Tag: Human Resources
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Improving Your Attention Span Will Increase Your Productivity
A short attention span can sabotage our best efforts to be productive. As a result of many studies, we’ve learned that there are seven things we can be doing to create better focus.
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Reevaluate Your Workspace When Returning To Work
If you are returning to your office after more than a year, it may be time to look at your workplace environment and determine whether it is a help or detriment to your productivity.
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Why Are Some People Difficult To Manage or Work With?
Some work colleagues are easygoing, while others always seem to want to throw obstacles in the way. Managing or working with difficult employees are key frustrations in the workplace. Why and what can you do about it?
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How Honest Are You With Your Staff?
More than 70% of employees feel more engaged with their employer if they are told about the organization’s goals, objectives and activities. How well do you communicate with your staff?
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How “Artificial Intelligence” Can Hurt Your Hiring Efforts
More and more companies are using computer programs to screen applicants for a job. The problem is that they can over-screen and eliminate many qualified individuals who don’t fit past profiles of candidates.
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The Coworker That Causes You Stress
While you don’t need to be best friends with everyone you work with, dealing with a coworker that causes you stress will hurt your performance and possibly damage your reputation if projects are completed on time. Here are some tips for dealing with the problem colleague.
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The Employee That Wants To Get Their Way
Some employees love to pepper their managers with questions about a strategy or steps to complete a project. While that can actually be helpful, it can also be a detriment to getting work done. Here are some ideas on how managers can address the person who always wants their own way.
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Comparing Two Job Offers
During a job hunt, you might be happy to get one offer. But what happens when you get two offers at the same time. Here are some tips on how you can evaluate them so you end up in the job that is right for you.
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Are You Serious About Diversity?
A lot of organizations are expressing the need to improve their staff diversity. But progress continues to be slow. Your approach to diversity will benefit you in many ways.
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Bosses Must Apologize
Admitting your error and saying sorry is the right thing to do whether you are the boss or not. But if you are the boss, it is even more important as it demonstrates humility and your moral values.
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Many Managers Want Everyone Back In The Office, But Not So Fast…
A survey shows 83 percent of CEOs want their workers back in the office as soon as people are fascinated against the Coronavirus. The problem is that only 10 percent of workers want to come back.
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Turn the Job You Have Into the Job You Want
A job can be like a relationship. If you don’t put in the work, it can grow stale. If you job no longer excites you and you are tempted to move on, think through some of these ideas.
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Respect, Disrespect, and Insubordination In The Workplace
Respect in the workplace is a two-way street. What happens when you face someone who never shows respect, or is insubordinate?
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Four Tips For Leading During Covid
We had hoped that Covid would be behind us by now. But now that its ramifications continue, leaders should focus on things to keep their employees healthy and productive.
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Assessing Your Work From Home Performance
The ‘work at home’ phenomenon is new for many organizations and managers. Assessing the performance of those who work remotely is a work in progress. It won’t be perfect in its early days.
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Should We Bother With Performance Evaluations?
In order to be helpful, evaluations must be structured effectively or they may be perceived as a waste of time.
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Remotely On-boarding Your New Employee
With more and more of your team members working from home these days, you may be faced with having to welcome new employees via teleconference. Onboarding new employees who work remotely present some challenges, but it’s not impossible to get them up to speed quickly.
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