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Defining Roles and Responsibilities Within Your Company
I think we can all agree that structure within a company is crucial to its success. But when an organization gets bogged down in managing growth, it's easy to ignore making a plan for the roles and people you need. A team of talented employees thrown together on a...
How Much Is Distraction Costing You?
Distraction always comes with a price tag. It may seem small, like a coworker interrupting your work flow to ask you a question. But repeated distractions add up over time, costing you and your company thousands of dollars each year. I give talks to businesses on a...
The Employee Journey Needs a Makeover
Workers are quitting their jobs at rapid rates. Employees leave because of job dissatisfaction, perceived low worth due to minimal salary increases, and rigid return-to-office plans, among other reasons. As an employer, how do...
Why Are People Quitting Their Jobs?
Here we are, in the midst of the "Great Resignation"– a time when people are quitting their jobs at historic rates. Just in December 2021 alone, 4.3 million Americans resigned from their jobs. Among those resignations, 776,000 came from the business services sector....
The Math of Time
Guest contributor Mark Skeba offers a mathematical insight to why we all feel like there’s not enough time. Mark is a marketing and messaging master, brand strategist, and professor at North Central University. According to Mark, this is the math of time: everyone gets 168 hours every week. It’s cliché and trite, but no one can get any more time than that. The busy mom, the CEO, the retiree, the college student stressing for finals, and the tired college professor grading those finals; we all get only 168 hours per week. 168 hours is a constant. The numerator never changes.
Sources of Interruption
28% of a knowledge worker’s time is consumed by interruptions, at a loss of about 20,000 hours, which is more than $400,000 over the course of a single career. Wow. That's a lot of wasted time, if you ask me! The greatest sources of interruption at work and home...
Count the Cost: The Key to Eliminate Distractions in 2022
Ahhh, January. The first month of the year announces itself with a fresh set of goals for you both individually and in the workplace. New year, new benchmarks to meet. But amid all the goal-setting and exciting future projects lining up, we often forget to take a look...
Companies With Terrible Customer Service: Practices to Avoid
Nothing can ruin the holiday spirit faster than a bad customer service experience. Sometimes employees are just having a bad day...but at other times, company practices are to blame. Personally, I want to maintain a good relationship with my own clients. So I took a...
What I’ve Learned So Far as an SEO Intern for Focuswise
Welcome back to the Focuswise blog. As the title suggests, today's article is written from a different perspective. My name is Abby, and as a Focuswise intern, I work extensively with Curt Steinhorst on the blog portion of the Focuswise website. I will briefly...