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Four Strategies to Enable Peer Learning for Your Employees

Posted on 8th Jan 2019
by Alice Calin
in Teamwork

When it comes to the professional development of their employees, companies usually come up with elaborate training programs that disrupt the activity, bring appreciated experts to share their knowledge, and follow up with some sort of examination. In doing so, they oversee what might be the most powerful learning tool for employees: learning from each other. Read further to find out why peer learning should be a priority for you and your team, and how to help your employees learn from each other.

Strategies to enable peer learning for your employees

Short guide to fighting procrastination

Posted on 19th Dec 2018
by Alice Calin
in Teamwork

Procrastination is the archenemy of productivity. Some people waste hours and hours just avoiding the task they will eventually have to do anyhow. This goes from students who delay the moment they start working on their homework, up to top professionals who are overwhelmed by the amount of work in front of them. The purpose of this article is to provide helpful advice to better understand procrastination and how to overcome it.

Refine Your Communication Skills at Work

Posted on 12th Dec 2018
by Alice Calin
in Teamwork

Communication in the workplace is essential for the success of any company. Most than anyone else, managers and team leaders should master the art of communication, and be able to engage both their superiors and their underlings into meaningful dialogue. In this article we have a few strategies that will enable you to refine your communication skills at work.

Stay Focused and Increase Your Productivity

Posted on 5th Dec 2018
by Alice Calin
in Teamwork

We live in world that moves at an incredibly fast pace. So many things are happening at the same time, and so many of them require your attention. Distractions are everywhere, and everyone you know asks for your attention at one moment or another. Staying focused in these conditions sounds like mission impossible. However, there are some strategies you can apply to improve your focus and increase your productivity. In this article we are going to discuss some of the most useful ones.

Make Your Conversations Better in Nine Easy Steps

Posted on 28th Nov 2018
by Alice Calin
in Teamwork

Everyone knows how to have a conversation, we all do it every single day, with several people, in different contexts. However, conversations can go terribly wrong in a day and age when everyone argues on every media channel, and society is more divided than it has ever been. To navigate conversations like a pro, you should apply some of the strategies that we are going to discuss in this article, inspired by Celeste Headlee’s TED Talk

How to improve your business communication on email and chat

Posted on 21st Nov 2018
by Alice Calin
in Industry

Email and instant messaging have been the foundation of business communication for many decades. Email is the revolutionary medium that moved communication from paper and telephone into the digital environment. The world as we know it now wouldn’t have been possible without this simple, yet effective method of communication. As for instant messaging, even though at first it was used more for personal matters, nowadays an enormous part of business communication takes place on chat.

Improve your business communication on email and chat

Tips to pump up your onboarding

Posted on 1st Nov 2018
by Alice Calin
in Teamwork

Onboarding new employees is often a difficult and somewhat frustrating process for everybody involved. New hires are struggling to navigate a completely new and unknown environment, while supervisors are eager to turn them into productive members of the team.

Six Tips to Get Things Done at Work

Posted on 31st Oct 2018
by Alice Calin
in Teamwork

Work productivity is a never ending conversation. We all wish we could be more productive and get things done at work. However, this requires effective time management and a strong focus-oriented mindset. The purpose of this article is guiding you to achieving that.

The Story of the Internship that Made My Summer Cool

Posted on 21st Oct 2018
by Blog wizard
in Life in the Cloud

Internships are meant to teach young people the ropes of a profession. It is an opportunity for them to learn by doing, while being guided and mentored by more experienced professionals. For a student, an internship is a chance to peek into the life after graduation and earn valuable skills.

The internship that made the summer cool

How to Build Credibility with Your Team

Posted on 15th Oct 2018
by Alice Calin
in Teamwork

As a team leader, you are the one who needs to set an example for other team members. People look up to you, and expect you to come up with solutions, and do things the right way. This requires a high amount of creativity. Building credibility as a leader can be quite challenging, so this article aims to give you some useful advice that should point you in the right direction.