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Mastering The Art Of Distributed Leadership: Lessons From Atlassian’s “Team Anywhere” Program

Allwork

Distributed” refers to work that doesn’t happen shoulder-to-shoulder. Teams spread across locations and time zones might be working from home, or might meet in the office. Dean agreed balancing remote and in-person time is key for optimizing productivity.

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10 Essential Leadership Skills For The Modern Workplace

Allwork

How can you fairly manage a team when four of them are next to you in the office and seven others are scattered across time zones? Inspirational motivation refers to the ability to energize and motivate team members to go above and beyond. Which leadership skills are most effective in remote or hybrid teams?

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Anastasia Penright – CEO at Respect My Voice | Leaders: Create a Drama Free Workplace

Allwork

What you’ll learn Master conflict resolution skills for a harmonious workplace dynamic. And I learned so much more through my professional maturity, because in talent acquisition, you’re the face of the company when it comes to a candidate. And as I continue that throughout my career, and first, you have to learn it.

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Pros and Cons of Virtual Assistants

C-Suite Assistants

If you plan to hire a virtual executive assistant, you must decide if you need someone in the same time zone as yourself. Many prefer a virtual assistant in the same time zone. However, this choice can vary depending on the size of your company, the number of employees, and if it is operating across several time zones.

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An Admin’s Guide to Understanding Daylight Saving Time & Time Zones

All Things Admin

Referencing the wrong time zone is something almost everyone does. For most people, using the wrong time zone or misunderstanding Daylight Saving Time (DST) just results in running an hour early or late. Do you know that Hawaii and most of Arizona doesn’t observe Daylight Saving Time?

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We live in an Acronym Happy World.

Laughing all the Way to Work

Depending on how acronym happy your office is, it can be like learning a new language. Speaking of initialisms, have you noticed that in many offices, in the e-mail salutation, they refer to people either by their first initial or first and last initial, i.e. Hi P or Hi PR. Back to the drawing board. 411 Look Up 411.ca

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

Workplace Insight

How workplace design can be used to boost employee engagement Organisations looking to improve employee engagement might be surprised to learn nearly one-third of workers are neither engaged nor disengaged but fall somewhere in the moderate middle. Today, she is Director Media Communications of both Steelcase and Coalesse in EMEA.