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Email is More Important Than Ever. Learn Four Tips to Make Your Emails More Effective
Photo credit: Aleksandr Davydov This is the fourth newsletter based on the Over-Thinkers Guide to Working at Home Effectively. You can find the original guide here. Each week, we've written more information on one of the topics in the guide. This week's virtual work...
Four Simple Tips for Conducting Effective Virtual Meetings
I bet you have been on more virtual meetings in the last couple of weeks than ever before. Locked in the house avoiding COVID-19, we're all working on virtual meeting platforms. Take Zoom, for example, the company added more users in the first two months of 2020 than...
How to Stay Connected with Remote Employees
Particularly for those of us who work on technical projects, it's tempting to use the time working from home to focus project work; however, as a manager, your staff need your attention now more than ever. Maybe you supervise highly technical people who enjoy working...
The Over-Thinker’s Guide to Working at Home Effectively
photo credit: rawpixel The world has shifted and here we are – at home – working. Having worked out of my home office for years now, I can say with assurance that there is a difference between working at home for a couple of days a week and working at home for an...
10 Skills Every Technical Professional Should Know when They Become a Manager
Whether your technical expertise is in engineering (like mine), law, finance, technology or science, we technical folks don’t have good reputations as managers. When a technically accomplished person is promoted into management, suddenly the old skills that made us...
7 Ideas to Consider When Creating Your Leadership Philosophy
What's your leadership philosophy? What's your leadership philosophy? I've asked that question to interview candidates and it has been asked of me. Frequently, the candidate is stumped as was I the first time. Don't let that question stump you. Perhaps you've worked...
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Personality Conflicts at Work? How to Resolve Hard Feelings
Why you have to address personality conflicts at work Have you ever worked in an office where a performance problem went unaddressed? Have you ever watched personality conflicts negatively impact productivity and no one does anything about it? As a top performer, have...
How To Diffuse Tense Moments in Three Steps
We’ve been talking about what it takes for your organization to run like a well-oiled machine. In our discussion the “oil” is communication skills. Previously, I wrote about three communication tips that grease the gears: listening skills, diffusing...
The Surprising Key to Productivity: Listening Skills
How to be a boss that is a good listener You want your office to run like a finely-tuned machine, each gear meshing seamlessly with the others. This level of performance requires the WD-40 of organizations – communication skills and listening skills specifically. In...
3 Essential Communication Skills for Improved Productivity
Want to get more stuff done? Here’s what it takes. You just want to get stuff done. That’s what I hear from the technical professionals I work with. Run into a problem? Let’s solve it and move on. These motivated staff are like high performance gears whirring at top...
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