August 28, 2017
Categories: Social Media Marketing
Tags: Social Media Tracking
Social media moves fast, and you are never done. This can make social media tracking, with any kind of metric dashboard or analytics tool particularly challenging. It can also put you into a reactive mode, where you spend more time tracking clicks than focusing on your overarching goals. Here are some tips to keep your…
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August 28, 2017
Categories: Marketing, Social Media Marketing
Tags: email marketing, Pinterest marketing
Pinterest® is one of the newer and less well known social media “kids on the block,” but used wisely with the right audience, it can add a nice dimension to your marketing tool portfolio. The core metaphor driving Pinterest is the “bulletin board” – different users have different topic boards. Users can “pin” their own…
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July 25, 2017
Categories: Professional Development
Tags: Professional development training
There are many forms of creativity – some creative ideas are abstract ideas that come from seemingly nowhere; other creative ideas are incremental improvements or a new way to frame a problem or an existing process. Most leaders excel at one or two types of creativity – this is driven by both personality, and experience….
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July 25, 2017
Categories: Professional Development
Tags: creativity, problem-solving
Some people are naturally creative. New ideas and innovative approaches come with ease, and they thrive on generating new possibilities or troubleshooting ideas. Of course, creative ideas are just that – ideas – and leveraging that creativity for problem-solving can be challenging. For others, creativity does not flow as easily, and professional training and structured…
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July 25, 2017
Categories: Professional Development
Tags: problem-solving
Martin looked at his computer screen – he had been carefully drafting an email to his boss with a new idea, but was hesitant to push send. His boss, John, was known for being somewhat risk averse. New ideas were often rejected, with dismissive comments such as: We tried that once a while ago, and…
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June 27, 2017
Categories: Project Management
Tags: Pareto Analysis, Pareto Chart, project management, Time Management
To solve a problem, we must understand it. A lot of effective time and project management is understanding the root causes that lead to quality problems, or to increased time on a project. A Pareto Analysis is an approach for identifying, classifying and visualizing the causes driving a problem or variable. For example, what factors…
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June 27, 2017
Categories: Time Management
Tags: microlearn definition, microlearn reasearch, microlearning
A brief video . . . a quick game . . . a job aid . . . Microlearning is a short lesson on one topic. Since these lessons take only 30 seconds to a few minutes each, they fit well in even the busiest staff members’ schedules. With some careful planning, you can piece…
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June 27, 2017
Categories: Project Management
Tags: ABC Analysis, pareto principle, project management, Time Management
A lot of time and project management is making smart lists. Most people make “To Do” lists – long strings of activities with various levels of importance and urgency. Then, once complete, we get to check the activities off the list, often with a sense of closure and satisfaction. Organized as a single “list of…
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June 27, 2017
Categories: Project Management
Tags: pareto principle, project management, Time Management
Do you ever get to the end of the day, wonder where it went and struggle to name your successes or impact? Too often, the day seems to develop a momentum of its own, and by the end of 8 (or 9 or 10) hours, it’s hard to name the points of productivity. Let’s narrow…
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May 25, 2017
Categories: OSHA & Workplace Safety
Tags: OSHA headphone, osha safety
Sound is a constant in workplace life, but noise doesn’t have to be. Given the dangers of excessive noise on worker health, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requires organizations to “administer a continuing, effective hearing conservation program.” Through its rules and regulations, OSHA lays out a number of requirements related to limiting unacceptable…
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