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Yesterday, we published “4 Reasons Why Your Organization Should Collaborate with Colleges and Universities.” In today’s post, we’ll explore the four different ways your organization can collaborate with colleges and universities, listed below.
According to one McGraw-Hill Education survey, only 40% of college seniors feel prepared to enter the workforce upon graduation. And most college seniors wish their colleges would have offered them more practical opportunities to prepare for a career in the real world.
One study conducted by J. Ryan Lamare, a professor of labor and employment relations at the University of Illinois, revealed that an employee’s workplace environment has a direct correlation to how he or she interacts with the greater society and whether he or she becomes civically engaged.
The halo effect refers to the idea that our overall impression of someone will directly impact how we perceive almost everything they do. If that person has an overall positive impression—a halo as it were—then we’re more likely to perceive everything they do more positively.
Productivity, at its basis, signifies the rate of output per unit of input. The phrase echoes an era where people were seen as elements in a production line, measured by the amount of time it would take them to produce a single item. But in today’s knowledge-based economy, this measure of productivity no longer holds […]
The term “teambuilding” often elicits groans and eye rolls from employees. Many workers see them as unwelcome interruptions in already packed workdays, thinking that these feel-good activities have little value and serve no real purpose.
Rules can be frustrating, especially when they’re perceived as creating barriers to getting work done or hindering workplace effectiveness. Most, however, would agree that we need rules in our everyday lives to maintain a certain level of order and civility.
Learning doesn’t have to, and shouldn’t, stop once someone graduates from a formal educational program. In fact, some of the most effective organizations are those that are able to promote continuous learning.
Did you know that data are now the most valuable resources in the entire world, even outpacing oil? And the most competitive and successful organizations have already identified this and are acquiring the right technologies and are training their employees in data analytics.
Adding to yesterday’s post, here are seven additional apps, tools, and platforms your employees must know how to use.