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Why Company Retreats are Worth Every Penny

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Company retreats serve as a fertile ground for creativity and innovation, allowing ideas to flourish outside the confines of cubicles and conference rooms. Company retreats serve as a fertile ground for creativity and innovation, allowing ideas to flourish outside the confines of cubicles and conference rooms.

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Think Like a Child: What We Lose with Age (and How to Get It Back)

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They’re not just cubicle legend. It allows people to practice skills they might need later down the line. But play goes beyond such life skills. A former vice president at Coca-Cola, she remembers being “a hard-nosed, results-at-all-costs type of executive”—until she met Leila, a child from Russia she adopted in 2005.

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How to Become a Certified Coach

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But the way we process them can be skilled or not. Then after some reflection I realized that all my natural skills were perfect for coaching.”. If you’re sitting in a cubicle or your basement home office with the kids screaming upstairs, I imagine that being your own boss sounds delicious. Certified vs. Uncertified Coaches.

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The R’s Of Employee Motivation

Ian's Messy Desk

If you think your employee’s poor performance is costing you profit, instead of overhauling your employee roster, why not try motivating them to become better employees ? From corporate cubicles to the factory floor, the collective skills and efforts of people keep your operation going.

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Tim Rowe – Founder and CEO of CIC | Flexible Workspaces: Competing Globally

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At the Time, Americans had offices, private offices, and the notion that you would sort of work at a desk without a cubicle wall or something right next to someone else was strange to people, and it really pushed them. And we said, well, the space costs this much. Tim Rowe [ 00:44:30 ]: The skill sets merged. That was anathema.

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25 Self-Help Books You (Probably) Haven’t Read

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The universe offers an infinite number of opportunities, but also opportunity costs. Sooner or later, every entrepreneur discovers that negotiation is an indispensable skill. They say no to cubicle lunches, four-minute book summaries, “multitasking” (whatever the heck that means) and monochrome, microwave dinners. Decisiveness.

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Pros & Cons of Your Collaborative Work Space

Office Dynamics

PROS of open office space: More cost effective and flexible. Get together with your cubicle buddies and set some ground rules. It is great and yet is also a problem in many ways. Let me share with you a few of the pros and cons (sourced from fortune.com and cultureiq.com ). Fosters collaboration. Increases natural lighting.