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…
Productivity
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%…
Are Messy Desks Such a Bad Thing?
This post is sponsored by Official Space, the UK’s favorite office space website. Almost everyone has used a desk at some point in their life. It’s just one of those things you do. From school to University to work, the desk is a tool built for a very practical purpose. But there tends to be…
Productivity Tip – Are You Creating Space for New Ideas?
My office cleaning service sucks. (That would be me.) Cleaning my office doesn’t help me serve my clients, so it’s the last thing on my to-do list. I’m not a hoarder by any stretch, but eventually the clutter catches up with me. The light bulb finally went on: a messy office creates visual clutter, which…