Mon.Oct 10, 2022

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How To Master The Literal Art Of Workspace Design

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After long stints of working from home, people have come to expect both functionality and comfort from their office environments. . Office art curation is becoming a more inclusive, collaborative experience that brings more creativity into office environments — in turn creating a positive workplace culture. Allwork.Space caught up with art studio Acrylicize’s Managing Director Paul Arad to learn how employers can use art to attract talent and ultimately make their employees happy. .

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Sophia Bush and Nia Batts are Used to Being Underestimated

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Go ahead—underestimate Sophia Bush and Nia Batts. They’ve seen it all before. Yes, Batts was one of the youngest Black executives at a media conglomerate ever. Sure, Bush rose to stardom on shows such as One Tree Hill and Chicago P.D. , becoming a professional multihyphenate along the way. The women are activists, entrepreneurs and advisors—and growing names in the angel-investing scene.

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Pre-boarding Can Set Up New Hires For Lasting Success

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Employers may be missing a crucial step when onboarding a new worker: the pre-boarding process. . Pre-boarding can focus on building engagement, meeting the new team, having the new hire complete payroll forms, figuring out a start date, scheduling a tour of the workspace, etc. . In a Q&A, Christina Gialleli, Director of People Operations at Epignosis, explained what exactly should be included in the pre-boarding process. .

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21 Things I Wish I Knew When I Was 21

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1. Learn to love mistakes. Always remember to learn from your mistakes and keep growing. Don’t doubt yourself so much. One day you’ll be able to look back on your inevitable “oops” moments and laugh at them. 2. Say yes often. True, sometimes stepping outside of your comfort zone and trying something new can be terrifying. But learning to say yes more can help you to open up, try new things and bring you new opportunities. 3.

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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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Want to Work from Anywhere? Here’s Where to Start

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From remote work to digital nomad visas , the pandemic-era has given way to exciting opportunities for knowledge workers. . And it’s not just for freelancers. Companies all over the world, including giants like Spotify, Twitter and Airbnb, have adopted work-from-anywhere policies for their employees. . So how do you become a location-independent professional?

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Procrastination at Work: How to Practice Better Time Management

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A little bit of procrastination at the office is surprisingly common, with 88% of workers reporting that they put off important work tasks for at least one hour each day. Yet, procrastination at work is a much more severe problem for some workers. 15 – 20% of workers say they avoid important tasks regularly, which qualifies as chronic procrastination.

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How to Implement a New System Successfully

Jen Lawrence

Implementing a new system or process can be frustrating if all the hard work put in doesn’t stick. We evaluate, design, implement, and then, disappointingly, nothing works how we hoped. Why? Most systems and processes fail because the team is not aligned for the new system rollout. Team members don’t understand the context of the change, the importance of the improvement, the goals of the project, or their role in bringing the new system to reality.

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The Freelance Workforce is Powering the Future of Work

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The freelance workforce has been growing for some time. And this independent work style has been given a major boost by the Covid-19 pandemic. . It served to liberate knowledge workers from the limitation of geography and corporate restrictions. Moreover, the difference between employees working remotely and freelancers is becoming less obvious, and even less relevant, in the future of work. .

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Accepting a New Job? Be Sure to “Date” Before You Get Married!

Bonnie Low Kramen

By Bonnie Low-Kramen for Executive Support Magazine | October 2022. Changing jobs is a life-altering decision with long-term ramifications, says Bonnie Low-Kramen. It happened again. Here’s yet another story of an Assistant who was so eager to leave a bullying executive behind that she accepted a new job too fast after only one “date.” That singular interview date was on Zoom and organized by a recruiter eager for a commission.

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World Mental Health Day: It’s Time to Break Down the Stigma of Mental Health

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On World Mental Health Day , the WHO’s new report focuses on breaking down the stigma and discrimination attached to mental health conditions. . “We must normalize talking about mental health and its multitude of conditions because stigma is the chain onto which all mental health conditions link.” – Dévora Kestel, WHO. The report aims to do this by sharing stories of people living with, or who have experience of, mental health conditions. .

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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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Overemployment: The Controversial Trend Creeping into the Future of Work

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We’ve seen numerous work trends emerge over the past couple of years, including the great resignation , the great return, quiet quitting, and quiet firing. . Could ‘overemployment’ be next? . Rather than taking on extra hours outside of their day job, overemployed workers perform multiple full-time jobs simultaneously from home. Normally, their employer is none the wiser. .

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Gen Z’s ‘Quiet Quitting’ Approach to the Corporate Ladder

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Gen Z is twice as likely than Gen X to want to be CEO, according to new research from United Minds, in partnership with KRC Research. . But a significant proportion of Gen Z doesn’t intend to burn the midnight oil in their pursuit. . Similar to the ‘quiet quitting’ trend that has made its way into the headlines in recent months, the research suggests that Gen Z is largely intent on doing only what is required of them. .

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