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 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.
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All Work
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Bene, a 200-year-old workspace furniture brand based in Austria, is leading the way in sustainable production. The company is focusing on minimising carbon emissions by 3D printing products using already-used biodegradable materials. Allwork.Space spoke to Michael Fried, Bene’s CEO, to learn more about their circular production techniques and the future of sustainable workspace design.
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.
Wellable
JANUARY 31, 2022
People can become attached to their beliefs. When this happens, they may respond to information that challenges their views in ways that make it easier to continue believing what they want to be true. For example, someone experiencing COVID-19 symptoms after having just attended a large gathering may avoid getting tested so that it’s easier to believe that they haven’t contracted it.
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.
All Work
FEBRUARY 2, 2022
Wellness is “front and centre” of the business ecosystem’s consciousness right now. One study found that enhanced ventilation in office buildings can result in as much as a $6,500 equivalent in improved productivity per person per year. If workplaces are looking to implement a wellness strategy but don’t have a lot of funding, adopting a hybrid work-positive mindset can also help.
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The Receptionist
JANUARY 31, 2022
Burnout is the worst. For those suffering from burnout, it feels like set-in exhaustion that cannot be cured with a good night’s sleep. And, from a business perspective, employee burnout means lost revenue, missed deadlines, and a high turnover rate. This is because burnout leads to increased absenteeism and decreased productivity. One of the best things you can do for your organization is to reduce employee burnout.
Success
FEBRUARY 4, 2022
The work we produce hasn’t changed radically since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, yet where and how we work has been transformed—and the results haven’t always been favorable to our mental health. A Gallup poll from fall 2021 revealed that nearly half of American full-time employees worked remotely either some of the time or entirely. Additionally, the majority of remote workers— 60%, in fact —reported feeling more productive than they thought they’d be.
Productivityist
FEBRUARY 2, 2022
Who is Thomas Anderson? Better still, who is he to write a book on vulnerability? I ask this question during my conversation with him on this episode of the podcast. He’s just a normal person, by his own admission. But when Thomas realized that his own openness and sharing of vulnerability helped others to do the same, it took him to a place to sharing his story of vulnerability.
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.
Vantage Circle
JANUARY 31, 2022
This is the ultimate guide on employee engagement for business leaders. You’ll understand what engagement is. What is it not? Why are we even talking about it? I’ll also cover some new strategies that work great. So let's get to it. Employees are the heart and soul of an organization. If your workforce is enthusiastic and engaged at work, your business is more likely to thrive.
Success
FEBRUARY 2, 2022
Many people have incredibly noble goals. They see problems in the world and envision solutions. They dream of helping others and providing service for generations to come. Growing up a chubby, middle-class kid in Tacoma, Washington, I was not one of those people. I knew two undisputed truths about my future: One day I was going to be rich, and one day I was going to have six-pack abs.
Go Burrows
JANUARY 30, 2022
Goal setting can be intimidating. Will you set goals you can’t reach? Will you set goals that are too easy and show your executive you’re not ambitious enough? What if your stretch goals distract you from getting your job done? In this episode, I share an excerpt from my audiobook, The Leader Assistant: Four Pillars of a Confident, Game-Changing Assistant , where my friend Jillian Hufnagel wrote about goal setting for executive assistants and administrative professionals.
Atlassian
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Subscribe to Work Life Get stories about tech and teams in your inbox Subscribe. In 1988, Hewlett Packard (HP) conducted an internal review of their software development processes and set a target to improve their code quality tenfold. To meet this ambitious goal, they tried a number of approaches. Eventually, they concluded that incorporating code reviews into the development cycle saved more money than resolving defects after they were found by customers. fyi.
Vantage Circle
FEBRUARY 4, 2022
What exactly do you think about when you hear the phrase "Leadership Burnout"? Among the images that immediately come to mind are physical exhaustion, mental fog, and emotional drainage. As a business owner, you are probably used to pulling yourself up and powering through. But how long can you go on like this before your health, business, or family suffers as a result?
Success
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
When you’re doing yoga , taking a walk in nature , meditating or doing controlled breathing , what are you really doing? Perhaps you’re getting some exercise or just answering the call of the daily routine. But what’s happening inside your mind when you’re doing these activities? . As it turns out, you may be engaging in self-reflection. And if you’re able to self-reflect , you’re already on the right path to potential improvements in well-being, health and even career success. .
Eat Your Career
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
This video is an excerpt from a live training session with Chrissy Scivicque, Career Coach & Corporate Trainer. The full video (“The Basics of Flexible Planning”) is available in the Career Success Library. The article below summarizes the video content. “ Plans are nothing. Planning is everything.” This is a quote from Dwight D. Eisenhower, our 34th president here in the United States.
Atlassian
JANUARY 31, 2022
Subscribe to Work Life Get stories about tech and teams in your inbox Subscribe. Like many workplace practices over the past two years, the way we communicate with our colleagues and customers has undergone a massive transformation. At Atlassian, we launched a company-wide distributed work policy , making virtual collaboration practices across Slack and other tools crucial.
Ask a Manager
JANUARY 31, 2022
This post, the new hire who showed up is not the same person we interviewed , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: This is a situation currently unfolding at my husband’s office so I’m a very amused bystander and thought I’d get your opinion on this craziness. My husband works in IT and is on the leadership team at a midsized private company.
Success
FEBRUARY 2, 2022
Q: Competition in my field has gotten tight over the past few years. Digital marketing has leveled the playing field. At my age, it’s all really overwhelming, and I don’t know if I can keep up. But I can’t afford to retire yet, either. What do you think? A: I think you are feeling something that many others have wrestled with as well. Technology has been changing industries since the wheel was invented.
Eat Your Career
JANUARY 31, 2022
Whether you’re working at the office, or virtually, or in a hybrid capacity, interruptions and distractions surround you! In many ways, this is simply the nature of today’s working world, and for some roles, it’s an unavoidable part of the job. But that doesn’t mean you have to simply allow these things (and people) to run your day. In fact, actively managing them is also part of the job!
Bonnie Low-Kramen
FEBRUARY 4, 2022
TEDx week is here! Listen in to find out about Bonnie’s TEDx talk on Feb 5th and lots more valuable resources for the Admin community. Related links: Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents [link]. 9to 5 Documentary on Netflix. Clive Davis The Soundtrack of Our Lives Documentary on Netflix. The post Ep 74. Bonnie’s TEDx talk and other resources on Heads Together with Bonnie Low-Kramen – 2/2/22 appeared first on Bonnie Low-Kramen.
Ruby
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Photo by Kindel Media from Pexels Want to engage your website visitors and gain clients for your practice—and save time while doing it? Live chat for attorneys and law firms makes it easy. Legal professionals of all kinds use chat services to optimize their client communication online. It’s the key to attracting visitors, collecting information from them, and turning them into leads.
Success
FEBRUARY 4, 2022
“You gotta answer your DMs, man,” says Jairek Robbins, half laughing, in his latest Brilliant Thoughts interview with Tristan Ahumada. Robbins, who is an acclaimed business coach, best-selling author and motivational speaker, is also the new president of SUCCESS—a position he says started with an Instagram message. “ Opportunity is always knocking ,” he adds, an idea he’s been reflecting on a lot lately.
Vantage Circle
FEBRUARY 2, 2022
Although Mondays are infamously hated, some people say Wednesday is the hardest day of the week to get through. These mid-week blues can surely have an impact on creativity and ambition. And to get through it, we all need a little mid-week motivation. Read our blog on: Employee Motivation- A Comprehensive Guide. However, most people struggle to find inspiration in the middle of the week.
Sonic Boom Wellness
FEBRUARY 1, 2022
How to discuss mental health at work. Over the last couple of years, we’ve witnessed a positive shift in how employers approach mental health. Companies have taken many steps to normalize conversations about mental health and reduce the stigmas associated with it. Still today, mental health continues to be a top priority for organizations as their employees face ongoing change and uncertainty.
Ruby
FEBRUARY 1, 2022
Photo by Life Of Pix from Pexels It wasn’t too long ago that, if you needed a plumber or HVAC contractor, you’d flip through the white pages until you found an ad featuring a cartoon man holding a wrench. It’s certainly been a while since we’ve seen him. I wonder what he’s up to these days? Today, small business websites have replaced the need for consumers to flip through physical directories.
Success
FEBRUARY 1, 2022
One of the most painful experiences in life is moving toward a goal or dream, only to face those whom you love most, rejecting your ideas and even you. If your decisions about a career move, relocation, lifestyle or relationship mean your loved ones refuse to support you, even threaten to leave your life, the road ahead of you can be a long one. Your relationship might require extra care and patience.
Quantum Workplace
FEBRUARY 1, 2022
Many organizational leaders track product, customer, and other business analytics, but know too little about one of their biggest assets—their people. People decisions are often rooted in the gut feelings and opinions of leadership, without evidence to back them up. This can lead to a lot of wasted time and resources, taking the wrong actions at the wrong time and failing to make meaningful progress.
Productivityist
JANUARY 31, 2022
I want to share with you the concept of bit by bit productivity in this piece. But first I’d like to tell you about the time I discovered that someone who I didn’t think followed the concept actually did – and does so in a big way to this day. When people think about Gary Vaynerchuk, they tend to think about this one word: hustle. And rightly so.
Ask a Manager
FEBRUARY 1, 2022
This post, update: my new office has a no-humor policy , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. Remember the letter-writer who discovered her new office had a no-humor policy ? Here’s the update. I wrote in early last summer about working at a job with a no-joke policy. It’s been about 9 months, and I’m still working there.
Success
FEBRUARY 2, 2022
This week on the SUCCESS Line , I talked to a graduate of the SUCCESS coaching certification. Dustin is a single father, real-estate broker, coach and entrepreneur—so, yes, he is just a little busy. He came on the show to talk about a perpetually hot topic for entrepreneurs: time management. But there is a sneaky truth: time management is a myth. If you’re tired of doing more every day but never feeling like you did enough, I have some solutions.
Minding the Workplace
JANUARY 31, 2022
I’ve been meaning to write about a December spectacle in South Dakota, whereby public school teachers participated in a wild grab for 5,000 $1 bills in the middle of a hockey rink, before cheering spectators. This “Dash for Cash” was organized to give the contestants a chance to collect money for badly needed schoolroom supplies. As reported by Julian Mark for The Washington Post ( link here ): At a junior hockey game in Sioux Falls, S.D., on Saturday night, $5,000 in one-dolla
Vantage Circle
JANUARY 31, 2022
It's the twenty-first century, and you'd think we'd have something as basic as gender equality in the workplace. But we haven't done so. This is why today's workplaces must go back to basics and begin with something as simple as raising awareness through some profound gender equality quotes for the workplace. Gender equality is not about awareness or eradicating gender indifferences but providing equal fundamental rights and benefits to all genders.
Ask a Manager
FEBRUARY 2, 2022
This post, do I have any recourse when an employer ghosts me? , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I know you’ve written that when job searching it’s best to assume you won’t hear back at every stage , and then to let any positive news be a pleasant surprise. I like the idea of this, but I can’t get past the fact that ghosting is still incredibly rude , especially at the later stages of a process.
Success
JANUARY 31, 2022
Side hustles have become an increasingly common strategy for people to supplement income from their full-time job or create multiple sources of income by pairing multiple side hustles. Outside of the financial benefits, side hustles can help workers learn new skills, make extra money or pursue a dream outside working hours. No longer a fringe activity but a permanent part of the modern workplace, side hustling brings troubling questions to leaders about their role in allowing or even encouraging
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