High-functioning boards and executive teams don’t miraculously work just by focusing on common challenges. They spend a few hours once a year setting ground rules. You can use quips as reminders.
Workplace Communication
In an era of Casual Fridays and work-from-home colleagues, how can you maintain effective office communication in a changing business climate?
We’ll steer you through changes in business etiquette, and help you successfully navigate through the new realities of workplace conflict and office politics.
Every boss loves an efficient worker, says Adria Saracino, head of outreach at digital marketing agency Distilled. She has five tips to help you up your efficiency and impress your boss.
Incivility—being disrespectful, unprofessional or just plain rude—is an epidemic in many workplaces today, Joyce E.A. Russell writes for The Washington Post. And it’s a problem for businesses, customers and employees.
Some companies are taking a new approach toward employees who retire or leave to pursue new challenges. They are establishing groups to help everyone stay in touch and keep the lines of communication open. These programs have many employees wondering what the company benefits from in return.
If you sense your presentations are failing to rouse others to action, it’s probably time for a tuneup, says career and business advisor Beverly Flaxington. Here are six steps to a more powerful presentation.
Research has begun about social media in the workplace with mixed findings. For you, the question is: Should I “friend” my employees on Facebook?
You want to improve yourself, but who has time to read all of those self-help books? Never fear, the staff at New York Magazine did the work for you and summarized the key advice contained in some of the best.
Just because there's nothing you can do to completely eliminate gossip from your workplace doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do a thing about it. On the contrary, managers can and should take steps to eliminate harmful rumors and gossip.
Networking can be hard, but it’s easier with a little help from these four applications recommended by writer Emily Green.
Every social media profile needs a picture, but the same shot won’t work across the board, says Digital Trends’ Natt Garun.
