Wellable
JANUARY 3, 2022
When deciding whether to hire a job candidate, employers often rely on more than background, experience, and skillsets. They also try to assess the job seeker's personality to identify cultural adds and gain insight into a candidate's work style.
Insperity
JANUARY 6, 2022
You thought an employee was so great at their job you promoted them into a more prominent role – perhaps even into the ranks of management. But after a while, you have a sinking feeling that you promoted the wrong employee. What do you do now? How do you handle this situation for the benefit of your business, without alienating an employee who could still be valuable in a different role?
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The Receptionist
JANUARY 3, 2022
Are you working with interns in your organization? In this guide, we share tips on how to effectively train and manage interns so that you can provide a valuable experience for them and your organization at the same time. Why Should You Work With Interns? What’s the benefit of establishing an internship program in your organization? Working with interns is a mutually beneficial arrangement, especially in today’s competitive job market.
Success
JANUARY 2, 2022
The footprints in the snow stopped. I kept going. I could still see the trail just enough to be reasonably certain I would not get lost deep in Nevada’s Lamoille Canyon. But I wasn’t 100% sure I was making the right decision by continuing the hike. This was not a place to slip and fall and crack my head on a rock. I was alone and miles and miles from civilization/cell service.
Wellable
JANUARY 5, 2022
Working from home has been a welcome change of pace for many employees. They have enjoyed getting to choose where they work, customizing their environments to suit their work styles, and avoiding the stress associated with long commutes.
Insperity
JANUARY 4, 2022
Whether you’re promoting your expertise to a prospect or establishing your credibility with industry organizations or your community, a well-written professional biography (bio) can enhance your reputation. It can also raise awareness about your company in ways that help increase your business’s appeal with prospective employees. In other words, the right bio can not only strengthen your standing but also that of your company’s brand.
Great Place to Work
JANUARY 4, 2022
Young mothers of color are at the highest risk of experiencing burnout, and it’s high time that leaders lean in, listen closely, and help where they can. This year, Great Place to Work conducted the largest-ever study of working parents to understand their workplace experience, the unique challenges they face and how leaders can support them. Working Parents, Burnout and the Great Resignation provides data and insights to help organizations better leverage the experiences of their working parent
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Vantage Circle
JANUARY 4, 2022
Employee off-boarding, although underrated, is a vital process for any organization. It can be simply put through as the famous quote, "All's well that ends well." What your employees experience while leaving the company has a huge role to play in deciding whether they will be a protagonist of the company or not. Because sometimes, even when the entire journey is worthwhile, a poor employee off-boarding process will change the complete outlook for the employee.
Go Burrows
JANUARY 2, 2022
Natasha Huynh (pronounced “win”) is a bi-lingual executive assistant with 8+ years of international business experience in the machine tool industry supporting C-Suite Executives. In this episode, Natasha talks about the challenges of working in a cross-cultural environment, across global time zones (check out worldtimebuddy.com fyi), and how she learned to not take things personally.
Quantum Workplace
JANUARY 5, 2022
2021 was a tumultuous year in the workplace. Many leaders faced difficulty motivating performance, engaging employees, and retaining talent amidst an ever-changing workplace environment. But the past year can serve as a valuable learning experience for organizations moving forward.
Success
JANUARY 7, 2022
Social media is forging a new path in 2022. You could get by with overly-templated posts in the past, ignoring how people engage on different apps. Now we have spaces with a distinct culture: TikTok. Clubhouse. Whatever the metaverse promises to be. Now more than ever, you need a social media plan. With dozens of apps to explore, marketing a business or growing a personal brand is a slow, layered process.
Eat Your Career
JANUARY 4, 2022
As a professional, you have almost certainly heard of Key Performance Indicators —the quantifiable metrics that prove whether or not you’re performing successfully within your role. While the terminology is commonly used in the working world, it is not well understood. For many roles, KPIs are vague or (even worse) completely undefined. Without clear, agreed upon KPIs, your chances of success are greatly diminished.
Vantage Circle
JANUARY 7, 2022
This podcast is about The Great Resignation, also known as The Big Quit, and The Great Opt Out. Everything started in early 2021, and much has already been said and written about it. Some argue that the only way to develop is to opt out for better things. In contrast, others say that the mass exit is harmful and permanent. So, what is the current state of affairs in the workplace?
Ruby
JANUARY 5, 2022
Okay, I admit the title sounds obvious. But let’s pick it apart for a moment. Do you know where you end and where your business begins? How much of your identity is connected to your work? Many people, especially people in the United States, feel uncomfortable examining these questions. We’re a nation of workaholics. We know that we work too hard and too much—we might be painfully aware of the compromises and sacrifices we’ve made for our jobs—but changing our relationship with
Success
JANUARY 2, 2022
Welcome to the year you went big. As the calendar turns to January, it’s time to set wild goals about the personal sales records you can smash with a little planning and practice. As a 100% commissioned salesperson for the past 19 years, I’ve often wondered what are the characteristics of the top producing sales professionals and successful leaders.
Bonnie Low-Kramen
JANUARY 5, 2022
Join Bonnie and Jen WED Jan 5 at 3PM ET for Heads Together. Topic: “The Great Resignation – The Real Deal” Let’s have a conversation about what’s behind all this quitting and what’s happening with job searches. I discuss this in my most recent blog The Real Reasons People Are Quitting by Bonnie Low-Kramen [link]. The post Ep. 70. “The Great Resignation” on Heads Together with Bonnie Low-Kramen – 1/5/22 appeared first on Bonnie Low-Kramen.
Vantage Circle
JANUARY 5, 2022
A lot has changed in the corporate world over the years, but one thing that hasn't is the concept of corporate gifting. As we approach the new year, put on your thinking caps and come up with some meaningful new year gift ideas to show your appreciation for your employees. So, here are some of the best new year gift ideas for your employees that speak volumes about how much you value their contributions. 1.
Productivityist
JANUARY 5, 2022
Productivity makes Stacy Tuschl tick. As I went through her new book, I found myself “dog-earing” it relentlessly. The book is titled The Implementation Code: Unlocking The Secret To Getting It All Done and when I was able to secure another conversation with Stacy – she’s been on he podcast before as you’ll see in the show notes – I knew we’d have plenty to discuss.
Success
JANUARY 6, 2022
Life easily becomes overwhelming with commitments to friends and family, work demands and devices consuming your attention. On busy days, you feel like a hamster racing in its wheel, wrapped in red tape. You begin to wonder if everything in life comes with a price tag. At times, it’s necessary to take a step back and observe how life is going. Is it all too much?
Ask a Manager
JANUARY 4, 2022
This post, can I send a male assistant to get me tampons? , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I work as a lead “maker” in a very hands-on industry. Usually on jobs I’m hired by a client alongside an assistant of my choosing (who is also paid directly by the client). When I’m at the coalface, so to speak, the job is very engaged and my assistant’s job is to to provide to me any equipment I need, do basic technical work, and r
Vantage Circle
JANUARY 5, 2022
We all must have faced some sort of bullying in our lives, and perhaps it is one of the most devastating and scarring experiences. It is time to say NO to bullying and we at Vantage Circle are unabashedly against it. The first step in dealing with workplace bullying is to raise awareness about it. This is where having a list of anti-bullying quotes for the workplace on display comes in handy.
Productivityist
JANUARY 3, 2022
When someone dog-ears a book, they fold the corner of a page so that they can keep track of their progress. They think of it as a bookmark. I don’t. I actually use a bookmark to mark my place in a book. Dog-earing is something I use differently. I use it to mark places where I discovered takeaways. These are things I’d like to track and make note of for future reference.
Success
JANUARY 6, 2022
Nataly Kogan’s life story is the sort of thing that gets mythologized in the U.S., inspiring people the world over to leave their home countries in search of similar success. . Kogan came from Russia to the United States with her family at the age of 13. Things were hard—they got by with the help of public housing and food stamps. With persistence, though, Kogan was able to climb the ladder at firms like Microsoft and McKinsey, eventually reaching the upper rungs of the corporate world.
Ask a Manager
JANUARY 5, 2022
This post, my office says we can keep working from home if we take 5% pay cuts , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: My office has been mostly remote since the middle of March 2020. (Some people still had to go in on a reduced schedule since aspects of their positions can’t be done remotely). This past October, with barely 30 days warning, they told us we were coming back in under a hybrid model (three days in office, two at home).
Vantage Circle
JANUARY 4, 2022
Being an important company-wide project, employee training should be taken seriously from beginning to end. Tracking learner results helps you see how training is going and evaluate it in hard numbers. Moreover, such a data-driven approach allows you to estimate the ROI and demonstrate the training output to higher management. No less importantly, if you track employee training , you can get a sense of employee learning needs.
Minding the Workplace
JANUARY 1, 2022
With Betty White’s passing at the age of 99, this internet meme about White refusing to ban Arthur Duncan, an African American dancer, from the cast of her television variety show in 1954, is getting wide circulation. Of course, the social media world is full of distortions and fabrications. But this story is true. In fact, amid the countless remembrances of White published upon her death, the Washington Post includes a deeper look into that 1954 episode, as reported by Gillian Brockell
Success
JANUARY 4, 2022
One of the resources entrepreneurs most need yet struggle to find is support. Connecting with other people who understand what you’re going through and have advice to share can make the biggest difference in challenging times. Entrepreneurs Danielle Canty and Natalie Ellis founded online community BossBabes to make it easier for women in business to access that support.
Ask a Manager
JANUARY 6, 2022
This post, was our workshop facilitator too controlling? , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I recently spent a week away at a workshop, with about 20 other people. It was in a remote place related to the topic of discussion (we’re ecologists). The venue was a bit big, and there was a 10-minute walk each between the meeting place, the eating place, and the place where we could get internet reception.
Success
JANUARY 3, 2022
If you’re anything like us, you make New Year’s resolutions like eating better and saving money with a lot of enthusiasm and follow them diligently for a couple of weeks. Then real life happens, and the resolution fades away. But eating well for less money doesn’t have to be intimidating—it can be a habit you build instead of something you feel guilty about letting slide come February or March.
Success
JANUARY 6, 2022
Dre London (real name Andre Jackson) is best known as the manager to rapper Post Malone, but that only scratches the surface of the music mogul and entrepreneur’s résumé. He manages a roster of major artists such as Tyga and Tyla Yaweh, and in the fall announced the creation of his label. Dre London Music Group in partnership with the music technology platform Vydia.
Ask a Manager
JANUARY 3, 2022
This post, update: my awful former boss works at the new job I’m about to start , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. Remember the letter-writer whose awful former boss worked at the new job she was about to start ? Here’s the update. My update is kind of an update on both nothing and everything all at once. So for the specifics of my concern with my old boss: nothing to update there.
Ask a Manager
JANUARY 4, 2022
This post, I’ve accidentally convinced my coworkers that I’m homeless – but I’m not! , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I started a new job five months ago, and I love it. The only problem is that I have a secret: I can’t drive. I’ve been sitting on a learner’s permit for years because I am absolutely TERRIFIED of driving.
Ask a Manager
JANUARY 6, 2022
This post, can I tell interviewers my hobby is drinking, going from scruffy to polished at work, and more , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. It’s four answers to four questions. Here we go…. 1. Can I tell interviewers that my hobby is drinking? I noticed that a relatively common interview question is “Do you have any hobbies?
Ask a Manager
JANUARY 5, 2022
This post, I can’t get the info I need from an employee who’s on leave , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I have an employee, Jane, who’s abruptly taking leave to deal with some health and personal issues. We don’t know when (or if) she’s coming back, so we’re planning on going at least several months without her, and I’m trying to implement stopgap solutions.
Ask a Manager
JANUARY 6, 2022
This post, updates: I used to drink on the job with my new boss, the pushy mother-in-law, and more , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. It’s “where are you now?” month at Ask a Manager, and all December I’m running updates from people who had their letters here answered in the past. Here are four updates from past letter-writers. 1.
Ask a Manager
JANUARY 2, 2022
This post, most popular posts of 2021 , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. Here are the posts that interested people the most in 2021, via two lists: the most viewed posts and the most commented on posts. Most viewed posts of 2021: 10. I’m frustrated that my employees don’t want to return to the office. 9. Interviewer badmouthed me to my references because I didn’t want to “harness the power of QAnon”. 8.
Ask a Manager
JANUARY 7, 2022
This post, it’s your Friday good news , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. It’s your Friday good news! 1. “I have read your column, and recommended it to others, for YEARS. I’m so excited to say I finally have an update to provide. I worked in state government for nearly two decades. Fairly draconian ethics laws in our state make it nearly impossible to find work in the industry for at least a year after you leave government employment.
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