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Remember this Top 10 Time Wasters in the Workplace infographic? I believe it’s time to bring it again into your attention. Not everybody wastes time at work knowingly; distraction has many causes and the lack of employee engagement ranks first. […]

Anatomically, your spine has the duty of supporting your whole body.  Enclosed in it, the spinal cord has the function of linking your brain to most of your body parts. It’s easy to see why metaphorical, the expression “grow a […]

  We had many posts on knowledge sharing, but today I’d like to talk about the content that we’re sharing. I observed three layers of the knowledge that we share and the rhyme in the title illustrates exactly that: Something old: […]

  We already talked about the importance of unity within an organization, but it’s equally important how this unity is understood and applied – there’s a trick to positively engaging employees into working together. Teamwork might be one of the […]

A few years back, there were still many companies that believed they don’t necessarily need an online presence if they’re not into e-commerce or that building mobile compatible website interfaces was not essential. Today we got to a point where […]

We talked about the holdback that some employees experience when it comes to sharing their knowledge and I got many opinions on the matter, most of them pointing fingers at managers that don’t include collaboration aspects in their employees evaluation. […]

The decisions of bringing together virtual teams have two main reasons behind it: one is cost related and the other is proficiency related. The financial aspect involves cost savings around conventional employee indirect expenses, such as workspace, electric power, transportation, […]

During this pre-holiday period I met with my co-workers in our Paris office and thus had the opportunity to practice my French. I didn’t exercise it for years, so it’s true that some of my vocabulary faded in time, but […]

  So there’s this crazy idea that learning doesn’t only happen when studying the documentations around a subject, but also when we are directly faced with a situation, in other words learning from a direct experience. So I don’t necessarily […]

  The pressure employees experience at work related to deadlines, standing out from the crowd ambitions or competitive behaviors episodes lead most of the time to over-perseverance. While being engaged and active is a positive trait, practicing it in excess is […]