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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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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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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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Sticky solutions to your everyday business challenges
Question: I’m a senior manager at a great company. I was recently approached by another company that I’ve admired for a long time that wants to offer me an opportunity to join their senior team. What advice do you have for weighing whether to stay or go?
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Sticky solutions to your everyday business challenges
Question: I started a new job with a marketing agency three months ago. The work is exciting and I’m learning a lot. My only worry is that my manager has stopped showing up for our weekly Zoom meetings. I’m concerned that if this keeps happening, he won’t know what I’m working on and may think that I’m not being productive since I work from home. How can I keep my manager updated on my work if he keeps cancelling our meetings?
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Sticky solutions to your everyday business challenges
Question: As an HR Director of a 240-person company, I want to help our managers and supervisors be available for their team members who are going through disruptions in their lives these days. From learning that a loved one has Covid, to living a with partner who’s been laid off since last summer, to dealing with the general pandemic-related anxiety, our employees need support from their managers to get through these times. Can you recommend some tools to help our managers and supervisors be on their A-games through these seemingly endless days of disruption?
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