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Soft skills revisited – with a leadership perspective

Red Star Kim

This article “Soft skills revisited – with a leadership perspective” has just been published on Lexology. New soft skills for remote working. The shift to remote working during lockdown drove the need to develop several new soft skills. Digital body language.

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Come on, get happy!

Mercuri International

We wanted to find out what made people feel valued, supported, engaged, and indeed just plain ‘happy’ at work. The full survey results – and conclusions – will be published shortly, but here are some headline findings to whet your appetite…. Percentage of respondents working remotely: Full time remote working – 38% ?

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Motivating Today’s Employees: When the Carrot Can’t Always Be Cash

Strategic Communications

I have been interested in remote work for a number of years. Once the pandemic emerged and so many companies rapidly shifted to remote or hybrid work models, I proposed an update of that book to my publisher. Managing Remote Staff, (Self-Counsel Press, 2020) was the result. Remote Work Becomes Mainstream.

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Best Practices for Managing Remotely (You Already Know These…)

Strategic Communications

Man Working From Home Having Online Group Videoconference On Laptop. Over the past several months I’ve been very interested, even excited, to see how well the forced experiment with remote work has evolved. Since 2008 I’ve been working remotely. The “Big Lie” About Managing Remote Workers.

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Capitalizing on the Big Benefits of a Growing Gig Economy

Strategic Communications

Who could have predicted the rapid expansion of remote work and the “gig economy”? Even prior to that, I had several years of experience working as a freelance writer for a variety of trade and professional publications. So I’ve been involved in remote work for quite some time.

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XANT Earns Spot on G2’s Best Software Products for 2020

Xant

These awards recognize the best software companies based on data collected from over 1M authentic, verified customer reviews written and published between January 1, 2020 to December 31, 2020. We are proud to provide our Playbooks platform to enable customers to be successful no matter where they are working from. ” .

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Reconnecting with customers in a post-pandemic world

Insightly

Originally published in Entrepreneur. Sales, marketing and customer service teams are working in silos—which causes a number of problems. Provide guides on using your products to navigate through a crisis, whether on continuing to manage remote work, or how to prepare for the post-pandemic world. Get rid of silos .