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Three Reasons Forced Positivity in the Workplace Is Damaging in the Long Run
JUNE 03, 2024
While it’s laudable that companies nowadays are trying their best to provide their employees with satisfactory conditions, it’s important to be wary of going overboard. Excessively enforcing...
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How to boost communication when managing remote teams
JUNE 03, 2024
How many times during your career have you heard that communication is the key to success? Working in an office, this is all well and good, but when it comes to managing remote teams, how can you...
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How to Create an Optimal Employee Engagement Survey That Gets Results
MAY 30, 2024
There’s no doubt that employee satisfaction leads to better performance, maybe even leading to a 12 percent increase in productivity. But that doesn’t mean that measuring employee engagement and...
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Four tips to establish your value as a remote worker
MAY 30, 2024
Remote work and flexible working arrangements are gaining traction in the mainstream workforce. Previously labelled unconventional or alternative, remote work arrangements are forcing businesses to...
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Searching for work-life balance in the gig economy
MAY 30, 2024
I’ve been playing with different scenarios for being independent or an entrepreneur for a long time, but, until last October, I never got any further than taking on a side hustle as community...
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Boosting your emotional agility can make you happier at work
MAY 30, 2024
We spend a lot of time talking about agile software development, but agility and responsiveness to change affect a lot of other parts of our lives. What about optimizing our emotional agility?
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What HR managers can do to increase employee motivation
MAY 29, 2024
Employees are the most essential aspect of any successful business. The happier your employees are at work, the more efficient your business flow will be — it’s as simple as that. However, in order...
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Self-leadership skills required for a remote team
MAY 29, 2024
As I work with IT companies most of the time, I get asked this question a lot by managers in those companies, especially if the company is transforming to agile ways of working. To those of you who...
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Occupational Burnout: We all have it. Now what do we do?
MAY 29, 2024
To paraphrase Emily Dickinson, I am burnt out. You are burnt out too. That is a good way to summarize Jessica Rose’s self-sustainability talk at this year’s Monkigras conference in London. In fact,...
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Five Reasons You Should Encourage Employees Flexible Work Schedule
MAY 28, 2024
Today’s flexible schedule is different than it was in the past. Instead of giving employees an extra hour in the morning to replace a lost hour in the afternoon, companies have started introducing...
