5 Skills for Leaders in Hybrid Work Environments

The pandemic made remote and hybrid work environments more popular than ever before. However, the location of your team isn’t the only thing that changed in the past few years. Remote and hybrid work has sent ripple effects through the workplace, impacting productivity, employee needs, and how these collaborate. As a leader, you will need to adapt to these changes.

Skills for Leaders in Hybrid Work Environments

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How to Stay Focused when Spring Fever Kicks In

If you’ve heard of seasonal affective disorder (SAD), you might associate it with those dark, cold winter months. However, while less common, SAD can occur in the spring as well, with symptoms like restlessness, anxiety, depression, insomnia, agitation or limited attention span. Also known by its more colloquial name, spring fever, this form of SAD can pose a threat to your concentration and productivity at work.

How to Stay Focused when Spring Fever Kicks In

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The Productivity Box: Overcome Rust-Out to Stay Engaged and Inspired at Work

Over the past few years, burnout has become a major topic of conversation—especially in the wake of COVID-19 as chronic stress, overwhelm, and exhaustion reached alarming new levels. But there’s another less talked about phenomenon that could be even more detrimental to your work performance (and other facets of your life, too). This silent saboteur is called rust-out, and almost 70 percent of employees have dealt with it.

The Productivity Box Overcome Rust-Out to Stay Engaged and Inspired at Work

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Tips and Tricks on How to Improve Your Attention Span

Productivity Hacks on How to Improve Your Attention Span

It has been demonstrated that attention spans are shrinking. People are constantly inundated with short videos, bite-size content, and endless stimuli that prevent them from really focusing on one thing at a time. Even corporate training materials have moved toward digestible content. Though not necessarily a bad thing, it highlights the necessity for companies to accommodate workers who are easily distracted. Similarly, as you tailor your marketing messages for your target audience, you must also modify your communication methods to suit their attention span.

Productivity Hacks on How to Improve Your Attention Span

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The Productivity Box Take Advantage of the Huge Impact Better Communication Skills Have on Work Performance

The Productivity Box: How Better Communication Skills Boost Work Performance

Communication plays a crucial role in problem-solving and decision-making processes within teams. More than 70 percent of leaders feel that effective communication skills boost their team’s productivity. So what is the correlation between strong communication and a high-quality job performance? And how can you develop this trait to bolster your own career success?

The Productivity Box: How Better Communication Skills Boost Work Performance

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How to Overcome Office Dystopia During Hard Times

How to Overcome Office Dystopia during Hard Times

There’s a lot going on in the current news cycle. War rages across the world while mass shootings continue to plague the U.S. Politically, media outlets are preparing to cover the 2024 presidential election and some candidates have already thrown their hats into the ring. As for the economy, it looks very much like Schrödinger’s cat: we are in recession and not in recession, both true at the same time. This can be a lot for anyone to keep up with and emotionally handle.

How to overcome office dystopia during hard times

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Top 40 Productivity Experts to Follow on X (Twitter) in 2024

When it comes to work efficiency, productivity stands out as one of the most extensively studied topics. However, finding the most proficient productivity experts today can prove to be quite challenging. Sometimes, it feels like searching for a needle in a haystack 🙂 Fortunately, X (formerly Twitter) can be a useful tool to discover and follow content creators whose insights you might find helpful. By keeping track of their activity, you can stay up-to-date with their ideas and thoughts. Below is the list we’ve assembled for you.

Top 40 Productivity Experts to Follow on X (Twitter) in 2024

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What Is a PBX Phone System? Everything You Need To Know

The history of human communication is a fascinating journey. It started from very basic forms and progressed to sophisticated systems. We now have information at the tip of our fingers. It’s challenging to fathom the days when messenger pigeons were a means of communication. For younger generations, even the traditional landline phone is a mystery. Adorned with its sizable rotary dial, it appears like a relic from a history book. So what is a PBX phone system? And how do Unified Communications platforms enhance our professional lives today?

What Is a PBX Phone System? Everything You Need To Know

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