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Don’t Be That Boss: 7 Ways to Avoid Committing Proximity Bias
It may be unintentional, but proximity bias is a growing reality in the hybrid workplace — and HR leaders want to be sure it doesn’t happen. It’s a crisis of visibility: People in powerful, decision-making positions tend to treat employees who are physically closer to them more favorably than...
6 Tips for Getting Deep Work Done
Are you tired of constant interruptions during work? Learn these tips for getting deep work done and finally achieve that much-needed focus. Deep Work is a superb concept to follow if you want to be more productive in your job, studies, or business. These periods of intense focus can help you...
Barriers to Change: Unrealistic Goals
It’s a classic leadership challenge: you want to set goals that push the limits, and inspire people to achieve things they didn’t think were possible. But now as a result, they don’t think your goals are possible. When sharing your vision, you see raised eyebrows, or hear rumblings like “Do...
10 Sales Lessons That Have Stuck With These Business Leaders Over The Years
After many years of being a business leader, and after all the lessons learned and experiences had, sometimes there are those lessons that just stick with you throughout your career. These lessons often shape the way you run your business and make decisions on both a day-to-day and long-term...
Using Stay Interviews to Increase Staff Retention
With many positions in high demand and short supply, some organizations are struggling to retain staff members while also attracting new hires. Employee satisfaction depends on several factors—salary, benefits, and scheduling being chief among them. Workplace culture is another, and its effect on...
How Quiet Hiring is Changing the Workplace for Employers and Employees
By this point, you’ve probably heard of “quiet quitting”: the practice of employees doing the bare minimum to keep their jobs without going above and beyond or putting a lot of effort into their responsibilities. While quiet quitting has had a widespread and negative effect on the workplace, some...
4 Ways to Adapt Employee Recognition Programs to the Virtual Workplace
In the new virtual workspace, gathering staff in a conference room to recognize a colleague for a job well done with a certificate or a free lunch has become obsolete. Just as many other aspects of the workplace have changed in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, so too have the ways employers...
5 Characteristics of High-Performance Organizations
Performance is the conversation of the moment. Some leaders are concerned if remote and hybrid workers are getting their work done. The changes to how work gets done in the last several years have also made us question the performance metrics we’re using to gauge success. These are conversations...
Breaking Down the FTC’s Proposed Ban on Non-Compete Agreements
We previously reported on the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) proposed rule that has sparked quite a stir. The proposed rule aims to ban companies from forcing employees to sign non-compete agreements. These agreements prohibit workers from taking jobs with competitors for a certain period of...