5 Proven Tips For Managing Virtual Teams
Your approach to managing virtual teams should be similar to your approach to managing in-person teams—which, broadly speaking, can go one of two ways. In 1960, Douglas McGregor published his …Read More
Top 6 Engaging Training Activities For Employees
Well-executed activities can elevate your employee training. Whether it’s communication skills, leadership skills, or any other subject, training activities can help engage employees and support the absorption of key concepts …Read More
Top 5 Benefits Of Training Programs For Employees
During the two years of the global COVID-induced lock-down, the world went virtual: Virtual reality, virtual training, virtual workplaces, virtual live performances. At first, the world wondered, “Would it work?” …Read More
How To Run Effective Meetings
A 2021 study by Reclaim.ai found that since the COVID-induced shift to working-from-home, the average business professional attends 70% more meetings weekly than in 2018. In 2021 professionals spent almost …Read More
3 Best Virtual Team Celebration Ideas That Inspire
As Martha and the Vandellas and, later, Van Halen sang, “Summer’s here and the time is right for dancing in the streets!” The USA, France, Canada, Burundi, the Solomon Islands …Read More
How Interactive Are You?
Which do you prefer: to sit in a room and listen to a speaker talk for four hours straight or to hear a few concepts and then figure out how …Read More
Working or Living?
A recent study by Robert Half found that 45 percent of US professionals who transitioned to working from home because of the pandemic say they regularly work more hours each …Read More
Move It! Move It!
The magic number these days is 10,000: 10,000 steps every day to stay fit. Working from home makes it harder to hit that goal because it removes the opportunities for …Read More
Hocus-Focus!
When it comes to working from home, flexibility can be a two-edged sword: It gives you the means by which to better balance work and home life demands, but it …Read More
Hold onto Your Hats!
If you work in the training profession, hold onto your hats! The winds are blowing in your favor in 2022. As the world comes off the COVID lockdowns, the return …Read More
The Three-way Battle: Entertainment, Information, Education
Despite the record number of deaths, the devastation to the economy, and the social isolation, the dark cloud of COVID-19 has had some silver linings. Nature rebounded, technology advanced, and …Read More
Smells Like Team Spirit
Managing teams is always a balancing act: How do you get team members to work independently and cooperatively at the same time? How do you get team members to do …Read More