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Hiring Someone Smarter Than You: Genius Move…or Dumb Idea?

Hiring Someone Smarter Than You: Genius Move…or Dumb Idea?

Will bringing on someone who challenges the status quo (and potentially shines a light on your weak spots) ultimately benefit your career – and your team's performance? You decide!
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Show a Little Love: How To Bring Out the Best in Your People

Show a Little Love: How To Bring Out the Best in Your People

The grin from treating an employee with a box of chocolates might be fleeting, but these tips really "sweeten the deal" to bring out the best in your people, every day.
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Critical Conversations: A Guide to Essential Employee Communication

Critical Conversations: A Guide to Essential Employee Communication

Whether the topic is simple or complex, straightforward or potentially contentious, use these strategies to have honest, meaningful conversations that drive positive change.
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The BEST Gift to Give Yourself

The BEST Gift to Give Yourself

Give yourself an amazing gift this year – by changing your patterns of thinking.
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Staying Safe on the Job: OSHA Updates

Staying Safe on the Job: OSHA Updates

From electronic recordkeeping requirements to new procedures for handling whistleblower retaliation complaints, here’s what you need to know to stay safe (and compliant) in 2024.
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Untapped Productivity: How To Find It. Reclaim It. And Accomplish More, Every Day. 

Untapped Productivity: How To Find It. Reclaim It. And Accomplish More, Every Day. 

Feeling it in your workplace? Here’s how to break the cycle - and reignite your team’s productivity!
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Maximize Your Productivity with These Game-Changing AI-Based Tools

Maximize Your Productivity with These Game-Changing AI-Based Tools

AI-based productivity tools are revolutionizing the way people approach work - and the options available are staggering! Here are a few of the best to boost your productivity, streamline your tasks, and make you more successful.
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Microstress: Protect Your Team - and Their Performance

Microstress: Protect Your Team - and Their Performance

From difficult co-workers to tech that just doesn't work right, we all experience small stressors in our everyday life. Here's how to prevent these "microstressors" from accumulating - and undermining productivity and performance.
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Humans and AI: The Dynamic Duo in Today's Workplace

Humans and AI: The Dynamic Duo in Today's Workplace

Explore new ways to get things done faster, safer, and smarter - and why your team will always need humans.
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Employee Re-engagement: How to Get More From Your People

Employee Re-engagement: How to Get More From Your People

Are your employees doing the bare minimum – or giving you their best every day? Learn practical tips for motivating employees to go the extra mile, even when times are tough.
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12 Ways to Beat Task Paralysis 

12 Ways to Beat Task Paralysis 

Feeling overwhelmed by your constantly growing to-do list? Task paralysis is real! Here’s how to get unstuck (and maintain your sanity).
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10x Your Thinking - And Build a Culture of Innovation

10x Your Thinking - And Build a Culture of Innovation

Here's how to build the right culture, processes, and team to go from "better" to "truly revolutionary" in your industry.
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Fact or Fiction: Younger Workers Demand a Different Approach to Work

Fact or Fiction: Younger Workers Demand a Different Approach to Work

From training opportunities to flexibility and paths for advancement, learn what our workforce’s youngest cohort really wants from you.
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Quiet Quitters? Ways to Beat Your Team's Engagement Slump

Quiet Quitters? Ways to Beat Your Team's Engagement Slump

Tired of employees who merely "put in their time"? Use these twelve tips to turn quiet quitters into high performers!
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Operation Skill-Builder: Your Ultimate Guide to Workforce Training in 2023

Operation Skill-Builder: Your Ultimate Guide to Workforce Training in 2023

Outperform your competitors during tough times and create happier, more loyal and more productive employees. Here’s how to prepare your workforce for the future!
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GET IT DONE: 52 Weekly Productivity Tips for 2023

GET IT DONE: 52 Weekly Productivity Tips for 2023

We’re sharing 52 of our favorite tips to make each one more productive for you, personally and professionally!
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(Re)Build Trust to Boost Performance

(Re)Build Trust to Boost Performance

If the last two years have eroded your employees’ confidence in you or your organization, here’s how to rebuild it!
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Be Ready for Anything: Managing Effectively During Uncertain Times

Be Ready for Anything: Managing Effectively During Uncertain Times

How can you keep your workforce loyal, productive and flexible? Start here!
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Build a More Productive Team!

Build a More Productive Team!

Being busy is one thing. Getting good work done is quite another. It’s up to you to make sure your team is working well together and accomplishing something. Here’s how to build a team that doesn’t just stay busy; it gets things done.
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What You Get Back From Giving: A Practical Guide to Well-being in the Workplace

What You Get Back From Giving: A Practical Guide to Well-being in the Workplace

How do you make practical changes that drive results? Here's how to move the needle!
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New Dangers: Hiring and Interview Bias

New Dangers: Hiring and Interview Bias

Want to build more dynamic, diverse and productive teams? Understand why and how bias occurs -- and use these tips to neutralize it.
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You Gotta Sell It: Convincing Top Candidates to Say YES

You Gotta Sell It: Convincing Top Candidates to Say YES

"What's in it for me?" In today's candidate market, you need to sell the opportunity -- and your company -- in the interview. Here's how.
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50+ Questions to  Identify A-Level Candidates

50+ Questions to Identify A-Level Candidates

Whether you're hiring an entry-level worker or a remote manager, these questions will help you identify people with the right skills, work ethic, and culture fit to thrive in your company.
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When They're Tough, but Good: How To Manage Difficult  People

When They're Tough, but Good: How To Manage Difficult People

Managing them drains you, but dang it – they're great at their job. Here's how to hold difficult yet high-performing employees accountable and get them to "play nice" with others.
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12 Ways to Be THE Difference-Maker  in Your Company

12 Ways to Be THE Difference-Maker in Your Company

Need proven ways to move the needle on employee productivity, job satisfaction and retention? Good news: It starts with YOU.
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No Excuses! Building a High-Performance Culture

No Excuses! Building a High-Performance Culture

Whether your team works remotely or on-site, here's how to build a "no excuses" culture and get people to live up to their commitments.
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10 Ways To Stay Optimally Staffed in the New Year

10 Ways To Stay Optimally Staffed in the New Year

Whether you have a clear picture of your workforce needs for 2022 or are unsure what future demand will be, use these tips to keep your team performing at their peak by ensuring optimal staff levels.
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Are you maximizing the first 90 days?

Are you maximizing the first 90 days?

With nearly one-third of new hires quitting during the first three months, you need to do everything possible from day one to ensure they get off to a great start -- whether they're on-site or remote, temporary or direct.
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Your Guide to Solving the $95,000 Problem!

Your Guide to Solving the $95,000 Problem!

The rules for optimizing employee performance have changed; this guide will help you turn productivity losses into gains and get more output from your team.
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Check out these innovative ideas for your workplace!

Check out these innovative ideas for your workplace!

Your business needs skilled professionals on staff. Yet, identifying, attracting, and retaining talent remains difficult. Fortunately, options are available to help you strengthen your workforce, regardless of your recruiting strategy.
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This can help you find (and keep!) the best talent.

This can help you find (and keep!) the best talent.

What perks and benefits do employees expect in 2021? Find out here.
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Will the

Will the "return to normal" tempt your best employees to leave?

Here's how to drive loyalty and performance at every stage of the employee experience.
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It's time to bring this back to the workplace...

It's time to bring this back to the workplace...

Creating a more lighthearted workplace can reduce stress, boost morale and increase productivity.
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Here's How to Go From Talk to Action

Here's How to Go From Talk to Action

Whether they come from you, your team or higher ups, here's how to take new ideas and practical feedback from concept to reality!
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Your Guide to Giving Better Employee Feedback!

Your Guide to Giving Better Employee Feedback!

In this issue:

Skip the Sugar: The Modern Manager's Guide To Providing Feedback Effectively
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Are you asking the right interview questions?

Are you asking the right interview questions?

In this issue:

Modern Interview Questions

What's Next? 6 Ways Your Staffing Partner Can Help
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Do you know who your team's heroes are?

Do you know who your team's heroes are?

In this issue:

Discover Your Team's Hidden Heroes

When Every Day Feels Like Groundhog Day... Try This
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Is your team ready for 2021?

Is your team ready for 2021?

In this issue:

You've Got This: Retooling Your Team's Skills for 2021
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Leadership skills you'll need for a new year!

Leadership skills you'll need for a new year!

In this issue:

-Turning Over a New Leaf: Retool Your Leadership Skills in 2021
-Get It Back! Reclaim Hundreds of Unproductive Hours
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Don't be a nag: Ways to give better feedback

Don't be a nag: Ways to give better feedback

In this issue: -Nudging vs. Nagging -Giving Thanks: High-Impact, Budget-Friendly Recognition Ideas -Better Culture = Peak Performance
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How to get the most from employees during tough times

How to get the most from employees during tough times

In this issue: -Better Culture = Peak Performance: Managing Employees Through Tough Times
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Do your employees have these skills?

Do your employees have these skills?

In this issue: -Job Skills for the Modern Workplace -Monkey Mind: Beating Distractions in the Workday
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Time to speed up the recovery!

Time to speed up the recovery!

In this issue: -5 Staffing Ideas to Strengthen Your Team – and Speed Your Recovery -Recapturing Your Productivity: 5 Ways to Stop Rationalizing
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How to Get Your Workforce Back to 100% (or better!)

How to Get Your Workforce Back to 100% (or better!)

In this issue: -Up and Running: How to Get Your Workforce Back to 100% (or better!)
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Namaste...in the workplace??

Namaste...in the workplace??

In this issue: -Meditation: Productivity Miracle or Muck? -Build a Smarter Sick Leave Policy
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Get them trained!  Get them productive!

Get them trained! Get them productive!

In this issue: -Cutting the Learning Curve -9 Emails to Improve Your Work Life
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Do you really know your employees?

Do you really know your employees?

In this issue: -Sizing Them Up: How to Assess Soft Skills -Judging a Candidate's Character
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Critical Skills for a High-Performance Workforce

Critical Skills for a High-Performance Workforce

In this issue: -The Right Stuff: Critical Skills for a High-Performance Workforce -Better Meetings, Happier Team
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How worried are you?

How worried are you?

Let your competitors worry about talent and skills shortages this year. By implementing the ideas in this eBook, you'll be saying, "Shortages? WHAT shortages!?" – in 2020 AND beyond.
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Is It the Holiday Blues – or Something More Serious?

Is It the Holiday Blues – or Something More Serious?

In this issue: -Self-Care Is Not Self-ish! -Is It the Holiday Blues – or Something More Serious?
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The end is in sight!

The end is in sight!

In this issue: -Finish the Year Strong! Amp-Up Employee Productivity This Holiday Season -Cutting Through Indecision and Overthinking
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Your Modern Guide to Management Efficiency

Your Modern Guide to Management Efficiency

In this issue: -Work Less and Get More Done: A Modern Guide to Management Efficiency
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Getting your employees to listen to you

Getting your employees to listen to you

In this issue: -Feedback: Getting Employees to Listen -Friendly Fire: Why It Happens at Work – and How to Handle It
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Is your team dreading this?

Is your team dreading this?

In this issue: -Team Builders That Won't Make Your Team Cringe -Hot Desking: Productivity Booster or Musical Chairs?
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Why is everyone so angry?

Why is everyone so angry?

In this issue: -Can't We All Just Get Along? The Essential Guide to Workplace Harmony
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Don't hire this person!

Don't hire this person!

In this issue: -Don't Hire Me! -What to Do When You're Fed Up
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The heat is on!

The heat is on!

In this issue: -6 Steps to Get It All Done When the Heat Is On -You CAN Vacation With No Regrets – Here's How
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Are you asking these questions?

Are you asking these questions?

In this issue: -[Free eBook] Hiring for the Long Haul: Questions to Gauge Fit, Performance and Potential
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We've got the secret...

We've got the secret...

In this issue: -Secrets to Hiring More Productive Employees…even in this market! -Are You an Evenhanded Manager? 4 Characteristics of Fairness.
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Eye-Opening Stats on Workplace Productivity

Eye-Opening Stats on Workplace Productivity

In this issue: -Eye-Opening Stats on Workplace Productivity -10 Tips for Maximizing Temp Worker Productivity
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Revolutionize your productivity in 2019!

Revolutionize your productivity in 2019!

The 4 "P"s to Revolutionizing Productivity: People, Process, Practice, Partner
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Ready to pop the champagne?

Ready to pop the champagne?

In this issue: -Pop! Ring in 2019 With a Smart Plan to Achieve Your Career Goals -4 Tactics to Make Training Stick
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Reader, we feel your pain!

Reader, we feel your pain!

Where are the skills gaps and what happens if it's not bridged?
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