Back in March, the world shifted. Travel halted. Offices shut. Businesses closed. We stopped being in the same room as each other and started only seeing each other through a screen. For Think Productive, as a Productivity Training Company delivering face to face workshops in people’s offices, it was a scary time for us. Luckily,
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When workers left their offices in March, there was no way of knowing that so many of us would still be working from home seven months later with no end in sight. There wasn’t a playbook for this, and so for the most part, it’s been a period of trial and error and learning as
Takeaway: A few tactics to help you inbox with intention: track your email usage, adopt email sprints, take an email vacation, suggest phone calls for longer discussions, and send less email. Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes, 38s. Podcast Length: 26 minutes, 8s (link to play podcast at the bottom of post). While the idea of Inbox
Over the past two weeks since i4cp published its initial guidance on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) recent ruling on human capital disclosure (member only), we’ve engaged in many conversations with a cross section of senior-level business executives – including several who serve on public company boards – to gain insight into the corporate
Takeaway: The most productive people don’t hustle themselves into an early grave—they work with calm deliberateness, prioritizing thoughtfulness over speed. This will help you work with greater intention. Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes, 45s. There seem to be two schools of thought for how we should approach productivity advice. The first is that we should hustle
This week’s Learning and Development action call hosted special guest Andre Martin, VP, People Development at Google. Martin was interviewed by i4cp CEO and co-founder Kevin Oakes. Here are some highlights from the call: The value of user-generated content and peer-to-peer learning. A program at Google that has been particularly valuable this year has been
Will your organization offer U.S.-based employees time off so that they can cast a ballot at their local polling place on Election Day (November 3, 2020)? How about paid time off for voting? Or offering employees paid time off to be poll workers? i4cp members Ecolab, Abbott, Danone North America, and others are among over
Takeaway: Cait Flanders’ new book, Adventures in Opting Out: A Field Guide to Leading an Intentional Life, explores how we can step away from the default and choose a life guided by intention and purpose. A number of ideas to think about: how our culture and the stories we’re told shape our values and goals;
When Kate Zimberg joined F5 Networks in March 2019, she entered an organization that had seen its share of recent change at the executive level. Over a roughly two-year span, for example, the Seattle-based application services provider had welcomed a new CHRO, a new chief executive officer, and multiple other new members of the