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What to Do When You’re Covering for Colleagues — and Can’t Keep Up

Harvard Business

That’s potentially more email, more tasks, more meetings, and more searching for answers to questions about items outside of your normal day-to-day. That may mean an email where they detail the status of projects, next steps, deadlines, and any key contacts, or you may have a meeting to communicate this information. Ask for help.

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How to Get Your Team to Use Their Vacation Time

Harvard Business

Not only does taking vacation contribute to enhanced productivity but it also immunizes our teams against the toxic negative attitudes that can be contagious in the workplace. In one study, researchers found that employees fear that their manager will think less of them for taking vacation. Photo by Vicko Mozara.

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