Leaders and managers must create productive teamwork.  However, some employees love to argue, criticize, give put-downs, and encourage discord and disruptions.  They have poison tongues, and they aim to poison your work team, department, and company.  Don’t let them.  This article gives you seven solutions to managing jerks at work include using pre-employment tests to avoid hiring jerks, plus six other tips.

Stress is a hot topic in the workplace.  Some employees get bent out of shape by almost anything.  Other people calmly take almost any sort of situation in stride. Here are immediately useful tips for leaders and all employees.  First are tips to help leaders avoid hiring people who will waste time and energy feeling stressed-out and burnt to a crisp.  Second are tips to help every working person confidently handle stress in a poised manner.