Having spent my entire adult life working in the public sector Wholesale Jordan Shoes 2018 , and am now, following early retirement, spending my days hopping between private and public sector, consulting with business and agency leaders, managers and front line workers in a variety of workplace situations. Over the past while I have witnessed various forms of Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs) that have been adopted to help the men and women deal with various personal and professional issues.
It has begun to dawn on me that there appears to be a complete lack of any proactive or preventative aspects to such programs.
When considering the variety of issues that are regularly confront all of us in our day-to-day lives Wholesale Kids Jordan Shoes , and when considering how these issues frequently colour every aspect of our behaviours, attitudes and performance, it strikes me as peculiar that organizations will spend untold amounts of money attempting to ?fix? a problem that has developed within one or more of its employees, all the while appearing to neglect the causes of these problems, even when it is clear that something in the workplace as at the root of the problem in the first place; or that some bona fide issue in the workplace has caused an employee Wholesale Youth Jordan Shoes , manager or executive to alter his or her behaviour ? and not for the better.
Like What?
In a great many organizations, superior performance is rewarded through promotions or special assignments. There are few if any ways other than promotion to recognize excellence. This causes many problems. During my 30 years with the Ontario Provincial Police, I watched with some interest as various promotional processes came and went. As these processes evolved, and as fewer and fewer positions were available because of 'downsizing? and ?rightsizing? and 're-engineering?, more and more men and women were faced with a harsh reality; they were where they were going to be for a long time; promotion or some other form of upward mobility was not going to be on their dance card.
In particular Wholesale Womens Jordan Shoes , when witnessing andor actually working within the promotional processes that were designed to identify front-line constables who wanted to become supervisors (or sergeants), the picture that kept emerging was a bunch of racehorses galloping toward the open gate, only to find that there was only room for a small number to fit through. Few were successful. The ones who unfortunately did not were left on the wrong side of the fence, nostrils flaring and in quite a lather. Many had been kicked, bruised and battered in the stampede.
This ever-increasing number of frustrated Wholesale Mens Jordan Shoes , disappointed and occasionally disgruntled workers becomes a considerable challenge to maintaining a positive and optimistic workforce. In my opinion, this issue has, for the most part, been ignored by larger organizations. These negative feelings within individuals range along an extensive continuum, from mildly disappointed to angry Wholesale Jordan Shoes Cheap , bitter and resentful. Those at the nastiest end of the continuum have the potential to poison the workplace and even if they don't, they can develop behaviours that are entirely counter productive to a harmonious and effective working unit.
This is but one example of how disharmony in the workplace can be caused. It is but one example of how an organization can unwittingly create hostility, bitterness, unhappiness and resentment within its employees.
All too often, an employee can begin down this performance and behavioural spiral and can Wholesale Jordan Shoes China , sadly, fail to pull out of it. Kevin M. Gilmartin, Ph.D. and Jack J. Harris, . of Gilmartin, Harris & Associates have written and spoken of this phenomenon and have coined the phrase ?The Continuum of Compromise?. I need not enter into a description of their work Wholesale Authentic Jordan Shoes , except to say that I commend it to anyone who is experiencing these types of difficulties or anyone who is aware of a colleague who might be in this situation. Come to think of it, I commend it to anyone ? period. It's just good!
So what to do?
No matter where on the continuum an individual might find him or herself, surely there ought to be some resource made available to the employee to assist in the recovery from this sometimes lasting and potentially incapacitating attitude andor to assist the employee to deal more positively with the disappointing results. It seems to me that there ought to be a step before EAP; something that might prevent the downward spiral and all that comes with it.
In the United States, Personal Coaching is becoming a fast-growing and effective way for individuals and teams to maximize their potential. Some of the larger, more advanced organizations in that country utilize coaching for a host of reasons ? not just to head off problems. Examination of the results achieved through coaching are described as follows in a publication by Relative Proximity Executive Coaching:
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