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8 office etiquette expectations that are now history

Insperity

Whether your team is just starting return to the office or you have been on a hybrid basis for some time now, you may notice office etiquette is different than what it was traditionally. What changed? In general, employees definitely aren’t the same as they were before March 2020 when the pandemic brought much of the world to a standstill and skyrocketed remote work.

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3 Ways to Discover Your True Passion

Success

Figuring out how to be more effective in how we work, relate and live is neither simple nor clean—but it doesn’t have to be as complicated as we tend to make things out to be. As a society, we love to analyze, overanalyze and then add some analysis on top. Should I? Could I? Did I? What if? Yeah, but; no, but; yeah, but… What if we could simplify the sausage-making of living more fully, with greater authenticity and increased mindful intention, by finding our true passion in life?

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AI and Administrative Work: Enhancing Productivity and Efficiency

Office Dynamics Blog

Revolutionizing Administrative Work with AI: Making Life Easier for Administrative Professionals Artificial Intelligence (AI) is making waves in the world of administrative professionals, providing the support they need to streamline tasks, increase efficiency, and skyrocket productivity.

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Episode 460: Paul Millerd talks about The Pathless Path

Productivityist

I’m really excited to have this conversation with Paul Millerd because I had the chance to meet him back in June of 2022 at the World Domination Summit. We had a fantastic time connecting and discussing our shared interests in productivity and our modern relationship with work. Paul is an independent writer, creator, and sometimes freelancer, and he writes about these topics in a way that I find truly inspiring.

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New study will explore the impact of economic turmoil on workplace experience

Workplace Insight

People’s workplace experience in the wake of recent economic upheavals is to be investigated as part of a major new survey led by Cardiff University and funded mainly by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). The Skills and Employment Survey 2023 (SES2023), which also involves researchers at UCL, the Universities of Oxford and Surrey and the National Centre for Social Research, will help academics assess the impact of an extraordinary period of turbulence for workers which includ

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6 Tips to Develop and Model an Abundance Mindset

Success

Imagine you and I are walking down the street. You breathe in. You breathe out. I breathe in. I breathe out. We both need oxygen to survive. Would you worry that there would not be enough oxygen for both of us? Of course not—air is abundant. Now imagine we are scuba diving and my scuba tank starts to malfunction. I signal that I need to share the oxygen in your tank.

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We asked ChatGPT about workplace wellness

Sonic Boom Wellness

We asked ChatGPT about workplace wellness ChatGPT, created by OpenAI, is the latest technology to go viral and rack up users quicker than TikTok and Spotify. It’s a glimpse into the “mind” of artificial intelligence (AI), allowing everyday people to test out its capabilities. While AI of any kind will never replace the brilliance of human interaction (see the last question in this interview), it is an important player in today’s world of marketing, healthcare, and, yes, workplace wel

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9 Amazing Ways To Celebrate National Pizza Day At Work

Vantage Circle

February is a fantastic month since it includes a significant occasion that allows you to celebrate your one true love- pizza! Yes, the 9th of February is National Pizza Day. A full day devoted specifically to praising the delectable carb that nearly no one can live without. So now is the time to find out more about National Pizza Day. Even so, for those searching for ways to celebrate the day at work, here are a few ideas to get your creative juices flowing.

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29 Growth Mindset Quotes to Inspire You in 2023

Success

Growth mindset quotes span history. You can find evidence of what we now call a growth mindset in the words of great leaders, philosophers and spiritual leaders even in ancient times. Consider the Chinese proverb: “A man grows most tired while standing still.” Or text from the Book of Romans in the Bible: “Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.

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Ep 204: Whitney Kelso on Networking, Boundaries, and Taking Risks

Go Burrows

Whitney Kelso is an Administrative Assistant II at one of the largest healthcare providers in the United States. She supports two Staff Vice Presidents and their leadership teams in the Global Chief Information Office. In this episode, Whitney talks about networking with colleagues, professional development, setting boundaries, taking risks, and the influence and power that administrative professionals hold in the workplace.

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The Five Biggest Cyber Security Risks

Tanveer Naseer

With tech, finance, and other industries feeding off each other, the risks that are involved have increased. Data has become a central component to business. It is quite valuable, both as a company resource and as an asset to sell. When you are in business, you probably work on a.

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How Corporate Education Can Enhance Your Employee Experience

Vantage Circle

Today, humans receive more information in a few days than they received in a lifetime in the last century. The dynamic external environment forces constant improvement. Often the knowledge received at university is not enough, and corporate education comes to the rescue. Corporate education of personnel is a way for the organization's employees to gain new knowledge and improve their skills.

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How to Ditch the ‘Fake It Till You Make It’ Mindset

Success

Despite your best efforts, a professional career will never be easy. You’ll encounter a bevy of new situations and confront countless complex problems that you’ve never tackled before. And no matter how much you’ve prepared, studied or experienced, you’ll inevitably face circumstances where all that front-end work still leaves you feeling ill-equipped.

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Digital Declutter: How to Organize Your Virtual World

Eat Your Career

As modern-day professionals, we are all overloaded with electronic stuff! Files, photos, passwords, apps, emails, and more fill our virtual space. Everything (the useful and the useless) gets mixed together, and it’s nearly impossible to find anything. This kind of digital clutter is mentally draining and physically distracting. In the workplace, it can also damage your professional reputation and hinder your career.

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Supporting Team Members With Disabilities, Mental Illnesses, And Social Fears

Tanveer Naseer

As a business leader, creating a company culture that supports the diversity and uniqueness of your workforce is essential to success. When team members work in an environment that prioritizes their values and needs, it reinforces their performance and loyalty. Although ethnicity, religion, age, and gender are essential components of.

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10 Effective Company Core Values Examples To Take Inspiration From

Vantage Circle

Let me guess. Your organization is planning to create a new set of core values or revamp the existing ones. But you are at a loss for where to start and searching for some company core values examples. Don’t worry. We have your back. You are probably already aware that defining company core values is crucial to ensure that your organization’s culture aligns with your mission and vision.

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How to Refresh Your Failed New Year’s Resolutions

Success

William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar was warned to beware the Ides of March. The rest of us should probably shift that caution back by a month or two. January and February can be dark times. One reason for all this gloom? It’s around this time that many of us realize we aren’t living up to our New Year’s resolutions. We slip up on our diets and ambitious exercise routines.

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An interview with Admin Awards Founder, Sunny Nunan, by Executive Support Magazine

Backbone Blog

To read this interview in Executive Support Magazine visit: [link] Sunny Nunan is the CEO and Founder of the Admin Awards in the USA, created in honor of her mother, a life-long administrative professional Can we start with a little background information? Where are you from and what is your background? I’m from a small town in New Jersey, Phillipsburg.

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Floored by design. The new issue of Works magazine goes where angels fear to tread

Workplace Insight

Just what is it that you want to do? People of a certain age will know what answers come next. The rest of you can scroll down to find out. At least two-thirds of those responses still resonate when you ask people want they want from their work and workplaces. They wanna be free to do what they wanna do. And they wanna have a good time. And that’s what they’re gonna do.

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11 Ways of Celebrating International Women's Day At Work

Vantage Circle

When we talk about workplaces, we often discuss great leaders like Bill Gates or Warren Buffett. But somehow, we forget that there have been and are great women leaders as well. Some of them include Marry Barra, CEO of General Motors, and Whitney Wolfe Herd, founder of Bumble, and the list continues. They have made a name for themselves through hard work, perseverance, and passion for becoming the best.

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How a Self-Portrait Changed My Life

Success

There was a time when I was feeling drained, depleted, small, powerless, isolated and unhappy with myself. But then I took a self-portrait. And the person I came face to face with was a strong, powerful, capable, brave, beautiful, successful woman. I couldn’t believe she was me. That self-portrait photograph opened my eyes to a whole new world. It awakened something in my soul and led me on a journey of self-realization.

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What to do if your participant has no high scores on the HDS?

Business Psych Blog

You’re prepping for your next Hogan feedback session and note that your participant has no high scores on the Hogan Development Survey (HDS). What a conundrum! Is this a common occurrence, you wonder? What else can you look for to add value to your profile interpretation? Is this a common occurrence? Looking at our UK data set of over 55,000 Hogan Development Survey (HDS) completions, and with the help of the data team at Hogan Assessment Systems , we found a surprising 39% of our UK HDS client

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Government Environmental Improvement Plan is ambitious but needs a clear plan

Workplace Insight

The UKGBC has welcomed the ambition and vision of the Government’s Environmental Improvement Plan, particularly the water efficiency roadmap which broadly aligns with UKGBC recommendations. Yet the lobbying group also claims that the Plan falls short of providing the practical targets and policies for the built environment to play its part in halting nature’s decline.

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Pulse Survey Incentives Ideas to Increase Employee Response Rates

Vantage Circle

Conducting an employee engagement survey helps the organization improve. It enables the stakeholders to make informed decisions. But what if your employees don’t respond? There are several reasons why employee pulse survey response rates may be low. These can include a lack of awareness of the survey, a lack of motivation to participate, a feeling of survey fatigue , or being overwhelmed by the number of surveys sent out.

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How to Protect Your Mental Health at Work

Success

One thing we’d all like to leave behind this year is the prevalence of stress. According to a recent American Psychiatric Association (APA) poll , 31% of Americans anticipated being more stressed in the 2022 holiday season than they were the year before. And it’s not just the holidays that cause this heightened state of anxiety. In an October 2022 poll , “Stress in America 2022: Concerned for the future, beset by inflation,” the APA found that 34% of adults report “stress is completely overwhel

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What is a Modern Workplace? (the ultimate guide)

Ask Cody

When you envision a modern workplace what comes to mind? Game rooms? Nap pods ? A fully-stocked kitchen with beer on tap? Or do you envision a co-working space with many different types of people and businesses working in a common area? Perhaps you thought of cubicles? Or did you instead envision an open-concept space with walled-off meeting rooms?

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Do you walk or talk people centric change for success?

Workplace Insight

In previous articles , I shared that there is a McKinsey report that states that 75 percent of the organisations that were listed at the time on the S&P would no longer exist by 2025 – they would either merge, be bought out or go bankrupt. This all means that organisations have to change and adapt or die. That is now less than 2 years away, so some organisations are now gone, some are struggling and some have adapted.

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should I stop using my office’s flex hours since my coworkers have earlier schedules?

Ask a Manager

This post, should I stop using my office’s flex hours since my coworkers have earlier schedules? , was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: My organization has a very generous flexible time policy. Our office’s “core hours” are 10 am – 3 pm, and all employees must be working during this time.

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What ‘Groundhog Day’ Can Teach Us About the Power of Personal Development

Success

Rita: “Do you ever have déjà vu?” Phil: “Didn’t you just ask me that?” Have you ever seen the 1993 movie Groundhog Day ? The film tells the story of self-centered and self-serving weatherman Phil Connors, played by Bill Murray, who is doomed to repeat the same day over and over again on February 2—Groundhog Day. “Well, what if there is no tomorrow? There wasn’t one today,” Connors says.

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Lingering Holiday Blues, or Something More?

Mind Matters from Menninger

A look at the cause and symptoms of seasonal affective disorder.

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New legally-binding air quality targets fall short of their ambitions, safety body warns

Workplace Insight

The British Safety Council has warned that new legally binding air quality targets for the UK, which passed the final stages of parliamentary scrutiny earlier this week, fall well short of what is needed to keep people safe. The new limits will come into force in the wake of last year’s Environment Act, after the Government missed its own deadline of December to introduce them, following a consultation.

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my company won’t promote people who work from home

Ask a Manager

This post, my company won’t promote people who work from home , was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: Before the pandemic, my company did not have the option to work remotely. When the pandemic hit, they were legally required to close our office because we are not essential workers. We were fully remote for a while and no one was allowed to go to the office for any reason.

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Rebranding? 7 Keys to Ensure a Smooth Transition

Success

If you rebrand poorly, your brand can suffer. Scarier still: Your margin for error is slim at best. But you can improve the odds considerably by rebranding according to these seven principles: 1. Make sure you’re clear about what a brand is. A brand is much more than your logo. A brand is the sum of the messages, interactions and experiences that a customer has with your products, services and people.

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Cruelty goes digital: Layoffs by email

Minding the Workplace

(image courtesy of freepik.com) It was probably inevitable: As an ultimate reminder to workers that they are quickly disposable and easily disposed of, some companies are resorting to standardized emails to inform people that they no longer have a job. The pandemic has taught many companies that their workers can be efficient and productive working from outside of the office, and a good number of employers have embraced remote work as a new norm.

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Multi-tasking managers offer the key to cooperation between rival firms

Workplace Insight

For rival companies to successfully cooperate in the name of innovation, they need “ambidextrous” managers who can make the most of their pooled resources and exhibit strong multi-tasking skills, research from NEOMA Business School claims. Antony Paulraj, Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management at NEOMA, co-authored a study analysing the approach of over 300 companies that are collaborating with their competitors, known as “coopetition”.

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a DNA test revealed the CEO is my half brother … and he’s freaking out

Ask a Manager

This post, a DNA test revealed the CEO is my half brother … and he’s freaking out , was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: My dad gave the whole family DNA ancestry kits for the holidays, and it turns out the CEO of the company I work for is my half-brother. Dad’s not the kind of guy to gift everyone DNA kits as a way of telling us he had a secret love child, so I don’t think he knew he had another kid.

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Oh, Mexico: A Burned-Out CEO Turns a Ranch into a Retreat

Success

Burned out from a career in retail, Lisa Harper sought refuge in sleepy coastal towns on the Baja California peninsula in Mexico. That was in the mid-1990s. A seasoned jet-setter, Harper had worked in leadership roles at The Limited as vice president of merchandising and design, Gymboree as chair and CEO, and Belk as CEO. Before that, she was a Levi Strauss & Co. fit model and later worked for the denim designer and manufacturer by flying around the world to source products.

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