Employee productivity

9 Tips for Employee Motivation in Stressful Times

Can’t seem to keep your workers from getting discouraged during a crisis? Try these 9 steps from The Wall Street Journal to optimize employee motivation in stressful times: 1. Be available for support. Make sure to be available for questions your employees might have, be honest and avoid making promises that you can’t keep. 2. Don’t hover over your workers. Have faith that your staff will figure things out on...

3 Habits of a Successful Manager

Starting a new role as a team manager can be intimidating, even if you are already have management experience. The reason? The natural impulse of anyone in a leadership role is to feel that they need to be the expert, have all the answers, and be able to jump in, take control and solve everyone’s problems. This approach, unfortunately, assumes that those you are managing are nowhere near as...

5 Steps to Increase Your Productivity By 20%

Are you an executive with too much on your plate? You are not alone. Fortunately there is something that you can do about it. During 3 years of research,  productivity expert Jordan Cohen showed that while executives waste on average a whopping 41% of their day on low priority tasks, this can be dramatically shifted for the better by using these 5 tricks to can streamline your efforts and free up...