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Employees Experience Distractions Every 31 Minutes: What Leaders Can Consider Before Making Decisions on Returning To the Workplace

A recent survey conducted by Mopria Alliance shows employees experience 77 distractions per week. Phil shares how employees are affected by work environments.

Today’s post is by Phil Mazzilli, Marketing Working Group Chair for Mopria Alliance.

After COVID-19 pushed employees out of their offices and into their homes, we’ve gained a new wealth of knowledge on the benefits and pitfalls of working from home versus in an office.

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How good of a negotiator are you?

Our reader poll today asks: How good of a negotiator are you?

Excellent: I’m rigorous in my approach and usually successful: 15%
Good: I generally use the same process and get decent results: 46%
Average: My approach is haphazard, and results are hit or miss: 25%
Not good: I lack a real approach and find success elusive: 11%
Poor: I don’t know how to negotiate, and I usually have bad outcomes: 3%


Are your deals coming up short?

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How to Set Zero-Based Goals

 


Use this common budgeting technique to set goals that are more relevant and actionable.
When you’re setting goals, you can borrow a technique from a common budgeting process called zero-based budgeting. What you do is look at last year, forget about it, and then look at where you are today and what you can achieve going forward. Every dollar you’re going to spend in the budget is justified.

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Which Comes First: The Entrepreneur or the Company’s Brand?

 


Learn how your personal brand and your company brand can influence each other. 

Today’s post is by Lida Citroën, author of Control the Narrative (CLICK HERE to get your copy).

Where do personal and company brands intersect? Should an entrepreneur seek to establish their own name first, or focus on the company brand to launch? Unlike the chicken/egg predicament, when the entrepreneur builds their personal brand first, establishing their presence and representing their vision, passion, talents and mission, the company brand becomes proof of that vision and an element of fulfilling their mission.

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How do you handle a situation where someone backs out of a commitment they made to do some work for you?

Our reader poll today asks: How do you handle a situation where someone backs out of a commitment they made to do some work for you?

It doesn’t bother me unless it’s a huge deliverable that will fail: 23%
I accept it, don’t say anything, but then don’t give them work again: 24%
I express my dissatisfaction, pull the work and don’t give them work again: 35%
I try to hold them to their original commitment and make them back out of others: 18%


A variety of ways to deal with missed commitments.

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Focusing and Eliminating Distractions

Learn how to identify distractions and focus your team on the most strategically important initiatives for your organization.
In a fast paced world, there is no shortage of distractions. Side projects, interesting new ideas, and the crisis of the day can divert resources from key strategic initiatives. In isolation, pursuing these small ideas make sense, but when you put them in the broader context of your strategic initiatives, you get to see exactly how nonstrategic these distractions are. 

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9 Lessons for Leadership Success No One Teaches You About

Learn nine principles that can help you become a better leader.

Today’s post is by Angela Civitella, a business leadership coach and founder of Intinde.  

Most employees have big dreams of one day having the big title, the corner office, and being able to lead an organization. Industry knowledge is certainly part of the job, but it won’t make you a great leader all by itself.

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How do you feel about last-minute meeting cancellations?

Our reader poll today asks: How do you feel about last-minute meeting cancellations?

How rude. They made a commitment, and more notice would be appreciated: 40%
No big deal. Things happen and come up: 44%
Yay! I have free time now to get some work done: 16%


Notice is appreciated.

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Breaking Free from Analysis Paralysis

 


Do you struggle to get things done because you overthink your work? Try these three tips to overcome “analysis paralysis.”
Many times I’ve heard it said that perfect is the enemy of done. A big barrier to executing initiatives is analysis paralysis. The team gets bogged down on proving their case is 100% accurate and risk-free before they act. That slows down execution and leads to missed opportunities.

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Managing Your Remote Team Successfully – Five “Must Do’s”

 


Managing your work-from-home team successfully takes more than technology. Here are five steps to ensure clarity, collaboration, connectedness and productivity.

Today’s post is by Amy Jo Mattheis, Founder and CEO of Pavo Navigation Coaching.

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about numerous seismic shifts in our lifestyles. One of the biggest for many of us is learning to effectively work from home. For team managers, the remote life poses particular challenges.

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