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How to Plan a Working Vacation

Success

You’ll return to your work routine feeling refreshed and possibly even more inspired, as natural environments can help nurture creativity. If you’re traveling to a different time zone, always double check your calendar to make sure any meeting times are correctly noted.

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Remote Teams Got You Stressed? Here’s How To Communicate Your Way Out Of Conflict

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The Virtual Water Cooler: Fostering a Positive Environment No amount of advanced technology can substitute the magic of in-person water cooler chats. By creating a virtual water cooler environment, you can foster positivity and camaraderie in your remote team. But fear not, my fellow remote warriors! Embrace the E.T.

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Keeping focussed in a busy environment

Laughing all the Way to Work

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 17 April, 2010 Keeping focussed in a busy environment There are so many distractions in the office -- the telephone, your co-workers, email and your boss! Prioritize the tasks you need to do for the day/week/month and then do them one item at a time. Lets enjoy our day together.©

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Attracting Productivity: Work Environments

Professional Assistant Blog

Home About Me Advertise Attracting Productivity: Work Environments By The Professional Assistant on Tuesday, September 02, 2008 Filed Under: Client Service , Job Seeking , Networking , Productivity D o you think of yourself as a productive person? The work environment is great and I have an amazing boss. Many studies have shown this.

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Chris McAlister – Founder of SightShift | Keys to Impactful Leadership Across Generations

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I mean, few leaders have ever tasted an environment where the team is initiating on their own in better ways than that leader could. And we hear it all the time, you know, how rare that is. Then you’re going to get your phone for the week. So an illustration, how do they do. Chris McAlister [ 00:03:28 ]: Bingo. Thank you.

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From the archive: The role of workplace design in employee engagement

Workplace Insight

Far fewer employees have laptops (39 percent), mobile phones (40 percent) or tablet computers (13 percent) available to them at work. The most highly engaged employees hail from emerging economies, where people have different expectations of their work environments than those in established economies.

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Pros and Cons of virtual meetings

Practically Perfect PA

With the introduction of virtual meetings and teleconferencing people can communicate with each other in different time zones and locations very easily and a great deal cheaper than the cost of a flight. Pros: Multiple locations across all time zones. Pros: Multiple locations across all time zones.