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‘Hybrid working hell’ awaits organisations that don’t address workplace culture

Workplace Insight

A new report – ‘Hybrid Heaven or Hell? The journey to hybrid working’ from Poly and the Worktech Academy claims that organisations should carry out an audit to evaluate aspects of of their workplace culture and establish what works and what needs to evolve for hybrid working success. The report includes research from Gallup, Gartner, and Harvard Business Review, as well as Poly’s own insights and findings.

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5 Professional LinkedIn Tips To Attract A Larger Audience

Jennie Lyon

Do you have questions about LinkedIn? I get questions about LinkedIn all of the time and our team does dozens of LinkedIn audits and redesigns every year! LinkedIn currently has 850 million members! LinkedIn is an excellent tool for finding jobs, networking, and getting your work noticed by the right people. Have you ever looked… The post 5 Professional LinkedIn Tips To Attract A Larger Audience appeared first on Jennie Lyon Digital Marketing Services Inc.

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Pay Equity Is The Most Valued DEI Policy For Professionals

Allwork

Boasting a diverse and inclusive workplace are no longer just marketing tactics to lure in customers and top talent — they are a necessity for business longevity. . While workplace equity includes various subsectors, employees most value equal pay according to research analyst Josh Bersin’s HR Predictions for 2022 report. . “[E]quitable and fair pay is among the greatest drivers of employee satisfaction,” said Bersin.

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What You Need to Know About the Great Resignation

Success

“Although the number of people quitting their jobs is down from the peak in 2021, it still remains at the highest levels since the 1970s,” says Kiersten Saunders. “The uncertainty and the chaos of the last few years have impacted your relationship with work. The collective American psychology towards work changed. It’s like we collectively experienced this psychological shock.”.

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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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In person work can make the signs of burnout easier to spot

Workplace Insight

A new poll from Barco claims that a third of people who mostly work in the office found it easier to tell when a colleague is overworked or stressed when seeing them face to face, leaving some remote workers at risk of struggling under the radar of management teams. This comes as over a quarter of staff report experiencing burnout over chronic work-related stress that has not been managed successfully. .

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How to launch your business using social media

Karen Vivarelli

5 Day Launch Plan to market your business If you’ve started your own business this year or plan to very soon, congratulations! The next step is to tell everyone about it so that you can start seeing clients flood through and make money. It’s called marketing your business. Easy, right?! But sometimes, the thought of putting yourself ‘out there’ and showing up online and on social media can be the scariest thing.

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People want their offices to perform more like hotels

Workplace Insight

Employees today want more ‘hotel-style’ amenities such as areas for socialising, state-of-the-art infrastructure, outdoor spaces, onsite cafes, air conditioning, and flexible work facilities to entice them back to offices, according to a new poll from MRI Software. The firm’s Workplace Report [registration] claims almost two-thirds (64 percent) of respondents say such hotel-style features impact their decision on whether to work for an organisation, including more than one in ten who see f

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7 Strategies To Attract And Retain Top Talent

Allwork

In uncertain economic times when many companies are making pre-emptive layoffs, it’s the perfect opportunity to invest into underpriced talent. . If you don’t communicate about your financial situation, then some of your more pessimistic employees might start feeling anxious and polishing their resumes. . To retain your people in today’s turbulent time, focus on developing your lower and mid-level managers. .

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What Is a Growth Mindset vs. Fixed Mindset?

Success

A fixed mindset is one that assumes a person’s habits, preferences, skills and even longings are fixed, perhaps even innate. This mindset restrictively inhibits people from self-improvement and learning new skills. Someone with a fixed mindset: Takes criticism as a personal failure or critique Avoids new challenges personally and professionally Sees their skills as fixed by nature Feels threatened by the success of others Views ideological differences as threatening to their worldview.

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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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Ep 197: Nancy Kingery – EA to CEO at Illinois Mutual

LEADERASSISTANT.COM

Nancy Kingery is the Executive Assistant to the President & CEO at Illinois Mutual Life Insurance Company in Peoria, IL. Nancy has over 25 years of experience supporting C-Suite level executives in 3 unique and completely different industries. In this episode, Nancy and I talk about creating culture, leading from an often “invisible” leadership role, and working with an executive who has never had an assistant.

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Never mind the workplace predictions, here’s some bollocks

Workplace Insight

Time of the year for looking backwards and forwards. For workplace predictions and retrospectives. The Economist announces that the word / term of the year is hybrid work. This is interesting because, although The Economist is using it as an interchangeable term for flexible working as many do, a great deal of energy is still expounded on defining exactly what it means.

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How To Make Your Hybrid Office Accessible To All

Allwork

Each shared office space will need to accommodate a larger, more diverse, less predictable set of users with less advance notice, especially in offices with a hybrid workforce. Accessibility must therefore become a proactive consideration. . Organizations that differentiate themselves by providing inclusive environments will enjoy benefits across recruitment, retention, performance, and other dimensions. .

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What I Learned the Year We (Nearly) Skipped Christmas

Success

It was cold that morning. By then we’d lived in Texas for three years, long enough to know that it doesn’t often get that cold. Not even in late December, two days before Christmas. When my dad went out to get the paper, he nearly slipped on the icy sidewalk. My mom shook me awake in the dark. Despite the chill, I was out of bed in seconds, excited about the day ahead.

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Mandatory COVID Vaccination Policy Template

New vaccine mandates and testing policies will affect employers with more than 100 workers. Get Paycor’s free, customizable vaccination policy template to communicate critical details and new requirements to your employees. Get Paycor’s Template today!

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5 Content Ideas To Turn Followers Into Clients

Karen Vivarelli

Here are 5 content ideas to turn followers into clients: 1⃣ Spot the lie: In this post you can list 4 facts and 1 lie and ask your audience to spot the lie. 2⃣ Introduce yourself: Exactly that, introduce yourself and talk about who you can help. 3⃣ Your mission & brand: Focus on your mission and how you can support your client. 4⃣ Behind the scenes (BTS): Show a little sneak peek of you working on a project. 5⃣ Promote your services and products: Talk about

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Bisley introduces Outline to epitomise the modern way of working

Workplace Insight

Bisley has introduced its Outline frame collection designed with flexibility and modern working in mind. Inspired by the need for versatile and open space environments, Outline works not only as a zone divider but also as a display and storage unit – ideal for establishing distinctive areas to work, collaborate and relax. Crafted from hand-welded steel for a seamless finish, Outline by Bisley offers a robust yet elegant frame that allows natural light through – while creating zones without bui

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A Guide For Workspace Mental Health Communication

Allwork

Stigma around discussing mental health has been falling as awareness of the number of people with mental health conditions rises. . The role of mental health awareness in workspaces is often poorly defined and etiquette can often breakdown into the famous “Golden Rule,” which isn’t a good fit in this context. . Directly asking others how they would like to be treated is the best way to facilitate appropriate mental health communication in the workplace. .

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11 Ways to Handle Confrontation

Success

You probably hate dealing with confrontation just as much as the next guy, right? And it’s probably because you’re either scared that the conversation is going to be terribly awkward and so you put it on the backburner, or you’re frustrated but don’t want to make a big deal of it and so you just bottle it up. Wrong, wrong, wrong. Neither option is good for handling confrontation.

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Is Training the Right Solution?

Speaker: Tim Buteyn

Let's set the scene: you’ve identified a critical performance gap in your organization and need to close that gap. A colleague suggests training, but you suspect there’s something going on that training can’t address. How can you determine if training is the right solution before you commit your budget and resources to a new training program? In this webinar, you will learn how to determine if training is the right solution using the Behavior Engineering Model.

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Episode 453: Matthew Dicks talks about actionable ways to propel your creative life

Productivityist

“ Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone “ That quote from Pablo Picasso are the first words I read in Matthew Dicks book Someday is Today: 22 Simple, Actionable Ways to Propel your Creative Life. He is the author of nine other books beyond the one I just mentioned. He’s a best-selling novelist, nationally recognized storyteller, and award-winning elementary school teacher.

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Three quarters of flexible office operators eye expansion and landlords want a piece of the action

Workplace Insight

Around three quarters of flexible office operators globally are looking to expand – primarily in city centres – while 64 percent of landlords want to deliver flexible office solutions, according to The Instant Group’s Future of Flex 2022 flexible office survey. The Instant Group’s annual flexible workspace survey, which is based on providers representing more than 3,700 locations across the globe, also delves into changing occupier motivations within the industry, and how both operat

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Is WeWork Going Bust?

Allwork

Fitch, the third largest U.S. rating agency, has just downgraded WeWork’s unsecured bonds to CCC. . “A CCC rating represents an extremely high-risk bond or investment; banks are not allowed to invest in CCC-rated bonds. CCC bonds are junk bonds.” . It will do no good to the coworking industry if such a high-profile company crashes and burns. . The reason why “Is WeWork going bust?

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Top 5 Entrepreneurial Tips You Can Learn from TikTok

Success

When you’re looking for entrepreneurial tips , it might not occur to you to look to TikTok for advice. After all, TikTok is just a platform for Gen Z to show off their dance moves, right? You’ll find some stellar choreography to learn, but there is so much more: including an abundance of advice for entrepreneurs. We’ve rounded up some of the best advice from TikTok for you here. 1.

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Revitalizing Dry Content: A Lesson in Engagement

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

We’ve all been there. You’ve been given a pile of dry content and asked to create a compelling eLearning course. You’re determined to create something more engaging than the same old course that learners quickly click through, but how do you take this “boring” content and create something relevant and engaging? Many instructional designers will say, “Boring in means boring out.

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Trello vs. Monday.com: Which platform is best for task management?

BMT Office Administration

Cloud-based project management software has revolutionized how companies manage their workflows, time-tracking, and communications for years now. They can even aid in forecasting future growth. In short, gone are the days of keeping track of umpteen email threads and Slack chats to stay on top of your team’s progress. That is unless you’ve yet to upgrade to a project management app, in which case you’re still stuck with the hassles of managing projects across multiple locations.

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Flokk brand Connection opens new state of the art manufacturing facility and offices in the UK

Workplace Insight

Connection, the latest brand to join European office furniture giant Flokk group have opened a bespoke designed and built manufacturing facility, housing warehouses and offices in Mirfield, Yorkshire. Attending the opening were Lars Røiri, CEO of Flokk and René Sitter, Senior Vice President, Central Europe, as well as key stakeholders to celebrate with the Connection team.

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Coworking Demand Is “High, Yet Sustainable” Looking Into The New Year

Allwork

What can be said for the coworking industry in 2023 ? Well, it depends on who you ask, but general consensus appears optimistic. . In the months following vaccine availability and a somewhat return to normalcy, many companies are accepting the inevitable: flexibility is the future. . While this doesn’t negate the plenty of leaders who have been eager for a full-office return since April of 2020, it does show that many industries are ready to embrace a hybrid workplace. .

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The Battle of Beliefs with Message Strategist and Keynote Speaker Tamsen Webster

Success

Our beliefs can be strongly held, which can make it difficult to see other ways of looking at situations. Tamsen Webster, keynote speaker and message strategist, needed to have a battle of beliefs to move past a debilitating panic disorder. At the worst, she was finding it difficult to drive and leave the house. But she realized that when two truths fight, only one wins.

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Brain Fog HQ: Memory Enhancement Techniques for Professional Development

Speaker: Chester Santos – Author, International Keynote Speaker, Executive Coach, Corporate Trainer, Memory Expert, U.S. Memory Champion

In October, scientists discovered that 75% of patients who experienced brain fog had a lower quality of life at work than those who did not. At best, brain fog makes you slower and less efficient. At worst, your performance and cognitive functions are impaired, resulting in memory, management, and task completion problems. In this entertaining and interactive presentation, Chester Santos, "The International Man of Memory," will assist you in developing life-changing skills that will greatly enha

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The Secret To Attracting New Occupants

Allwork

Experience in workplaces can be an important point of difference in a market where occupiers have more choice than ever. . Installing amenities to enhance the building’s offerings can’t be left up to chance — you have to curate the experience around the offer. . Flexible, serviced space run by staff trained to nurture occupiers makes it more than just desks; it starts to become a good place to be. .

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Create A Neurodiverse Friendly Office In Just One Minute

Allwork

The workplace is designed like a theatre stage where we always have to be ‘On’. . It may be ideal for extroverts, but most offices are missing a place of quiet for those who experience the world in a different way. . Here are simple, cost-efficient ways to create an accessible and neurodiverse-friendly workspace. . We live in a world designed for noisy neurotypical extroverts.

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Social Media’s Marketing Reign Will Continue In 2023

Allwork

Marketing will be at its most complex, yet most authentic in 2023 as consumers begin to see through old tactics. . Social media has driven both the faux and honest side of society. Whichever side of the coin a marketing team decides to take, one thing is certain: social media will be the main driver of many marketing strategies in the coming years. .

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