1-Minute Strategies: November ’23
Streamline your paper filing system … should you do your boss’ personal errands?
Category: People Skills
Work with your exec to create an improved calendar system
Managing both of your calendars can prove especially challenging as it can easily get confusing trying to keep track of items and not miss or skip over important meetings, tasks or events. Here are 10 ideas to consider when working on improving your calendar management.
Take every opportunity to deliver positive feedback
For some employees, hearing words of praise is better than a cash bonus—and such praise is a key reason people want to stay in their jobs. Yet many managers can muster up such phrases only during annual reviews … if at all. Here are 10 key ideas managers should consider when offering positive feedback to employees.
Improve communication with excellent email etiquette
Here are eight ways to step up your email game and inspire those around you to do the same.
4 motivation techniques to keep your team interested
Motivation is a somewhat tricky concept. Different factors drive each individual. Here, we look at a range of employee motivation strategies that encourage employee engagement, hard work and job satisfaction.
Make showing appreciation part of your company culture
People like to be noticed and appreciated. Employees receive an immediate motivational boost when a manager or fellow team member offers positive feedback, a compliment or words of thanks. Build a company culture where leaders and staff members alike recognize the talents and efforts of others frequently and genuinely.
Teach these 5 business etiquette musts to your team
Forty-five percent of participants in a recent ResumeBuilder.com survey of more than 1,500 business leaders said their company currently offers etiquette training. An additional 20 percent said their company plans to offer etiquette training in the future. What topics might be beneficial to cover? Here are a few to consider.
How an admin can achieve email ‘netiquette champion’ status
As an admin, your politeness and clarity in email and business communication is not just a reflection of your professionalism. Failure to express yourself properly can lead to legal vulnerabilities for you and your employer.
How to handle those ‘hard-to-handle’ people
We all encounter difficult people in the workplace—supervisors, co-workers, customers and others. For some of us, not a week goes by without frustrating encounters with negative or self-centered people, complainers, control freaks, meanies or micromanagers. Coping with difficult encounters can pose a real challenge.
So you’re getting a summer intern
Will your office welcome one or more interns to the workplace this summer? For the admin, that may mean extra work or much-needed support, or both.