Kicking off meetings without those initial awkward silences and disengaged funks? For most leaders, it feels lofty – an unrealistic ask of your freshly assembled, zoned-out team. Yet research shows 91% of employees subconsciously drift during meetings at some point.…
Get this: 31 hours are wasted every month in unproductive and ineffective committee or board meetings (according to a report by Zippia). The main reason is due to there being no meeting structure – anything goes. To avoid that, you…
If you work remotely, you’ll most likely have to attend regular Zoom meetings. Even if you work at an office, virtual meetings are becoming the new norm. And yes, Zoom is the #1 app used, with 3.3 trillion minutes hosted…
An executive’s schedule is full-packed. A study by Fellow saw 50% of executives attend 6 to 15 weekly meetings. Not only that, they need time for other responsibilities and themselves. As the executive’s assistant, your responsibility is to manage their…
Welcome to the modern world where AI is taking over by storm. The powerful AI chatbot, ChatGPT, alone has over 180.5 million monthly and 100 million weekly active users. Now, you can back away from it all. OR, you can…
If you’re given your own space at work (or maybe you work from home), you might want to decorate it. But there’s one dilemma: you don’t have an eye for office decor and design. Good news! I’m going to teach…
To be a top performer at work, you need to have high productivity. And to be productive, you need focus. However, it’s so easy to get distracted nowadays. Just take your mobile phone for example. This is why, now more…
As a performance management leader, you want each team member to be a high performer. But let’s be realistic – you’ll probably be dealing with low performers more often than not. In a study by Gallup, a whopping 70% of…
The common saying goes, “We all make mistakes. It’s how we come back from the mistakes that matter.” If you make a mistake at work, don’t beat yourself for it. Instead, you should learn from your mistakes and find ways how…
When you take pride in your work and your ability to “handle it all,” it’s not easy to admit when you’re feeling overworked. Sometimes you may even wonder if you are actually overworked or whether you’re just being whiny. The…