Everyone wants to be more productive. Whether you’re a C-Suite manager or are serving up burgers at a local fast-food chain, being productive at work can improve your self-efficacy and lead to promotions and recognition. However, in today’s digital world, you’ll encounter dozens of productivity killers every day. Notifications on your phone can pull you out of the “flow state” and uncomfortable work environments can undermine your physical health and productivity. Fortunately, you can overcome most productivity killers. A little … Continue reading “How to Beat Common Productivity Killers”
Why Do You #WorkItDaily? Share Your Story With Us Today!
For many of us, our careers are not only about what we do but WHY we do it. At Work It Daily, we know this is true. That’s why we want to hear YOUR career story! Why Do You #WorkItDaily? @workitdaily Why do YOU #WORKITDAILY ??? Share your story on @tiktok, tag @workitdaily & add the hashtag #workitdaily too. You could get featured on our feed & website where millions will see you.♥️♥️♥️ #jobtok #edutok #careertiktok #careergoals #work #lifehack #life … Continue reading “Why Do You #WorkItDaily? Share Your Story With Us Today!”
Taking Back Your Time: Outsourcing
Hi, my name is Jen. I’m a real estate team leader, coach, author and agent in production. I haven’t worked a Sunday in five years. Most people get into real estate or entrepreneurship for the “freedom”. Once you get into the business though, you know that this is a 24/7 kind of job unless you structure your business to accommodate having a life. I realized my first year in real estate when I was getting calls on Thanksgiving about inspection reports that I … Continue reading “Taking Back Your Time: Outsourcing”
Why Companies Need a “Return on Energy”
As Beyonce recently pointed out, so many workplaces are breaking the soul of employees and pushing them to explore other options. What these companies don’t understand is that there is a way that they can keep employees (and as a result clientele) happy. Many organizations create wellness initiatives to mask the real problem. The workforce at large is overworked, underequipped and rarely compensated fairly. These are all massive stressors. You can have all the mental health support in the world and it … Continue reading “Why Companies Need a “Return on Energy””
Video Meeting Fatigue and How To Combat It
A Global Survey of Executives and Knowledge Professionals by Webex by Cisco Introduction This paper reviews key findings from a global research survey across 1403 participants to understand employee and employer key objectives and challenges for 2022. The research focuses on hybrid worker video meeting patterns and associated ramifications. This report documents increasing stress and physical ailments that result from increased time spend in video meetings and investigates possible remedies and solutions. Specifically, the research investigates the use of devices … Continue reading “Video Meeting Fatigue and How To Combat It”
Do we need to overhaul careers education in schools and colleges? Inside Your Ed podcast
It was a great privilege to be asked by Tom Richmond to talk about career education on the EDSK podcast, Inside your ED. It was really great to be able to go into a bit of depth about the history of recent careers policy and to consider what we could learn from it. In the podcast you will hear me and Rebecca Montacute from The Sutton Trust in riotous agreement about how career education and guidance needs to be improved. … Continue reading “Do we need to overhaul careers education in schools and colleges? Inside Your Ed podcast”
Questioning tech: The past, present, and future of survey tools
If you want to hear me talking about the history of online surveys you are in luck. I’m interviewed on Liam Geraghty’s Questioning Tech podcast. In this podcast he takes us through the history of surveys with me popping up towards the end to talk about online surveys. Warning though, he is also selling a new product called Intercom Surveys, so expect to hear a lot about that. Nonetheless, it is well worth a listen… Questioning tech: The past, present, … Continue reading “Questioning tech: The past, present, and future of survey tools”
#WeAreCareers S5 E1 – Why we need a career guidance guarantee
I had the great privilege of joining Chris Webb and MeetSabiha on #WeAreCareers yesterday. If you haven’t watched this show before, you really should. It is a regular YouTube show which looks at all things careers and features all sorts of interesting guests. You can get it most easily by subscribing to the CDI YouTube channel. Yesterday I was talking politics (for a change). We discussed why career guidance was so important, why politicians should care about it and what … Continue reading “#WeAreCareers S5 E1 – Why we need a career guidance guarantee”
The future of work and how to stay employable
It was a real privilege to be interviewed by Jeremy Cline on the Change Work Life podcast the other day. Jeremy’s podcast is essential listening for everyone in the career development world. He now has 112 episodes, most of which consist of conversations between Jeremy and other experts in different aspects of career development. Recent episodes have focused on the changing workplace after Covid, finding fulfilment and how to make yourself visible at work. All well work a listen. In … Continue reading “The future of work and how to stay employable”
Reaching the hard to reach
Reaching the ‘hard to reach’ – A creative conversation A couple of months ago I was invited to take part in one of David Cameron‘s ‘creative conversations’. These are professional development events for Skills Development Scotland. In this session I discussed the involvement of families in supporting the career development of young people with Phil Beadle, former Teacher of the Year, author and iconoclast and Suzanne Zeedyk, a developmental psychologist and leading campaigner about the impact and effect of Adverse … Continue reading “Reaching the hard to reach”