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Collaborate to Innovate!

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Collaboration is a big part of innovation. Now imagine you collaborate with others to plan the event. The “fine” event you planned on your own suddenly pales in comparison to the outstanding event you collaborated with others to plan. The event goes…fine. But could it have been better? Don’t be that person!

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Examining The Global Impact Of The Gig Economy Explosion

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In comparison, North America’s postings only grew by 14%. In fact, the report found that young people actually benefit from the gig economy because it offers opportunities for steady income, the ability to learn new skills, and flexibility to balance education with work obligations. “A Who is gig work supporting?

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The Return To Office Trade-Off

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Companies are enhancing the office experience by offering food programs, such as gourmet coffee carts and subsidized meals, which save employees time and money, while fostering workplace community and collaboration. Beyond the one-to-one comparison to the financial cost of commuting, food brings people together.

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Google’s Myth Of Losing Social Capital In Hybrid Work

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However, you do lose social capital if you try to shoehorn traditional, office-centric methods of collaboration into hybrid and remote work. Each team established a channel in their collaboration software — such as Slack or Microsoft Teams — dedicated to personal, non-work discussions by team members.

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Community is Your Marketing Superpower

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Being in close contact with your community members allows you to better listen, learn and build what they truly want — rather than what you think they want. Creating a community with numerous ways members can connect without you supercharges the potential for collaboration and connection, which are gold for your brand.

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Are you suffering from collaboration overload? 9 beliefs and fears that help drive it

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We are collaborating too much. “We’re too eager to jump into, or be dragged into, active collaborations that might run better without us and that burn up our valuable time and energy,” he writes in his new book Beyond Collaboration Overload. . If so, learn to be comfortable saying no.

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This Benefits Strategy Could Be The Key To Retaining Employees In All Generations

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Professional development opportunities are another area where employees across generations converge — with the survey revealing a strong preference for access to learning management systems and company-wide training from other departments. For comparison, Gen X holds the highest levels of job satisfaction at 6.6

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