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• ‘Lean’ into office productivity the right way

  Sean Fields and Dr. Michael Sanders Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  Although lean is generally considered a way to streamline manufacturing, it’s also useful for tackling inefficiencies in the office. By upgrading the front end, lean also prevents downstream problems that are a result of mistakes in the office. Given this, one might think that substantial gains would be a lead-pipe cinch when lean practices are introduced to an office. However, when these efforts get underway, disappointment often follows. The good news is that attacking the causes for the letdowns makes a remedy possible.

• How to buy beauty: Here’s how to shop all 7 categories

  Elizabeth Donat Retail

  December is an exciting and festive time of year filled with wonderful buying opportunities in the beauty space. With so many amazing promotions, gift sets and sales, how does one decide where to even start? When you are shopping for yourself or those lucky recipients on your list, focus on the seven beauty categories.

• Supporting rural students during remote learning

  Brian Stack Education

  After nine months, the impact that the pandemic is having on our nation’s most isolated and rural communities continues to rise. With rising cases, the pandemic has forced many schools into extended periods of remote programming this holiday season. In rural communities that often already have equity gap challenges to overcome, this simply does not help to make things better.

• Managing executive sessions

  Robert C. Harris Association Management

  Just before adjourning, the elected president said, "I'm going to ask everyone except board members to leave so we can meet in executive session." An executive session is a closed-door meeting when guests and staff are excused. The intent is to give the board space to handle sensitive or confidential issues. In Canada it is referenced as an in-camera meeting. The similarity of the phrases executive session and executive committee often creates volunteer confusion.

• 10 holiday gift ideas for busy executives

  Terri Williams Retail

  For most busy executives, work hasn’t slowed during the pandemic, in fact, it’s likely to have increased. A study by Bupa Global, an international health insurer, found that 8 out of 10 business executives have experienced fatigue, disturbed sleep, and a host of other pressures as a result of COVID-19. So, when considering holiday gifts for these busy execs, consider items that can make their work — and lives — easier.

• Keep your distance, but maintain personal relationships

  Lloyd Princeton Interior Design, Furnishings & Fixtures

  Just when it looked like remote working had hit its peak, employers are again facing the possibility of workplace closures as cases of the coronavirus surge throughout the country. Many businesses, though, including interior design, depend on teamwork and close personal interaction with customers for their success. While health and safety have to be a priority, they also need to have a strategy and protocols for meeting in person.

• Believe it or not, 2020 had its good points

  Bob Kowalski Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  We can all agree that 2020 will go down as one of the worst years of our lives. Or, at least we’re hoping that’s the case. Many people can herald personal accomplishments, such as marriages, babies, career advancement, or even something like buying a new car or adding a pet to the family. But collectively and in the grand scope, 2020 has plenty of pitfalls. I come here not to bury 2020, but to praise it. Believe it or not, we can find some good points about a forgettable year that we won’t easily forget.

• The meaning of the healthcare podcast revolution

  Keith Carlson Medical & Allied Healthcare

  When podcasts began appearing around 2004, capitalizing on the presence of MP3 players like the iPod, little did we know that they would eventually become a driving force in the wider culture, let alone in healthcare, nursing, medicine, and related fields. Podcasts have emerged as a leading technology for disseminating opinion, entertainment, and information. Through the expanding podcast sphere, laypeople and professionals are leveraging the power of digital audio to create content covering most every aspect of human endeavor.

• How educators can best focus on the social-emotional needs of boys

  Sheilamary Koch Education

  Creating safe spaces for youth, in particular boys and young men, to express what they’re going through and heal from trauma is one of Chad Reed’s overriding objectives. His personal history and work with nonprofits serving youth of color in the San Francisco Bay Area has made him a strong advocate for social-emotional learning (SEL), which he believes is a must before academic subject matter. While developing the soft skills reflected in CASEL’s five competencies can be challenging for all students, one's gender, socio-economic level and cultural background can shape how readily a student can integrate this learning.

• Survey: Firms fight to operate during COVID-19

  Seth Sandronsky Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  The breadth and depth of the pandemic’s effects on private businesses has surfaced in new government data collected from July 20 through Sept. 30, 2020. In these numbers, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics conveys how businesses big and small operated. Spoiler alert: the BLS data on employment, wages, job openings and terminations, employer-provided benefits, and safety and health paints a tough picture of firms fighting to stay afloat. Nationally, 52% of surveyed businesses, or 4.4 million, told their workers to avoid work (paid or not) for some time.

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