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How Can Office Design Help To Rebuild Working Relationships?

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This article was written by the Perkins Eastman Design Strategy team for Work Design Magazine. Even for seasoned remote teams, it’s hard to match the bonding that comes with seeing the same familiar faces in the office pantry each morning or chatting about weekend plans at the copy machine. © Copyright Andrew Rugge.

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I Shared My OCD Struggles with 11,000 Employees—Their Responses Showed Me the Importance of Vulnerability in Leadership

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I was diagnosed several years before the pandemic and had been managing it well until then. The internal communications manager who I worked with on my weekly emails sent me a draft, and as usual, I made a few tweaks. Some employees shared that they had OCD as well and how they were managing during the pandemic. I said, “No.”

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How Designers Can Set The Stage For A Flexible Future

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This empowers teams to plan their in-office time to prioritize activities that offer the biggest benefits for in-person engagement. Continuous listening and learning from staff feedback allows leadership to best understand how and where team members want to work and where friction points lie. 2) What did you accomplish? Technology Hub.

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These Are the 45 Most Important Minutes of Your Day

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Show me where I could have been a better (fill in your profession—manager, teacher, etc.) The reason that is important is that “it created the team spirit we were lacking.” Further progress needs to be something else I could do to create more team spirit, which in this case is to plan and execute an off-site staff development day.

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What Kind of Leader Are You: A Fixer, Fighter or Friend?

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The Friend’s motto: “We’re all on the same team.”. Friends are always available to answer questions, to offer encouragement to someone who’s down, and to try and treat each person on their team as if they’re a member of the family. They care deeply about the experience their team is having. The Friend.

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Producteev: Task Management Application

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Copyright © 2011 Marlon Ribunal. Judi is the community manager of the task management application Producteev.com. She is an active member of several community management groups and passionate about inspiring others to become contributors – whether in the Producteev community or elsewhere. Guest Post. – Marlon.

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Rule No. 1 of Workplace Inclusion: It Only Works if Everyone Buys In

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Yes, sometimes being marginalized takes a clear form, such as being discriminated against openly because you’re a woman in a predominantly male workplace , or being passed over because some manager thinks you may start a family soon and therefore shouldn’t be given more responsibilities if you’re just going to leave the company.

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