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Pass Off The Broom

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Let’s say you are the company commander for an Army helicopter unit, a manager for a small organization, or the CEO for a large corporation, and you notice that the floor in the common area, break room, or conference room has continued to remain dirty for several days now. Yes, it is highly likely they will. A couple of key points here.

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Defeating Work-From-Home Burnout and Zoom Fatigue

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We want to connect with each other, but our emotions just don’t process little squares on a screen in a video conference as truly connecting, compared to in-person meetings. Use text or recorded video or audio form to send reports and updates for others to review and respond later. Weekly check-in and progress report evaluation.

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Featured Instigator: Will Lukang

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At one point in his career, he reports the strangest question he was asked in a job interview was, “Why do you want my job?” The best moment in his career occurred in 2008, when he recommended a direct report for a job within their company. The job would make the direct report Will’s peer.

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Personal Branding

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You can’t attend a conference without hitting a breakout session helmed by some Personal Brand high priest or priestess. It eats up the 45-minutes before the gravy-laden conference lunch, but is it productive? We hear so much now about the building and managing of one’s “Personal Brand” as the key to success. Or even necessary?

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Preview Thursday: Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go

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At the same time, managers across industries, regions, and levels uniformly report a moderate to severe lack of competence, comfort, and confidence in themselves in regards to this critical job expectation. In survey after survey, year after year, employees express their dissatisfaction with how they are being supported in their careers.

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Child Care Benefits and Employee Retention

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Even though several factors affect the cost, reports in The Guardian show that child care cost in 2020 might hit $223 per day in big cities like Sydney. Most working parents now make their career decisions based on the child care benefits they can get. So, just how expensive is child care?

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Finding The Energy To Do More With Less

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The cartoon showed a group of people sitting around a conference table with this caption: I need your sales forecasts by Monday, your updated client list by Tuesday, your expense reports by Wednesday and your budget plans by Thursday. Last week I received a cartoon by Artell, over social media.

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