Insperity

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

When it comes to an employee termination, the steps leading up to the actual conversation might be the easier part. If you have a progressive discipline policy in place and you’ve followed all the appropriate steps leading up a termination , your move really shouldn’t come as a surprise to the employee. Even if they might be expecting it, how do you handle the actual conversation during which you deliver the unfortunate news?

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Spiceworks

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

CAD digitally creates 2D and 3D design simulations of real-world objects to optimize the design before manufacturing. The post What is CAD (Computer Aided Design)? Definition, Types, and Applications appeared first on Spiceworks.

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Successful businesses wouldn’t be where they are today without an army of followers. Whether you’re about to dip your toes into the business world or you’ve been in the game for numerous years, you should understand how important your customers are for your brand. After all, without them, you can’t. Click to continue reading.

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Jen Lawrence

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

If you’ve ever had a conference hangover, you know how hard it can be to reenter the real world and not be exhausted and overwhelmed. Between the physical recovery, digesting all the valuable information, and following up on conversations, simply put, it can be a lot. Then stack all of this on top of your everyday life obligations, and it’s hard to truly reap the benefits of the event.

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Insperity

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Lately, you may have heard the buzzword quiet quitting. But what exactly is it if it’s not actually about leaving a job? An outgrowth of The Great Resignation, it’s a trend gaining traction on social media in which working professionals share their alternative to quitting their job outright. Even among quiet quitters, there’s a range of behaviors. These employees fall into one of these groups, which are progressively more extreme: “ I’m no longer going to stress out over my job and getting every

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The Receptionist

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

One way to improve your overall visitor management process is by printing and issuing visitor ID badges. But is it really a necessary part of doing business or is printing ID badges an unnecessary inconvenience for your visitors? After all, the process of printing an ID badge can be time-consuming and even confusing if the instructions aren’t clear.

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Is your organization doing enough to invest in the professional success of its staff? Do you offer support to make their work-life balance more manageable? If the answer is no, you may want to rethink your position, as more people are walking away from dead-end and unsupportive jobs to chase. Click to continue reading.

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Success

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

There’s no such thing as an overnight success. All the people you admire achieved their accolades by making daily choices. Some of those choices are extraordinary, but most of them are simple habits that add up, one step and one day at a time. Highly productive people are self-aware and take their personal development seriously. They regularly assess their habits and strive for continuous improvement.

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All Work

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

According to a survey from McKinsey , occupants are focused on just a few things when it comes to their workplace needs: flexibility, inclusion, wellbeing and work-life balance. . A 2017 report from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency shows that furniture waste made up 12.2 million tons, with over 80% ending up in landfills. . Incorporating biophilic design doesn’t have to mean spending thousands on complex live plant walls. .

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TinyPulse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Workplace culture has such a profound impact on an organization. Employee retention and engagement are two key factors in the success of a company, and culture makes a direct impact on these metrics. One way that culture is influenced is through the relationships between employees. As an employer, you want to encourage genuine connections, both peer-to-peer and between employees and management.

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Vantage Circle

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Workplace potlucks are a great way to spice up desk lunches and promote team spirit all year long, especially during the holiday season. Confused about what to bring if your coworkers are hosting a Christmas team potluck? The following list of 30 Christmas potluck ideas for work is amazingly quick and easy. As soon as the Halloween decorations are taken down, you must begin planning for the holiday season!!

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Success

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Who we are as people, and the skills we accrue, have the potential to be a great determinant of our success in both our personal and professional lives. Research has previously shown that the big five personality traits play a large role in our lives, from influencing career choices to predicting life satisfaction. Outside of these commonly accepted personality traits, however, there are character traits which have their own impact on our success.

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Great Place to Work

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The company shares two years’ worth of lessons learned around efforts to understand the experience of marginalized employees, and make changes. After the death of George Floyd at the hands of police officers in 2020, many business leaders asked tough questions of themselves. What are we doing to fight racism in our industry and workplace? What is the experience of marginalized employees in our organization?

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All Work

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Effective workspace design isn’t just skin deep – it needs to functional, useful, and elevate the user experience. And while designers often look back in time to find the right answers, many believe that design should be timeless. Perkins&Will’s Lina Murillo explores how to create timeless workplace design that business owners, workplace operators, and users will remain happy with for years to come.

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Go Burrows

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

As an executive assistant, your relationship with your executive should be professional, strategic, and mutually supportive. Your goal is to help them succeed, and their goal is to help you succeed. After all, if you succeed, they will. This episode features an excerpt from my audiobook, The Leader Assistant: Four Pillars of a Confident, Game-Changing Assistant.

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Success

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Other family members were playing pingpong. They were reading novels, doing crosswords and giggling over a game of Bananagrams. But on a breezy night in the middle of summer vacation, my 10-year-old daughter and I sat hunched over laptops, muttering about the kitten from hell. Our mission, set forth by an online course: Write lines of code that would put the creature’s fluffy, deceptively innocent picture on a webpage and let users click on it, zipping them to Wikipedia’s “kitten” entry.

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Great Place to Work

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Flexibility, fair pay, and work-life balance are all in reach for companies in health care, an industry plagued with long hours and high stress. No industry has faced greater challenges from COVID-19 than health care. Workers on the frontline of a desperate struggle with the pandemic are now pondering their options. Former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy described the situation : “The toll on our health workers is alarming.

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Eat Your Career

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Well, I guess we have to talk about it. If you’ve been paying attention to the news and social media over the past two weeks, you’ve undoubtedly heard the term “quiet quitting”. For some unknown reason, this concept has gained a lot of traction lately, but don’t be fooled. It’s not a new idea. It’s also not an especially helpful addition to the very necessary conversations being had around work/life balance, boundaries, and the monumental shifts happening in the workplace as a result of the pand

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Ask a Manager

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

This post, an employer “challenged” me and other applicants to work for free for 2 weeks , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I applied for a position with a company that specializes in the sustainability and environmental sector and received the below email as a response. Am I totally off-base to think that (A) this is FAR too much to do for free in lieu of a traditional interview process, and (B) they are planning to use all of the work comp

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Success

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Let me start by saying a couple of things self-care is not. Self-care isn’t: An excuse to continually be unhealthy. A cheat day every once in a while is fine (encouraged even, because balance), but you can’t use “self-care” to justify poor habits Spending excess money on yourself that you don’t have. Debt has never done a body good. #TreatYoSelfResponsibly Selfish.

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Steele Recruiting

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In my role as a recruiter I observe the relationship between executives and assistants from both sides. From my observations and experience, one of the biggest reasons relationships break down is the lack of communication. This would also be true for the EA/CEO partnership. Having an open and honest communication between EA and CEO is key to a successful partnership.

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Mind Matters from Menninger

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Dissociative Identity Disorder has been portrayed in media in a lot of ways, but do they get it right?

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Ask a Manager

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

This post, the flasher, the scathing tirade, and other stories of magnificent rage-quits , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. The recent post revisiting the employee who quit by spelling out “I QUIT” in fish inspired me to round up some more epic quitting stories that have been shared here over the years. Here are 10 more good ones. 1.

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Success

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

When people think about pursuing something, the first thing they normally do is look at their resources to determine whether or not it can be done, which is always a wise thing to do. But where most people fail in this process is taking stock of the wrong things, like money. “How much money do I have?” they ask. Sure, we need to know how much money we have, but money is not the greatest resource.

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Condeco Software

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

After a two-year COVID-19-induced interruption, many companies are now turning their attention back to a major pre-pandemic priority: making their operations greener, less carbon-reliant and more sustainable. And it’s not at all too soon. A recent report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shows that “current plans to address climate change are not ambitious enough to limit warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels,” which is what many scientists believe needs to happen to cont

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Ruby

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

“Outsourcing” used to be a four-letter word. For some, it still is. Once you’ve been doing something long enough, letting go of certain parts of your small business can feel like letting a small piece of yourself go. Customer communication can be one of the toughest to hand off. After all, it’s a big part of what makes your business, well, your business.

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Ask a Manager

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

This post, I quit my horrible job but they’re pressuring me to stay and I feel like a villain , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I work in the office of a small family business. I just hit my one-year anniversary here. I’m probably up there as one of the longest-tenured employees in here. We are severely understaffed on a good day.

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Success

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

What are the best meditation retreats in the U.S.? If you search online for beautiful, peaceful and spiritually productive wellness retreats, the breadth of options and opinions may be confusing. Many of the lists you find are created by travel agencies, so we have taken a fresh look at the top meditation retreats around the country. These offer peace, beauty, personal growth, relaxation and opportunities for individuals, couples and groups.

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Productivityist

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

This week I am joined by the founder and CEO of Baronfig, Joey Cofone. Joey is an award-winning designer and entrepreneur living and working in NYC who has designed and art-directed over 100 products from zero to launch. . With over a decade of ideas, notes, and journaling – Joey has published his book The Laws of Creativity: Unlock your Originality and Awaken your Creative Genius.

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Ruby

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The other day while my partner was making dinner in the kitchen, I heard him answer a phone call. After he answered, I heard him announce, “Eighteen million dollars!” and then hang up the phone. It was a robocall. You know, the one where they call and a recording claims someone wants to buy your home for cash. I liked his new approach—to demand millions of dollars for our home and hang up the phone.

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Condeco Software

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

New York- September 9, 2022- Today, Condeco , the global leader in workspace scheduling software, announced it is a recipient of the 2022 Vision Awards in the Reopening category. The 4 th annual Vision Awards, hosted by FacilitiesNet , honors companies with innovative products that contribute to the efficient operations and management of institutional and commercial buildings in the United States.

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Success

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

During the past two decades, coworking spaces have provided companies, entrepreneurs and remote workers with a different way to work—one that’s convenient and flexible, has low overhead and sidesteps many of the challenges of the traditional office setting. These spaces have become an increasingly popular refuge between the distractions inherent at home and the many unappealing aspects of office life, two minefields that can be particularly taxing on one half of the current workforce: women.

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Vantage Circle

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Whether juggling daycare, school pick-up or drop-off, attending parent-teacher meetings, helping kids with homework, or cheering in the games. Working parents pretty much do it all. Recognizing their dedication, sacrifice, and tireless efforts, the world observes National Working Parents Day. It is celebrated on the 16th of September each year. The day commemorates those amazing and inspiring working parents who overcome all odds for the well-being of their families.

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Great Place to Work

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

If you want to recruit and retain this important demographic, follow in the footsteps of the Best Workplaces for Women. The majority of women in today’s workforce are recruitable. Fifty-four percent of working women say they are open to a new job in the next six months, according to a July 2022 Great Place To Work ® market research survey of nearly 4,200 workers.

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Ask a Manager

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

This post, I stood up to a sexist coworker who wanted me to take all the notes for a team I’m not even on , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: Your recent letter about office housekeeping and calendar invites reminded me of an incident that happened at work about a year ago. I am the director of architecture for a company and work closely with a man who is my peer, the director of construction — we both directly report to the CEO of the compan

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Success

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

This new workplace trend has been garnering attention on TikTok and LinkedIn. Julien and Kiersten Saunders (@richandregular) discuss the causes and repercussions of quiet quitting, and the types of employees who may benefit from establishing a workplace exit plan. . Though it is not a new phenomenon, quiet quitting as a movement has gained steam in recent weeks.

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Minding the Workplace

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

On this day of remembrance here in the U.S., I thought I’d pull together a collection of past articles related to the theme of writing, especially those forms designed to make a difference in this world — which, when you think about it, is the larger contribution of just about all good writing. And, of course, the earliest piece starts with coffee.

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