Wellable
FEBRUARY 2, 2022
Silicon Valley is hard at work creating the building blocks for the metaverse—an immersive digital world with the capacity to replicate every aspect of our physical existences, from interacting with coworkers to traveling the world to owning items and property.
Insperity
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
Employee burnout is a big problem in the workplace, especially following the COVID-19 pandemic. Feelings of burnout – when an employee just feels done with their current situation – can manifest in various ways: Lack of interest or initiative in work Withdrawal from others Displays of stress , frustration, disillusionment or exhaustion – sometimes with little provocation Negative attitude Frequent absences.
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The Assistant Room
FEBRUARY 13, 2022
So if you're looking to build your confidence, where should you focus your time, effort and energy for the best outcome? We spoke to 5 members of the business support community to understand how they have developed and how they maintain their confidence and their top tips for you to begin your own journey into being a more confident version of yourself.
The Receptionist
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
In this competitive job market, workers are resigning at record numbers. One of the key drivers for this current trend of rapid resignation is poor work conditions. Workers aren’t hanging on simply because that’s what you’re supposed to do. To today’s worker, job loyalty is not as important as peace of mind. Even if they’re satisfied with the pay, workers will jump ship if they feel overworked and stressed out.
Jen Lawrence
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
There is one question that you should be answering with every contact with your client. And unfortunately, in my experience, most companies don’t. The reasons why you should be answering this question are: It makes everything more efficient It’s good customer service. It allows your client to know exactly what to expect from you. We get caught up in all the other things that go into our businesses and customer service gets lost.
Tanveer Naseer
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
Over the past two years, we’ve all had to learn how to get better at communicating within a virtual setting. While most of us have become comfortable using platforms like Zoom and Microsoft Teams in our daily work lives, a common challenge that persists is being able to connect at. Click to continue reading.
Wellable
FEBRUARY 16, 2022
Financial wellness refers to one’s financial stability and overall ability to manage their economic life. For many years, organizations have utilized only a small range of offerings to improve their employees’ financial health. As financial wellness benefits expand and the call for a broader range of solutions intensifies, businesses are beginning to adjust their offerings.
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Success
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Arrive and Thrive: 7 Impactful Practices for Women Navigating Leadership. By Janet Foutty, Lynn Wooten, and Susan Mackenty Brady. Women face unique challenges as leaders, with systematic barriers making achieving success more complicated. Arrive and Thrive outlines seven actionable practices that will help women overcome obstacles in business in order to thrive, not just survive, when they get to the top of their professions.
The Receptionist
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Coworking space YOUBE opened its doors in Los Angeles in 2021 to provide a unique drop-in experience that allows members the flexibility to book working space by the hour. Like any business launched or operating since March 2020, staff has faced an extra task: keeping employees and guests safe in the time of COVID-19. YOUBE members use the company-made app to buy credits and book desk spots or meeting rooms.
Atlassian
FEBRUARY 2, 2022
Subscribe to Work Life Get stories like this in your inbox Subscribe. 5-second summary. Team cohesion is an important component of high-performing teams. Too much team cohesion can mean that individuals focus on coming to an agreement rather than finding the best idea. Encouraging a culture of healthy dissent can help prevent this – but only if team members feel psychologically safe.
Tanveer Naseer
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
For the past few years, there’s been a growing focus and demand that organizations address diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Although there’s been numerous studies that have demonstrated how a diverse workforce leads to improved financial performance, productivity, innovation, and overall growth, the numbers of visible minority groups and. Click to continue reading.
Wellable
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
As the wellness industry continues to grow, its evolution must be guided by a common set of standards that allow incoming and seasoned professionals to assess their skills, determine whether they have the abilities needed to fulfill their current roles, and prepare for future career opportunities.
Insperity
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
The conversation has shifted for organizations with a remote or hybrid workforce. Instead of planning off-site work events to break routine with office life, companies are now planning on-site meetings so their employees can interact face-to-face and get a break from working virtually. Today, we’re sharing some intentional reasons you may want to bring your team on-site, along with a few tips for making it worthwhile for your organization and employees. 8 Good reasons to host employee on-sites.
Success
FEBRUARY 16, 2022
Whether you’ve been leading a remote workforce for decades, recently ventured into this space, are dabbling with hybrid models or are fully returning your staff to in-house status, one thing is certain: The concept of the “workplace” has changed forever. The pandemic effectively recast it, and the hard, sacred work of nurturing company culture has gotten even more dynamic in the process.
The Receptionist
FEBRUARY 21, 2022
The U.S. is currently experiencing the biggest labor restructuring in its history. In response to recent events, a lot of businesses have shifted to either a remote or a hybrid work model. And while these models have a ton of benefits, including increased productivity, decreased office expenses, and access to a larger pool of talent, they suffer from one major drawback: A gnawing sense of disconnection amongst workers.
Atlassian
FEBRUARY 18, 2022
Subscribe to Work Life Get stories like this in your inbox Subscribe. 5-Second summary. Psychologically safe work environments allow team members to feel that they can safely take calculated risks without fear of repercussions. A lack of psychological safety may deter people from speaking up about mistakes, knowledge gaps, or potential problems. When working remotely, you can promote psychological safety by being intentional about scheduling one-on-one meetings, asking open-ended questions, mode
Tanveer Naseer
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
Before you decide to start your own business, you’ve already spent countless hours figuring out all of the details to make it great. You know what kind of company you want to run and the culture you want to foster. The question is, how do you find the best employees? Click to continue reading.
Wellable
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
Researchers have greatly expanded their knowledge of the causes and effects of heart health over the past few years, clarifying the benefits of exercise and revealing connections with other dimensions of wellness. To optimize the impact of wellness programs on heart health, it is important to explore the latest in heart health research.
Insperity
FEBRUARY 1, 2022
Between planned updates, new initiatives and unexpected changes, today’s workplace offers leaders plenty of opportunities to earn their change management stripes. When leading through change, you must manage your team’s progress toward your goal as well as your employees’ attitudes throughout the experience. Sometimes managing change calls for grace periods as your staff absorbs and understands a transition.
Vantage Circle
FEBRUARY 1, 2022
Do you work in an environment where some coworkers seem to go out of their way to draw everyone's attention to themselves? If that's the case, you're most likely dealing with a textbook case of narcissism at work. You might not notice narcissism. However, if it goes unnoticed, it can severely influence your culture, people, and engagement levels in a negative manner.
The Receptionist
FEBRUARY 14, 2022
What’s an affordable way to generate new leads, improve customer satisfaction, and boost employee productivity? If you answered, “chatbots,” you get a gold star. You’re absolutely right. Chatbots have become the business answer to marketing, troubleshooting, and support all in one. And you can use chatbots to extend the reach of your sales and customer support teams.
Atlassian
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
Subscribe to Work Life Get stories like this in your inbox Subscribe. 5-second summary. Creating a strong, cohesive team takes intention and planning. Researchers have been studying team dynamics for decades. There’s a significant body of knowledge about which organizational structures provide the best results given the circumstances, goals, and personalities involved in a team.
Tanveer Naseer
FEBRUARY 16, 2022
Did you know that one of the top challenges for CEOs is developing new leadership? Having great leaders is getting more important with time. Businesses know this, but only less than 5% have development programs at all levels. Tied this to the fact that the number of quits is alarming; Click to continue reading.
Wellable
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
Whether through exercise competitions, mindfulness activities, or financial wellness tools, corporate wellness programs have focused heavily on benefits that help employees help themselves.
Insperity
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
Being a great manager means creating an environment where your employees feel part of a team. You empower your people and help them understand the value of their contributions. You serve your employees and ask how you can best support them. Through ongoing conversations about each person’s role on the team, you learn what’s most important to your employees and how to keep them engaged.
Success
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
You were selling well, making deals, and all was right in the world. Then, without warning, your sales took a breathtaking, stomach-turning plummet, and you find yourself in the dreaded sales slump. Your results are awful. You feel terrible. Worse still, you feel powerless to change anything. But you aren’t powerless. You can turn the sales slump around with this plan. 1.
The Receptionist
FEBRUARY 14, 2022
When electronics manufacturer MVinix moved to a new, larger location, company leaders faced a question: Can we rethink how we manage visitors at the front desk? A full-time receptionist had managed the front desk at the company’s previous location, but the facility move also prompted a new role for that person. MVinix didn’t take in a high volume of visitors each day, but when a visitor did arrive — usually with component parts and hardware for electronics development projects — the MVinix team
Atlassian
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
Subscribe to Work Life Get stories like this in your inbox Subscribe. 5-second summary. Workplace culture is the system of shared beliefs and behaviors that determine how an organization’s members interact and make decisions. Research shows that a toxic workplace culture can have a negative impact on productivity. The pandemic tended to amplify existing cultural issues.
Tanveer Naseer
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
Following the rate at which the internet is connecting us, regardless of geographical locations, it is normal for small businesses to have potential customers in far countries. This creates an opportunity for small and growing businesses to go international, allowing you to grow your company from within the walls of. Click to continue reading.
Wellable
FEBRUARY 21, 2022
Already growing in popularity, the pandemic rapidly accelerated the demand for flexible work arrangements. One survey of 1,500 hiring managers found 62% of companies plan to continue offering remote work opportunities because of their experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Vantage Circle
FEBRUARY 16, 2022
Leadership comes with a lot of power. However, the nature of power and its psychological effects frequently leave the debilitating feeling of being isolated from others. It's a feeling so common among successful people that it's become an idiom: "It's lonely at the top." In a wide-ranging interview in 2016 , Apple CEO Tim Cook spoke candidly about the challenges of running one of the world's most iconic companies. "It's sort of a lonely job," he admitted.
Success
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
In 2020, searches for “ password strength test ” increased by 300%, a search query that represents a growing and necessary public awareness of cybersecurity. Although the word cybersecurity covers a variety of things, it’s generally about protecting your data from digital attacks of all kinds. . Understanding and implementing cybersecurity best practices are important for the general public, but they’re essential if you’re a solopreneur or freelancing digital nomad.
The Receptionist
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
If you were born before 2005, you’re older than the concept of coworking. (And if that stings, here’s another zinger: You may also be older than the Internet, too, but I digress.) So, what is coworking? Coworking, as the term is used today, began in 2005 with Brad Neuberg’s vision of a collective workspace. He set up the San Francisco Coworking Space with the idea of creating an office environment where self-employed people could work independently but have the comfort of being
Atlassian
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
5-second summary. Failures and setbacks can destroy a team’s confidence, which, in turn, can impact their performance. Leaders can help people power through a crisis by employing three mental safeguards that keep the team from falling into a shame spiral. Once the dust has settled, teams should do some guided reflection to help them regain their confidence.
Great Place to Work
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
It’s no secret that in many industries, a permanent hybrid working model is strongly preferred by most employees. This model still comes with many challenges, but the past few years have taught us that working from home comes with many benefits, both for employees and employers. What’s often overlooked is the role that hybrid, or even fully remote, working arrangements can play in organizations’ diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB) strategies.
Wellable
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
Over the past several years, organizations have become adept at carrying out most of their operations remotely, as the COVID-19 pandemic made in-person gatherings infeasible.
Quantum Workplace
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
Company culture is a trending and important topic for organizations looking to attract and retain top talent. But culture is changing, and leaders need to evolve with it. Future-focused leaders are building cultures that benefit the business and create a great employee experience. Without aiming your culture strategies at engagement, your culture won't empower employees to do their best work—and your business won't see returns.
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