Success
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
I don’t know his name, but his messy, shoulder-length hair hides a pair of hauntingly blue eyes. It’s a warm September day in New York, but he’s sitting under a mountain of ragged bits of clothing, towels and blankets. In one hand, he loosely holds a piece of string attached to the neck of the small, mangy-looking dog lying next to him. In the other hand, he clutches a nearly empty bottle of cheap vodka.
Productivityist
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
In this episode of A Productive Conversation with Mike Vardy – we have special guest Yaro Starak. Yaro is the co-founder of Inbox Done. He shares his insights on why email management and delegation can be a challenge for some people and how to overcome these obstacles and we delve into the various types of clients that Inbox Done serves. We both share our thoughts on how Inbox Done has helped our clients streamline their email and become more productive.
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Workplace Insight
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
A few of you may already know this story. It was some 15 months ago and three old friends met up for the first time in quite a while (well, we had been through lockdowns etc). Having caught up with each other’s news, the subject turned to industry journals, what the three friends felt the market was missing and the possibility of collaborating in the not too distant future.
Vantage Circle
FEBRUARY 11, 2023
If you want to make your organization succeed and maintain a high-performance culture, employee morale is a key factor to consider. High morale among employees can result in increased productivity , engagement, sustainability, and profitability. In contrast, low employee morale can destroy your organizational structure. It can increase cases of employee discontentment, workplace conflicts , and poor performance. "Whether you are the boss or an employee, low morale can be a killer." - Ron
Success
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
We often confuse being productive with working as fast as we can every second of the day. We fear that slowing down and organizing will kill our productivity, but the facts suggest otherwise: The average office employee spends “at least two hours a day—or 25% of their workweek—looking for the documents, information or people they need to do their jobs,” according to Glean ’s 2022 Hybrid Workplace Habits & Hangups survey. “54% of U.S. office professionals surveyed agreed that they spend more
Productivityist
FEBRUARY 13, 2023
Valentine’s Day is a special day dedicated to celebrating love and affection between intimate partners. While we often show our love and appreciation for others through gifts and special gestures, it’s equally important to show love to ourselves and the most precious resource we have: time. That’s why I propose a new holiday: “ValenTime’s Day” The concept of ValenTime’s Day is simple: to make time a priority in our lives and celebrate the love and apprec
Workplace Insight
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
A survey from CBRE claims that the imposition of more hybrid and flexible working has been an ‘unexpected gift’ for both employers and employees. The poll of 20,000 employees worldwide suggests that flexibility plays an important role for both employee and employer decision making. Other benefits include increased productivity and more innovative thinking.
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Success
FEBRUARY 13, 2023
We’ve all heard the narrative about senior women who don’t support the women below them. (Of course, what we hear less about are the battles those senior women fought and the toll they have taken.) We know about the “mansplainers,” the low-key harassers and the “underminers” young women face at work. Some women might object to the premise of this article.
Vantage Circle
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
The corporate sector has encountered many burning trends in the past two to three years, like hybrid work culture , quiet quitting , and great resignation. These trends have altered the working dynamics of organizations and forced businesses to adapt to newer developments. Another trend that has joined the corporate bandwagon is rage applying. And what are the reasons that have been influencing this trend?
Workplace Insight
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
Over half (58 percent) of employers in the UK believe that they will lose staff in the next six months as they seek to earn more by moving jobs, according to a new poll. According to the survey by talent services company, Morgan McKinley for its 2023 Salary Guide , 56 percent of employees in the UK are looking to move jobs in the first half of the year, with 49 percent selecting better pay as the primary reason, followed by ‘better career growth and development opportunities’ (17 percent).
Go Burrows
FEBRUARY 12, 2023
Nichole Brooks has an extensive career as an administrative professional with 30 years of experience, including her current role as an Administrative Operations Manager. In this episode, Nichole discusses advocating for assistants to the leadership team, extending grace at work, transitioning from being a peer to being a manager, and more. LEADERSHIP QUOTE Apologizing is a strength, not a weakness.
Success
FEBRUARY 13, 2023
Managing your finances can feel overwhelming, especially if you’re trying to keep up with the latest budgeting software, personal finance app or investment hack and not just the financial basics. You might feel so swamped by all of the ‘advice’ that you avoid managing your own money. But that lead to problems in the future. While it’s essential to keep up with some financial news, trying to track every detail can weigh you down.
Ask a Manager
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
This post, the $15,000 coffee fund, the cheapskate executives, and other stories of office coffee wars , was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. Last week, I asked for your stories about office coffee wars (or tea/milk/etc. wars). Here are 15 of my favorites … plus an update. 1. The coffee fund I worked in a department store during summer breaks from college back in the late 80s.
Workplace Insight
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
Future Forum , a consortium launched by Slack with founding partners Boston Consulting Group , MillerKnoll , and MLT has published the latest findings from its global Pulse survey , which suggest that flexible working plays a key role in fostering organisational culture and has a significant positive impact on productivity. According to the poll, flexible workers were 57 percent more likely to say that their company culture has improved over the past two years compared with those required t
Eat Your Career
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
If you’ve been following me for any period of time, you probably know that I consider myself a productivity enthusiast. But in the recent past, I’ve started to feel that many traditional concepts of “time management” are just incomplete. The modern trend to focus on tips, tricks, and hacks has removed the nuance from the conversation and forced us to blindly adopt a “faster is better” mentality.
Success
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
Quiet quitting was trending in 2022, as employees responded to feeling underappreciated , underutilized and under-compensated. So, they stopped trying, doing the bare minimum necessary to stay employed and fly under the radar. Business leaders now have a response, one called “quiet hiring.” This new workplace phenomenon is the result of bosses trying to figure out creative ways to fill gaps in their companies without spending extra money to hire new employees.
Great Place to Work
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
An effective talent acquisition strategy requires a strong employer brand, a streamlined candidate experience, and a focus on long-term goals. Hiring top talent takes time, intention, and energy. As your business evolves, you need to continuously assess the needs of your organization and bring on new talent with the right skills to move your company forward.
Workplace Insight
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Responding to what it claims are challenges emerging from the pandemic and the accelerating need for the built environment to respond to climate change, the British Council for Offices (BCO) has released an early update to its Guide to Specification, which provides expert advice on how designers can create healthier offices that support changing working patterns, while reducing carbon emissions.
Ruby
FEBRUARY 13, 2023
Nothing beats curling up and pressing play on your favorite spooky TV series (if you’re able to keep your eyes open, that is). But here’s a spoiler for you: mythical monsters really do exist. Not the hairy, scary, scaly kind. We’re talking about the ones that creep their way out of our imagination and into the real world. The ones based on our fear of the unknown.
Success
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Earvin “Magic” Johnson was in the seventh year of his Hall of Fame career when thoughts of his basketball afterlife led him to the office of uber-executive Michael Ovitz, co-founder of Creative Artists Agency. Johnson had watched many former athletes attempt entry into the world of business only to fail. He was hoping for advice that would allow him to chart a different course.
Great Place to Work
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
Recruiting strategies that reflect the changes facing hiring managers today are critical to any talent management strategy. From rethinking culture fit to checking for bias, here’s how to ensure top talent will want to come to you. Long gone are the days of posting on a job board and waiting for candidates to come to you. Today, the hunt for top talent is fierce, candidates have more leverage, and successful employee recruitment is a proactive two-way effort.
Workplace Insight
FEBRUARY 12, 2023
Arthur C Clarke’s finest novel Childhood’s End is the story of an Earth that is invaded by a force of alien Overlords. This is not a destructive colonial invasion, which is why there’s no Hollywood blockbuster in the tale, but a seemingly benevolent intervention which ushers in a golden age for humanity. Although humankind initially does not get to meet the Overlords in person (for reasons I won’t give away here), the aliens unite the world’s governments, eradicate crime, conflict and the nation
Ask a Manager
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
This post, my employees tell me what they’re doing, rather than asking permission , was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I am a fairly new manager for a small team of creatives. I have noticed that when my team has a request, they have almost all have a habit of making it a statement rather than a question.
Success
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
Dany Garcia may not be a household name, but her fingerprints are in much of the past 10 years of entertainment, athletics, clothing, spirits and finance. She capped off her multimillion-dollar empire when she led the $15 million purchase of the XFL football league in 2020 as the key investor and negotiator for a group consisting of her ex-husband and longtime business partner Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Gerry Cardinale of RedBird Capital Partners.
Minding the Workplace
FEBRUARY 11, 2023
Here’s a story from my neck of the woods (Greater Boston) that may have broader implications for the future of the labor market and the labor movement. In essence, it’s about what happened after baristas at a small independent chain of coffeehouses opted to unionize and then attempted to pressure the owners towards signing a first collective bargaining agreement.
Workplace Insight
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
Pay and benefits are no longer the only critical factors in deciding where to work, with a majority citing their employers’ values (80 percent) and commitment to the environment (76 percent) and social equality (75 percent) as key criteria, claims a survey commissioned by advocate and author Paul Polman. The Net Positive Barometer, a survey of 2,000 British employees, claims that 41 percent are concerned about paying their bills, while 69 percent are anxious about the future of the planet and so
Ask a Manager
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
This post, micromanaging goodbye emails, overhead lighting wars, and more , was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. My company wants to micromanage internal goodbye emails Since we’ve had new leadership come into my small nonprofit organization, one of many new policies implemented by Head Boss is a requirement that any staff leaving the company must have their “all-staff goodbye” message reviewed and approved by
Success
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
Last summer, we banned personal electronics from our family vacation—no laptops, iPods, video games or other devices. Instead we played cards, read books and watched the Olympics. The first book on my list was Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged , which I’d read for college years ago. I wanted to reread the 1957 novel because it was being discussed as the presidential race heated up in August 2012.
Success
FEBRUARY 11, 2023
When you start talking about mentorship programs, you’ll usually get one of the following reactions: a collective groan about the additional work that such a program might entail, intimidation about where to begin or excitement from people who have experienced successful mentor relationships and the growth that comes from them. Nearly every company can benefit from one, however.
Success
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Perhaps you’re one of the lucky few who have known your career path since you were barely out of diapers. What was once pretend play (i.e. teacher, doctor or firefighter) is now your profession. But for many of us, the promise of college majors is less rosy in reality, which could signal the need for a career change. How to support your partner through a career change As the partner of someone pursuing a new career path , here are a few tips for how to support your partner during this often-stre
Success
FEBRUARY 13, 2023
“You have to make an exit to make an entrance.” That’s the advice Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels once gave entrepreneur and reality television star Bethenny Frankel. It seemed those words rang especially true as Frankel returned to the Bravo show that launched her into household-name status, The Real Housewives of New York (RHONY). After leaving the show in 2010 and focusing on her Bravo spin-off, Bethenny Ever After, which followed her through a wedding, giving birth and the rapid r
Success
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
If you grew up being told not to make waves, you might want to reconsider your stance on the matter and become a changemaker. Why should you make waves in your team or organization? Easy: to bring about change that builds momentum, that introduces improvements and opportunities otherwise missed by conforming to the status quo. Change makes our world better.
Success
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
Relationships make the world go ’round. Good, positive, healthy, meaningful, happy relationships provide us with the richest experiences we have. Your loving spouse who shares everything with you, that best friend who connects with you like few others do, the people at work who appreciate you and help you become the best you can be —they bring joy to life.
Success
FEBRUARY 11, 2023
“The adventure you’re ready for is the one you get!” Jeff Probst told the world in September 2009 when he accepted his second Emmy as “Outstanding Host for a Reality or Competition Program.” Crisscrossing the globe for over two decades as the face of Survivor , a show that cracked open the whole notion of reality television, Probst’s adventures seem endless.
Success
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
We learned recently with the “ great resignation ” that American workers have had enough. They want higher pay, work-life balance, job security and an increase in workplace diversity and inclusion, among other things, according to a 2022 Gallup study. In January 2023, the unemployment rate hit an all-time low of 3.4%—“the lowest jobless level since May 1969,” according to CNBC —showing that it’s an employee’s market.
Success
FEBRUARY 13, 2023
“Valentine’s Day is the biggest day of the year, and we want to do it really well,” says Stephanie Frank, co-owner of Posies Flower Truck in Tampa Bay, Florida. Frank isn’t alone in her observation. The Society of American Florists says the holiday easily claims the mantle as the top U.S. holiday for flower sales, and it estimates growers produce more than 250 million roses annually for this celebration alone.
Success
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
Mindset is not everything, but it impacts everything. Lauren Johnson is a mental performance consultant and executive coach with more than a decade of experience working with high-performing individuals , powerhouse organizations and professional athletes, including the New York Yankees. This week, Johnson tells In the Details host Karen Allen about the relationship between mental performance and success.
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