Thu.Jan 23, 2025

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Do You Need Multiple Assistants?

C-Suite Assistants

If youre a busy executive with an enormous workload, you may wish at times that you could clone yourself. The next best thing is hiring multiple executive assistants (EAs). A professional EA can take on lower-level tasks to free you up for more complex responsibilities, such as strategic planning and nurturing key business relationships. The right person can seem like an extension of yourselfan extra set of hands.

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Step Up Employee Wellness with Simple, Effective Walking Challenges

CoreHealth Workplace Wellness

Encourage workplace wellness with walking challenges! Learn how walking 4,000+ steps daily boosts health, reduces risks, and fosters a healthier work culture.

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Robert Hormats on how today’s geopolitics affects companies

McKensey

The former Under Secretary of State discusses the risk of a trade war, the rise of China, and the importance of geopolitical context in corporate decision making.

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How and Why Developing Middle Managers Is Crucial for Your Company

Great Place to Work

Target and Allianz share how they develop senior leaders to ensure every employee has a great manager that supports them. Most people assume their manager is having a better experience at work, but the data suggests otherwise. The group feeling the tightest squeeze? Middle managers. These functional leaders can represent a range of job titles, from senior director to associate manager, and are defined by the dual pressure they face: from higher-ups, with executives holding them accountable for t

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Boosting auto sales productivity: A playbook for excellence

McKensey

Despite investing significantly in technology, US auto retailers face productivity roadblocks and rising costs. A new playbook can help create value.

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Developing Decision-Making Skills

BMT Office Administration

Decision-making skills: From simple to complex Decision-making involves choosing an answer to a question or problem. We all make many decisions daily in our professional and personal lives. Decisions, though, vary in how “tough” they are to make. Some have various factors to consider and potential outcomes to evaluate. Others affect people beyond the decision-maker.

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Rejection Therapy: Why Facing “No“ Could Be Your Secret to Success

Success

Imagine walking into a coffee shop and asking for a free latte or emailing a celebrity to join your podcast. You expect to hear no, of course. But instead of shrinking from the rejection, you lean into it. Thats the premise of rejection therapy, a self-help practice thats captivated millions on TikTok with over 63 million views. The goal? To strip rejection of its sting by facing it head-on, over and over again.

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How to Effectively Communicate With A Steadiness (S) Personality

Success

Understanding and adapting to different personality types is crucial for effective communication, especially in professional environments. The DISC personality assessment is a widely used behavioral model that categorizes individuals into four primary types: Dominance (D), Influence (I), Steadiness (S) and Conscientiousness (C). This article focuses on the Steadiness personality type and provides workable strategies for good communication with these individuals.

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BW Energy Offices – Lisbon

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Part of the BW Group, founded in 1955, BW Energy was established in 2016 as the Norwegian company’s E&P (exploration and production) affiliate for natural gas and oil. Determined to expand its presence in Portugal, BW Energy turned to Vector Mais and CBRE to shape its office in Lagoas Park in Oeiras. Wanting to offer its employees the best conditions, BW Energy wanted to create an inviting office that promoted collaboration.

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Meta’s ‘Breakthrough’ Bonus Program Offers Creators Cash and Credibility

Success

Meta is going all out to attract new creators as opinions diverge on where the future of short-form content will thrive. The tech giant, which owns both Instagram and Facebook, is launching its Breakthrough bonus program, offering new creators in the U.S. the opportunity to earn substantial rewards and maximize their content earnings. New to Reels? Metas $5,000 bonus could kick-start your creator career Targeted at creators new to the Reels ecosystem, the program offers a lucrative opportunity t

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How America’s work standards are hurting employees

Work Life

Adam Chandler is a journalist. He was formerly a staff writer at The Atlantic and his work has appeared in The New York Times , The Wall Street Journal , The Washington Post , WIRED , and Vox , among many other publications. He is a recurring guest on The History Channels The Food That Built America and regularly appears across television and radio, such as on CBS and NPR.

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The Definitive Guide to Running Effective Employee Surveys

Quantum Workplace

Employee surveys are powerful tools to gather valuable insights and feedback directly from employees. By providing employees with a voice and a platform to share their perspectives, employers can better understand employee experiences, sentiments, and needs. The data and insights gleaned from employee feedback are critical in creating a competitive, highly engaged, high-performance culture.

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A psychologist explains what Gen Z should be striving for at work (hint: not happiness)

Work Life

When it comes to work, we might think about being engaged and happy as one and the same. Being engaged and happy at work seem to go hand-in-hand and phrases like happy employees create happy customers have become truisms in many of our organizations. Although theyre related, engagement and happiness are meaningfully different and for the many Gen Z employees entering the workforce, engagement might actually be the better target.

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Confidential Technology Company Offices – Bangkok

Office Snapshots

As one of the largest tech firms in the world, Paperspaces Confidential Tech Company client vows to establish a unique office in every part of the world incorporating local elements and cultures to assimilate themselves into the country. Their Bangkok office embraces the citys history and surrounding environment notably being inspired by the Chao Praya river, the citys river of life.

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BlueConic has been fully remote since COVID. This is what makes remote leadership work

Work Life

The shift to remote work has transformed what it means to lead at the highest levels. Today, executives are leading teams across multiple time zones and cultures, and the skills that made them successful in the office dont always translate to remote leadership. At BlueConic, weve been a fully remote company post-pandemic, and our C-team is located remotely, too.

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Level Up Your Team Building: 40 Fun and Games at Work

Attendance Bot

Who said work can’t be fun? Sure, there are deadlines, meetings, and that one coworker who keeps hitting “Reply All.” But what if your next workday could include some laughter, bonding, and maybe even a little friendly competition? Enter team building gamesthe ultimate way to spice up your workplace, foster collaboration, and bring out the best in your crew.

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How brands are tapping into LinkedIn’s influencer revolution 

Work Life

As businesses seek more targeted, impactful campaigns, LinkedIn influencers are proving that influence and expertise may be the winning combination for 2025. For brands aiming to connect with professional audiences, LinkedIn has emerged as the surprise star of influencer marketing. Once known solely as a platform for rsums and networking, it has transformed into a thriving marketplace where influencers share insights, build authority, and drive meaningful action.

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Sienna Investment Managers Offices – Paris

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Before working with Factory, Sienna Investment Managers (IM) was faced with a fairly classic but blocking problem: her teams were split between two locations. So the idea was to bring all the staff together under one roof and to create a space that would fully reflect Sienna IM identity, with a move to a flex office as the keystone. After a study phase, we introduced a real diversity of spaces to encourage collaborative working, while respecting individual preferences.

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Costco upholds its DEI policies as Amazon and Walmart scale theirs back

Work Life

Costco is pushing back on a shareholder proposal that urges the wholesale club operator to conduct an evaluation of any business risks posed by its diversity, equity, and inclusion practices. Investors were expected to vote on the recommendation during the company’s annual meeting Thursday. The National Center for Public Policy Research, a conservative think tank based in Washington, submitted the proposal, arguing that Costco’s DEI initiatives hold “litigation, reputational an

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Trump’s DEI order faces resistance from two major state bar associations

Work Life

Two major U.S. state bar associations have pushed back after President Donald Trump took aim at efforts to promote more diversity in the legal profession. Trump in an executive order on Tuesday included state and local bar associations as targets for federal civil probes into private-sector diversity, equity and inclusion programs that may constitute illegal discrimination or preferences, along with medical associations, publicly traded companies and major nonprofits and universities.

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