According to the Oxford University Press, listening means to “take notice of and act on what someone says.” While hearing refers to “the faculty of perceiving sounds.” Spot the difference?
In an office setting, you know overcommitting is a recipe for disaster. Apply that same mindset while working from home. We understand that saying “uh-uh” doesn’t come naturally, but communicating a healthy no will avoid burning out.
Employee turnover can be a tricky issue for businesses, and sometimes figuring out what your turnover rate is can be difficult. That’s why today we’d like to help by discussing how you can calculate your business’ turnover rate and also provide a few tips on how to reduce it.
Giving effective peer feedback can oftentimes be difficult, and if done wrong, can cause more bad than good. Today, we’ll be discussing how you can give effective feedback to your peers and hopefully create a more positive work environment.
Sometimes finding the right words to show gratitude can be difficult, but showing your coworkers how much you appreciate them is important! We’ve compiled numerous coworker appreciation quotes that you can use to show your thanks.
With so many great benefits, prioritizing peer recognition is essential in creating a successful business. Let's discuss the various ways in which peer recognition is important, and why your company should implement it.
While neither voluntary or involuntary employee turnover are necessarily good for business, there are silver linings to both. Today, we’ll be discussing the differences between the two and the positives and negatives to both.
People want to get feedback on the job as often as possible, which means that the old way of giving annual or semi-annual reviews just won’t cut it anymore. Instead, the peer review process is a brilliant way to provide feedback on another individual's work in a timely fashion.
The process of 360-degree feedback begins with the development of a questionnaire and ends with a team that enjoys higher engagement, higher morale, and a better understanding of each other.
Employee appreciation emails are an invaluable tool to raise workforce morale and increase employee retention. In this guide, you’ll learn how to write appreciation emails and what to avoid.
Peer review feedback is a form of evaluative feedback that benefits both the person being reviewed and the reviewer. Unlike typical methods, this type of feedback focuses on strengths as well as areas for improvement. It may seem challenging at first, but it gets easier with practice! This article will go over some examples of what makes good peer review feedback, along with tips on giving it to remote teams.
It’s important to expand your bandwidth, get equipped, and support your team during these sensitive times. Here are the top five professional and soft skills to keep under your belt amid COVID-19.
We touched on how the power of Zoom, Google Hangouts, and Slack video seamlessly connects individuals from great distances to remote life, but all work and no play isn’t fun.
In an office setting, you know overcommitting is a recipe for disaster. Apply that same mindset while working from home. We understand that saying “uh-uh” doesn’t come naturally, but communicating a healthy no will avoid burning out.
Now is the time to work those verbal communications muscles (even if you can't go to the gym). We're answering some of your frequently asked questions on video chatting etiquette. Wear pants, put that sandwich down, and let’s get into it.
You asked and we've delivered. Now, you'll be able to track your progress, check out analytics, and view feedback on a specific skill all in one place. Understanding how you're doing on a skill just got a whole lot easier.
We interrupt your regularly scheduled work-from-home program to bring you some unnervingly, to-close-to-home tweets about WFH. Depending on what day you're on in terms of quarantine (we're on day 5), here are some of Matter's favorite #WorkFromHome tweets:
Professionals are now relying heavily on technology to handle multiple tasks, improve workflow, and just have some kind of interaction. We've compiled our go-to apps to helps us truck through this outbreak.
As a first-time, young professional with a new job, I thought my biggest obstacle was adjusting to work life. However, in recent light of the virus outbreak, I’ve had to navigate conversations about my safety and adapt to work-from-home life (WFH) all while adjusting to a new city.
There is no one size fits all guide on how to handle a crisis like the coronavirus. Every team is made up with different individual needs and the best policy will be one that adapts and evolves with the situation, in this case, the outbreak.
Lately, there’s been a big shift in workplace mentality: An increasing demand for women leadership. In fact, fifty percent of Americans now say they’d prefer working in a women led team.
It's ritualistic that when we do something wrong, we follow up with “sorry.” But, profusely apologizing is a sign of an empty promise. So, why do we apologize when there's nothing to apologize for?
When Indra Nooyi stepped down as PepsiCo’s CEO after 12 years, she would not only be regarded as the first female CEO, but a leader whose unique methods changed the trajectory of the multinational corporation.
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