2023

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I Shared My OCD Struggles with 11,000 Employees—Their Responses Showed Me the Importance of Vulnerability in Leadership

Success

In 2020, I was vulnerable with 11,000 employees shortly after we all shifted to working remotely because of the pandemic. We started a weekly Q&A session along with a weekly email. I wrote about what was going on, decisions we were making and the new programs we were rolling out to support our employees. I decided I was ready to share my struggle with OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder, which is a chronic anxiety disorder).

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Employers Beware: There Are Rising Legal Risks Of Rigid RTO Policies

Allwork

The insistence of employers on a full return to the office, without considering individual circumstances, could lead to a surge in legal issues — particularly discrimination claims. Companies need to make wise decisions and avoid biases in considering individual employee circumstances, including disability, age, and parental responsibilities, to navigate this new legal landscape successfully.

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Flexible workplace provider creates ‘first ever’ metaverse office

Workplace Insight

The flexible workplace provider Clockwise has opened what the firm claims is the first office space in the metaverse, the Clockwise Campus. According to Microsoft, 51 percent of Gen Z expects to be working in the metaverse in some capacity by 2024. The firms say the space is heavily influenced by Clockwise’s physical offices and provides a digital platform for its members and the public to connect, collaborate and interact in various spaces including; meeting rooms, dedicated desks, breakout sp

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Perform at Your Peak Level with These 5 Mind-Sharpening Tips

Success

Did you know your mindset and emotions are the gateway to your success? They hold the keys to unlock the innovation, ingenuity and potential you have within you, allowing you to overhaul and improve your business. How you think impacts everything, so it’s important to learn how to sharpen your mind. From competitive positioning to impeccable leadership, mindset is the greatest dictator.

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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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4 Ways to Recover from Burnout and Get Back to Enjoying Your Work

Success

Have you ever felt burned out while you were living your dream? Have you been deeply satisfied by your work while still experiencing fatigue? If this resonates, the first thing to do is reevaluate how you complete your work. For example, I was balancing a ton of speaking engagements before the pandemic. I traveled constantly and was on the road for about 80% of the year.

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How to Encourage Employee Autonomy—and Why That Should Matter to You as a Leader

Success

When you’re an employee, you crave autonomy. You want the freedom and empowerment to make—and own—decisions. Then one day, you’re promoted to manager. And you realize just how hard it can be to grant autonomy to direct reports, even though you were once in their shoes. This is a normal reaction and not a reason to think you aren’t cut out for leadership.

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41 Ways to Improve Yourself in Just 10 Minutes

Success

We use the word busy far too often. We say it when friends ask us how we are doing, as if being busy is an emotion. It’s an excuse we use to procrastinate on unpleasant tasks. We use it to sound important at work, because being busy somehow equates to being successful. But you’re never too busy for 10 minutes, which is all it takes to improve yourself just a little each day.

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Leadership Strategies For Resolving The RTO Conflict Through Collaboration

Allwork

80% of leaders regret their initial approach to the return to the office. The return-to-office debate is a multifaceted issue, and both sides have legitimate interests at stake. Navigating this complex, high-stakes conflict requires courage, wisdom, and emotional intelligence from leaders. Resolving it requires nuanced policies that balance employee flexibility with organizational needs.

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What Is Goal-Setting Theory?

Success

Goal-setting theory describes the mechanisms that best engage and motivate employees. It implies tactics you can use to increase productivity on your team or throughout your organization. These tactics include setting goals that are specific and realistic yet challenging. Best practices in goal setting also require a completion date for a project. Milestones with due dates for smaller tasks that are part of that goal also motivate your teams.

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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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How Can We Foster Emotional Connections At Work In The Post-Pandemic Era?

Allwork

Despite nearly two decades of focus on workplace wellness, further enhanced by commendable progress, we need a more potent toolkit to entice teams back to the office — anchored in emotionally evocative design. Providing options for different types of spaces can mold an organization’s culture and boost productivity by instilling a sense of autonomy in employees, which, in turn, kindles positive emotions.

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The Evolution of Bertony Faustin, Oregon’s First Black Winemaker

Success

This is not a story about wine. However, it does feature 15 acres of grapes growing on 50 acres of land in the west hills of Portland, Oregon; two tasting rooms tucked into the borders of the famed Willamette Valley; and a farmer in Carhartt overalls driving a tractor through verdant fields. Bertony Faustin, the man behind Abbey Creek Vineyard , is transforming the fruits of his labor into products that have both oenophiles and newbies scrambling to fill their glasses.

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Happiness Is All About Perspective

Success

People are usually as happy as they make their minds up to be. This maxim is often referenced by famed UCLA basketball coach John Wooden. It’s a reminder that the attitude we assume when faced with disappointment is truly up to us. That happiness is a choice. The influence of his father helped Wooden develop a mental approach that allowed him to respond to disappointment with self-control and reason, rather than reacting emotionally.

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A Vision For Coworking For 2024 And Beyond

Allwork

‘Tis the season for prediction posts, so here goes. But I want to take a different tack. Rather than make predictions about the future of coworking, I want to paint a picture of what coworking could be and why—to share my vision for coworking. To do so properly, I have to backstep a bit. As you may know, I spent 20 years working in record stores. Yes, records.

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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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3 Steps To Build A Three-Dimensional Hybrid Workplace

Allwork

By creating an environment of collaboration, trust and open communication, organizations can ensure a successful transformation to a learning mindset approach in the hybrid work environment. Peter Miscovich recently sat down with Allwork.Space’s Future of Work Podcast to discuss the benefits of the hybrid workplace, as well as the leading role trust, learning and technology play in successful global collaboration.

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How to Recognize and Prevent Toxic Work Environments

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Company culture matters. In fact, it’s one of the most significant factors that younger generations consider when deciding to stay at or apply for a job. Unfortunately, it’s also something managers may neglect until it starts to cause problems. If their approach centers around pain points, issues are likely addressed as they arise, while their causes are ignored.

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10 Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get Things Done

Success

Perfectionists are often great procrastinators. Having stalled until the last minutes, they tear into a project with dust flying and complaints about insufficient time. Perfectionist-procrastinators are masters of the excuse that short notice kept them from doing the quality job they could have done. But that’s hardly the only variety of procrastination.

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The Secret Life Of Colleagues

Allwork

Virtual meetings have changed how we present ourselves to work colleagues, but sometimes the image we project is far from reality. Many remote workers have learned to create a facade — concealing the real state of their home offices. Unlike in-person meetings, a virtual meeting is an opportunity to present certain aspects of our lives that reveal something personal about us (for example, our book collection or pets).

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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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Google’s Myth Of Losing Social Capital In Hybrid Work

Allwork

A survey of over 1,000 Google employees showed that two-thirds feel unhappy with being forced to be in the office three days a week, with many threatening to leave, and some already quitting to go to other companies with more flexible options. Google’s leadership is defending its requirement of mostly in-office work as necessary to protect the company’s social capital, meaning people’s connections to and trust in each other.

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Delivering Success: Maximize Your Coworking Center’s Profit Potential With Efficient Mail Handling

Allwork

Flexible space and coworking centers can increase revenue by offering virtual offices, especially value-add services such as mail forwarding. However, mail-related problems are the top dissatisfaction among virtual office clients, which makes solid mail handling processes a priority. Learn tried-and-tested mail handling best practices from two expert center operators who have polished their process over many years.

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5 Ways To Avoid Well-Being Washing And Provide Authentic Support To Employees

Allwork

In a recent survey, 51% of participants blamed their boss for not taking the right steps to support their mental well-being. Well-being washing happens when employee perks are offered in exchange for huge workloads and long hours that lead to burnout. Genuine efforts to support employees include fostering real work-life balance and leading by example, having open conversations about mental and physical health, and adopting self-care programs.

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Say Goodbye Comfy Pants – 9 in 10 Companies Planning RTO This Year

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ResumeBuilder surveyed 1,000 business leaders to see if their respective companies have implemented a return to office plan, or if they intend to in the new year. Of the companies that allow employees to work fully-remotely, 73% of them said they will “definitely” or “likely” change their work location policy within 6 months. This isn’t the news that workers want to hear; the majority of people want to continue working from home.

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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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8 Reasons Why Walks Are Good for Relationships

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Hey, brain researchers—yeah, you with the lab coats and electrodes. Where are all the studies on how walks benefit relationships? On why taking a stroll together is as great for romance, family ties and friendship as it is for muscles and Reebok sales? My web sleuthing has turned up no such studies. Well, no biggie. Over the years, I’ve developed plenty of my own theories on what makes walking the best thing for human bonding since the smile : 1.

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5 Brain-Boosting Snacks To Power Your Work Day

Allwork

According to the Harvard School of Public Health , snacking often leads to making poorer food choices, such as potato chips, candy, and cookies, causing unwanted weight gain from excess calories. Nevertheless, snacking throughout the workday can be profoundly beneficial to workers because it provides energy, curbs their appetite, and maintains their nutrition levels if their schedule doesn’t permit eating full meals at set times.

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AI Probably Won’t Take Your Job In 2024

Allwork

Gartner, a management consulting company known for its research into workforce trends, estimates that by 2028 50% of employees will have a “robo-assistant.” While scaling the number of robo assistants that an organization has doesn’t necessarily cost anything, experts believe that it does raise issues that organizations must address — such as ethics and guardrails.

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WeWork Files For Bankruptcy, Shaking Coworking Industry

Allwork

WeWork Inc., previously a coworking industry titan, has filed for bankruptcy following a long string of financial struggles. The company’s stock fell an astonishing 98 percent in 2023, requiring a reverse stock-split to retain NYSE listing as it had dipped well below $1.00 for an extended period. The bankruptcy of WeWork, a darling in shared coworking spaces since 2010, could raise concerns about the future of the coworking industry, despite the fact that the sector is growing.

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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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Ambient Scenting Makes Sense For Coworking Management

Allwork

A recently released study found that 60% of workers would take a lower paid job if it had a healthier working environment than their current job, and 42% said unpleasant odors created a stressful and anxious work environment. Pleasant fragrances can reduce stress, enhance moods, improve productivity on the job, and connect people with nature. Ambient scenting technology for office spaces can be computer controlled, efficient, hypoallergenic, and use sophisticated odor-neutralizing technology t

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Slim & Husky’s Uses Their Artisan Pizza as a Means for Social Change and Community Empowerment

Success

You might say it started with Wu-Tang Clan. Although the group’s song “C.R.E.A.M.” (“Cash Rules Everything Around Me”) cemented itself into the minds of longtime friends and college roommates Clint Gray, Derrick Moore and E.J. Reed, they never knew it would one day inspire the business model for their fast-casual restaurant empire. For the co-owners of Nashville’s Slim + Husky’s Pizza Beeria , PREAM (“Pizza Rules Everything Around Me”) is their business mantra.

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How to Mindfully Take Time Off Work—And Ultimately Increase Your Productivity

Success

Burnout is at an all-time high since the spring of 2021. And as of this past May, employee productivity had declined for five straight quarters. At a time when workers are still coming up for air following the pandemic, it’s more important than ever to take time off work. It seems counterintuitive, but science shows that taking a meaningful break—or better yet, a vacation—can ultimately increase creativity and productivity, and contribute to a business’ overall success.

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