Office Skills
JUNE 5, 2024
Essential Techniques for Building Stronger Office Team Relationships In just about any business or industry, it’s essential that the employees can work together properly in office teams. Even if you […] The post Office Teams appeared first on Office Skills Training.
The Receptionist
JUNE 5, 2024
Small business owners often have little margin for error when it comes to time. They have to manage it all — products or services, employees, expenses, marketing, sales, and growth. Simply put, they can’t afford to take their eye off the ball. There are many ways to waste or have your time wasted as a small business owner, but here are four time-wasters that you can absolutely control, and how to manage them.
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McKensey
JUNE 5, 2024
The technology could accelerate growth, but presents new challenges, including shifts in value pools, user segments, and competitive dynamics that could spur a realignment of product categories.
Success
JUNE 5, 2024
Kayla Opperman, a Colorado-based former engineer, quit her career in architectural and electrical engineering with MEP firms after six years. She was one of a few women in engineering in her graduating class. It’s been a “tough and questionable” road through her engineering career, but one she doesn’t regret. Engineering has helped her build a self-identity: “I’m capable, intelligent, a hard worker,” she says, adding engineers build the world we live in, affirming their endurance and importance.
McKensey
JUNE 5, 2024
AI and automation could lower administrative and medical costs and increase revenue. But payers have yet to mobilize to transform their organizations to capture this opportunity.
Success
JUNE 5, 2024
In today’s modern workplace, the cultivation of a positive and engaging environment is paramount. The profound influence of gratitude can propel workplace engagement and success to new heights. I firmly believe that the power of peer recognition, a pivotal component of this approach, is instrumental in creating an overall culture of appreciation and mutual respect.
McKensey
JUNE 5, 2024
The Rise Fund’s Maya Chorengel discusses opportunities in impact investing today and how the sector has stayed ahead of changing expectations for DEI and ESG.
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Work Life
JUNE 5, 2024
Welcome to Pressing Questions , Fast Company ’s mini-advice column. Every week, deputy editor Kathleen Davis, host of The New Way We Work podcast, will answer the biggest and most pressing workplace questions. Q: How can I improve my attention span? A: Wait, what? I feel this question deeply. I will no doubt toggle between many of my 57 open tabs and click over to at least four different tasks during the writing of this response.
McKensey
JUNE 5, 2024
The most effective resource allocation processes are radically simple.
Work Life
JUNE 5, 2024
Walmart is offering new perks for its hourly U.S. workers, ranging from a new bonus plan to opportunities to move into skilled trade jobs within the company. The perks program announced Wednesday comes as the nation’s largest private employer says it’s seeing a decline in worker turnover. But Walmart, like other employers, faces a still-competitive labor market and increasing demands from its employees.
Success
JUNE 5, 2024
As kids, my sister and I enjoyed playing “grown-up.” We would take on roles like businessperson or teacher and set the stage for hours of elaborate make-believe. One of us would dress up in Dad’s sports coat or Mom’s skirt, and we would surround ourselves with stuffed animal co-workers or classmates, piles of paperwork and files, toy phones, chalkboards and cups of “really hot” pretend coffee.
Work Life
JUNE 5, 2024
Accepting the role of CEO to a national nonprofit, Liza felt energized by the board’s challenge to evolve the organization’s mission and programming. Anticipating heavy work demands, she set early expectations with her team: she would work half days on Fridays and take a monthly mental health day to reflect and restore. Liza cited research reinforcing her decision and felt pride modeling her leadership values.
McKensey
JUNE 5, 2024
Amid escalating demand, aging infrastructure, and a strained talent supply, the American shipbuilding, sustainment, and repair industries can accelerate growth by activating latent domestic capacity.
Work Life
JUNE 5, 2024
When Sam Dogen was about 11 years into his tenure at Credit Suisse, he made a life-changing realization: His departing colleagues were getting one to three weeks of severance pay for every year they’d worked at the financial services company. “I thought, if I could get laid off, I would get two or three weeks per year worked,” he says. As an executive director with a base salary of $250,000, that amount would be nothing to sniff at.
Workplace Insight
JUNE 5, 2024
The demand for freelancers working in writing, and coding related jobs has dropped by 21 percent since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, according to new research by Imperial College Business School, Harvard Business School and the German Institute for Economic Research. This research paper, Who is AI Replacing? The Impact of Generative AI on Online Freelancing Platforms , looks at the impact of GenAI technologies on the demand for creative professionals who work on an hourly basis for dif
Work Life
JUNE 5, 2024
Have you ever walked into a room and then wondered why you went there? If you’ve experienced this phenomenon, you’ve had a prospective memory lapse. Memory usually means remembering things that have already happened. But prospective memory is the ability to remember to do something in the future—such as stopping to get milk on the way home from work, calling your mom on her birthday or remembering to take your casserole out of the oven.
Office Snapshots
JUNE 5, 2024
Renowned for their innovative approach to corporate spaces, Bluehaus has yet again set a benchmark with the design of Credit Suisse’s new Riyadh office. Spanning 19,160 sqft across three floors, the office space is a harmony of modern design and warm accents, delivering an ergonomic environment that elevates workplace aesthetics and functionality while catering to multiple work scenarios, including hybrid work.
Work Life
JUNE 5, 2024
Have you outgrown your job? This can be a hard truth to face, but there are often telltale signs that it’s time to quit. Maybe you feel undervalued, overtired, bored, or simply stuck. Perhaps you realize you can no longer show up as your best self, or you’re finally ready to escape a toxic culture or bad boss. Even if you love your job , it’s okay to admit when it’s time to move on.
Office Snapshots
JUNE 5, 2024
Chris LaGuardia, founding principal of LaGuardia Design Group, landscape architects in the Hamptons, has worked with many accomplished architects and designers, which allowed him to choose some of his favorite collaborators, now professional and personal friends, to design his office. He asked Viola Rouhani of Stelle Lomont Rouhani Architects to design the building.
Vantage Circle
JUNE 5, 2024
American workplaces have undergone a smooth evolution, incorporating the essential components of a modern workplace. At the center of this transition lies the willingness to go beyond traditional compensation packages and immerse employees in company culture. As such, employee perks in the US show an inclination to reflect the best of this culture. These perks allow companies to carve a distinct identity and support their employee engagement employee engagement initiatives by reinforcing company
Great Place to Work
JUNE 5, 2024
Here’s how the global financial tech company, No. 23 on the Fortune 1 00 Best Companies to Work For® List, is breaking down barriers for transgender and nonbinary employees. Transgender and nonbinary employees have a harder time finding acceptance at work than other LGBTQ+ employees. Almost half (44%) of adults in the U.S. say there is little or no societal acceptance of transgender people, according to Pew Research.
Productivityist
JUNE 5, 2024
In this episode, I sit down with Scott Rusnak to explore the powerful integration of the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) into both personal and professional lives. Scott and I talk about the importance of prioritizing and designing one’s life intentionally, providing actionable insights and tools for personal growth and maximum impact. We also highlight the significance of journaling for personal and professional development, emphasizing the roles of non-negotiables, reflection, and
Great Place to Work
JUNE 5, 2024
Research shows that when employees can choose between remote, in-person, or hybrid work, they are more likely to want to stay and more likely to be engaged. Remote work isn’t feasible for every organization — and many employees would prefer to go to a workplace every day. A new report from Great Place To Work®, titled “Return-to-Office Mandates and the Future of Work” found that what really makes the difference for employees is the ability to choose where they work.
Yarooms
JUNE 5, 2024
We live in the digital age of HR, where HR professionals have the opportunity to lead the way in business transformation – but how can they best do so? In this post, we explore how HR can move from traditional practices to digital leadership by actively embracing change, leveraging new technologies and revolutionizing their approach to talent management to create a more agile and responsive workplace.
Tanveer Naseer
JUNE 5, 2024
Why are some organizations able to effortlessly adapt and transform to meeting changing market conditions, while others seem to be held back by the very processes that are meant to help get things done? According to my very special guest, Bob Sutton, the key comes down to understanding the difference.
I/O at Work
JUNE 5, 2024
New research shows that when leaders appropriately display anger towards unethical behavior, teams and organizations can benefit.
Work Life
JUNE 5, 2024
Right now, companies across the country are meeting to discuss what to do during Pride Month. Fireside chats with LGBTQ+ leaders like me will be planned. Local marches will be sponsored. Rainbow logos will be designed. Internal messages will be drafted. Throughout this flurry of activity, corporate leaders will ask themselves and their advisers: Is this enough?
Work Life
JUNE 5, 2024
As the protectors, women are tasked with being the default parents , housekeepers , kin-keepers , health managers , budget managers , and volunteers. They’re the ones who take care of elderly family members and other relatives who’ve found themselves down and out financially, struggling emotionally, or in need of support with their own responsibilities for care.
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