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Flexibility In Design: Turning A Workplace Into An Outdoor Oasis

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In the workplace, the pandemic changed everything: workers traded in cubicles and water cooler chats for their couches and furry friends. Workers traded in their cubicles and water cooler chats for their couches and furry friends. The Georgia BIOSCIENCE training facility has floor-to-ceiling windows opening up directly to nature.

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Authentically Gen Z: The Values, Aspirations & Drivers That Will Re-Define The Future Of Work

Allwork

Training & Development: One Size Does Not Fit All. When looking to attract and retain talent, organizations must consider what they can offer to encourage a healthy lifestyle, promote personal wellbeing, and maintain a strong work-life balance. As such, they want more out of their workplace than a standard cubicle.

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

Success

Procrastination is something trained into us, first by parents who tell us to eat our beans before we get ice cream, then by a school system that makes suffering a requirement of learning. They say no to cubicle lunches, four-minute book summaries, “multitasking” (whatever the heck that means) and monochrome, microwave dinners.

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Proper E-mail Use Critical to Career Success

On The Job

We can’t leave the training up to companies alone. Likewise, schools — including colleges and universities — should incorporate e-mail training into their courses. You’ll reach people missed by structured training sessions. Is that the only reason that e-mail has gotten so out of control? No, there are other reasons.

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Thinking Outside the Job Description Box

Professional Assistant Blog

Some examples would be managing a company website, creating, editing and writing a company newsletter or creating promotional materials, invitations and brochures for marketing events. They each took the initiative to get appropriate training and education to better equip them in the areas they were interested in.

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How to Launch (and Maintain) a Successful E-Commerce Business

Success

Your value proposition is “a promise of value to be delivered ,” says Peep Laja, founder of marketing training firm, CXL. If you fail to get this right, as I did with my online men’s store, then your customers won’t care about your offerings, and you’ll have to go back to your old cubicle job. Choose a product or service.

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10 gifts to give your career

On The Job

Those who help the company become more innovative or strategic will make themselves key players – and those are the people a company is more likely to retain and promote. Get more training. Ask your boss for opportunities to train in other departments, or to attend seminars or classes at a local university.

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