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FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Fostering strong relationships with Executives Behind every successful Executive, there is often an invaluable Assistant working in sync, playing a pivotal role in their achievements. As an Assistant, developing a solid working relationship with your Executive is more than just a career goal – it's a [.
Allwork
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
The underrepresentation of women in the development and implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning is a critical issue. There’s the valid concern that without careful management and oversight, AI could inadvertently perpetuate or even exacerbate gender inequalities. It is essential to continue investing in initiatives that promote gender equality in AI and to ensure that AI systems are developed and used in a way that promotes, rather than hinders, this goal.
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Success
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Remember the days when we were supposed to Marie Kondo everything in our home by asking, “Does this spark joy?” Well, times have changed. “More is more” and “the bolder the better” are now en vogue as more people turn to maximalist interior design for comfort. Instead of focusing on tossing what doesn’t bring us joy, it’s all about bringing more elements of passion and positivity into our living space.
Allwork
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Employee expectations are reshaping how landlords and tenants view traditional office space. Owners and managers of traditional office space are rethinking coworking and its viability in their vacant spaces. The changing use of office space has implications for traditionally complicated and inflexible lease terms. The corporate workspace landscape is undergoing a radical transformation, driven by the seismic shifts caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions
💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!
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Workplace Insight
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
A while ago, Antony Slumbers asked me why I thought firms had never done anything much about the underutilisation of their offices. This was in the first throes of lockdown-driven remote work hysteria, prompted by one of those headlines about how offices being half empty was some signifier of hatred for them. This ignored the fact office had been half empty, or perhaps more accurately over a third empty, for at least the previous thirty years.
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Workplace Insight
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
More than a million women mask period sick days each year because they feel unable to tell their boss the true reason for their absence. The latest research revealed in the Bupa Wellbeing Index , shows that one in eight (13 percent) women have taken time off work in the last 12 months due to symptoms linked to periods, with a third (35 percent) gave a different reason when requesting the time away.
Allwork
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
2024 is beginning with a tremor of unease in the workforce, as the most recent Glassdoor Employee Confidence Index suggests employee confidence has taken a nosedive — marked by the lowest level of optimism since the survey’s inception. According to Glassdoor’s report, only 45.6% of employees express a positive business outlook for the next six months.
Workplace Insight
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Organisations cannot afford to neglect or pay lip service to employee morale if they want to retain talent, according to new research from MHR [registration]. In its latest Employee Experience report – which identifies employee wellbeing as a huge component of morale – MHR reveals that 75 percent of organisations fail to regularly check in on employee needs and attitudes, for example through satisfaction surveys.
Workplace Insight
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
New research investigating how cost of living pressures are impacting the workforce has found that three quarters (74 percent) of HR leaders fear the cost of living crisis is affecting employee performance. In the survey of 500 UK HR Directors, carried out by Nous.co , a third (34 percent) of HR leaders said they’d noticed a drop in productivity due to employees having other things on their minds.
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Sharing your authentic self in a virtual interview can be an unwanted challenge. How do you break through the digital barrier when conducting a virtual interview and share your exceptional self? Think in unconventional ways to elevate the virtual interviewing experience.
Workplace Insight
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
The vast majority of Chief Information Officers plan to increase AI tool spending in 2024, but say their teams are overwhelmed by the number of apps on the market. As a result, 77 percent are concerned about application sprawl adding to their complexity and security risks. That is according to a new report from Canva which includes insights from more than 1,360 CIOs on their priorities, opportunities and the challenges of managing their IT amid the AI boom.
Workplace Insight
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Seven in ten employees (67 percent full time and 69 percent part time) say that they feel the need to put a brave face on things when asked about their mental health. Half (47 percent full time and 54 percent part time) report that the reason is because bigger things are going on in the world right now and they don’t wish to be a burden, whilst a quarter of full time employees (27 percent) and a third of part time employees (35 percent) don’t believe that people really want to know how the
Workplace Insight
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has published its Smart Building Overlay to the RIBA Plan of Work. Developed with ScanTech Digital , Glider Technology , Kier and Hoare Lea , RIBA says this free resource will support anyone involved in the design of newbuild, retrofit or refurbishment projects to implement smart building technology. The Smart Building Overlay introduces smart building terminology and outlines the benefits of embedding smart building technology from the outset.
Workplace Insight
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
The idea of diffusion of innovation has become so embedded in our culture, and most recently so associated with the adoption of new technology, that we might assume it happens in predictable ways. The steps between innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority, and laggards seem intuitive and certain even when their peaks might be unsure.
Speaker: Tim Buteyn
Let's set the scene: you’ve identified a critical performance gap in your organization and need to close that gap. A colleague suggests training, but you suspect there’s something going on that training can’t address. How can you determine if training is the right solution before you commit your budget and resources to a new training program? In this webinar, you will learn how to determine if training is the right solution using the Behavior Engineering Model.
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