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What to Do When Personal and Professional Commitments Compete for Your Time

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It’s not just one meeting scheduled over another. As a time management coach, I help working parents navigate these challenges on a daily basis. The first is to define how you want to prioritize your time when professional and personal commitments collide. Time split. Luis Diaz Devesa/Getty Images.

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How to Deliver Criticism So Employees Pay Attention

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Based on my sports experience with him and my current work as an executive coach, I’ve developed a few guidelines: Engage the person in a specific solution. All too often managers offer criticism in general terms, leaving the receiver to guess what remedy is expected. Keep your voice and body language neutral.

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Research: When Retail Workers Have Stable Schedules, Sales and Productivity Go Up

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Increasing staffing, they found, could increase sales and profits. These extra hours were not part of the manager’s labor budget and were only given to the stores that were identified as likely to increase their sales by Co-PI Kesavan’s analysis. More-stable scheduling increased sales and labor productivity.

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