How to Decrease Distractions
It’s the new year, the new month, the new week. You’ve resolved to get more done for sure. Maybe the secret shame of spending 2 hours on Instagram or PokemonGo has spurred you into a new determination to cut out distraction and increase your productivity.
The attraction of … Read More

Sometimes, the best person to keep a meeting on track is the note-taker.

This may seem counter-intuitive. The leader is supposed to keep the meeting on track. Or at the very least, the person who called the meeting should be in … Read More

1) Have a quick time sheet seminar for all employees.
Keep it under 10 minutes. It’s time sheet rules—not rocket science. Go over the most important aspects of your timekeeping policy. Taking time to review this will impress employees … Read More

It’s that time of year when there are no more pages to turn on the calendar, and we wonder: where exactly did the year go? This time of reflection has lent itself perfectly to the creation of resolutions for … Read More

How to Make Meetings Meaningful

Ask yourself if this scenario seems familiar: You’ve just got out of an hour long meeting and everyone is feeling happy because it seemed to go well and everyone is finally on board with same vision of the project. Then, a week later, in … Read More

Professionally Honest

Honesty is the best policy. Except when it comes to telling your boss you made a mistake, or telling your employee their insurance was delayed because of a clerical error. While this kind of white-lie fudging may seem like a … Read More

Just as there is no end to the amount of complaining done about email, there is also no end to the amount of advice floating around about how to make email better. Hopefully, everyone knows by now that using “Reply all” … Read More

Since the publication of the Lean Startup, the idea of a Minimum Viable Product(MVP) has taken a hold of business culture, especially in nascent companies. Feedback loops are an important aspect of the MVP, where the shorter … Read More

There is no end to the lists of ways to be productive, but there are a few that stand out from the rest as being truly useful. It’s not just enough to know what to do, but also how to give … Read More

Miscommunication Misery

Everyone speaks, listens, and reads all the time. But just because we do these things all day long does not mean we are good at them. In fact, it is our mistake in thinking that we are communicating clearly and … Read More