Octavian Mihai

According to the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, at any time, 10% of the working population suffers from depression. Out of 1000 employees 100 suffer from depression, 25 are diagnosed and 6 are actually properly treated. That is 6%! There are clear links between depression, job strain, stress, cardiovascular disease (the leading cause of [...]

A Love Relationship This is no conspiracy. Your employees leave you, nobody is taking them away from you. And where should they go if not to your competition:)? Everybody pursuits her happiness. See it as a relationship. The phase “The only reason an employee leaves you is if she fells out of love with your [...]

20% : the average yearly turnover Out of 10 people in a room 2 will not be here next year. Which ones??? 200% : on average annual salary to replace an employee Consider interviews, job posting, admin fees, training, knowledge management losses, productivity losses, contagion factor, client stress, etc. So yes, losing employees costs you [...]

60% : the average time an employee spends at work working (creating value) How to maximize that time? Improve project management – Activities planing and scheduling Do your project managers plan 80% of an employee workday on a project? Your project will be late. – Clear tasks Your project managers should minimize the time the [...]

Employees: 20 years!!! : the average time spent during one’s active (awake) life working or thinking about work Do what you are best at. Find happiness in what you do. Know your role. Leader or follower. Accept it. Change it. Balance your life. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to [...]

There is nothing I hate more than when, every Friday afternoon over a beer, I hear project managers bargaining over resources in a functional matrix environment. The ‘human’ property is usually ignored. I find this type of discourse completely disrespectful.

Ok, this is a no-brainer. Or is it? “Take away my people, but leave my factories, and soon grass will grow on the factory floors. Take away my factories, but leave my people, and soon we will have a new and better factory.” Andrew Carnegie “One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. [...]

This is a wake-up call to all employers… What do employers expect from employees? Fairness, loyalty, commitment, trust, honesty, integrity, ethics Care, opportunities Respect, dignity Meaning – higher goal Excellence, professionalism, responsibility and accountability Leadership Generosity What do employees expect from employers? Fairness, loyalty, commitment, trust, honesty, integrity, ethics Care, opportunities Respect, dignity Meaning – [...]