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8 Ways to Avoid Pointless Meetings

Success

Set an agenda and stick to it. Have a time limit (preferably no more than an hour) and stick to it, even if you don’t discuss all agenda items. Greg Smith, a software business consultant, says if speed is of the essence, you may need to bring in more people to get a project moving quickly. Watch the clock.

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Leveraging Procedures for Effective Training and Onboarding

All Things Admin

You might be using a new phone system or dealing with new project management software. Here’s a glimpse into our comprehensive onboarding agenda: Introduction to Team Dynamics Schedule regular daily huddles in the initial weeks, adjusting to fewer meetings as the new hire becomes more integrated.

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What 3 CEOs Learned After Spending a Day in Their Employees’ Shoes

Success

based sophomores—one is in the midst of scaling her passion projects and the other is negotiating the terms of her upcoming summer internship.” That’s what Chintan Shah, president and managing partner of KNB Communications, a boutique marketing and PR firm that specializes in healthcare, health tech and life sciences, experienced.

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Advice on Working in the Gig Economy From a Successful Gig Worker

Small Business Labs

  2) I have learned to live with the uncertainty of not knowing how I'll be paying the bills after the current projects end. 4) Health care is hard. Further modification is needed and should be on the agenda of the next Congress and President.

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MIPIM 2023 confirms that green sells. But is commercial real estate buying?

Workplace Insight

Koch said that offices need to be configured with more amenities and facilities and that real estate mixes need to be more imaginative in order to reactivate spaces, including more focus on wellbeing and health. He also predicted that there would be a significant shift from new-build to retrofit and refurbishment.

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How to Free Up Time for Exercise at Work

Productivity Bits

Between meetings, emails, projects, reports and presentations, you might not think there’s room left in your work schedule for much else besides, well, work. It might seem counter-intuitive to add yet another bullet point to your to-do list, but the benefits of exercise far outweigh the time it’ll take to reconfigure your daily agenda.

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Net-zero emissions is a great goal for companies to set — but it’s incredibly hard to reach. Here’s why

Ideas.Ted

Companies also have discretion over how much they rely on what are known as offsets — the projects they can fund to reduce emissions. The oil giant Shell , for example, projects that it will both achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 and continue to produce high levels of fossil fuel through that year and beyond.

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