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How to Stay Productive as You Return to the Office

Let's Grow Leaders

Then, do what you can to plan your deeper thinking or individual project work for the time you have at home. Talk with your manager and your human resources partners about what is working and what support you most need. Consider quiet hours (or open-office hours) to focus your work. Try some of these suggestions.

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How Leaders Can Fix a Negative Company Culture

Great Leadership By Dan

In your usual project debriefing sessions, take what you learn and apply it to the future. Use positive approaches such as appreciative inquiry, which identifies what works when parts of initiatives fail, and which uses brainstorming and strategic planning to arrive at an ideal solution. Don’t limit questions to past activities.

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Professionalism in the Workplace: Building a Positive Environment

HR Digest

It is important to advocate for yourself and seek support from supervisors or human resources if necessary. ” “Your ability to effectively communicate complex ideas has been instrumental in our recent project’s success. Create opportunities for regular check-ins, team meetings, and brainstorming sessions.

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5 Office Inventions That Will Make Work Fun Again!

HR Digest

It has to provide smart technology to the interconnected workforce to encourage collaborative brainstorming so the focus remains on efficiency, interconnected-ness, sustainability, and productivity. They can scrutinize the design, make tweaks in real time and walk through the project together. Real-Time Collaboration.

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7 Tips for Embracing the 80/20 Rule With Employee Talent

ExactHire - Leadership

One of the hottest trends in human resources over the past few years is to rethink the performance management process and abandon the forced ranking systems of old. If you don’t yet have a formal mentoring program, perhaps one of your hyper performers would like to take that on as a special project.

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Talking to Your Boss about Work-Life Imbalance

Lead Change Blog

The best tactic to use when scheduling a meeting with your boss is with ideas which could improve your projects’ turnaround time or that you’d like to discuss boosting the morale of other employees. You and your boss can then brainstorm some ideas and come up with different solutions. Let’s learn the tips below: 1.

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Harness Talent Mobility

Skip Prichard

In today’s economy, work is increasingly dependent on mobility—across locations, projects, career progression, family needs and more. Work inside companies is shifting to more project-based work. for people to work together and brainstorm. Automation and AI is creating new jobs and industries, but also threatening others.

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