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- | ====== Insights & Workplace Culture ====== | ||
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- | ===== Workplace Methods & Frameworks ===== | ||
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- | ===== Workplace "Best Practices" ===== | ||
- | * [[linkedin>do-you-really-want-innovation-your-business-charlene-boyce | Do you REALLY want innovation in your business?]] ... how-to to cultivate innovation, instead of stifling it\\ "If you want to be innovative, just banish that ‘let's not reinvent the wheel’ phrase from your vocabulary right now. ... Learn to approach your enthusiastic change-proposer with a debate model. ... With the benefit of your wisdom and their energy, you just may wind up with an innovative new idea that works." | ||
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- | * [[linkedin>how-smart-people-get-feedback-truly-need-jeff-haden | How to Quit Asking Bad Questions and Start Asking Great Questions]] ... how-to get the NEEDED input & information | ||
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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." | ||
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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.businessinsider.com/ceos-meeting-preparation-2015-1 | 12 CEOs Say How They Expect People To Prepare For Meetings With Them]] |