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- | ====== Insights & Workplace Culture ====== | ||
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- | ===== Workplace "Best Practices" ===== | ||
- | * [[https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-smart-people-get-feedback-truly-need-jeff-haden | How to Quit Asking Bad Questions and Start Asking Great Questions]] | ||
- | * [[http://www.businessinsider.com/ceos-meeting-preparation-2015-1 | 12 CEOs Say How They Expect People To Prepare For Meetings With Them]] | ||
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- | * [[linkedin>20141122174133-71196419-running-a-nonprofit-by-the-book | Running a Nonprofit "By the Book"]] ... Six **needed** Manual to run a Non-Profit (or Business): | ||
- | * Leadership Manual (orientation, governing documents) | ||
- | * Policy Manual (wisdom of the board) ... [[linkedin>i-never-met-policy-didnt-like-bob-harris-cae | I Never Met a Policy I Didn't Like]] | ||
- | * Style Guide (branding, image, logo, communication preferences) | ||
- | * Business Continuity or Crisis Manual (emergency prep, stored off-site) | ||
- | * Personnel Manual (HR handbook) | ||
- | * Procedures Manual (how-to processes and steps for administration by staff and/or committees). | ||
- | * [[linkedin>20140901114137-71196419-checklists-improve-governance-management | Checklists Improve Governance & Management]] ... Not missing or forgetting anything is why I DO use Checklists | ||
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- | * [[linkedin>20140726165844-88057972-client-service-101-5-key-concepts-i-have-observed | Client Service 101: 5 Key Concepts I Have Observed]]\\ I **need to be doing all of this** to really establish myself as a Technical Support Professional | ||
- | * [[http://www.experts-exchange.com/Other/Consulting/A_2111-WARNING-5-Reasons-why-you-should-NEVER-fix-a-computer-for-free.html | WARNING: 5 Reasons why you should NEVER fix a computer for free.]] | ||
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- | * [[linkedin>20140320130616-2954-what-do-you-do-for-your-interns | What do you do for your interns?]] ... this is how an Internship should be done. | ||
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- | ===== Notable Sites by Insightful Individuals ===== | ||
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- | * [[http://vimeo.com/technobility/videos | Technobility Webinar Series’s Videos]] ... 1 hour seminars on everything about change \\ | ||
- | * [[http://www.technobility.com/ | Peter de Jager]] is a speaker/writer/consultant on the issues relating to the Rational Assimilation of the Future.\\ | ||
- | * [[http://interthink.ca/ | Interthink Consulting]] is a management consulting firm specializing in strategy, decision making and project management. | ||
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- | * [[http://sachachua.com/blog/ | LivingAnAwesomeLife.com]] ... A Personal Blog by Sash Chua\\ I had the pleasure of working with Sash in the Fall of 2011, and her blog is a treasure-trove of inspiring & useful posts/articles. | ||
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- | ===== Miscellaneous Workplace Culture Links ===== | ||
- | * [[https://www.themuse.com/advice/15-expertbacked-tactics-for-being-happier-at-work | 15 Expert-Backed Tactics for Being Happier at Work]] | ||
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- | * [[linkedin>20140321072813-13780238-susan-cain-s-plan-to-make-open-offices-a-little-more-quiet | Susan Cain's Plan to Make Open Offices a Little More Quiet]]\\ "Solitude is a crucial ingredient of productivity, and one we want to bring back to the workplace," | ||
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- | * [[http://www.bakadesuyo.com/2014/06/most-productive-people#ixzz33tGOAg4k | 6 Subtle Things Highly Productive People Do Every Day]] | ||
- | * [[http://www.ninjainfographic.com/portfolio/9-ways-to-be-productive/ | Ninja Infographic: 9 Ways To Be More Productive]] | ||
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- | * [[http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/10-things/10-survival-tips-for-non-morning-people/ | 10 survival tips for non-morning people]]\\ "Some people jump out of bed in the morning, hit the ground running, and leave a trail of creative thinking and focused accomplishment in their wake. And then there's the rest of us." | ||
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- | * [[http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/10-things/10-immutable-laws-of-mistakes/2633/ | 10 immutable laws of mistakes]]\\ "Mistakes are inevitable. But as Allan Norton explains, certain laws govern how we deal with them, learn from them, conceal them, and even profit from them." |