There’s an old country music song my cousin played every year at the holidays that goes, “ya done stomped on my heart…and you mashed that sucker flat.”

Well, that’s how it feels to be in the workplace some days. Our souls are stomped on.

People’s behaviors seem childish, unkind and self-consumed—feels a bit like adult day care.

So the responsibility of every team member is to put on her big girl pants or big boy pants and bring that “higher-self” good character to work every day. It’s a choice. WE only act like children in the workplace because we don’t stop to reflect how unattractive it is as adults to not hold our behaviors to higher standards. (more…)