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Humor in the Workplace: How to Be Funny at Work Without Crossing the Line

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According to Paul Osincup , corporate trainer, humor strategist and author of the forthcoming book, The Humor Habit , we are all suffering from a condition he refers to as “chronic seriousness.” Humor is a mindset that can be developed by forming new habits. Yet, humor in the workplace is not all that common these days.

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Want To Delegate Better? Try a Total Responsibility Transfer

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Delegating is a bit of an art form, one that takes practice and persistence, boundaries and motivation. Total responsibility transfer refers to the concept that if someone is going to take over a task, they must take over all of the parts of it. Avoid falling prey to rigid beliefs or agendas. But what if that’s a great thing?

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How To Create A Training Manual on Your Boss

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Implementing the Level 10 agenda will help you and the team to identify, discuss, and solve issues. Prepare questions or an agenda in advance to ensure you get as much information as possible during your check-in. Make sure to cite any references you may have used. Learn their preferred communication method and frequency.

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How to take better notes with Speed Writing

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It also gives you something to reference later if you need to study the information, send out meeting notes, or verify the instructions that you were given. Speed writing is a form of shorthand, but it’s quite a different system than the traditional shorthand systems. Both forms of shorthand are highly efficient.

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Keeping Virtual Teams Focused In The Pandemic Era

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However, with that said, it’s important that we do not zoom out in any form or manner when engaged in virtual meetings and stay on point, committed and fixated on driving and creating purpose and value. You can say that Zoom has how replaced the conference table everywhere. About Max Bhanabhai. 2020, May 27). Why Does Zoom Exhaust You?

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So you’ve been asked to organise an event… now what?

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I’ve written a few blogs on this subject in the past and I will put a link at the bottom so that you can refer back, however in this blog I want to talk about how you add value at the beginning of the event organisation process. The agenda. A pre-event agenda should look something like this: What is the purpose of the event?

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The Admin’s Guide to Career Organization

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Forms and Checklists. Course agendas and certificates from continuing education. Depending on the companies you’ve worked for and the type of work you have done, you may also want to remove specific information about your past experiences and use more generic references for online use. References. Project plans.