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  • How leaders can find a ‘work spouse’

    Catherine Iste Business Management, Services & Risk Management

    Work spouses have been proven to further success, productivity and fun on the job. Having a colleague with whom you can joke, commiserate and confide with can make or break long days or rough quarters. However, the success of the work spouse relationship is based on the understanding that the two of you are equals. So how do leaders reap the benefits of work spouses when their options for befriending equals are nonexistent or extremely limited?

  • New ways to become a more inspirational leader

    Lisa Mulcahy Business Management, Services & Risk Management

    Every manager's goal is to spur his or her team members to do their very best work — and a truly great leader does this through example. The best way to do it? Understand which attributes make a leader truly inspirational, and cultivate these positive traits within yourself. To make this task easier, use the following research-based tips for strengthening your leadership abilities easily and effectively.

  • Creating noise oases in open-plan workspaces

    Michael J. Berens Interior Design, Furnishings & Fixtures

    Sound masking systems, sound-absorbing ceiling tiles and panels, and enclosed pods are just some of the ways designers have attempted to combat the high levels of noise that plague open-plan workspaces. For their part, employees have resorted to wearing headphones or using white noise machines to block out unwanted ambient sound. None of these strategies has proven to be wholly effective. New technologies, however, may offer a more satisfactory solution.

  • Is your board getting bogged down? Take back control

    William D. Pawlucy Association Management

    Your board meeting is stuck and your three-hour agenda is in jeopardy. What do you do? Rather than allow panic to set in, take a deep breath and refocus. Keeping a board on track during a meeting is an art form, and even the best facilitator sometimes needs other tools to control a board that has gone "off the rails." Here are five tips that can help you get your board meeting back on track.

  • More big brands join the war on plastic

    Scott E. Rupp Waste Management & Environmental

    The effort against single-use plastic straws has officially become more than a skirmish and is now an all-out war, as several more major brands have decided to do away with them in their businesses. SeaWorld Entertainment, in an effort to protect the environment, has removed all single-use straws and plastic bags from the company’s 12 theme parks. The Orlando-based company made the announcement June 8. SeaWorld, while leading in this effort, is not alone.

  • How MACs can increase your bottom line

    Brenda Crist Civil & Government

    What are multiple-award contracts (MAC) and why should they matter to you? Simply put, a MAC is a basic contract awarded to multiple contractors against which they compete for task order awards. MACs are also referred to as indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) and governmentwide acquisition contracts (GWAC). Federal acquisition regulations (FAR) govern how government agencies use MACs to procure goods and services. MACs should matter to every government contractor for five reasons.

  • Consider conducting a mid-year review

    Deborah Ike Religious Community

    You've heard of spring cleaning and closing the accounting books at year-end, but have you considered doing a mid-year checkup? The halfway point of the year is an excellent time to make sure you’re on-track with your annual goals, budget, and other aspects of leading the church. It’s also an opportunity to check on facets of church administration that are easy to overlook when you’re busy with the day-to-day. Here are several items to assess when starting a mid-year review.

  • Is it possible to enjoy work every day?

    Catherine Iste Business Management, Services & Risk Management

    While I was inclined to say no to this question, I have been proven wrong. After asking it in the varied offices of several different clients, I was greeted with a variety of tips, tricks and methods for enjoying the time we spend at work. First, there is something very deliberate about the word enjoy. It does not imply being happy about everything. In fact, as a line manager pointed out to me, one of her favorite things about her job are problems.

  • Tips to boost your energy in the morning

    Lisa Mulcahy Sports & Fitness

    Imagine tackling your workload with enthusiasm, energy, speed and accuracy every single morning (without downing five cups of coffee). Sounds like the impossible dream, right? It's actually easy to achieve. Research has found that the key to maximizing your a.m. performance as soon as you get to work is to simply make a few easy, enjoyable adjustments to your routine. Not only will you actually enjoy making these changes, you'll effortlessly boost your mental and physical stamina.

  • The importance of career and tech education in today’s schools

    Brian Stack Education

    On the afternoon of their certificate ceremony from the Seacoast School of Technology in Exeter, New Hampshire, a couple hundred soon-to-be Career and Technical Education (CTE) graduates from my high school as well as some of the surrounding high schools filed into the school cafeteria for what they thought was a pizza party and a raffle drawing for a new pair of workboots from the local Timberland corporate office. This was a follow-up to the survey that Timberland gave students a month earlier, asking for their shoe sizes. What happened next shocked not only the students, but also the teachers and administrators of the CTE school.



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