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Four Days Is Enough

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4 Day Week Global , a nonprofit organization dedicated to the concept of a shortened workweek, recently conducted a study that evaluated the success of 61 U.K. companies and their 2,900 employees in implementing a four-day workweek. An overwhelming majority of businesses (92%) that took part in the study said they intend to keep their four-day workweek.

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Spring Is the Season of Opportunity—Don’t Waste It

Success

I know the following things to be true: Life consists of perpetual, predictable patterns of change. The only constant factor is our feelings and attitudes toward life. We have the power of attitude , and attitude determines choice as choice determines results. You cannot change the seasons, but you can change yourself and take advantage of opportunity when it comes.

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Hundreds Of Amazon Employees Show Support For Return-To-Office Policy

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What’s going on: After thousands of Amazon employees voiced their opposition to the company’s return-to-office mandate by creating a Slack channel, some staff decided to create a new one in order to demonstrate their backing of the policy. Despite this show of support, it seems that employees are still overwhelmingly in favor of the original channel that is against the RTO plan, according to Business Insider.

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Your March Action Plan: 10 Easy Ways to Build Your Confidence

Success

Your action plan is a monthly to-do list of tips straight from SUCCESS magazine—10 things you can do right now to improve yourself and your life. This month, it’s all about building self-confidence. How to build self-confidence Find the courage to be confident in any situation. That means speaking up for the things you believe in, taking risks and pushing yourself beyond the norm. 1.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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Salesforce Pays Matthew McConaughey $10 Million Despite Layoffs

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What’s going on: Despite cutting 8,000 workers this year, Salesforce still invested heavily in the star power of Matthew McConaughey — committing to a hefty $10 million annual salary for the actor to serve as its “creative adviser and TV pitchman.” Why it matters: Last year, Matthew McConaughey suited up as an astronaut and took off in a hot-air balloon for Salesforce’s Super Bowl ad, in which the company invested $5 million to air the commercial.

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Culturally Diverse Workforces Require Bespoke Mental Health Support

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There are barriers for specific minority groups to access mental health support in the workplace. Knowing what these barriers are is the first step toward supporting individuals from these groups. Personalized mental health support is a solution to improving mental health outcomes at work, but this requires training, understanding, and insight into individual needs.

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Shifting the Mindset Around Learning at Work

Eat Your Career

A few years ago, I met someone who asked me what I did for a living. So I told him: I was a professional development trainer and I work with companies to help elevate employee performance, he said, “Oh man! That sounds awful!” I was SO shocked. I had never gotten a response like that. In fact, most people think my job sounds really fun, and it is! Obviously, this person had some bad experiences with workplace training.

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Federal Labor Union Opposes Defense Department Workforce Cuts

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What’s going on: The American Federation of Government Employees is sounding the warning bell after House Appropriations Committee (HAC) leadership proposed reducing the Defense Department civilian workforce, according to Federal News Network. In a letter to the chairmen and ranking members of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees defense subcommittees, the union showed its opposition to the suggestions from HAC defense subcommittee chairman Ken Calvert to reduce the DoD civi

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Pipeline of women managers has stalled in wake of pandemic

Workplace Insight

The leadership pipeline for women has hollowed out in the middle, according to a new study “ Women in leadership: Why perception outpaces the pipeline—and what to do about it ” from IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV) and Chief. The study of 2,500 organisations in 12 countries and 10 industries found a small increase in the number of women at the C-suite and Board level (now 12 percent for both), and an increase to 40 percent representation of women in junior professional/specialist roles (37

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Elevating the Virtual Interviewing Experience

Sharing your authentic self in a virtual interview can be an unwanted challenge. How do you break through the digital barrier when conducting a virtual interview and share your exceptional self? Think in unconventional ways to elevate the virtual interviewing experience.

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Episode 464: Growing Old and Staying Rad with Steven Kotler

Productivityist

If you’re interested in human performance and personal growth, I highly recommend checking out this episode with Steven Kotler. He has been studying human performance for over 30 years and has taught hundreds of thousands of people how to achieve peak performance evolved around Steven’s latest book, Gnar Country , which addresses how to stay “rad” as you grow older.

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Best of NeoCon 2023 awards submissions are now open 

Workplace Insight

The organisers of NeoCon have announced that the submissions portal for the 2023 edition of the Best of NeoCon competition is now open. A NeoCon tradition since 1990, the competition garners hundreds of product entries each year as exhibitors vie for one of the Best of NeoCon awards. Now in its 33rd year, the program will recognise the best new products in 56 categories spanning a range of verticals including workplace, healthcare, hospitality, and education sectors.

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One in four people will work from abroad this year, and many won’t tell their employer

Workplace Insight

One in four (23 percent) UK office workers plan to take advantage of remote working to log on from abroad in 2023, with a third (32 percent) doing so against company rules, according to new research by the risk management and insurance broker, Gallagher. The survey of more than 2,000 UK office workers claims that the dramatic increase in hybrid working post pandemic now extends to a “work from anywhere” culture.