Insperity

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Employee training is one of the most significant investments in time and money that your organization may make, but it’s also one of the most critical initiatives impacting the long-term success of any business. After all, employees don’t just walk in the office door initially with all the information they need to do their jobs well. Maybe they’re experienced and highly knowledgeable, but there are still unique factors at your workplace that can impact their performance.

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The Assistant Room

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Located in the heart of the City, just a stone’s throw away from Liverpool Station you will find Piazza Italiana, […]. The post A Review Of: Piazza Italiana, London first appeared on The Assistant Room.

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Without question, being an effective listener is definitely a critical skill for leaders to demonstrate, especially as workplaces continue to become more demographically diverse. And yet, even the best leaders can fail to truly listen and understand what their employees really need from them, especially during times of uncertainty about. Click to continue reading.

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Jen Lawrence

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

When wrapping up a project, it’s easy just to let the work be marked “completed” and move on to the next big thing. However, a project debrief is essential to learning from the experience and growing as a team. Conduct a successful Project Debrief by setting aside the time to review and discuss. Prior to the Debrief Meeting. In preparation for the debrief meeting, have team members submit feedback in a way that allows all team members to feel safe being candid.

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Insperity

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

If you are feeling like your business is understaffed – that you have more work than employees to handle it all – you are not alone. Between The Great Resignation and a looming economic downturn that has necessitated layoffs, many companies across the U.S. are experiencing a talent shortage. Or, it could be that your business has experienced rapid success and needs to scale up fast.

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The Assistant Room

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

'Quiet Quitting' is the new buzz phrase, coming out of a lockdown world where people have started to reevaluate their priorities and work/life balance. Gathering speed on social media, it essentially means simply ‘just staying within the parameters of your job description’ - doing no more, and no less, than what is required by your contract. The post Quiet Quitting: An Impossible Concept for the Admin Industry??

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The Receptionist

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

If not, they probably should. But not with a conventional time clock check-in system. By implementing or overhauling your employee check-in and check-out experience, you can reap a ton of great benefits. It’s actually similar in many ways to implementing a visitor management system. In fact, you can actually use your visitor management system to also manage your employees’ ins and outs.

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Success

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Sometimes simply being in the room is a disempowering act. That’s one of the hidden challenges of being in a leadership role—whatever your background, there’s a likelihood that the strength that got you this far has now become a liability. When you’re in charge, your opinion simply takes up more space than that of others, whether you intend it to or not.

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Vantage Circle

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

A simple "thank you" can make employees feel more appreciated and help boost retention rates. If your employees aren't recognized for their work, they'll take it somewhere else. In this article, we'll explore what The Great Resignation is and ways you can mitigate its impact on your workforce through meaningful employee rewards & recognition programs.

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TinyPulse

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

As a manager, creating a successful, cohesive team can be a huge challenge. It involves a number of factors including strategic leadership practices, strong communication, and allowing each employee to feel heard and valued. It also requires a trust. It's just as important that you trust your employees to do their job as it is for them to trust the organization they work for.

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Go Burrows

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

As an assistant, one of your highest priorities is to manage your executive’s most valuable asset – their time. If you look at your role through this lens, then you’ll stop viewing “calendar management” as an uninteresting part of your job. 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 20, 2022

Picture this. On Friday morning you rush to the hospital with a sick child. Your partner is crying and you’re suffering from chronic lack of sleep. You cancel your 11 a.m. consultation with a potential client who’s clearly annoyed. At 4 p.m. you’re supposed to start a brand-new college teaching job. Luckily the doctor gives the little one the all clear just in time for you to rush home for a quick shower.

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All Work

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Light plays an important role in our overall health and wellbeing, including the circadian rhythm, which is important for our eating and sleeping patterns. With hybrid work now a permanent feature of working life for many people, how do different lighting conditions at home and in the office vary? CallisonRTKL’s Kyle A. D. McGahan and Andres Gonzalez-Bode explore the impact of light and how the integration of lighting controls should be considered within workspace design.

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Ask a Manager

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

This post, CEO attacked me in an all-staff email, I can’t give my employee satisfying answers, and more , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. Our CEO attacked me in an all-staff email for scheduling a happy hour on Rosh Hashanah. I work at a nonprofit in lower management. Two folks who report to me and I report to a VP who reports to the CEO.

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Ruby

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

In March 2020, Corona & Virus released their updated style guide with these recommendations for professional correspondence: Times must be unprecedented Normal is now new Emails should hope to find their recipients well Okay, that may not be entirely true—but it certainly felt that way. The early days of the pandemic introduced us to a slew of new expressions and turns of phrase.

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Success

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Chad L. Coleman is a critically acclaimed TV, film and stage actor best known for his roles as fan-favorite Tyreese in the Golden Globe-nominated series The Walking Dead and reformed criminal Dennis “Cutty” Wise in the Emmy-nominated HBO drama The Wire. Coleman currently stars as Klyden in Seth MacFarlane’s comedy-drama The Orville. His past TV and film projects also include The Expanse , All American , Arrow , I Hate My Teenage Daughter , It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia , The Green Hornet and

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Productivityist

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Todd Henry is returning for another productive conversation. He’s the author of several books, and an international speaker on creativity, productivity, and passion for work, as well as a coach for people and teams to help them generate brilliant ideas. This week, we are discussing his latest book, The Daily Creative. We talk about what it was like to put this book together, how you should go through the book, and then we take certain passages of the book and discuss them. and it’s v

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Ask a Manager

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

This post, the wallets of destruction, the backpack indignity, and other corporate gifts gone very wrong , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. On last week’s post about corporate year-end gifts , some readers shared stories of company gifts that went terribly wrong. Here are 10 that made me laugh. (Also, who would have anticipated the surprising enjoyment of umbrellas as a corporate gift that was revealed in that post?

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Ruby

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Small business customers are our favorite kind of people. They’re also the most demanding. Given the notoriously bad customer service experiences they’ve had with large companies, it’s not surprising. When someone deals with a small business, they generally expect more in terms of personalized service—and they’re less willing than ever to compromise.

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Success

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Improving the performance of a team member is not a one-way street. Your team members will trust and follow you only when they feel you put in an effort to make their life and work-life better. If you remember one thing about this process, let it be this: Your team will always remember how you make them feel while at work, to riff on Maya Angelou’s famous quote.

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Bonnie Low-Kramen

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Flexible work schedules & Arrangements?—?Leaders are experimenting with hybrid work schedules, the 4-day workweek, totally remote workforce, and no meeting Fridays. Employers are aware that staffers are stressed and anxious for many reasons, but mainly because of the uncertainty about what comes next with Covid variants and how that impacts their work life and taking care of children, etc.

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Ask a Manager

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

This post, what does self-care look like at work? , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I’ve been working through some significant program transitions and expansion as a manager at a basic needs nonprofit. The need, as you certainly know, continues to grow, and we’re feeling it exponentially. My boss asked me what my strategies for caring for myself at work were, and I realized that I don’t even really know what that entails!

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Ruby

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

If you picked up the phone right now and called your internet service provider, your insurance company, or even your local franchise gym, you won’t reach a voicemail. Of course, you’ll probably be on hold for the rest of the afternoon—but you’ll be able to speak with a real person (eventually). It makes sense that larger organizations can offer this kind of round-the-clock service.

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Success

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

Have you ever lost an entire afternoon to an engaging conversation or become so involved in a work project that everything else was forgotten? Then you’ve experienced the “flow state” firsthand. The best definition I’ve ever heard for this psychological event is this: “[Flow is] an optimal state of consciousness where we feel our best and perform our best.”.

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Minding the Workplace

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Usually not the answer (image courtesy of clipart-library.com). During the past few weeks, I’ve been giving some thought to two radical ideas that are floating around out in our public discourse. One is coming from the far right: An organizing effort to hold a new Constitutional Convention, presumably to radically remake the U.S. Constitution.

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Ask a Manager

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

This post, my coworker keeps trying to undermine me , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I left a toxic job back in June, and accepted a higher-paying, higher-title job at a nonprofit organization I respect very much. The culture here is wonderful, my manager is fantastic, and, for the most part, so are my coworkers.

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Success

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

I look out the window and see my cat, Mr. Noodle, lurching toward the tall grass at the edge of our field. He creeps along, then stops. His ears twitch and his tail whips back and forth. He waits. Then he pounces into the tall grass. A few seconds pass and he emerges with a chipmunk dangling from his mouth. Noodle is quite the hunter. He serves as a constant reminder of an important difference between animals and human beings: Animals just do what their instincts tell them to.

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Success

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Mark Twain once said that “habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.” I have lived by these words, coaxing change in my life by giving up one of 12 indulgences and conveniences (chocolate, shopping and cellphones among them) per month for a year. Then I literally wrote the book on my experiences.

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Success

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Virtual therapy provides mental and emotional healthcare to those who may not otherwise have access. Users receive the counseling they need remotely, through their digital device such as laptop, desktop or a mobile app—think of it as telemed, but for mental health and well-being. Telehealth provides virtual counseling for individuals when and where you need it.

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Success

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Virtual therapy provides mental and emotional healthcare to those who may not otherwise have access. Users receive the counseling they need remotely, through their digital device such as laptop, desktop or a mobile app—think of it as telemed, but for mental health and well-being. Telehealth provides virtual counseling for individuals when and where you need it.

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Success

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Dr. Shawn Robinson was diagnosed with dyslexia as a teen. After being encouraged to pursue a mastery of language, he created Dr. Dyslexia Dude , a series of graphic novels that feature a young superhero with dyslexia. This week, Robinson joins Karen Allen to talk about his own dyslexia journey, why the dictionary is his favorite book, and all of the unexpected benefits that come with studying language and sounds.

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Ask a Manager

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

This post, my new boss needs constant reassurance , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I’m in a situation that’s new to me in almost 15 years in my field. I’ve been at my employer for four years, and a new manager was hired four months ago to lead my team. I used to report to the person who’s now my grandboss.

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Ask a Manager

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

This post, my coworkers are sick of me having cancer, replying to late-night messages, and more , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. My coworkers are sick of me having cancer. I am living with Stage 4 breast cancer. I’m doing well and working full-time in an outpatient healthcare setting.

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Ask a Manager

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

This post, some of my employees have a butts-in-seats mentality … and some just disappear , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: In the remote time period following 2020, I took over supervision of a small team. We are finally back on-site and I’m encountering an issue I didn’t have in the fully remote setting.

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Ask a Manager

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

This post, boss makes us discuss all our mistakes in a group, elf work on a resume, and more , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. My boss makes us discuss all our mistakes in a group. I hate my boss. She has this policy that she believes works where she insists on discussing your mistakes on a video call with our team of nine.

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Ask a Manager

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

This post, a coworker’s child keeps saying insulting and bigoted things to me , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. It’s the Thursday “ask the readers” question. A reader writes: I work in a nonprofit child care setting and the environment can be toxic at times. These people have all known each other for decades and have habits of lying for one another in professional settings to make the organization sound better than it actually is.

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Ask a Manager

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

This post, weekend open thread – September 17-18, 2022 , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. This comment section is open for any non-work-related discussion you’d like to have with other readers, by popular demand. Here are the rules for the weekend posts. Book recommendation of the week: Happy-Go-Lucky , by David Sedaris.

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