Sticky solutions to your everyday business challenges
Question: I manage an 8-person business development team. We recently completed a team engagement survey that identified our top challenge as not having productive meetings. Since we all started working from home and dealing with the ups and downs of Covid-19, I’ve allowed our meetings to turn into group support sessions. While I think there is value in sharing challenges with each other, this is an area that I want to tackle in 2022. Can you recommend any tips for how to keep our team meetings productive?
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Welcome to the seventy-seventh issue of CEE News! .
Chances are, January has you thinking about how to be your best self this year. Doing so likely means taking stock of the rote habits in your life that are causing a drag on your energy. Simple enough in theory. Yet, simple is rarely simplistic.
19th century philosopher William James opined that all of our lives are but a mass of habits. Research published in a 2006 study found that about 40% of our daily action is habitual, which is still a good chunk of time spent in mindless behavior. And that was more than 15 years ...
Sticky solutions to your everyday business challenges
Question: My college internship at an investment firm turned into a full-time job where I worked for the past seven years. Late last year, I decided to make a career change. I’ve found some promising opportunities and have two interviews scheduled later this month. I don’t have a lot of experience answering interview questions. Can you give me some tips on how to answer questions that may come up?
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A closer look at companies executing leadership excellence.
When Dr. Emily Leproust helped launch Twist Bioscience in 2013, she did so with the belief that synthetic DNA would be critical to solving many of the world’s biggest challenges. When SARS-CoV-2 became one of those challenges in early 2020, her team tapped into their guiding principles of Grit, Impact, Service, and Trust to fight the pandemic head on.
Headquartered in San Francisco, Twist produces synthetic viral controls that resemble SARS-CoV-2 variants to enable researchers to rapidly develop and validate diagnostic tests. ...
Welcome to the seventy-sixth issue of CEE News! .
We’re taking our own medicine this month by not producing a full edition of CEE News and focusing on building margins in our lives, both personally and professionally. We invite you to access past editions of CEE News, help yourself to our library of free resources, or view the webinars posted on our YouTube channel to continue to build your leadership skills and toolkit.
Meanwhile, scroll down to check out the new diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) Training Program we’re kicking off in February. You can sign up for DEI On-Demand or ...
Welcome to the seventy-fifth issue of CEE News! .
This is traditionally the time of year when we start to shift our attention inward, to focus on family and on what we are grateful for. As we enter a transitional stage after a year of trauma and strain, more than ever we need ways to refresh our energies, calm our anxieties, and nurse our well-being. Here are three ideas from TED Talks that can help fill up your gratitude jar.
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Sticky solutions to your everyday business challenges
Question: I’m an HR Business Partner for a medical equipment supply company that is scrambling to fill a large number of job openings remotely. Without the benefit of in-person queues – handshakes, personal energy, body language – I don’t feel as confident in my skills to gauge candidate fit through a Zoom box. Do you have any tips for how to improve my remote interviewing skills?
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A closer look at companies executing leadership excellence
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In 2014, under the name Bootstrap Heros, Oisin O’Connor and his two roommates were determined to solve one of the biggest problems facing Shopify merchants: recurring payments. In October, after many months of takeout and trial and error, ReCharge Payments was launched. By 2015, O’Connor’s team became the preferred partner of Shopify Plus, so they upgraded from their whiteboard-lined apartment to an office in Santa Monica, CA.
Today, the company has grown from a handful of employees to 250+ fully remote team members. Working ...