Want to shake off the winter doldrums and 🎇 reignite 🎇 your productivity? Read on to learn what happens when we harness the powerful Pareto Principle to manage our time. 🕰 According to the Pareto Principle, approximately 20 percent of our efforts produce 80 percent of the results. Learning to recognize and then focus on […]
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Quiet Quitting – It’s For Real
Do you know a quiet quitter? I bet you do! The bad news : quiet quitting is more than just hype — and it’s hurting your workplace. The good news : quiet quitting can be prevented. Learn how! ⬇ First, let’s define the newly coined term: . My guess is that you know a quiet […]
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Working from Home (WFH): Love it, Leave It . . . Engage It!
Whether you love it or you’re ready to leave it, WFH is the new normal for many organizations. Business Insider (October 1, 2020) claims that more than half of all Americans want to continue to work from home and two-thirds of companies plan to embrace their current WFH policies permanently. Staying Engaged While WFH […]
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Workplace Friendships: Who Needs Them?
Seriously. You NEED a friend at work. Gallup is the think-tank leader when it comes to understanding businesses and human behavior. Gallup’s research is based on enormous samples sizes and Gallup has a 40+-year track record of tracking engagement at work. Gallup’s research related to having a best friend at work shows interesting and inspiring […]
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The Do’s and Don’ts of Building Engagement in Today’s World
The Do’s and Don’ts of Building Engagement in Today’s World Have your work activities changed since March 15? Have these changes improved your work productivity or hindered it? Have they increased your engagement or decreased it? These questions are NEITHER rhetorical nor coy. Some folks are insanely busy and freakishly engaged right now, while others […]
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Work-Life Balance: 4 Tips For Today’s Crazy World
It’s Friday. Are you thinking about your plans for the weekend or the work you’ll be doing over the weekend? Work-life balance is tough to navigate. The demands that beckon us to work more (like the expectation that emails will be responded to before, during, and after working hours and that we will be responsive […]
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A Road Map for Employee Engagement
Do you know how to create employee engagement? What comes first? Happiness at work or engagement at work? In the world of organizational behavior, we know that happy workers are more likely to be engaged. But this doesn’t tell us much. My favorite line from one of my graduate professors was “correlation does not prove […]
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A Little Thanks Goes a Long Way
A little thanks can make a BIG impact on your employees. Research has found that the #1 reason employees leave their jobs is because they feel unappreciated. If you want your employees to stay, thank them for their efforts, appreciate their hard work, and recognize the impact their commitment has on your business and your […]
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Want to become a great manager? Want to inspire others to be the best manager they can be? To learn more, watch this video or contact me at sarah@freshconcepstsonline.com.
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Engagement at Work Matters
In 1995, businesses talked about and cared about employee. Twenty years later, businesses talk about and care about employee. Why? Because it matters. In the last twenty years, research has shown that it takes more than workers being happy at work to build a successful business. It takes workers to care about their work. It […]
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