simple ways to increase motivation in the workplace everyone around. The more you can make people feel like part of a team and not just an insignificant laborer, the better you can expect their work to be. Encourage productivity. I’ve got a post up on GoFarWithKovar.com that highlights different reasons for substandard productivity. It might be that your workers just need a nudge in the right Taylor Kovar direction, or perhaps you could buy some software that would help streamline projects and Hey Presley - It’s a fine line make things run more smoothly. between feeling overly If everything feels tedious, authoritative and showing workers people’s brains start to shut that you mean business. It’s always down and producing consistent, good to avoid playing bad cop, so quality work becomes a near here are a few approaches that impossibility. There are lots of might help you out. simple steps and training methods that can help employees Shake things up. When workers become more productive and start feeling stagnant, their work happier with the work they’re usually suffers. You can combat doing. this by giving people new assignments or just switching small Think about what you want from things around, like where these workers and how you're someone’s desk is. It’s often as asking for it. You might decide simple as getting a person’s brain you need to change your tactic, reengaged. For some, a little more or there might be a better way to responsibility might improve their motivate them. As long as you’re overall efforts. If you have a thoughtful, fair, and not a crazy worker with a few jobs and no firm dictator, it should all work out. timetables, give him or her Good luck, Presley! something that needs to be done on a weekly basis. Assuming they Taylor Kovar, CEO of Kovar want to keep their job, they’ll take Capital. Read more about on the new project and the added Taylor at GoFarWithKovar.com structure might help with the rest of their tasks. Disclaimer: Information presented is for educational Walk in their shoes. Business purposes only and is not an offer owners are committed to doing or solicitation for the sale or everything right because all the purchase of any specific mistakes end up on our desks one securities, investments, or way or another. As more investment strategies. procedures get added to the daily Investments involve risk and, agenda, it can be easy to lose sight unless otherwise stated, are not of what anything means to the guaranteed. Be sure to first workers tasked with carrying out consult with a qualified financial these duties. If you have someone adviser and/or tax professional importing details that seem before implementing any insignificant, you need to think strategy discussed herein. To about how to either make that work submit a question to be feel more meaningful or decide if answered in this column, please maybe it doesn’t need to be done. send it via email to Don’t assign jobs for the sake of Question@GoFarWithKovar.com, or making people work, but rather via USPS to Taylor Kovar, 415 S because accomplishing those things 1st St, Suite 300, Lufkin, TX will help the company and 75901. Hey Taylor - Any ideas for workplace motivation? Really trying to avoid being the type of boss who everyone fears, but I’ve also got a few workers I feel like might be slacking. - Presley
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Living with children Q: We recently discovered that our 12-year-old has been visiting pornography sites of all sorts on the Internet. When we caught him red-handed, he began crying and said he is John Rosemond addicted. Apparently, a friend of his got him involved. Our son has assured us it’s not going to happen again, but we really don’t know how to handle this. Should we punish him? Take him to a therapist? Have our pastor talk with him? We’re hoping you have some advice. We’re more worried and upset than we’ve ever been. A: As a father and grandfather, I can certainly appreciate your worry and distress. As you may know, the problem of pre-teen and teen boys visiting porn sites on the Internet is huge. Visits to such online venues can lead to participation in chat rooms where teen boys (and girls) often end up being solicited by adults looking to exploit their naivete and need for attention.
If your pastor feels comfortable having a conversation with your son concerning this issue, and your son has a good relationship with him, that might be productive. I would not, at this point, have your son talk to a person he doesn’t already know, trust, and feel comfortable with, even a therapist. There’s no way to ascertain whether your son is addicted to pornography or not. Using that terminology may be an attempt on his part to throw you off. As for his assurance that he’s not going to porn sites again, I am reminded of the old saw, “How do you keep them down on the farm once they’ve seen Paree?” You are going to have to be on guard to make sure that he does not experience this sort of temptation again. For the benefit of all my readers, these are my four top recommendations when it comes to boys and internet pornography: · Do not allow children private access to the Internet. Parents should be in a position, always, to provide direct Internet supervision to any child under age 18. · Instead of giving children and teens “smart” phones that can access the Internet, give phones that make calls, receive calls, and text. These are available through Wal-Mart and other box stores. · Talk to your children about the very real threat of pedophilia and how to deal assertively with a sexual advance from an adult. · Be informed and current concerning any sexualityeducation at your child’s school. Such programs, however wellintentioned, involve the very real risk of stimulating sexual curiosity. Personally, if I was raising children today, I would not entrust this education to anyone but myself.
There is no easy answer to the question of how parents should deal with a situation of this sort. Obviously, your son needs some reality education. He needs to be frankly informed as to the potentially dangerous straits he put himself in. He also needs to be told how pornography can adversely affect his attitude toward sexuality and females in particular. It needs to be emphasized to him that truly healthy sexual relations take place only in committed, loving relationships. The best person to have this conversation with him is his father, but its effectiveness will depend largely on the quality of that relationship. It goes without saying that the better the relationship, the more your son looks up to his father, the more of a positive impact this talk is going to Family psychologist John Rosemond: johnrosemond.com, have. parentguru.com. I definitely do not recommend John Rosemond has worked with punishment. It was surely punishment enough that you caught families, children, and parents since 1971 in the field of family him. Given that you probably psychology. In 1971, John earned intervened before the proverbial his masters in psychology from snowball had rolled very far Western Illinois University and downhill, I would be reluctant to use words like rebellious, defiant, was elected to the Phi Kappa Phi disrespectful – words that describe National Honor Society. behaviors deserving of punishment.
