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Beating the Bleahs
Mike Donoghue is a member of a multinational information technology corporation where he collaborates on the communications guidelines and customer relationship strategies affecting the interactions with internal and external clients. He has analyzed, defined, designed and overseen processes for various engagements including product usability and customer satisfaction, best practice enterprise standardization, relationship/branding structures, and distribution effectiveness and direction. He has also established corporate library solutions to provide frameworks for sales, marketing, training, and support divisions.
Depending on where you live, this time of year may be your "bleah" season. With a decrease in holidays or occasions to celebrate and the prospect of many weeks, even months, of dreary weather ahead, this can become a time when work associates stop being energized people and start being lackluster automatons.
It is also possible that your corporate doldrums aren't weather related (if you're fortunate enough to miss the wet, dull greys of late autumn to early spring, consider yourself lucky). Maybe instead it's prolonged lulls in business/project activity or a decrease in sales that are making big holes of idle time that are creating opportunities where company-wide apathy or disinterest can creep in.
These blue periods reduce individual effectiveness and, given time, demoralize teams. Before it becomes pervasive, it is possible to turn an organization around, even if it is only one group at a time, to stop any degradation that may occur.
It doesn't take much sometimes--just a few dedicated people to get their creative juices flowing and then invigorate others to do the same. It also doesn't necessarily require large investments of time, resources or funds. Sometimes silly and ridiculous, sometimes heartfelt and devoted, there are numerous ways to make something happen and put a company back on its rightful course.
Small Stuff
It has been said that the winter …
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