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How You Can Combat Collaboration Overload to Improve Company Performance—and Your Own

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A 2016 Harvard Business Review article found that over the past two decades, time spent by leadership and employees in collaborative activities has grown by more than 50%. If you’re stressed and stretched too thin with collaboration overload, you won’t be at your best. But teamwork isn’t going away anytime soon.

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What Happened When I Avoided the News for 30 Days

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Things happen in this world— many of them stressful and polarizing—even if we make an effort to ignore them. So normally, I’ve taken on the stress and anxiety that come with consuming the news. I handwrote a script for a short film in mini-breaks from other projects. You’re on the outskirts of the forest, covering your ears.

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“Take Your Dog To Work Day”: How Fido Can Help Companies Retain Employees

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While it is certainly adorable to be cranking out projects in the presence of a furry ball of love, having dogs in the workplace can have a substantial impact on how the workplace operates. . As a result, workers are eager for a new type of workplace policy that could alleviate this separation anxiety: a pet-friendly office. .

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How I Became a Morning Person (and How You Can, Too)

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We would often stay up into the early hours working on our projects, chatting, watching movies, you name it. The ability to think better (exercise decreases the amount of cortisol —the hormone that regulates stress, and which potentially affects memory and cognitive function —in your brain). I am a night owl, born and bred.

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7 Money Mistakes You’re Making in Your 20s

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You work hard for your money and have lost track of how many times you’ve gone above and beyond to help a co-worker or put in overtime to finish a project. But there are two easy tactics that can be used without much stress: Call three or more businesses and ask for a quote. Not considering how many hours (not dollars) something costs.

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Dr. Dale Whelehan – CEO at 4 Day Week Global | Boost Efficiency with a 4-Day Work Week Strategy

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And that also feeds into social media sites that we engage in, where we’re looking at a lot of global issues happening around the world, which is also feeding into global levels of stress and impacting on economies. If your workforce is reporting levels of stress or burnout. So sometimes it’s more stressful than others.

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How to Stand Up for Yourself

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The stress-reducing power of assertiveness. And passive-aggressive people try to have it both ways, giving in to others but then doling out punishment in sneaky ways—“forgetting” to follow through, backstabbing or sabotaging projects, for example. This article appears in the May 2016 issue of SUCCESS magazine and has been updated.