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• Beating ad fatigue with empathy-based marketing

  Mashaal Ryan Marketing

  When businesses think of marketing, it's mostly for bolstering the bottom line. However, when customers think of it, marketing can be annoyingly exhausting. Myriad marketing channels have created an atmosphere of constant bombardment. You have most likely received 10 spam emails in the last hour and every single website you go to has ads covering it. While it is natural for businesses to want their brand and campaigns to shine, there is a lot of data out there that says people are sick and tired of ads. However, there is a solution! It’s called empathy-based marketing.

• How to build a culture of trust

  Catherine Iste Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  Toxic employees can infect other staff and bring down morale. The negative cultures they create can bring down the organization. But short of firing everyone and starting again, how do you build a team that trusts each other? Here are three steps to repairing the damage and building a culture of trust.

• Should you relocate to take a new job?

  Hank Boyer Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  In America, just under 15% of the population relocates each year. Some relocation is local and regional, although a good portion (at least 20%) is relocation outside the region. Unless you are relocating outside the area as part of a job transfer or retirement, chances are high that you’ll need to find employment in your new city. So, how do you go about conducting a remote job search? Here are five things a relocating job seeker could do, most of which require just a bit of planning to do them effectively.

• 15 studies retracted amid fears of organs’ origin

  Chelsea Adams Medical & Allied Healthcare

  More than a dozen scientific research papers have been retracted amid suspicions the organs used in the studies came from executed Chinese prisoners. During August, the journals PLOS ONE and Transplantation retracted 15 studies by Chinese authors after questions regarding the source of donated organs were posed. The studies were originally published between 2008 and 2014 and dealt with kidney and liver transplants. Two additional journals have also expressed concern regarding published studies.

• How to turn your music classroom into an escape room

  Aileen Miracle Education

  Have you ever heard about escape rooms in the music classroom and wondered what that would look like? In this article, I'm detailing the why, what, and how of escape rooms! A few years ago, I began hearing of escape rooms for the general classroom, but I first heard about escape rooms specifically for the music classroom from Carrie from the Music Teacher Coffee Talk podcast. I tried one soon after that and fell in love with it!

• How to make exit interviews count

  Terri Williams Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  Exit interviews are usually perfunctory and meaningless for two reasons: departing employees don’t really care to provide insight to a company they’re leaving, and organizations tend to brush off these remarks. According to a 2018 survey by HR Bartender, most employees leave for better compensation and benefits, increased opportunities for advancement, more supportive managers, and flexible work schedules. However, if companies take the approach that they can’t increase wages, create additional opportunities for advancement, or let employees work from home three days a week, they may consider exit interviews a waste of time.

• Researchers chase new treatments for urinary tract infections

  Dorothy L. Tengler Medical & Allied Healthcare

  In the United States, urinary tract infections (UTIs) account for more than 8-10 million office visits and 100,000 hospitalizations each year. Women are significantly more likely to experience a UTI than men. According to Professor Mark Schembri from the University of Queensland's School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, the problem of UTIs is magnified by increasing antimicrobial resistance, and antibiotic treatments can sometimes just stop working on some patients, with dire results. A recent study, performed in collaboration with researchers from the University of Utah, followed a long-term recurrent UTI sufferer, using genetic analysis to find out whether the infection came from a single bacterial "reservoir" in the body.

• Why schools can’t hire enough good teachers

  Patrick Gleeson Education

  You've probably read about the awful teacher shortage in this country. School districts just can't get enough good teachers. According to the nonpartisan Learning Policy Institute, for example, in the 2017-18 school year there was a shortage of 110,000 qualified teachers. That sounds pretty bad — but when you consider this is a shortage of 110,000 teachers out of 3.8 million — it begins to appear that the teacher shortage may be exaggerated. Overall, in fact, there is a higher percentage of unfilled U.S. jobs in almost every area of science, technology, engineering and mathematics than in education. So how bad is it, really?

• How do you help staff climb a career ladder when there isn’t one?

  Anne Rose Retail

  One of the issues that concerns small retailers is staff turnover. Human resources is the largest expenditure a retailer has to contend with, and when you add the cost of training and a less-efficient employee during training, you want to do everything you can to reduce turnover. But turnover is especially problematic when your staff consists mostly of entry-level employees earning minimum wage or close to that: cashiers, stockers, floor clerks, etc. What career ladder is there to motivate a cashier to stay cashiering at one store?

• Travel2020: Solo explorations are the next frontier of travel

  Lark Gould Travel, Hospitality & Event Management

  Expedia reports traveling alone is not only a one-of-a-kind experience but also represents one of the fastest-growing travel categories. When you're traveling alone you are the master of your time, exploring the world on your own terms. Data from Expedia's first Solo Travel Report reveals 60% of travelers plan to take a solo trip within the next two years, proving people want more flexibility, convenience, and autonomy from their vacations. What's even more interesting is how the desire for a digital connection is starting to rival the need of human connection on trips.

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