Does your company allow you to block off time in your work day for creativity—a time devoted to ideation, and not connected to a project that is currently in the works? (Hint: if you have no idea what I’m talking about, the answer is “no.”) It’s a fairly unique concept, this notion of employees outside…
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How Do You Make People Feel at Work?
In honor of Valentine’s Day, I offer up this Friday Food for Thought: How will you make people feel today?
Why We Hate Conference Calls [video]
When it comes to phone conferences, clueless people and technology conspire to create many deadly phone conferencing sins. What would it look like if your conference call took place in real life? That’s what Mashable envisioned when they put together this hilarious video. Take a look and then share with me in the comments section: what’s…
7 Tips for a Happy Office
This post is provided by London Offices, offering handpicked, premier office space in London’s business hub. From natural light to strong coffee, small tweaks and changes to the way your office is run can have huge positive effects on productivity, happiness, and output. Thanks to the office experts at London Offices, who have prepared these seven…
3 Fallacies of Employee Performance Measurement
Yahoo’s announcement that CEO Marissa Mayer is implementing a forced ranking system has once again ignited the debate about evaluating employee performance: do performance management systems do more harm than good? For large organizations, it’s a given that there is a formalized process performance appraisal. According to research the Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp), 86%…