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Instead Of Trying To Compete With The Home Office — Work With It

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We can easily observe that what is highly productive in a shared office space is communal, iterative, and reactive activities like training, large group collaboration , mentoring, exploration and innovation. These activities suffer when performed at a distance. You can only approach that with a robust mix of spaces to serve them.

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How Physical Spaces Shape Human Relationships and Emotional Well-Being

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A cursory google search will pull up dozens of studies proving that access to daylight makes people feel better—and yet, many workplaces are still relegating receptionists and junior staff into gloomy cubicles under harsh fluorescent lighting, while reserving the bright and airy corner spaces for partners and executives.

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You Will Survive: 8 Strategies to Overcome New Entrepreneur Anxiety

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Breathe and know that there’s no need to retreat back to cubicle-land. If it dries up, the body dies. Amateurs succumb to Resistance often, calling up excuses like, “I don’t feel like working today, let’s hit the beach.” Each day, choose one friend, family member or mentor (clients don’t count), and pick up the phone.

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How to Help Your Boss See You as a Rising Star

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Just because you show up on time, meet all your deadlines and don't gossip, well, that's not enough to get a bigger paycheck or title. In fact, you may wonder why the dunderhead in the cubicle next to you got a supervisory role, when you know more and do more. But here's the thing: Dunderhead is working smarter.

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How to Become a Certified Coach

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It depends on your aims, but all good coaches are this: a mirror held up to you so you can see the parts you wouldn’t on your own. I preferred my interactions with coaches because they could share their personal experiences, much as a workplace mentor would. Mentoring struggling entrepreneurs? Certified vs. Uncertified Coaches.

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

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You’ve taken it to an entirely new high, working around other people, incubation theories, mentoring theories, accelerator theories, fundings, exits, team rooms, the very start up to the very exit point overall. It actually started showing up around, I think, 2006, 2007, somewhere like that. Paradigm shifts have you seen?

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How a Lack of Manners Hurts Your Career

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But if you get annoyed looks when you show up in lime-green leggings and a Dodgers baseball jersey, then you may need to rethink your strategy. "No If you want to clean up your act so you can improve your image at work, here are some other suggestions: • Stop casual rudeness. Look for mentors. "If

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