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Small business owners, City Managers, Non-Profit Executive Directors, and other business leaders must lead businesses and organizations through some tough economic times during the next few years, as a recession is predicted after a reported 30-35% drop in US GDP … Continued

Your remote employees need you.  They need your guidance, experience, and feedback.  As they are often the least experienced person in a meeting, they may not feel comfortable speaking up to share their opinion and ideas.  As a Supervisor of … Continued

The COVID-19 pandemic has more employees working from home than any point in US history. Shifting to remote working scenarios has caused difficulties for both employees and employers, with productivity, management, and cybersecurity challenges. During these uncertain times, having mobility … Continued

Read article in its entirety here. Staying away from the office may have started as a temporary measure, but those who have sampled flexible working for the first time may not be so willing to give it up. According to … Continued

Read article in its entirety here. Prior to the global pandemic, approximately 7.9% of the world’s workforce worked from home. Now the latest pandemic estimates are that 34% of workers in the US work from home. The percentage of people … Continued

Read article in its entirety here. Work culture is shaped by the level of respect, rapport, trust and collegiality employees have between each other and can be a positive or a negative idea, depending on how your teams conduct business … Continued

Cybersecurity is More Important than Ever during these extraordinary times.  Cbercriminals are exploiting the fears of the Coronavirus pandemic, and have ramped up their cyber crime activities, especially phishing.  The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre recently released their 10 Steps … Continued

Read article in its entirety here. Employees need to feel safe. As many states are giving the green light to reopen, employers are developing plans to bring employees back to work safely, giving careful thought to schedules, seating configurations, visitor … Continued

Read article in its entirety here. While lots of general advice circulates about how to manage remote teams during Covid-19, it tends to ignore advice tailored specifically for new managers. Whereas seasoned managers may already intimately know the working styles … Continued

Read article in its entirety here. For the first month of working from home, many employees were in a state of semi-shock; so much energy was focused on just figuring out the logistics of working remotely that there wasn’t time … Continued