Working From Home For Good? 8 Remote Tips And Tricks To Help Boost Productivity
In March of 2020, the world as we knew it changed. As the COVID-19 pandemic was ramping up, people were stocking up on household essentials, turning in-person social gatherings into virtual ones, and baking an absurd amount of sourdough bread.
Meanwhile, the workforce was...
5 Ways To Encourage Your Team To Practice Self-Care At Work
Self-care is a concept that took the world by storm. Gaining traction in the 2010s — and really picking up steam around 2015 — self-care is something that many people grasped onto in a world that felt increasingly chaotic.
On Instagram alone, there are nearly 24 million...
Using The Queen Bee Role To Promote Company And Individual Success
In a bee colony, queen bees have one job — to lay eggs. When a queen bee dies, the colony’s highly efficient system breaks down, and all 100,000 bees are in temporary disarray.
To ensure their colony thrives, queen bees focus on their one role of laying eggs. This is called a...
CEOs Need Self-Care, Too: 3 Self-Care Tips For Business Leaders (And Anyone Else)
Do you work to live — or live to work?
This is a question that a lot of career-minded people grapple with. When you love your work, it’s easy to become obsessed with it. But, it’s also important to maintain a healthy balance. And that starts with self-care.
Self-care has been...
Afterthoughts On ACHE: How To Get Honest Feedback From Your Team
You might look around at your team and your organization and think that everything is perfect. Spoiler alert: It’s probably not.
Or, you might look at them and see lots of areas for improvement, but feel like it’s a lost cause. Second spoiler alert: It’s probably not.
Even...
6 Ways To Cut Down On Zoom Meetings
“Zoom fatigue” was a 2020 buzzword — and for good reason.
On March 23, 2020, just a few weeks after the work-at-home boom began, daily global Zoom downloads hit 2.13 million — up from 56,000 per day only two months before.
Working from home is great, but the problem is Zoom...
When Is It Time To Take A Break From The News?
During my morning coffee. Over my lunch break. While cooking dinner. Any other time I felt I needed to keep up with the outside world that I barely felt a part of anymore.
These are the times that I have found myself routinely watching the news this past year. Prior to 2020,...
Virtual Valentine’s Day: Show Your Healthcare Workers Some Love
This weekend is Valentine’s Day — a day to send thoughtful cards to loved ones, give a gift to that special someone, and eat candy hearts galore (within reason, of course).
It’s a day full of love, kindness, and gratitude. This year, during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, who...
Our Team’s Jigsaw Puzzle Game Has Been Tight During COVID-19
Let me start by saying that I was into puzzles before they became big (#Hipster). I started doing the 1,000-piece ones as soon as the pieces were no longer a choking hazard. As a kid, it was a special time I got to spend with my mom. As an adult, it’s a stress reliever.
When...
These Businesses May Be Small, But Their Impact During The COVID-19 Pandemic Is Huge
“Unfortunately, the past can no longer survive in this post-pandemic world. If these walls could talk, they would tell beautiful and sad stories of many lives.”
This is the message printed on a sign hanging in the window of an iconic 24-hour diner down the street from where I...
