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Six Time Management Tips for the Holidays
It’s the holiday season and stores are mounting the mistletoe and gathering garlands. For some, it is a magical time of family and fantasy. For others, it brings stress and a whole new “To Do” list on top of daily demands. Here are six tips, tools and techniques for time…
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Five Tips for Creative Business Writing
Your boss has asked you to write an article for the company website about an important project your team just finished. You are proud of the project and getting the word out will be exciting! You sit down to type. You look at the empty Word document. And the blank…
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Proofreading Hacks: From Sloppy to Superb
Business writing is an important work activity, and effectively proofreading a document can be the difference between sloppy and superb. Here are some hacks for doing it well: Find and Replace Slang. The term “hack,” for example, is great for a blog. Not so great for business correspondence. Check your…
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Workplace Harassment: Assessing the Burden of Proof
Allegations of harassment can raise strong feelings of anger, guilt, defensiveness and vulnerability. Amidst this emotion, the people handling the incident must consider what the burden of proof will be when assessing what to do when someone is accused of harassing someone else. That burden can vary, depending on a…
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Beyond the Buzzwords: Recognizing Workplace Harassment
Workplace harassment is prohibited under several Federal Acts (or laws) — these laws prohibit discrimination based on sex, age, disability, religion, disability and many other factors. Beyond the buzzwords of legal documents, however, the threshold of harassment can be sometimes hard to establish. Here are some examples: Emily is known…
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Work-Life Balance Tips: There’s an App for That!
In today’s workplaces, more people have mobile devices and laptops — which offers new flexibilities, but also creates new pressures to be online 24/7. The traditional “9 to 5” workplace is quickly fading away. How can employees manage increased demands at home and at work? Effective work-life balance is often…
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Work vs. Life — The Ultimate Showdown
Work-Life Integration: Supporting the Future of Work Life Balance The only constant is change, and how we see work-life balance is no different. Workplaces are evolving to focus more on knowledge work than factory work, and to focus more on real-time service to customers. Here are some future-focused tips and…
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Continuing Education: The Business Case
Continuing education is an investment that benefits both organizations and employees; to sell its importance, employees need to communicate the value of that investment in a win-win way. Too often though, employees try to justify continuing education by describing its benefits to them individually —rather than by describing the benefits…
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How to Love Lifelong Learning: Five Options for Continuing Education
Continuing education is part of lifelong learning — and we are never done! Whether you have been out of school for years, or you are looking for the next educational experience after finishing your MBA, learning opportunities are everywhere. This post reviews five different types of continuing education that professionals…
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Conduct a Training Needs Assessment in Five Easy Steps
You know that your organization is facing some difficulties – mistakes, inefficiencies, inconsistencies, revenue and customer losses and more, all indicate as much. The question is, what should you do to address them? The first solution that springs to mind is almost always “training,” and that is a great start!…
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