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5 Ways to attain work-life balance when working from home
Before the coronavirus pandemic hit the world, only about 3.6 percent of all employees in the United States worked from home for 20 or more hours a week. However, the onset of COVID-19 pushed millions more to quickly transition to working remotely. By the third quarter of 2020, more than half of all American workers…
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Effective Communication
Guide meaningful and impactful conversations despite social distancing It’s almost been a full year since the COVID-19 pandemic considerably changed our personal and professional lives. We witnessed the impact in many fundamental things about the way we operate as businesses and humans, including how we communicate. The pandemic may have put masks on our faces…
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Are You Managing in the Positive?
4 Tips to Managing in the Positive During Trying Times Whether you lead a small team or a large enterprise, positive management is needed more than ever these days. Many American workers are currently surrounded by multiple sources of doubt, making it difficult to focus and remain optimistic. Positive teams tend to be more productive,…
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Feedforward vs. Feedback – What’s the Difference?
Feedforward vs. Feedback and Why Feedforward Could Serve Your Teams Better The role of feedback between members of an organization cannot be overemphasized. In fact, employees typically rely on this mechanism to know if their performance aligns with the organization’s vision and if they’re meeting expectations. Without feedback, employees may feel lost or unmotivated. Feedforward,…
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How to Manage Working from Home with Kids
Tips for Parents and Employers Wondering How to Manage Working from Home with Kids You’ve dreamt about working from home for years. But now that you’ve been given the opportunity to wear your pjs to the virtual office for a bit, you’re starting to realize that working from home isn’t exactly an all-day coffee…
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How to Motivate Employees During a Crisis
Effective Ways to Motivate Employees Awarding employees with either an end of the year or a holiday bonus is common practice in a variety of industries. In 2019, nearly 20% of private industry employees took home a monetary bonus in addition to their annual salaries. But with the COVID-19 pandemic having an undeniable economical…
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How Can You Assess the Productivity of Remote Workers?
Measuring the Productivity of Remote Workers Are your remote employees working hard or hardly working? Cliches aside, it’s important to know what your remote team is accomplishing in a day…and if progress is beginning to slow down. But how do you measure the productivity of remote workers? Because evaluating remote workers isn’t the same…
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5 Tips to Help You Keep Remote Employees Engaged
Try These 5 Unique Ways to Keep Remote Employees Engaged More companies than ever have teams working from home. In some cases, employees may have a difficult time connecting and engaging on the same levels they did in a traditional office setting. But this isn’t cause for alarm. Not only is this a normal reaction,…
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The Impact of Accountability on Culture and Engagement
Creating a fantastic work culture and increasing employee engagement continue to rank at the top of every business and HR leader’s workplace goals. I want to challenge these leaders to consider personal accountability and its relationship to and impact on culture and engagement. If leaders foster an environment of personal accountability, culture and engagement will…
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How to Have a Difficult Conversation at Work
How to Have a Difficult Conversation at Work — An Employer’s Guide There are some conversations that are more difficult than others to have in the workplace. Whether you’re sitting down with an employee to discuss inappropriate behavior, an error, or a failure to pull their own weight, knowing how to have a difficult conversation…
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