Some think working remotely is a terrible setting that takes control away and let's employees stay at home and be useless. Others find that remote work increases overall productivity and lowers the need to micromanage.
And both sides might be correct as remote work, like all other structures, work really well for some and make others crazy.
The only thing that we can say for certain is that telecommuting is increasingly popular and there are problems you need to face to make it work.
10 Best Practices of a Best Company to Work ForO.C. Tanner
What does it take to be named a Best Company to Work for by FORTUNE magazine? For starters, a winning culture, collaboration, and creating an environment for learning and growth. Take a look at these slides for more ideas!
Top Productivity Working Hacks by Jan RezabJan Rezab
This document provides productivity tips from Jan Rezab, a serial entrepreneur. Some key points include:
- Manage time by thinking in "blocks" of one hour and maximizing productivity in each block.
- Use tools like Wunderlist, Podio and Slack for communication and organization in addition to email.
- Design meetings purposefully with clear agendas and action items. Follow up immediately.
- Find ways to be productive during activities like driving or flights by taking calls or responding to emails.
- Hiring an excellent assistant can help optimize schedules and respond to urgent requests so the entrepreneur's time is freed up.
24 Time Management Hacks to Develop for Increased ProductivityIulian Olariu
These are some ideas I talk about in my Time Management training sessions. Try to approach each of them and develop in a new habit, in order to increase your productivity and manage your time better. Don't forget to share if you find them useful!
9 Unique Traits of High-Performing TeamsWeekdone.com
High-performing teams have several traits in common that make them successful. Some of the key traits include embracing diversity of backgrounds, prioritizing work-life balance for all members, and maintaining laser-like focus on goals. These teams also engage well together both during formal meetings and outside of meetings through open communication. Fostering strengths of all members, healthy debates, and group cohesion are other characteristics of top teams.
How to Be Happy at Work - 10 Simple Tips That WorkD B
Do you want to learn how to be happy at work? Here are 10 simple things that you can do that are proven to work.
By Officevibe, the Simplest Employee Engagement tool
Read the full article on Officevibe:
www.officevibe.com/blog/happy-at-work-infographic
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https://www.officevibe.com/resources
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10 Shocking Stats About Disengaged EmployeesOfficevibe
Here are 10 shocking stats about employee engagement that our researchers have found. This infographic shows all that's wrong with disengaged employees.
Read more on Officevibe Blog:
https://www.officevibe.com/blog/disengaged-employees-infographic
Download the most comprehensive guide to having engaged employees:
http://officevi.be/employee-engagement-guide
Use these 22 simple ways to boost job satisfaction:
http://officevi.be/job-satisfaction-guide
Help Young Talent Develop a Professional MindsetDaniel Goleman
There is a chasm between what business leaders expect from recent graduates, and what these new hires offer. In a Hay Group study of 450 business leaders and 450 recent graduates based in India, the US, and China… a massive 76% of business leaders reported that entry-level workers and recent grads are not ready for their jobs.
In most cases, these hires are intelligent, ambitious, and technically savvy. They have proven their ability to accomplish the work. They’re committed and passionate about rising through the ranks. So what are these new professionals missing?
They’re lacking soft skills.
Pitching Ideas: How to sell your ideas to othersJeroen van Geel
Learn how to convince others of your UX ideas by understanding them.
We are good in designing usable and engaging products and services. We understand the user's needs and have a toolkit with dozens of deliverables. But for some reason it remains difficult to sell an idea or concept to team members, managers or clients. After this session that problem will be solved!
Selling your ideas and convincing others is one of the most undervalued assets in our field. This ranges from convincing a colleague to use a certain design pattern to selling research to your boss and convincing a client to go for your concept. You can come up with the best ideas in the world, but if it is presented in the wrong way these ideas will die a lonely dead. This is sad, because everybody can learn how to bring a message across. The main thing is that you know what to pay attention to.
In this session I will take you on a journey through the world of presenting ideas. We will move through the heads of clients and your colleagues, learn what their thoughts and needs are. We will move to the core of your idea and into the world of psychology.
https://masterclass.etiennegarbugli.com
This presentation was voted Most Liked presentation of the year by SlideShare. In December 2013, 26 Time Management Hacks I Wish I'd Known at 20 was included in the Slideshare Zeitgeist.
Fight for Yourself: How to Sell Your Ideas and Crush PresentationsDigital Surgeons
Don't let your blood, sweat, and pixels be overlooked, great creative doesn't sell itself.
Every presentation is a story, an opportunity to sell not just your work, but what people actually buy — YOU.
This presentation will walk viewers through three core aspects of winning at any presentation, Confidence, Comprehension, and Conviction.
These concepts, central to your work as a creative professional, are backed by science and bolstered by thoughts from some of the world’s leading creative professionals.
Karlyn Borysenko and I discuss the elements of putting together an impactful presentation and how to submit them to conferences.
Originally presented at Penn State Web - updated and reshared at HighEdWeb 2016 in Memphis Tennessee.
Giving a presentation? It’s your job to keep people’s attention, but in our world of consistent sensory input, that’s becoming increasingly difficult to do. Winning over the hearts and minds of a distracted audience requires a killer presentation that makes both eyes and ears perk. Incorporate these elements in every PowerPoint presentation you create to make people forget about their email inbox and incoming texts for five minutes.
Want to hire someone to do the work instead? Looking for work as a Presentation Specialist? Contact ArtisanTalent.com today.
If you are like many people, even the thought of delivering a speech in front of an audience will get your palms sweating. The fear of public speaking ranks high among the most common phobias, and for good reason: most of us approach the situation with the wrong mindset, which in turn makes us live out our worst fears in a public forum.
As Michael Parker notes in IT’S NOT WHAT YOU SAY: How to Sell Your Message When It Matters Most (A TarcherPerigee paperback; on sale January 2016), our fixation on the content of our words – and not the presentation of ourselves – is what brings us down. Once the Vice-Chairman of London’s Saatchi & Saatchi, and one of the world’s most experienced advertising pitch men, having made more than 1,000 pitches in his successful career, Parker has learned first-hand that an effective presentation, a job interview, or even a speech at a wedding hinges on our ability to portray ourselves as passionate, relatable, and collected. But, if we are focused on what we say, and not how we act, we will fail to persuade our audience.
Applied in the boardroom, at the pulpit, or even in conversation, these tenets will help you present better in any situation.
Want to be seen as a leader at the office? Learn how to identify and push back against gender bias by supporting your female colleagues at work. Read the full tips at leanin.org/tips/mvp
10 Things your Audience Hates About your PresentationStinson
See it with animations! https://vimeo.com/179236019
It’s impossible to win over an audience with a bad presentation. You might have the next big thing, but if your presentation falls flat, then so will your idea. While every audience is different, there are some universal cringe-worthy presentation mistakes that are all too common. Whether you’re an amateur or a seasoned presenter, you should always avoid this list of top 10 things your audience hates. Are you committing any of these 10 fatal presentation sins?
For more presentation help, visit stinsondesign.com/blog
20 Fantastic Flat Icons and Their Meaning In Logo DesignDesignMantic
Icons tell stories. And when it comes to building visual identity for a brand, iconography plays a big part. Icons, incorporated into logos, not just make brand identities visually appealing but they also tend to deliver brand’s vision or underline message more effectively. Each icon ensues an inherent meaning that sparks a certain kind of psychological behavior, resulting in emotive consumer association with the brand. Because people tend to identify and appreciate these icons right away even in various colors or screen sizes. Hence, selecting the right icon for your logo is of great importance and must be treated carefully.
Here are 20 flat icons and their hidden meanings that make them effective in logo design.
2016 Digital predictions for marketing, tech, pop culture and everything in b...Soap Creative
Another light-hearted look at what we think the zeitgeist of 2016 will be for marketing, tech, pop culture and everything in-between.
Many of our previous predictions are still in play and while we like to be right we'd rather make you smile with these less predictable trends.
Follow us for more updates.
43 Expert Tips for Future Proofing Your Content StrategyVisme
Top content marketers and social media influencers provide their best advice and insights on how to future proof your content strategy against content shock and content fatigue.
Ever see great presentations on this site and wonder "How can I make slides like those?"
This quick, insight-packed course will distill many of the major lessons I've learned designing presentations (20 or so of which have been featured on the Slideshare homepage for clients like Honigman Media and Group 8A) over the past half decade.
The major areas of discussion include
STORYTELLING | RHETORIC | DESIGN
Each of these are rigorously examined using easy to understand examples and practical, actionable takeaways.
Click through these slides and come out the other side a better presentation designer, guaranteed!
I currently teach Digital Marketing at General Assembly and have given this lecture to nearly unanimous positive feedback.
If you'd like to get access to this PDF or pick my brain about presentation design, marketing, etc... shoot me a line!
EMAIL: Jig813@gmail.com
TWITTER: twitter.com/JoeandTell
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As a leader, you spend a lot of your time making sure that your team is working well together. Here are the secrets that every manager should know to make your team successful.
Subscribe to our free 11-day email course on HOW TO BE A BETTER LEADER:
http://officevi.be/29Sx4bK
Read more on employee engagement on Officevibe blog:
https://www.officevibe.com/blog
This list is more or less a curation of tips I've surfaced from my reading or research and from what I've observed from being around some incredible investors and successful entrepreneurs. Note, this advice is geared towards ideation through product-market fit level startups, but the life tips are universally applicable I would say.
When possible, I tried to make the tip "actionable", which I define as something that's able to be done;
or an action having practical value.
So, in no particular order, I give you the Startup and Life Tips for Entrepreneurs: a Journal of Thoughts...
10 Ways Your Boss Kills Employee MotivationOfficevibe
This document outlines 10 ways that bosses can kill employee motivation, including micromanaging employees, focusing only on mistakes, dismissing new ideas, holding useless meetings, making empty promises, telling inappropriate jokes, not keeping their word, measuring employee success in the wrong way, setting unrealistic deadlines, and playing favorites. The document encourages bosses to listen to employee concerns to better motivate them.
The Great State of Design with CSS Grid Layout and FriendsStacy Kvernmo
This document discusses the importance of doing work that you love and believe is great. It includes a quote from Steve Jobs about finding truly satisfying work by doing what you believe is great work and loving what you do. The rest of the document provides examples of challenges, questions, and discussions that commonly come up for designers in their work.
Love reading comics? You're not the only one. What about these stories about super-beings keep our eyes glued to the pages and our minds salivating for more? We explore in this deck how comic writers use these storytelling techniques and how you can apply it in your presentation.
To help the curious class stay relevant, we’ve assembled an A-Z glossary of what we predict to be the 100 must-know terms and concepts for 2017.
We hope this cultural crib sheet will help prepare you for the year ahead.
Enjoy!
We held the largest ever Virtual SlideShare Summit a week back, if you missed it here's your chance to hear from the experts once more on some of the takeaways on presentation design and SlideShare Marketing
14 Tips to Entrepreneurs to start the Right StuffPatrick Stähler
14 tips for Entrepreneurs how they can develop from an idea the Right Thing. The Right is being loved by your customers, gives meaning to you and employees and is profitable. Finding and later doing the Right Thing is an agile and iterative learning journey. With these 14 tips you can profit from the experience of successful entrepreneurs since you do not have to experience and fail by yourself. Hopefully, the slide deck helps other entrepreneurs.
Today we all live and work in the Internet Century, where technology is roiling the business landscape, and the pace of change is only accelerating.
In their new book How Google Works, Google Executive Chairman and ex-CEO Eric Schmidt and former SVP of Products Jonathan Rosenberg share the lessons they learned over the course of a decade running Google.
Covering topics including corporate culture, strategy, talent, decision-making, communication, innovation, and dealing with disruption, the authors illustrate management maxims with numerous insider anecdotes from Google’s history.
In an era when everything is speeding up, the best way for businesses to succeed is to attract smart-creative people and give them an environment where they can thrive at scale. How Google Works is a new book that explains how to do just that.
This is a visual preview of How Google Works. You can pick up a copy of the book at www.howgoogleworks.net
For all organizations, in all industries, and of all sizes, growth is a function of the intersections of the relationships of people from the CEO to the client. The dynamic between the CEO and the management team influences the frontline staff, which ultimately impacts the client. Depending upon the quality of these relationships, this impact can be positive or negative, resulting in growth or downsizing. Joe offers proven methods to help any organization become a stronger, more cohesive team, deliver remarkable employee and client experiences, reset and recharge, and grow regardless.
According to a recent survey, 76% of US employees and 62% of global employees who experience Sunday night blues said their blues were "really bad" and made them want a new job. The article provides tips employers can use to help employees feel less stressed about returning to work on Mondays and improve work-life balance, such as starting Monday meetings on a positive note, providing flexibility, and encouraging task planning on Fridays. The author argues that addressing Sunday night blues can help employers create an enjoyable workplace and retain top talent.
APM Event sponsored by the SWWE Branch on 8 September 2022.
Speaker:Nick Fewings, Director of Ngagementworks
APM’s research in 2015, Conditions for Project Success identifies competent teams as a key requirement. This was reinforced by the 2021 Dynamic Conditions for Project Success which additionally identified team ethos and interpersonal skills. So how do you develop a high performing team?
Research suggests that only 10% of teams are high-performing, 50% are average and 40% dysfunctional. Nick Fewings, author of best-selling book, Team Lead Succeed, will share some of his insights into how to achieve high-performance teamwork, based on his 10 years’ experience of leading teams and 20 years facilitating team development with teams around the world.
https://www.apm.org.uk/news/the-who-and-the-how-of-high-performance-teamwork/
The WHO and the HOW of achieving high-performance team work. PMIUKChapter
The document discusses how to achieve high-performance teamwork. It emphasizes understanding who is on your team through behavioral profiling and their technical skills. It also stresses the importance of understanding how effective your teamwork is by measuring key performance indicators and team dynamics across 16 elements. Regular measurement allows teams to identify areas for improvement and maintain high levels of effectiveness.
French law mandates at least five weeks of vacation. Australia provides both paid maternal and paternal leave. Denmark breeds work-life balance into their culture.
So why is American so out of touch? In stark contrast to these balanced regimes, Americans continue to pander through the workday. We extend our hours, snack on sad desk lunches, and forgo vacation to get ahead. But science says there’s a fatal flaw in our system…
Today, 70 percent of the American workforce is disengaged. The rat race mentality has left us sleepwalking through life — and it’s time to wake up. Join Joe Mechlinski, New York Times Bestselling author and speaker, as he introduces science into the great work debate. Joe will show you how to become better in tune with your three brains (head, heart, and gut) to help reshape your thinking, motivation, and behaviors to find greater fulfillment at work.
This is a powerful tool that has been vital in helping me focus and produce so I could move from a salaried teacher/coach making about $35,000 a year to becoming a successful entrepreneur, quadrupling my teachers salary and increasing my net worth to over a million dollars IN JUST FOUR YEARS!! more tools at www.claystaires.com
The Power of Stay Interviews for Employee Engagement & RetentionBizLibrary
Would you believe managers can lower employee turnover simply by asking how they can help?
Stay interviews have been shown to reduce turnover by more than 20%, preventing high performing employees from jumping ship. How? By building trust between managers and employees.
In this webinar you'll learn:
Study data that drives home the importance of supervisor effectiveness
Specific stay interview tools including questions to ask, data to record, and potential solutions
The four required skills leaders must learn to make their interviews successful
We often hear that people are a company's most important asset, but it's historically been very hard to quantify that, or understand the ROI of it. In this presentation, I walk through a framework for understanding the Employee Lifetime Value (ELTV) and show a case study that demonstrates the ROI of being great at People practices.
RECRUIT WELL: HOW COMPANY WELLBEING EFFORTS POSITIVELY IMPACT RECRUITING RESULTSHuman Capital Media
Today, organizations are in fierce competition with each other to recruit and keep the best talent available. Having top talent means not only an increase in productivity and sales, but also a flourishing culture. Research has shown that the majority of workers use referrals from current employees to learn about job opportunities. Therefore, culture is an important recruiting lever that is heavily influenced by the organization’s overall wellbeing.
Organizations that have a wellbeing program in place are more successful in recruiting qualified candidates and are able to help them grow in all areas of their life. On February 28, Cindy Scibetta-Butts, Business & HR Consultant, will discuss the value of wellbeing programs and how it will improve your recruiting efforts.
In this webinar, you’ll learn:
The top three things that employees want
How to create a vision of wellbeing in your organization that will help improve culture
Real results of how wellbeing programs are driving recruiting and retention results right now
The Role of Facilities Management in Employee Engagement Andrew Mason
Thi sis the slide deck of my 2016 SAFMA conference presentation and one that is linked to my blog post at http://workplacefundi.com/2016/05/07/2-practical-ways-workplace-can-improve-employee-engagement/
Lessons learned from working with thousands of SMB clients - Entrepreneurs Organization presentation - EO New Jersey - Oct 2014.
Management in the Digital Age
We are entering an era of “Digital Darwinism,” when society and technology is evolving faster than many companies can adapt. More specifically, it is the way we manage people that has struggled to keep pace with the rate of change. We need to reinvent management
Using Radical Transparency to drive Accountability and Engagement
Despite good intentions, most EO business leaders make the same fundamental mistake when they set goals for their people. Learn what really works and what doesn’t in terms of engaging and motivating your people, and holding them accountable for performance - based on direct observations of more than 5000 clients.
Key Performance Indicators - the right way
Research shows that 92% of companies do a poor job of measuring KPI's. Learn how to choose and track the key measures that will drive the success of your current business model, and drive the key functional areas of your company (the outcomes for this workshop are even more powerful if other members of your leadership team are present)
RESULTS.com’s software gives them unique and privileged insights into the day to day operations of thousands of small-medium sized growth firms. We see what really works and what doesn’t in terms of strategy execution, goal setting, tracking performance, running effective meetings, engaging employees and holding them accountable.
To save you from spending several lifetimes trying to figure it all out for yourself, you can access these powerful (and often counter intuitive) insights in his workshop.
This document discusses the benefits and best practices of remote work. It notes that remote work has increased dramatically since the pandemic. Some key benefits discussed are increased productivity, better work-life balance, and lower costs. It emphasizes that successful remote teams require a strong organizational culture, consistency, and a willingness to constantly improve processes. It recommends having clear values and communication, investing in team members, and using tools like Slack and Google Workspace. The presentation provides tips for managing a globally distributed team, such as understanding different cultural attributes and time zones.
APM webinar held on 23 June 2022.
Speaker: Nick Fewings
Research suggests that only 10% of teams are high-performing, 50% are average and 40% dysfunctional.
Nick Fewings, author of best-selling book, Team Lead Succeed, will share some of his insights into how to achieve high-performance teamwork, based on his 10 years’ experience of leading teams and 20 years facilitating team development with teams around the world.
https://www.apm.org.uk/news/the-who-and-the-how-of-high-performance-teamwork-webinar/
https://youtu.be/KSXBIQfuZJQ
Inclusive Work Cultures for Women and Families: An Essential Key to Your Tale...Aggregage
In this exclusive webinar, you'll hear from Amy VanHaren, CEO and Founder of pumpspotting, on how to create inclusive work cultures for women and families that will ultimately attract, retain, and delight employees, customers, students, and visitors.
The Future of Employee Engagement: HR’s Critical Role in Driving Business Out...Human Capital Media
In today’s era of big data and mobile apps, the engagement technology landscape is being rapidly disrupted by startups offering solutions for weekly employee “pulse” surveys and continuous 360-degree feedback. These apps overcome a major flaw in traditional annual engagement surveys: They provide companies with an up-to-date measure of engagement and how it is changing. However, they do not solve the ultimate challenge of understanding what actually engages, motivates and retains an employee.
In the next few years, employee engagement will evolve dramatically. In an era of big data and mobile apps, the employee engagement revolution presents both enormous promise and, if not managed right, pain to HR. Join workforce analytics expert Dave Weisbeck as he examines this important topic.
In this webinar, analytics expert Dave Weisbeck will explore:
The global workforce trends driving the need for a more engaged and productive workforce than ever before.
HR’s critical role in connecting organizational innovation to technology innovation to achieve better performance.
The intersection of leadership, culture, and engagement.
The past, present, and future of measuring and understanding workforce engagement.
Practical examples of how to uncover insights that move the needle for the business.
6 Statistics About Remote Work in 2020Anjani Vigha
Remote working has been changing the state of the global workspace. Here are some statistics that will help to understand its amazing benefits and how it is helpful for business and its employees.
This document summarizes the key findings from a presentation on effective nonprofit communications teams. The presentation covered various models of communications team structures and their relationship to effectiveness. It was found that integrated teams, which merge communications, fundraising, and program goals, ranked themselves as most effective and had the highest marketing maturity scores. Centralized teams and internal agency teams also scored well. CEO-led teams, with smaller and less strategic teams, ranked themselves as least effective. Differences between effective and ineffective teams centered around collaboration, clarity of roles and responsibilities, relationships with executive leadership, and dedicated communications budgets.
MozCon Virtual - Surviving the Covid News Agenda and What It Means for the Fu...Shannon McGuirk
For the past 18 months, my mindset has been firmly set in ‘survival mode’ due to the trials and tribulations that the global pandemic has brought forward. I will be opened up about my learnings sharing insight into how Aira’s digital PR team was able to pivot their link-building activity for clients on a hairpin, whilst navigating an oversaturated news agenda at the same time as being under pressure from clients around return on their investment.
Using ‘survival mode’ experiences, I share clear tactics setting the standard on how to future-proof your digital PR and link building. These tactics will show you how to adapt to the ever-changing news landscape and how to improve your processes from ideation through to outreach.
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This document provides guidance on using Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) for goal setting and alignment. It outlines the best practice flow for setting OKRs, including determining overarching objectives, defining team and individual OKRs, and establishing initiatives and key results. It also discusses how to write good objectives and key results, and compares OKRs to key performance indicators. Management processes for OKRs including weekly check-ins, monthly reviews, and quarterly retrospectives are also covered.
This document discusses different models for aligning organizational objectives and key results (OKRs) across multiple levels or teams. It evaluates the alignment quality and potential challenges of each model. The best practice model involves aligning OKRs across two levels, with the company-wide OKR linking to team-level OKRs. This provides clear ownership and accountability while avoiding excessive management overhead. More complex alignment models risk becoming confusing or allowing teams to work in silos without coordination. Effective OKR alignment requires open communication throughout the process.
How to Successfully Manage Both Small and Large Teams Weekdone.com
Learn the main difference between managing small and large teams. How to handle both and so much more.
Imagine you are promoted to lead a bigger team. What are the key areas you should focus on? In these slides you will learn what to focus on, combined with actionable advice.
We all know that people with goals achieve more. We all know that the most commonly cited success characteristic is a focus on achieving goals. But, what makes a goal great and successful. Weekdone takes a deep dive into the anatomy of a successful goal and breaks into pieces, so we could all learn how to set and achieve great goals.
Companies are very good at pointing out the main business problems and challenges. It can be lack of certainty or clear objectives, effectiveness, not moving fast enough, prioritizing etc. We here at Weekdone brought out the 10 most common business challenges and offered fixes that have worked successfully in the past.
Going on a vacation is scary and stressful for many entrepreneurs and leaders. Imagine all the tasks you’ll be leaving unattended and the work you will still have to do. Not to mention, you know that when you get back, you’ll have hundreds of messages waiting for you. For these reasons, a lot of my friends in leadership positions end up working throughout their vacations or even avoid vacations all together.
To help address these fears and issues, we here at Weekdone have put together a checklist to follow to have a work free (and stress free) vacation.
Introduction to Objectives and Key Results. The Basics & FAQ of OKRs.Weekdone.com
The document introduces OKRs (Objectives and Key Results), a goal-setting methodology used by companies like Google and LinkedIn. It discusses setting quarterly objectives and measuring progress with key results metrics. OKRs provide transparency and align goals from the company level down to individual teams and employees. Examples of objectives and key results are provided for marketing, sales, finance, and product management functions. Guidance is given on writing objectives and results, balancing stretch and roof-shot goals, and common mistakes to avoid.
Now is a good time to make sure all these tips stick and you can benefit from them next year. Because being productive is not a lifehack to be done once. Staying productive is a lifestyle choice, a mission to yourself. A goal for the next year that shouldn’t be abandoned as fast as January-made gym membership card.
Here are all of Derrek’s advice summarized in one slideshow. The 15 tips you can refer to when feeling that you can’t get anything done. A feeling, all of us feel from time to time.
10 Reasons Why You Need More Transparency at WorkWeekdone.com
Only 50% of U.S. workers believe their employer is open and upfront with them. This is a good example of how much power and impact transparency has.
See what are the benefits of transparency at work and learn how to increase it in 5 easy steps.
OKRs: How Google Achieves Company Goals Weekdone.com
John Doerr, one of the advocates for Objectives and Key Results, has said:“I remember being intrigued with the idea of having a beacon or north star every quarter, which helped set my priorities. It was also incredibly powerful for me to see Andy’s OKRs, my manager’s OKRs and the OKRs for my peers. I was quickly able to tie my work directly to the company’s goals. I kept my OKRs pinned up in my office and I wrote new OKRs every quarter, and the system has stayed with me ever since.“
OKRs is a easy process of setting company, team and personal goals and connecting each goal with 3-4 measurable results. As you achieve those results, the whole objective gets marked done.
OKRs, on a personal, team's and company level make up a system that shows how everything one person does connects to the work of others.
Where to work? 2016 Employment and Labor trendsWeekdone.com
A lot of people are trying to decide, what they're going to do with their life. What's more, globally, 207 million people are already looking for work. Competition for best jobs is fierce with people wondering about where to get the best salary, and where is the employee engagement the highest.
Where to work?
What sort of career to choose?
Find the answers in the 2016 Employment and labor trends slides.
Leader's Guide to Motivate People at WorkWeekdone.com
To motivate employees, leaders should provide more praise, attention, responsibility, and incentives. Specifically, leaders should recognize employees' good work, keep employees informed about company goals and strategies, assign more challenging tasks with autonomy, establish incentive programs with realistic yet challenging goals, and provide pay raises correlated with employee performance and development. Leaders can use a performance management tool like Weekdone to understand employee status, provide transparent feedback, and align goals across different levels.
How to be as Productive as US PresidentsWeekdone.com
US Presidency is considered one of the hardest jobs in the world. Presidents work hard 24 hours a day. How do they do it?
They have a lot of valuable insights you can use to be more productive yourself.
Time management is one of the biggest struggles in our day-to-day lives. How to balance work and personal life? How to make sure things get done? How to stay happy while doing so?
To help you we gathered 12 best techniques to help you with your time management.
The document describes various "superpowers" exhibited by office workers that help them succeed in their jobs. It encourages readers to embrace their strengths and compares them to iconic superheroes like Clark Kent and Bruce Wayne. The document provides short quizzes to help readers identify their own superpowers at work.
7 Productivity Lifehacks - Be More Productive NowWeekdone.com
“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work,” wrote Stephan King.
And every time you achieve something, you get a sensation of satisfaction. This satisfaction is productivity that has come to life, fulfilled it's goal.
In Weekdone, we believe in high standards and hard goals. That's why we tried to find the best lifehacks to help us be more productive. Now, we're sharing them with you.
In November 2013 Weekdone (https://weekdone.com/) became the winner of pitching competition at Slush, one of the largest startup and tech events in Europe. We were the best out of 100 companies pitching. 2 years later Weekdone is a successful profitable companies, used for improving internal communications and team spirit from Fortune 500 to startups and SMEs. This is our winning pitch from 2 years ago when we got started.
How NOT to Run Your Company – Lessons LearnedWeekdone.com
The Internet is full of articles on „How to succeed“ and „How to build a great company“ But while following those guidelines we often forget that there's a lot you just can't do.
Learning from your own mistakes is good, but it's even better when you can learn from the mistakes of others.
Everyone's favorite billionaire and Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump has said “Watch, listen, and learn. You can’t know it all yourself. Anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity.”
Enjoy the slides and a sense of humor is advised.
Employee burnout is a state of constant stress. It's not an excuse for not working. It's a real problem that affects employees, leaders and, on a whole, companies.
We live in a world and culture where things, like work, must be done quickly, efficiently, and with little regard to our health. Side effects of such environment are seen in statistics: 72% of people are stressed, 67% consider switching careers and 85% feel like work intrudes their personal life.
There are a lot of ways for managers and leaders to reduce stress levels at work and to help their employees stay happy and productive. Check them out!
Mastering the Art of Planning, Leading, and Participating in Effective Meetin...Timothy Hackman
In our dynamic environment, where collaboration is key to meeting our goals as individuals, a library, and a university, mastering the art of planning and leading effective meetings is essential. This workshop is tailored specifically for ODU Libraries professionals to equip them with strategies to foster collaboration by optimizing meetings, making them more efficient, engaging, and outcome oriented.
We'll review the Core Competencies of Effective Meetings and discuss how they apply in our workplace, and what techniques we can implement:
1. Know the meeting’s purpose and desired outcome.
2. Structure meetings to achieve the desired outcome.
3. Respect the time invested.
4. Structure meetings for engagement.
5. Take visible notes.
6. Publish meeting records where everyone can find them.
Distributed leadership in Ghorahi Cement Industry.pptxEr. Kushal Ghimire
Distributed leadership has gained significant traction in the Cement Industry of Nepal (Ghorahi Cement Industry), offering numerous advantages such as improved decision-making, enhanced employee engagement, innovation, organizational agility, and enhanced safety.
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Meredith Belbin's Team Roles_Nine Behavioral Styles for Effectiveness of a Te...anaharoldkagame
Belbin's Team Roles
Belbin's team roles theory, developed by Meredith Belbin, identifies nine distinct behavioral styles that contribute to the overall effectiveness of a team. These roles describe how individuals tend to behave, contribute, and interact within a team environment. The nine Belbin team roles are:
Action-Oriented Roles
Shaper: Challenging, dynamic, and thrives on pressure. Pushes the team to overcome obstacles.
Implementer: Practical, reliable, and efficient at turning ideas into action.
Completer Finisher: Painstaking, conscientious, and delivers work on time.
People-Oriented Roles
4. Coordinator: Calm, confident, and focuses the team on objectives.
5. Teamworker: Cooperative, perceptive, and helps resolve conflicts.
6. Resource Investigator: Extroverted, enthusiastic, and explores new opportunities.
Thought-Oriented Roles
7. Plant: Creative, imaginative, and generates new ideas.
8. Monitor Evaluator: Analytical, strategic, and judges ideas objectively.
9. Specialist: Dedicated, self-starting, and provides in-depth knowledge.
Benefits of Using Belbin Team Roles in Team Building
The Belbin Team Roles model, developed by Meredith Belbin, provides several key benefits for building high-performing teams:
Balanced Team Composition
Identifying the right mix of team roles ensures the team has a complementary set of strengths to tackle challenges effectively.
This helps avoid over-reliance on certain roles and addresses potential weaknesses in the team.
Improved Communication and Collaboration
The Belbin framework gives team members a common language to discuss their strengths, weaknesses, and preferred working styles.
This promotes better understanding, reduces conflicts, and fosters more effective collaboration within the team.
Effective Task Distribution
Knowing each team member's Belbin role allows managers to assign tasks and responsibilities that play to their natural strengths.
This leads to higher productivity and engagement as people work in roles they are well-suited for.
Conflict Resolution
The Belbin model helps identify and address potential sources of tension or conflict between team members with different behavioral tendencies.
This allows the team to proactively manage interpersonal dynamics.
Personal Development
Understanding one's own Belbin role provides insights that can guide individual growth and career development.
Team members can learn to leverage their strengths and mitigate their weaknesses.
Organizational Benefits
Applying Belbin Team Roles across the organization can improve team effectiveness, talent management, and overall business performance.
It helps create a common framework for building high-performing, collaborative teams.
Discover the core principles and frameworks of Agile methodology in this comprehensive presentation by Mohamed Shebl. Designed for professionals and teams looking to adopt Agile practices, this presentation covers:Introduction to Agile: Understand what Agile is and how it helps teams deliver value efficiently.
Key Principles: Explore the four key values and twelve principles of Agile that prioritize flexibility, customer collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Benefits of Agile: Learn about the advantages of Agile, including flexibility, customer satisfaction, improved team collaboration, and early delivery.
Agile Frameworks: Get insights into popular Agile frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, and Extreme Programming (XP).
The Scrum Framework: Detailed overview of Scrum roles, events, and artifacts to help you implement Scrum effectively.
Agile Artifacts: Understand essential Agile artifacts like the Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, and Increment.
Agile Workflow: Step-by-step guide on planning, designing, developing, testing, reviewing, and releasing in Agile.
Agile Tools: Introduction to tools like JIRA, Trello, and Azure DevOps that facilitate Agile project management.
Getting Started with Agile: Delve into the world of Agile methodology with this in-depth presentation by Mohamed Shebl. "Agile Methodology In-Brief V1.1" provides a thorough exploration of Agile principles, frameworks, and practices, making it an essential guide for professionals seeking to enhance their project management approach.
Introduction to Agile:
Start with a clear understanding of what Agile is. Agile is an iterative approach to project management and software development that enables teams to deliver value to their customers faster and with fewer headaches. Unlike traditional project management methods that rely on a 'big bang' launch, Agile focuses on delivering work in small, consumable increments.
Key Principles of Agile:
Learn about the core values and principles that form the foundation of Agile methodology. Agile prioritizes individuals and interactions over processes and tools, working software over comprehensive documentation, customer collaboration over contract negotiation, and responding to change over following a plan. These principles guide Agile teams to work more efficiently and flexibly.
Benefits of Agile:
Discover the numerous benefits Agile offers, including:
Flexibility and Adaptability: Quickly respond to changes in the project environment.
Customer Satisfaction: Ensure continuous delivery of valuable software.
Improved Team Collaboration: Foster better communication and teamwork.
Early and Predictable Delivery: Achieve smaller and more frequent releases.
Continuous Improvement: Regularly reflect and enhance processes.
Agile Frameworks:
Explore popular Agile frameworks such as:
Scrum: The most widely used framework with defined roles, events, and artifacts.
Kanban: Focuses on visualizing the workflow and limiting work in progress.
Howard Wilner of Sudbury MA Advocates That Conflict and Problem-Solving Compe...jimcarns
Howard Wilner of Sudbury MA advocates that conflict and problem-solving competence are essential qualities for effective leadership. Drawing from his extensive experience in industries ranging from automotive dynamics to inventory management, Howard emphasizes the importance of leaders mastering these skills to foster team cohesion and drive organizational success.
2. The amount of US workers who’ve telecommuted
has increased 28% in 20 years
Remote work is getting more popular each year.
1996 2016
3. 1995 2006 2008 2015
32
30
37
The % of people who telecommute
9
4. People who have higher annual salary,
telecommute more.
People with income over
People with income under
$75 000
52%
26%
5. 24 % of employees claim they are
more productive when working remotely
1995 2015
47% 58%
The majority of Americans believe that those who work
remotely are just as productive as those who toil away
in a traditional office.
58 % of those polled believe this in 2015
47 % back in 1995
6. The challenges of remote work:
Problems with communication
Problems with engagement
Problems with trust
7. Trust
Remote employees require managers who
trust them. People trust the clear and
mistrust or distrust the ambiguous.
So be clear about your:
mission,
purpose,
expectations,
daily activities.
8. The leaders who work most effectively,
it seems to me, never say 'I.' And that's
not because they have trained
themselves not to say 'I.' They don't
think 'I.' They think 'we'; they think 'team.'
- Peter Drucker,
author of Managing for the Future
9. Communication
Make sure remote workers are not left out.
Use a internal communication system, that
makes sure both you and every member of the
team knows what’s going on.
10. The best thing about Weekdone is that it
has allowed us to go remote. Before the
status reports, we were using Google
Docs to keep up with each other. That
was just painful.
- Richard Beeson, AgoraPulse
9-16
Oct
16-23
Oct
23-30
Oct
last week this week
HAPPINESS
3.5
TEAM SPIRIT
4.5
ENERGY LE...
2.5
OOMPF LE...
4
9-16
Oct
16-23
Oct
23-30
Oct
last week this week
PROBLEMS
1
OVERDUE
16
9-16
Oct
16-23
Oct
last week this week23-30
Oct
COMPLETI...
25%
WEEKSCORE
63
Use Weekdone weekly progress reports
to manage your remote teams
11. Weekdone has been the perfect tool for
our remote team to keep track of daily
and weekly plans and stay focused on
getting the right things done, rather than
just creating the appearance of being
busy.
- Jon Lay, Founder of Hanno
12. Engagement
Make sure your remote workers have a chance
to engage with their co-workers (and you!). The
more engaged employees are, the higher the
productivity!
Highly engaged employees are 38% more likely
to have above-average productivity.
13. Always treat your employees exactly as
you want them to treat your best
customers.
–Stephen R. Covey
14. Use Weekdone weekly progress reports
to manage your remote teams
Reference:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/184649/telecommuting-work-climbs.aspx
https://remote.co/new-remote-work-stats-show-rise-in-telecommuting/
https://remote.co/how-to-be-a-successful-remote-workplace/
https://blog.weekdone.com
google.com/+weekdonefb.me/weekdone
linkedin.com/
company/weekdone
@weekdone
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