5 Email Etiquette Rules Everyone Should Know
The average worker spends 28% of the workday reading and answering email, according to McKinsey analysis. For the average full-time worker in North America, that amounts ...
3 Things Productive Employees Do Before Noon
Many of us struggle to be more productive. Some struggle to get started, while others seem to have a problem maintaining consistency. The answer lies in developing produc...
5 Habits That Are Killing Your Work Productivity
We spent years cultivating habits – some good and bad. Some of these habits are formed consciously while some, unconsciously. These are the habits are hard to break int...
Why Talented People Procrastinate At Work
Talented individuals understand that their abilities can be developed through dedication and hard work. This mindset allows them to overcome problems in order to achieve ...
STUDY: People Find Robots As Less Threatening Than Human Replacements in A Job Setting
Robots are starting to take human jobs, and it’s going to continue until machines handle 52 percent of jobs currently handled by hourly human workers. But this “robot...
7 Best Self-Improvement Books of All Time
We’re halfway through 2019, but there’s still plenty of time to cross out those goals you’ve set for the year. Don’t know where to start? Look no further than the...
Making Diversity Central to Success: Q&A With Chevron’s Chief Diversity Officer
Diversity is an overused word, but at Chevron it’s a perfect description of its corporate culture. How did it happen? The company’s 2018 Corporate Responsibility Repo...
Which Job Perks Do Employees Value?
With the unemployment rate dropping to 3.6 percent – the lowest rate since December 1969, and the U.S. job market the tightest it has been in half a century, human ...
Addressing the AI Skills Gap – Interview with Meredith Graham
From talent acquisition to learning and development, AI has opened new pathways of collaboration between humans and machines and is offering a helping hand to almost all ...
The INs and OUTs of Business Literacy
Financial ignorance carries massive costs. Without an understanding of basic financial concepts, executives are not well-equipped to make decisions related to financial m...
Don’t Take a Knee to Employee Free Speech in the Workplace
Gone are the days when avoiding political discourse was as easy as switching the channel on a television, avoiding political rallies or not inviting one particular relati...
A ‘Strong Travel Culture’ Pays off for Companies
The survey conducted by Harvard Business Review and Analytic Services included 587 business leaders. 58% of the respondents agree that having a strong travel culture brin...
5 Office Etiquette to Live By
Avoid foul & offensive language in the workplace A 2007 study published in the Leadership and Organizational Development Journal by Yehuda Baruch and Stuart Jenkins o...
What is the Best Advice for First-time Managers?
People are put into a position to manage others as a reflection of their proven qualities in performance, work ethics, and their ability to help others in various ways to...
My Coworker Won’t Stop Staring At Me.
Sometimes, not confronting a coworker who keeps staring at you sends the wrong message. It’s a dicey situation, but one that can lead to serious ramifications when not ...
Leadership Lessons from IBM’s CHRO Diane Gherson: Lead the Change
One of the most common questions Jane Harper gets at The HR Digest is: “How can I become a better HR leader?” Great leadership takes years of practice. A primary reas...
