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Designing a hybrid workplace? Avoid this mistake.

Brimstone Consulting

When designing a hybrid workplace, communication guidelines are critical to creating an effective and thriving workplace. Those organizations still in the design phase have the opportunity to avoid the mistake of not creating communication guidelines. We worked with the organization to establish clear communication guidelines.

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Designing a hybrid workplace? Avoid this mistake.

Brimstone Consulting

When designing a hybrid workplace, communication guidelines are critical to creating an effective and thriving workplace. Those organizations still in the design phase have the opportunity to avoid the mistake of not creating communication guidelines. We worked with the organization to establish clear communication guidelines.

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Acing the Fit Interview — Effective Storytelling

Tom Spencer

Acing the Fit Interview: Strategy and Approach Motivation Questions Effective Storytelling Finessing Negative Stories In the third article of this series, you will learn about personal experience questions that demand a different approach from motivation questions.

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

Harvard Business

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. How Busy Working Parents Can Make Time for Mindfulness.

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How to Deliver Criticism So Employees Pay Attention

Harvard Business

Strategies for coaching athletes don’t always work for executives trying to manage employees. 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. ” Such an approach is equally effective in the workplace.

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To Get More Done, Focus on Environment, Expectations, and Examples

Harvard Business

For the first time in my young career, I was going to lots of meetings, and my job had become as much about convincing, cajoling, and coordinating as it was about designing. My manager told me about a team that was working on the Google Help Forum. We were product managers, designers, and leaders. Block as a team.

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

Harvard Business

Will these findings on stable scheduling meet the same fate as the decade’s worth of findings on lean scheduling? Another hidden back-end cost of unstable schedules was the inordinate amount of time managers spent on the schedule: one manager of a large store decreased time spent from three days to four hours.

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