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As remote and hybrid working models become increasingly popular in modern workplaces, there is a growing awareness of their positive aspects, however we still need to be aware of potential pitfalls.

Explore the unique benefits of live training and why it continues to be a valuable asset in the realm of education and professional development.

There are significant differences between generations, but embracing this diversity can lead to a more inclusive and harmonious society.

Explore the positive impact of millennials and Gen Z in the workplace and how organizations can harness their potential to thrive in this new era.

The rise of hybrid working models has brought about a fundamental shift in how organizations operate. Explore the crucial role of performance management and performance metrics.

The year 2023 has witnessed a significant transformation in the global workforce, leading to a shift in the traditional work ethic.

In today's fast-paced world, setting and achieving goals is crucial for personal and professional success. However, simply setting goals is not enough.

In the dynamic world of leadership, decision-making is a critical skill that can significantly impact the success and growth of individuals and organizations.

While many individuals diligently review and adjust their daily plans, they often overlook the significance of regularly reviewing and adjusting their long-term plans.

In today's fast-paced and competitive business landscape, supporting your employees is crucial for fostering a positive work environment, boosting productivity, and retaining top talent.

Dive into the key elements that drive exceptional performance. Empower your team, foster growth, and ignite passion. Elevate your leadership and unlock true potential.

Discover essential HR strategies to thrive in the hybrid work era. From seamless remote onboarding to fostering employee well-being and leveraging virtual collaboration tools, unlock the potential of your workforce in this evolving work landscape.

Managing emails effectively is crucial for productivity and overall well-being. With the ever-increasing volume of emails, it's easy to get overwhelmed and spend more time managing your inbox than doing actual work.

Are time-wasting processes bogging down your organization's productivity? Discover actionable steps to optimize your meetings, prioritize your tasks, manage your emails, streamline your workflow, and enhance team communication.

Effective time management is crucial in today's fast-paced world, where professionals are faced with an overwhelming to-do list and increasing workloads. The ability to prioritize tasks, increase productivity, and reduce stress is essential for success.

Managing a multi-generational workforce can be challenging due to differences in communication, technology, and hybrid work preferences. Aligning staff and investing in learning opportunities can help organizations create a modern and inclusive workplace.

Age diversity in the workforce brings both benefits and challenges. Business leaders can improve employee engagement and retention by embracing inclusivity, building resilience, and harnessing generational differences.

In today's competitive job market and rapidly changing business environment, a PMP certification can make a significant difference in advancing one's career and ensuring organizational success.

Email still has its time and place for specific interactions, but other forms of digital correspondence are more efficient than hitting send on your umpteenth email of the day.

Choosing the right training partner is crucial for an organization's L&D success. To maximize your ROI, focus on three key factors: efficacy, trust, and foresight. These elements will help ensure that your training investment is effective, trustworthy, and forward-thinking.

DEI is a popular term that not everyone understands. It refers to diversity, equality, and inclusion, each contributing to the overall concept. Inclusivity is vital for modern organizations.

Countless approaches fall under the “workplace goal-setting” paradigm, but there is one that is a little different than the rest: continuous improvements.

When you are constantly inundated by professional strain and your schedule is perpetually hectic, it’s time to step back and take a hard look at your work-life balance.

How can an organization encourage engagement when workers are physically disconnected from each other, management, and a shared material space that shapes company identity?

High-performing employees are the backbone of a successful organization. Supervisors need not worry when a high performer is on the case; their superior skills will carry them through the project with flying colours.

As more organizations expand their global footprint, cross-cultural training has become increasingly important. In the most basic sense, cross-cultural training teaches individuals how to interact effectively with those from other cultures.

The question for business leaders is what are the best methods for responding to changes in the employment market? To answer that, let’s take a look at the recent events that led to this point and proven tactics to help weather the storm of the coming uncertain months.

You glance at your schedule, and it is chock-a-block full of meetings. You understandably wonder, Is this time well spent?

A perennial problem for businesses is employee resistance to change. Since change is unavoidable in today’s fickle economy, leaders must carefully design and implement their change initiatives.

Prioritizing is an essential skill for success in any field. Here are four signs your team is not successfully prioritizing. We explain how prioritization can rectify each problem.

Flexibility is crucial to successfully transitioning from corporate to business owner. Taking the plunge and leaving a corporate job to run your own business takes courage.

Most businesses are well aware of leveraging data for smart business decisions, many business leaders and managers struggle with data management and analysis best practices.

Training employees is not just about teaching skills. It takes up valuable time and it’s imperative to see a positive return on your training investment.

Prioritizing is not just about creating to-do lists and crossing off items, it’s about having control over your responsibilities.

It is generally agreed that the less time we can spend filing, the better – as long as we can still find things.

A smart manager will develop a time management improvement initiative to guide their team. Such an undertaking should include these five steps to help employees with time management.

Avoid the pitfalls of employee turnover and maintain a strong workforce. We examine three core employee retention challenges and easy, cost-effective solutions to overcome them.

There is a long list of issues tied to employee wellbeing. Here we review one aspect: time management for improved work-life balance.

Employees have felt the disruption. So how do business leaders manage both the workplace changes and workers’ adaptation to them?

Employers are scrambling as they work to create a better workplace culture to keep high-performing employees and attract new ones.

Now is the time when many leaders are looking into the future, deciding where to invest their valuable time and resources.

Being direct doesn’t mean being harsh, it means being honest. It doesn’t mean being confrontational or abrasive, it means being clear.

Communication has always been key. Leveraging appropriate tools and processes will foster productivity and well-being.

New technology such as Microsoft Teams, Slack and Zoom can help build better interactions than ever before.

Transitioning from work-life integration to work-life balance, allowing to have both your personal and professional lives co-exist equally.

In a dispersed workforce where teams are distributed in location, skillset and often across organizations, the challenge isn’t producing great work.

We're no longer in a crazy time. We're in new times, which calls for new rules of engagement when attracting talent.

There may very well be a sixth or seventh, but these five seem to cover 95% of the territory and, after all, five is a number that our minds can easily remember.

A take on the past meaning of a phrase, turned into something positive and constructive.

Here's why hybrid work is so in demand--and how you can find the right model for your business.

Top-down hierarchical business structures are a thing of the past and being a great leader is no longer just about qualifications and experience.

Over two-thirds (67%) said that spending too much time in meetings and on calls distracted them from making an impact at work.

What can companies do to ensure that their culture is one that has employees jumping out of bed excited to get to work?

The workforce is a fragile ecosystem of interdependencies in pursuit of common goals. This new way of working has given an opportunity to figure out what works best.

Credibility research has demonstrated that people subconsciously judge the credibility of people by looking for these three things. The best leaders possess all three traits.

Having a deep and meaningful relationship with your clients is crucial–especially right now.

Maintaining new trendy habits to increase productivity don’t always last. Focusing on actions rather than emotion and purpose are the downfall.

If 2021 taught us anything, it was that the pandemic is here to stay, and in order to be successful, we must navigate this new normal.

For workers and leaders, it might mean re-evaluating the way you approach online meetings in order to maintain engagement and productivity.

It is time to keep listening, planning, transforming, diversifying, and experimenting if we are to write a better future workplace into the history books..

Bring your motivation to the forefront and help your productivity this year.

A classic problem… Identify this before it’s too late.

With the working environment changing rather drastically, how we plan should as well.

2021 has prompted leadership teams to reconsider people priorities. Use these to align and support your team for 2022.

While some people welcome going back to an office environment, the reasons for those who dread it are varied and personal.

Planning for the year can seem daunting. Use this framework to alleviate the pressure and reach your goals in 2022.

We often say lack of communication is often the number one problem in the workplace. But, what if it was a symptom of the problem, could you find the cause?

Productivity tips that can be easily applied with great results for you and your team.

Any good leader can identify toxic behavior to avoid at work, however some aren’t as obvious as we’d think...

Collaboration has been key during the transition to the virtual workplace. With fatigue to this new work environment it’s important to look at different ways to get your team back on top.

Everyone knows how to take notes, but are you doing it with productivity in mind?

After a year and a half of going virtual, back to back meetings have been a common occurrence and a higher amount of productivity loss due to it!

Bring your best self to work by following three simple principles.

We’ve all been to meetings that should have been emails… Avoid the pointless meetings and/or share this with some colleagues.

Doing more with less is the issue we are all facing. However taking into consideration how you feel and ensuring a good state of mind will give you the next step up!

In a post-pandemic workplace, the real winners will be those leaders who listen to their teams and give them the support, tools, and resources they need to not just succeed but thrive.

Now that we have done this for over a year, the time to apply it is now.

Desperate for stability, our society keeps talking about “the new normal”, although should the discussion revolve mainly around where we work?

None of the critical components for leadership success is reliant on the ability to have all the right answers.

The workplace is returning to normal. Things are opening back up, but what should leaders really be thinking about when contemplating work from home or back to the office?

The concept of leadership evolves over time, generation after generation, as the driving force of innovation in management.

Strategy is important, but are you going through all the necessary steps? A defined process will help you, your company’s and ultimately your clients’ lives, as well as your bottom line.

The virtual environment is inherently siloed – be proactive in building an inclusive culture.

Your values and mission are what ultimately drive your team’s performance. Ingrained core values become the guiding light creating accountability, and more importantly passion for your team.

Yes, that is in fact a word. And what it has to do with you and your team is very interesting.

We can all agree that evolving circumstances demand answers. When it comes to adapting with agility and empathy—key themes for this year—determining the next best step requires checking in.

Learning these three core practices will help ensure you and your team to tap into the very best of yourselves.

Virtual meeting fatigue is a real thing and you can do something about it.

Taking a step back to review how you plan to get the most out of your week.

A new breed of business meeting is emerging, defined less by agendas and pie charts—and more by human connections.

The calendar says 2021, but it still feels a lot like 2020. The pandemic continues to rage. As we look forward WFH will continue to be the norm. And your team might be starting to feel it...

Cozy clothes all day. No commute. Freedom to do house chores while on a conference call. Ahhh the joys of working from home…But remote work isn’t the only thing that has been on the rise...

COVID-19 have caused fundamental changes in the ways we work. You’re also likely to be exhausted, but you may not understand why.

Time management was a challenge during normal times. Now the pandemic has introduced a whole new set of issues.

If you’re like most people, you might not want to revisit the painful events of 2020, but we can change our outlook, and make 2021 the best year yet.

Working from home is causing many to be overwhelmed/fatigued. As leaders we need to be there to help our teams and it might be as simple as one question.