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Why Process Improvement is Key to Your Professional Success

Eat Your Career

Whether you realize it or not, your day is full of processes—established sequences of activities designed to achieve specific goals. You probably developed some of these processes informally through experimentation; you tried it one way, adapted it a bit, and before long you had a “process,” and probably didn’t think much about it again.

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10 Changes Your Organization Must Make To Succeed This Year

Allwork

Organizations that are actively seeking out new talent are now competing with the gig economy because many potential employees no longer view a traditional 9–5 job as the only good source of income. According to the report, “Compared with peers in slow-moving companies, leaders in fast-moving organizations report 2.1

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Liminal Space: Why This Period of Nothingness Is Critical to Being Present and Processing Your Thoughts

Success

The organization by the same name defines it as the time between what was and what’s next—“a time of waiting.” Because there are no lyrics, I have the space to process my workday and help pivot my mindset from hustling all day to parent and home life.” In between, who are you? It derives from the word “limen,” meaning threshold.

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How to Volunteer Abroad (and Great Organizations to Explore)

Success

You may do something new, and transition from a novice to a pro, or learn from peers or supervisors. After all, it’s one thing to speak Spanish in class for an hour a day or learn on an app and something entirely different to speak it all day long. The application and screening process. Explore all the available information.

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In-Depth Guide to the Timesheet Approval Process

BMT Office Administration

If you’re like most organizations, your employees record the number of hours they worked on a timesheet. You can’t just take your employees’ word for the hours they worked, which is where the timesheet approval process enters the picture. Time theft is a very real issue that affects organizations from all industries.

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What 3 CEOs Learned After Spending a Day in Their Employees’ Shoes

Success

Since that experience, he’s using his new knowledge of how things really work on the literal street level to create a company-wide “transformation,” including a better tipping policy and improved communication processes. Here’s what other CEOs and leaders say there is to be learned from walking a day in employees’ shoes.

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What Companies Can Learn from the Southwest Airlines Crisis

Success

These activities can help identify potential pain points in your organization that could evolve into a crisis so you can create a crisis management plan for them. While the occurrence is fairly unlikely to happen, it can spell disaster for an organization if it does take place. Conduct a vulnerability assessment Scenario planning.

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