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8 Quick Tips for Handling Overly Social Employees

Insperity

Recognize that socializing is only a problem when goals and deadlines are missed, either for individuals or for the team. Focus on problem behavior, individually and quickly. It could be that your team really needs to collaborate and “group solve.” ” So what’s a manager to do? Guide against over sharing.

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8 Quick Tips for Handling Overly Social Employees

Insperity

Recognize that socializing is only a problem when goals and deadlines are missed, either for individuals or for the team. Focus on problem behavior, individually and quickly. It could be that your team really needs to collaborate and “group solve.” In offices with cubicles, a red flag can be used to indicate “do not disturb.”.

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10 Strategies For A Creative Company Culture With Examples You Need To Know

Vantage Circle

Imagine a workspace that transcends the confines of cubicles. They set the tone by actively endorsing a culture that encourages creativity and problem-solving at all levels. When employees are encouraged to broaden their skills, they bring a holistic approach to problem-solving.

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How to Launch (and Maintain) a Successful E-Commerce Business

Success

A value proposition clearly tells someone who visits your website or gets stuck in an elevator with you: How you will solve their problem. If you fail to get this right, as I did with my online men’s store, then your customers won’t care about your offerings, and you’ll have to go back to your old cubicle job. No problem.

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Why You Can Never Finish Anything And How to Finally Change It

Work Life

People who have trouble finishing a project don’t have problems seeing the big picture,” says Ferrari. But knowing the issue can be the first step toward solving it. If you’re working on saving enough for a dream vacation–and resisting buying lunch out every day–tape a beach photo to your cubicle wall. Be ruthlessly committed.

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micromanaging goodbye emails, overhead lighting wars, and more

Ask a Manager

Aside from documenting the problem, do you have any suggestions for how to handle this? Should consultants charge for travel time? A few months down the road, the lights would be all turned on in the morning until one of my cubicle neighbors walked in and turned half of them off. Is the employee forgetting other things too?

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coworkers’ kids are noisy at work, SAT scores in a cover letter, and more

Ask a Manager

The problem for me is, two of these kids are usually set up in the empty cubicle next to mine. The exception to this is if you’re applying in a very small number of fields that actually consider them still relevant (some segments of finance and consulting, but even then generally only if you’re a student or a recent grad).