Managing Your Online Team
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Four Reasons Why You Need A Strong Remote Work Policy Now
After two years of working from home, companies have finally accepted that remote work is here to stay. Hence, many employers are currently adding more remote workers to their teams. 08 However, some organisations are still struggling to fully embrace it or make it work. A lot of it is down to concerns about productivity…
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Six Things Exceptional Bosses Constantly Tell Their Employees
Inspiring your team to do better can be an uphill climb. Most often, it takes bonuses and additional compensation or similar monetary perks. But did you know that motivating your team doesn’t necessarily have to cost anything? Great communication can make quite a huge difference. Especially when it stems from understanding what motivates your employees…
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Four Steps to Motivate Your Gen Z Remote Workers the Right Way
Prior to the pandemic, companies boasted posh offices and fancy perks. These included prime locations in business districts, international travel, and state-of-the-art facilities. Back then, these perks were in place to attract top talent. Now, it seems that people are after different perks, namely blended and remote work and companies are obliging. Rather than invest…
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Want to Motivate Your Team? Here’s What You Should NOT Do (And What to Do Instead)
Contrary to popular belief, you can’t exactly motivate someone. You can say all the right words but at the end of the day, they still have to choose to be motivated. Incidentally, this is what many employers get wrong. Leaders think that being generous with praises (and even compensation) is enough motivation. And these help,…
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Here’s How IT Can Help HR Win the Talent War
For the longest time, human resource (HR) departments single-handedly dealt with all staff-related concerns. Hiring, training, monitoring, disciplining, dismissing, and so on. However, when the pandemic broke out, a new department suddenly had to come in and help them out: IT or information technology. As millions of employees had to work at home, IT teams…
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Here’s a Simple Strategy for Eliminating Unnecessary Meetings
Whether you’re in a hybrid setup or a fully remote setting, there’s one thing we can all agree on: too many meetings could have been emails instead. You know what I mean. From meetings called to plan for another meeting to those that merely synthesize the previous one, we could all do with calling for…
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Can’t Afford a Raise? Here Are Four Other Ways to Reward Your Employees
Compensation is a tough discussion for both employers and employees. For many small business owners and well-meaning managers, a pay increase is not the problem, per se. Most of them generally want to reward their deserving employees by paying them more generously. However, sometimes, you just can’t afford to. But don’t fret. If you can’t…
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Four Productivity Tips From Older Employees That Are Still Relevant Today
Even (especially) in a highly remote and hybrid work environment, collaboration is indispensable. To achieve this, it’s time to get rid of misplaced notions about ageism. Talent transcends age. Young employees can excel in reverse mentoring and conversely, their tenured counterparts can bring in invaluable expertise. So, while the modern workplace should invest in young…
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A Seven-Step Guide For Responding to An Employee Who Asks for a Raise
Managing a business involves difficult decisions and tough conversations. A classic example of these is when one of your employees reaches out to ask for a raise. Whether you think that s/he deserves it, it can often be a complicated situation. There are many factors to consider and most of the time, it’s not entirely…
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Four Strategies for Managing Remote Sales Teams More Effectively
As with remote work, remote selling is here to stay. More and more businesses are adopting a remote setup, if not a hybrid model. And so far, the results have been promising. Employees have largely been more productive, and companies are still reaching -and in some cases exceeding- their quotas. The sheer volume of online…