As Mental Health Awareness Month comes to a close, we wanted to take a look at personal wellbeing in the office. The discussion about surrounding mental health in the workplace is long overdue, and after a year of being inside dealing with an unstable economy, uncertain…
Picture this: it’s the summer of 2021, your entire team is fully vaccinated, and you’re FINALLY ready to start laying out your return to office plans. Management has decided on a hybrid model, and your employees are thrilled about the possibility of their new…
When working from home (or even from the office), your days sometimes begin to feel like you’re on an island filled with Google Docs or GChat pings rather than a team of employees working towards a common goal. And even before the pandemic, only around 40% of employees…
The sun is shining, spring has officially sprung, and we have made it to the first anniversary of when the entire world got turned upside down and we headed home to work remotely for “two weeks”. Before the pandemic, only 7% of employees reported that they had access to…
Picture this: You just moved to a new city — maybe it’s for work, maybe it’s for personal reasons. You don’t know anyone. You want to make new friends and network so you can grow your career. Where do you start, though? It can be difficult to know how to approach…
We all know the importance of having a positive workplace culture. When your employees feel happy, safe and appreciated at work, productivity increases and so does the quality of work. You experience less frequent turnover and create a staff that is committed to helping your…
An office environment is a core component in determining your team’s productivity, culture, and company vision buy-in. According to Entrepreneur, several factors affect employee mindset and behavior, including lighting, ambient noise, air quality, temperature, color, and…
We don’t all have Superman’s super-hearing abilities, Spider-Man’s “Spidey” sense, or the Black Widow’s multi-linguistic and mind-reading abilities, but every office hero can hone their communication skills to near super-human levels.
1. Determine the best medium…
With so many modes of communication today, it’s often easy to forget the medium is (at least part of) the message.
What do we mean by that?
The way you deliver a message will be determined by the platform you’re using to send it. Text messages, for instance, can be…
Often mistaken as a glorified secretary, an executive assistant (EA) is a pillar upon which high-level administrators and managers build a successful career. Just ask Andrea Sachs (Anne Hathaway) who had the misfortune of becoming Amanda Priestly’s (Meryl Streep) executive…
