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How To Strengthen Your Workforce: Cultivate Growth Opportunities For Women

Allwork

For every 130 men promoted to manager, there are only 100 women promoted, according to a 2021 McKinsey & Company report. Support women with training and reskilling : Employee training is crucial in order to retain your employees during these times.

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My Dream Job Didn’t Work Out—What Now?

Success

It can be that you go back to school or re-train in a new field to gain specific knowledge and skill sets. I love to do it, I do it well and people report that they get great value from it. People like to be around those who have a healthy self-esteem and are achieving their goals.

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Knowledge workers have a particularly unhealthy relationship with work

Workplace Insight

That is one of the headline findings from a new report into the working lives of 15,600 people worldwide from HP. The report also suggests that three quarters of respondents would take a pay cut to be happier at work or to work wherever they want. When they’re not happy at all, that number rises to 91 percent.

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Tactfully Voicing Your Opinion In The Workplace

Office Dynamics

For example, if Joe in another department consistently turns in a monthly report late, you will have a lot more leverage or chance of getting Joe to change if you were to say something like… “Joe, the January report was due on the 18th of the month; I received the report on January 25. Step #5: Select the best time. Joan Burge.

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How to Use A Competency Assessment for Assistants

Office Dynamics

I wrote a report detailing my performance and answers under each of the measured administrative competencies. It was about a paragraph or two about each of the competencies and my self-assessed performance in each area. I was able to work out an action plan on how I would do that in my report. Use the approach I modeled above.

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Tactfully Voicing Your Opinion

Office Dynamics

Let’s say for example that you have to talk to someone about always turning in their monthly report late. “Bill, in October I received your report on the 18th and it was due on the 15th. ” Most people would say, “Bill I always get your reports late.” You will have much more impact by stating.

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How We Need To Adjust To The Future Of Work – A personal interview with Bonnie Low-Kramen by Karen Mangia for Thrive Global

Bonnie Low Kramen

Never again will I have to bear the attacks on my self confidence and self-esteem, but I will never forget how it feels. The companies that have solid plans for cross-training, back up plans, succession planning for the staff, cybersecurity, and disaster preparedness will be the ones that are future-proofed.