Insperity

MARCH 29, 2022

Health insurance is often the biggest-ticket item in any company’s benefits package, and the cost of health insurance rises on average each year , historically. Companies spend a lot of money, time and effort to make their benefits competitive and provide quality group health insurance plans to employees. But perhaps not enough time is spent educating employees about their available options and helping them navigate what those options mean for them and their families.

Insurance

All Work

MARCH 31, 2022

Unlike their home office, workers have very little control over their working environment in a corporate head office. The right data and metrics can drive human-centered design decisions to create a workplace that people want to use. Cushing Terrell’s Sandi Rudy and Jennifer Moore share how data can be leveraged to develop a happier and more productive user experience at work.

Home Office

Wellable

MARCH 28, 2022

Meetings are an indispensable part of work. They foster team-building, problem-solving, and innovation in ways that emails and instant messages often cannot.

Problem-Solving

Success

MARCH 29, 2022

You are the sum of your habits. When you allow bad habits to take over, they dramatically impede your path to success. The challenge is bad habits are insidious, creeping up on you slowly until you don’t even notice the damage they’re causing. Breaking bad habits requires self-control—and lots of it. Research indicates that it’s worth the effort, as self-control has huge implications for success.

Multitasking

Speaker: Chester Santos

Forgetfulness is costing you time, money, and a ton of missed opportunities. In the age of automation, it’s easy to underestimate the power of a well-trained human mind. But memory isn’t just a parlor trick, it's a strategic edge. Human memory is one of the most underrated business skills. Whether you’re managing people, leading sessions, or having high-stakes conversations, remembering names, details, and concepts can be transformative in building trust, absorbing knowledge, and driving perform

Creativity

Insperity

MARCH 31, 2022

Sometimes partnerships or contractor agreements must end due to issues with the quality of the work, a change in your business needs or a reduced budget for outsourced services. Oftentimes, these contracts are with freelancers who have been around for years. Maybe they’ve even been invited to your company’s holiday party. How can you successfully separate from these individuals while causing the least amount of turmoil?

Legal

The Receptionist

MARCH 28, 2022

What do people say about your business online? If you don’t know, it’s time to find out. Your online reputation can either win or cost you business. This is because even if you’re not paying attention to online reviews about your business, your prospective customers are. A single tweet from a disgruntled customer can mean more to a prospective customer than the extensive marketing campaign that you’ve spent thousands of dollars to create.

Real Estate

Success

MARCH 29, 2022

Time is precious. Ask the coach whose team is behind in the final seconds of a game. Ask the air traffic controller in charge of scheduling takeoffs and landings at a major airport. Ask the news reporter who has just received a breaking story from the AP wire. Ask the cancer patient who just learned he has only two months left to live. Time management is an oxymoron.

Prioritization

Quantum Workplace

MARCH 29, 2022

One-on-one meetings between employees and managers are important. When conducted frequently, these meetings can serve as a valuable tool to bolster alignment, strengthen engagement, and drive employee growth. One challenge managers often have with one-on-one meetings is figuring out the right meeting cadence. How often should you have one on on meetings?

Great Place to Work

APRIL 1, 2022

The events of the past two years have prompted a massive reprioritization of American lives, fueling an epic labor shortage. Workers have reevaluated their lives, and are quitting to find more rewarding jobs, take career sabbaticals, or start their own businesses. They’re no longer tolerating bad bosses, inequities, burnout, and lack of purpose and meaning at work.

Salary

Vantage Circle

MARCH 28, 2022

A points based rewards system is one of the most powerful and effective ways to motivate and recognize employees. They work well in driving organizational outcomes like engagement, productivity, and retention. But why do they work? And how to build a points-based rewards program? In an attempt to answer these questions, this blog dives deeper into: What a points based rewards system is, Why it is effective in helping employees to reach their full potential, And how you can go on about it.

Purchasing

Speaker: Frank Taliano

Documents are the backbone of enterprise operations, but they are also a common source of inefficiency. From buried insights to manual handoffs, document-based workflows can quietly stall decision-making and drain resources. For large, complex organizations, legacy systems and siloed processes create friction that AI is uniquely positioned to resolve.

Decision Making

Success

MARCH 28, 2022

Strong relationships are essential to business and career success. Whether it’s your boss, colleagues, mentors, clients or customers, or other people in your professional network, it’s important to actively nurture and build these relationships, as they can see you through all stages of success. One challenge of relationship building in the social media era is that our digital connections can feel superficial.

Banking

Productivityist

MARCH 30, 2022

I challenge you to really pay concentrated attention to this conversation I had with Chris Bailey. In fact, I challenge you to go beyond that. Don’t just focus… “hyperfocus” if you can. Actually, read Chris’s book Hyperfocus: How to Manage Your Attention in a World of Distraction first so that you really understand what that term (as well as “scatterfocus” means.

Time Management

Great Place to Work

MARCH 28, 2022

“Companies with bad managers can’t exist anymore.” Great Place to Work experts share the key moves for managers to make in 2022. Few people have more insights on the challenges of managers in this moment than Marcus Erb and Julian Lute. Marcus is Great Place to Work®’s vice president of data science & innovation, a job that allows him to sift through our unmatched data set of +10 million employee surveys to discover the true needs of managers and front-line employees.

Flexibility

Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 30, 2022

Running a corporation is hard. It’s difficult to see where to improve and even more challenging to know what you should do to keep up with the competition. You’re not alone if you feel this way. Millions of business owners struggle with the same issues, and they’re all looking for. Click to continue reading.

Speaker: Yohan Lobo and Dennis Street

In the accounting world, staying ahead means embracing the tools that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Outdated processes and disconnected systems can hold your organization back, but the right technologies can help you streamline operations, boost productivity, and improve client delivery. Dive into the strategies and innovations transforming accounting practices.

Technology

Success

MARCH 26, 2022

What role does work play in our lives? Out of the many questions prompted by the pandemic, this is one whose impact remains front and center. In the absence of travel, daily commutes and the culture of busyness, many employees were finally able to fully engage in self-reflection to determine if their job, company and path truly aligned with their overall interests.

Networking

Vantage Circle

MARCH 29, 2022

Hiring the right talent is imperative for achieving success in the workplace. But that is not where your work ends. Your next step is to build a group of talented individuals that has the zeal to work together. This necessitates the development of team cohesion among individuals to form a group capable of bringing success to the organization. But what does it take to build the necessary group cohesion?

Construction

C-Suite Assistants

MARCH 31, 2022

We all know that there is a labor shortage and that good talent is hard to get these days. You can’t change the economy, but there are things you can do to improve the odds that you get the best talent to fill your openings. In a candidate-driven market, your ability to respond quickly during the hiring process is your best guarantee of getting the best talent.

Interviewing

Great Place to Work

MARCH 29, 2022

Research reveals how men executives are 2.6x more likely to feel treated fairly at work than women executives. Women are not happy with the workplace. At least, not to the extent that their men counterparts seem to think, and especially not to the extent that management seems to think. For Great Place to Work’s 5 th annual study of the Best Workplaces for Women™ , we surveyed close to 700,000 employees from over 1,000 U.S. companies.

Promotion

Success

MARCH 28, 2022

Anyone who has committed to a diet or weight-loss plan—and stuck with it for a solid four or five months—is surely familiar with the plateau phenomenon. At first, you’re making great progress, watching the pounds drop off and feeling really great. But, suddenly, although you haven’t changed your methods or goals at all, the scale sticks at a certain number, and you can’t lose any more.

Learning

Atlassian

MARCH 31, 2022

Subscribe to Work Life Get stories like this in your inbox Subscribe. 5-second summary. Trying to be too nice when delivering feedback can confuse the receiver. The direct approach is best. Making sure you, as the feedback giver, are in the right frame of mind before delivering constructive criticism is an important step. Creating an environment of psychological safety can make it easier for people to take feedback without getting defensive.

Construction

Ask a Manager

MARCH 28, 2022

This post, community member asks to hear from male employees instead of me, saying “that’s above my pay grade,” and more , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. Community member cuts me off and asks to hear from male employees instead. I and other colleagues at my workplace (local government) have been meeting informally with members of the public about a project in my community that I am the project mana

Legal

Ruby

MARCH 31, 2022

Photo by Andrea Piacquadio from Pexels Have you ever met a know-it-all? You know the type. They go into a situation thinking they have all the information they need, and there’s very little room to change their mind. Maybe you’ve worked with someone like this in the past. Perhaps it’s your know-it-all family member that loves to debate you across the Thanksgiving table.

Promotion

Success

MARCH 27, 2022

Earning and increasing capital as a Black woman in business shouldn’t be burdensome. Recent research has shown that Black women entrepreneurs are among the most successful business owners, earning between 25-50% more than their white counterparts. Although Black women entrepreneurs are increasing at unprecedented rates, they also face unique challenges that may prevent them from achieving or maintaining greater levels of success.

Sales

Bonnie Low-Kramen

MARCH 30, 2022

Heads Together REPLAY: Weighing in on the Will Smith/Chris Rock Oscar slap. Workplace bullying happens to famous people and more often, not-so famous. To help in the Ukraine, consider donating to Chef Andres’ World Central Kitchen [link]. Related links: World Central Kitchen – [link] [link]. [link] #WCK #BTUA #StaffMatters. Join Bonnie and Jen for Heads Together on Wed Mar 30 at 3PM ET.

Ask a Manager

MARCH 28, 2022

This post, should I withdraw from an interview process to force an offer? , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: As a hopeful job hunter, I’ve recently twice encountered the dreaded and oft-lamented phenomenon of being ghosted or strung along after multiple rounds of interviews. In one instance, my follow-ups get no response whatsoever, but I see that the job is re-posted on LinkedIn (albeit with very few applicants).

Interviewing

Ruby

MARCH 28, 2022

In today’s small business landscape, women-owned businesses are leading the way. Women are starting as many businesses as anyone, and women of color are starting businesses at a faster pace than any other demographic. Yet these entrepreneurs face disproportionate challenges, including when it comes to getting funded. Did you know, for instance, that women-owned businesses received less than 3% of venture capital in 2020 ?

Small Business

Success

MARCH 27, 2022

Matt Beatty didn’t see his spending habit for the slippery slope to misery that it was. Not until much later. By then he couldn’t sleep more than an hour or two a night. He recalls lying in bed, staring at the ceiling for hours—chest tight, heart pounding, seized by dread and fear. “I would lie there and catalog the things I had bought over the years that now made absolutely no sense to me: that luxury car lease, that tech gadget, that suit, that watch, that ridiculously expensive bottle of wine

Finance

Go Burrows

MARCH 27, 2022

Jennifer Lopez is an author, executive assistant and executive office liaison, and mom to 4 kids. In this episode, Jennifer talks about work/life balance, writing a book, growing a personal brand, what it means to be an executive office liaison, and much more! LEADERSHIP QUOTES. Connect to a compelling cause with your heart, not your head. Then fasten your seatbelt because your life will soar. – Robin Sharma.

Leadership

Ask a Manager

MARCH 31, 2022

This post, how do I get coworkers to stop printing things for me, old job still lists me as an employee, and more , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. It’s four answers to four questions. Here we go…. 1. I accidentally used a very crude expression with my new boss. I’m mortified. I (cis man, he/him) returned from parental leave a couple weeks ago to find out I had a new boss.

Computer

Minding the Workplace

MARCH 31, 2022

We have long known that children who have disabilities are more likely to experience bullying behaviors than their peers who are perceived as being non-disabled. The National Bullying Prevention Center ( link here ), for example, shares that in 10 U.S. studies examining “the connection between bullying and developmental disabilities, all of these studies found that children with disabilities were two to three times more likely to be bullied than their nondisabled peers.” Indeed, sear

Legal

Success

MARCH 27, 2022

The true measure of the success of any business is the bottom line—sales minus cost of sales. That’s about as bare-bones as you can get when looking at it. Managing the cost of sales is an analytical process. It’s pretty much black and white. Managing sales, however, is a different matter. Although certain aspects of the selling process can be analyzed, there is always one factor in every selling situation that can cause you to toss your statistics out the window.

Sales

Success

MARCH 26, 2022

Here is an exciting thought! Why not work full-time on your job and part-time on your fortune? And what a feeling you’ll have when you can honestly say, “I’m working to become wealthy. I’m not just working to pay my bills.” When you have a wealth plan, you’ll be so motivated that you’ll have a hard time going to bed at night.

Purchasing

Success

MARCH 28, 2022

Gary Vaynerchuk is the first person I heard talk about self-awareness. His definition was simple: being able to accept your weaknesses while focusing your attention on your strengths. Gary Vee speaks often about internal self-awareness, which is clarity on how we perceive our values, vision, goals, reactions and expectations. On top of that, it’s how we see our behaviors, strengths, weaknesses, our thoughts and our threats.

Coaching

Ask a Manager

MARCH 31, 2022

This post, do I have to tell my boss where I’m going when I quit? , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I wanted to ask how one can avoid saying where they are moving to after resigning at their job. An ex-colleague (let’s call him Jake) resigned and the boss insisted on knowing where he was going despite Jake trying to avoid saying.