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How to Prevent Nepotism in the Workplace
Avoiding nepotism requires a joint leadership approach to ensure that employee hires, promotions, and favorable projects are fairly distributed within the company. Nepotism can destroy workplace culture and often places employees in roles that they are ill equipped to handle. Nepotism often occurs...
Avoid Getting Blindsided: Turn Your Managers into Leaders
If you have managers or supervisors below you, it's important to bring awareness to how your managers are leading. I’ve worked with many senior leaders blindsided by toxic behavior that eventually led to litigation, simply because they thought their managers were doing a great job. Here’s what...
What Should You Do When Team Members Are Not Doing Their Best?
If you are in a leadership position, you will need to build a team of diverse personalities and abilities. Even if you fly solo, you may need to work with freelancers or contractors from time to time. Regardless of your exact situation, if there is a weak link, that can definitely cause...
How to Keep Internet Trolls Out of Remote Workplaces
When companies move all employee communications online, they face the same problems as the rest of the internet. But they don’t have to let bad behavior seep in. Gustavo Razzetti, who gets hired by companies to improve their work cultures, has noticed a change since the pandemic began last year:...
Phishing Scheme Shows CEOs May Be ‘Most Valuable Asset,’ And ‘Greatest Vulnerability’
Cybercriminals have been using a phishing kit featuring fake Office 365 password alerts as a lure to target the credentials of chief executives, business owners and other high-level corporate leaders. The scheme highlights the role and responsibility upper management plays in ensuring the security...
20 Employee Engagement Ideas That Work
Engaged employees offer a lot of benefits to your business. Here's how to get them there. Employees want to feel invested in and connected to their work. Engaged employees are less absent, more productive and more communicative. To boost employee engagement, create a strong company culture and be...
I Tried 4 To-Do List Methods. Here’s What Worked
Summary. There are a lot of methods out there for staying organized. But which method prevails? Over four days, I tried four ways of organizing my to-do list. I tracked my overall productivity and stress levels to see which worked best. Monday: Get rid of your to-do list and instead schedule out...
The Tides are Turning: Recent Trends in FDCPA Standing
After the U.S. Supreme Court decided Spokeo in 2016, there was an unfulfilled moment of hope. Defendants in Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) cases would file motions to dismiss based on lack of standing only for the courts to repeatedly deny those motions. Spokeo required that plaintiffs...
5 Steps to Conduct a 360-Degree Employee Performance Evaluation
Performance evaluations are the best way to identify the strengths and opportunities for improvement presented by the employees of an organization. They are also an instrument to promote meritocracy and facilitate administrative decision-making such as distribution of bonuses, salary increases,...