Articles by Amy Shankland

Last week we began to explore how to bring joy to the workplace through celebrations. We touched on marking your calendar to remember birthdays, Administrative Professional’s Day, and other fun…

Showing how much you care at work can ease potential tensions. My father-in-law, Ron, was a great example of this before he retired. Ron worked for Celanese Corporation years ago…

“People don’t care about how much you know until they know how much you care.” – Theodore Roosevelt (or one of dozens of other people this quote has been attributed…

Today we’ll talk about three little things you can do to bring joy to your workplace: warmly greeting others, taking breaks, and wearing your smile. How do you greet others…

As we continue to examine how to be more joyful at work, I want to pause for a moment and discuss something fellow columnist Amy Shinneman brought up recently. It’s…

Okee-dokee, you are on your way to creating a joyful workspace with wonderful sights, sounds, temperatures, and perhaps aromas. Your voicemail and email make you – and others – happy….

Many of us work with a computer, laptop, tablet, or other mobile device. No matter what you use, you want to apply some of the same principles that we talked…

If you have an office, cubicle, desk, corner, or some little world inside your company that is your very own, you can make that space as uplifting as possible. If…

I love how email has evolved in recent years. It’s great that you can add your picture or one that represents who you are or what your company does. And…