Monthly Archives: January 2018

Improving Your Productivity

Online learning

As the first month of the new year comes to a close (already???), are you making good progress toward your goals? One thing many people want to do at the start of each year is to become more productive, but that means creating new habits, not simply making a mental commitment to new ways of […]

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Thinking About Flattening

In a tight labor market, where it may be hard to fill all the jobs on your table of organization, it can be tempting to identify some of those jobs as unnecessary and simply eliminate them. Very often, we focus more on removing management levels rather than front-line workers or client-facing staff. We continue to […]

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Take Charge of Your Learning

There’s an important truism regarding your professional life that you should always keep in mind: Nobody will ever care about your career development as much as you do. This is not to say that no one else cares at all. Most companies want you to do well, and should recognize the value of training and […]

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Let Yourself Be Sick

All across the northern hemisphere it seems to be cold and flu season, and this year appears to be an exceptionally bad one. When you wake up one day feeling lousy you’re going to be tempted to still go into work; the days of being a student and telling mom “I’m too sick to go […]

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High Performer vs High Potential

Employees in class

We often hear these two terms used interchangeably, but they aren’t the same thing. The difference is important, because it affects how you develop your employees. High Performer generally refers to someone who is great at the job they have. They are talented in their specialty, they do great work, they put in a lot […]

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