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What do chairs need to know and do so they can successfully navigate their departments through challenges and opportunities.
If you’re ever stuck for ideas or advice, and you feel like you can’t find a mentor, here’s how to become your own mentor: Look at everyone else who’s doing a similar thing. Some successful ones, and some failing ones. Find everything they could be doing better. And then don’t tell them. Tell yourself.
Online proofreaders help website owners to identify mistakes before posting their web pages, preventing them from alienating prospective visitors to their sites. The ever-increasing number of websites provides opportunities for freelance proofreaders to get paid to correct spelling, punctuation and grammatical errors. If you have good writing skills, an excellent command of language and an eye for detail, you can make extra income as an online proofreader. Here are things you need to know to become an online proofreader.
All managers want to see their employees thrive, but it can be tricky to maintain a balance between guiding and hand-holding. While some managers might think the best way to lead is to constantly offer their employees advice, recent research suggests that coaching employees, or helping employees maximize their own performance potential, is a more effective leadership style. Unfortunately, the percentage of managers who use coaching as a leadership strategy is slim. In fact, a recent study published in the Harvard Business Review shows that the majority of managers act as consultants, rather than coaches. In other words, they lead their teams by micromanaging and prescribing advice — not by helping them learn to come up with their own solutions.
Productivity is something we all want more of. Now that we are riding a new wave of self-optimization strategies aided by technology, we expect life and work to become easier, not more complicated. But that’s not always what happens. Sometimes we need to take a step back from the shiniest new tool in the box and assess what will actually help us achieve the things we want to achieve. One essential part of enhancing productivity is to know how the brain works. For example, in our effort to get more done, we can’t ignore the fact that our brain needs to rest and take breaks.
Three “stretch” strategies can help teams move forward when members can’t agree and don’t like or trust one another.
Congratulations, proud owner of a new iPad! You no doubt want to get started swiping, tapping, consuming, and creating whatever your heart desires, especially if you’ve got your hands on an Apple Pencil. But before you jump into the App Store and fill your tablet, you’ll want to change a few settings beforehand, if only to keep your cellular data from running dry, your battery from running low, and your privacy from being violated.
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As a new year begins, the lure of resolutions are hard to avoid. If you're contemplating setting New Year's resolutions, here's some simple advice: don't!
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Anyone who seeks out a health and well-being provider is looking for someone who will be a part of their health care team. When they walk into a space where they are vulnerable and reliant upon care, they hope that the provider will be respectful and allow them to share their story without judgment. For this to be possible, the provider (or anyone, for that matter) should have cultural humility.
What sets one apart from the rest at work? Is it being appropriately dressed, or exemplifying immaculate conduct? Is it the aura of being in control, or that of someone bankable? Is it an empathetic nature, or the best reaction to a sticky situation? Or a combination of all of it, maybe! Exemplary professional etiquette is an unwritten code of conduct that governs interactions among colleagues in a business setting. This is an important part of soft skill training programs because it creates a professional, mutually respectful work atmosphere, and improves communication, which translates into better customer relationships. Simply put, it’s a complete win-win!
- Giving praise is more than just an occasional compliment. When done right, it can change your work environment for the better.
- Research says that praise that's sincere and specific will not only make people perform better, but makes them more open to criticism.
- Emotionally intelligent praise can create a more "psychologically safe" workplace — meaning people will feel safe to make mistakes and take risks.
Google “bullet journal”. Actually, don’t. I do not want to scare you away. For readers who have never heard of the cult productivity system, a quick Instagram search will reveal elaborate paper diary pages created by more than 4m strangers: intricate illustrations, complex layouts, borders painted lovingly in watercolours. Some pages have tiny boxes in which people track how often they exercise, hydrate and meditate. These self-defined “Bujo-ers” debate the perfect pens and notebooks, and the advantages of something called “washi tape”.
A high school teacher finds out that he has terminal cancer and decides to cook meth in order to make money for his family." Twenty years ago that would have sounded like an insane premise for a television show. Ten years ago that show actually premiered. Almost five years ago it ended its both widely watched and critically acclaimed five-season run. Breaking Bad could only have emerged at a certain point in television history, when the high-quality, cinematic drama became a viable prospect even for a basic-cable network like AMC. But it never would have got anywhere without an impressive pilot, the first episode of a series that provides a sense of what the whole thing will be like.
By now we all know the name of Studio Ghibli, the operation responsible for such animated-feature-film-redefining productions as Grave of the Fireflies and Hayao Miyazaki's My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke, and Spirited Away. But unless we've paid a visit to the Ghibli Museum, seen the documentary The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness, or taken part in the close scrutiny to which Ghibli fans subject the studio's every public move, we won't know much about their methods for crafting such visually and emotionally captivating stories.
In the last two weeks we’ve discussed the challenges that we face in our workplaces, and heard from a few members of our community about the challenges they’re currently wrestling with at work. In the opening post we talked about how sharing our challenges can help us realise how much we have in common. In this post we’ll be looking at ways to think about problems and challenges that help get to solutions.
Charities such as Unicef and Cancer Research UK are using VR technology to build empathy, draw new audiences and raise funds. This is how you can too
Sometimes you find yourself with a good job but you want to pivot ever so slightly within the same company. What’s the best way to approach your boss and tell them that you’d like to transfer to a different team or department?
With some effort and a spare phone, you’ll be whistleblowing, protecting your privacy from harassers, and staying anonymous when you sell your stuff on Craigslist or look for dates on Match. Here’s how.
The situation. We as a company did not feel we were being treated with any professional respect by our customers: we were being blamed for everything, we were always treated as lesser beings and now we were about to not be paid.
My second in command, Buddy, wanted to resolve this, but did not know if he was brave enough.
It’s a dark secret that many managers might be afraid to admit: they are leading a team that is smarter than them. Many in this position might fear they could lose their jobs or look weak to upper…
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