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by Sarika Kharbanda It was quite a few years ago now that I started to realize that I was spending more and more time with my laptop, iPad, smartphone, TV… and the list goes on and on. I realized I was spending significantly more time with technical gadgets than with me. Even the time I...
Read moreby Jen McKenzie Small business owners really do have to do it all. From brainstorming new products or services to handling customer service gone wrong, an owner is involved in every step of the process. However, for many companies, marketing is often ignored. After all, marketing comes off as a bit disingenuous, with images of...
Read moreby Daniel Tuitt Gratitude is the single most important ingredient to living a successful and fulfilling life. Jack Canfield, American author and motivational speaker Most conversations in large organisations around gratitude start and end with a pat on the back to prove they have a caring company culture. However, unfortunately, compassion, forgiveness, caring and thankfulness...
Read moreby Jennifer Riggins The Happy Melly One team has tried OKRs three times now. I’m not a fan and this blogpost explains why. Maybe by the end you can explain to me better their value. Or offer me a more logical alternative in a never-ending search to find motivating and transparent goal-setting. What is an...
Read moreby Kevin Nelson Setting out on the journey of becoming a freelance writer is similar to having your first baby. The first months are normally quite difficult especially before you’ve found your stability in adapting to this new life. The gravity of the situation could evade you for quite some time until you find yourself...
Read moreby Olivia Ryan Today’s flexible schedule is different than it was in the past. Instead of giving employees an extra hour in the morning to replace a lost hour in the afternoon, companies have started introducing the benefits of flexible hours and exempt employees (those salaried and exempt from overtime pay) to boost the company’s performance....
Read moreby Jennifer Riggins To paraphrase Emily Dickinson, I am burnt out. You are burnt out too. That is a good way to summarize Jessica Rose’s self-sustainability talk at this year’s Monkigras conference in London. In fact, she talked openly about just getting past a burnout while talking about being burnt out. This year’s craft conference was...
Read moreby Jennifer Riggins Has the Makers Movement brought back the Business Guild? Or has it always endoured? In her Monkigras talk, Dormain Drewitz spun off the Monty Python plague bit “Not Dead Yet”, as she outlined areas — like letter-press printing, antique cars, and at times open source — where, when passionate people are involved, things don’t...
Read moreby Molood Noori Alavijeh Should remote teams be discouraged or tolerated?! As I work with IT companies most of the time, I get asked this question a lot by managers in those companies, especially if the company is transforming to agile ways of working. To those of you who know me and/or have attended the...
Read moreby Emma Miller Employees are the most essential aspect of any successful business. The happier your employees are at work, the more efficient your business flow will be — it’s as simple as that. However, in order for employees to be good at what they do, they need to be motivated, engaged, productive and effective at...
Read moreby Luke Doyle We spend a lot of time talking about agile software development, but agility and responsiveness to change affect a lot of other parts of our lives. What about optimizing our emotional agility? Should you expect to be happy at work? There’s the argument that if we were meant to be happy at...
Read moreby Sam, Management 3.0 Team Hands up if by the time you’re reading this, 50 percent of your New Year’s resolutions have fallen by the wayside. What about 80 percent? A recent article in the New York Times says that by January 8 – one week in – 25 percent of resolutions have lost their...
Read moreby Jennifer Landis Choosing good food is a significant part of self-care. Sure, you want stuff that’s delicious, but how many free office doughnuts can you really have before you get sick of them? That’s because food is about way more than how it tastes. You’re smart – we’re sure you know that already. But...
Read moreby Patrick Verdonk In February 2017 I got confirmation that I would leave the corporation I worked at after a bit more than 20 years. October 1, 2017 became my #whentojump moment. A leap into a world not completely defined by boundaries set by others like I had grown used to in my corporate career....
Read moreby Devin Morrissey Remote work and flexible working arrangements are gaining traction in the mainstream workforce. Previously labelled unconventional or alternative, remote work arrangements are forcing businesses to reimagine what normal looks like and change the way teams are managed. Unfortunately, not all businesses are providing programs of the same quality. In some environments, remote...
Read moreby Mary Walton There’s no doubt that employee satisfaction leads to better performance, maybe even leading to a 12 percent increase in productivity. But that doesn’t mean that measuring employee engagement and happiness at work is simple. After all, satisfaction is far from a science. Employee surveys are essential if you want to run a...
Read moreby Marjan Venema The longest journeys start with a single step. You get to where you want to go by continuing to put one foot in front of the other. My energy to keep taking those steps comes from a big vision. Over the past few years though, I’ve learned that big visions can also...
Read moreby Mary Walton How many times during your career have you heard that communication is the key to success? Working in an office, this is all well and good, but when it comes to managing remote teams, how can you boost communication when you’re never in the same room together? Today, we’ll explore seven keys ways...
Read moreby Alex Moore While it’s laudable that companies nowadays are trying their best to provide their employees with satisfactory conditions, it’s important to be wary of going overboard. Excessively enforcing positivity policies at the workplace can be damaging for any business, even though management strategies keep promoting this method. The Burden of Forced Positivity According...
Read moreby Jennifer Landis Your goal is to finish out the year as a holiday cheer champion and to be so productive and positive upper management can’t help but notice your moving motivation — which hopefully leads to a promotion or extra holiday cash. Many companies are now moving beyond the simple “happy holidays” well-wishing and...
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