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Get Up & Move!
Listen to ‘Minute’ Message 15 and learn how to incorporate movement into your work-at-home day from Anna Siebelink, founder of Balanced Image Ergonomics Consulting and ergo guru. #covid19andwork #workathome #careercounseling #ergonomics [wpvideo FzfbZfXu]
Tips for Vision Breaks
Protect Your Eyes from Screens
Protect Your Eyes from Screens
It’s important to take care of your vision – now that we spend all of our professional communication time on screens, over zoom, google hangouts and so on. Gone are the days of popping over to talk to a colleague or bumping into someone in the hallway. Anna Siebelink from Balanced Image talks about strategies […]
Could A Career Counselor Help Me Now?
Listen to Learn About the Benefits of a Career Counselor and Why to Consider Part-Time or Temp Work. Enjoy!
Stretches To Do At Your Desk
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e8kpK8wPyM&w=560&h=315]Listen to An Ergonmics Expert
The Value of Coaching
What is the value of executive coaching and career counseling for CPAs. Listen to learn about how it might fit in to your career goals and leadership development plans. [wpvideo uHdcxfoX]
Take Care of Your Work-at-Home Body
Ouch! Is your body a little unhappy about working from home? Here’s an introduction to ergonomics from an expert! Stay tuned, we will have more on this subject this week! Anna Siebelink hashtag#ergonomics hashtag#workfromhome hashtag#workspace hashtag#careercounseling Minute Message Video-Intro to Ergonomics
Call BS on Age-ism
Age does not determine job performance. “If we’re going to solve the greatest challenges of our generation, we will need all minds, young and old, to come together.” In regions like Maine, with a shrinking workforce, this is especially salient advice. hashtag#workforcetransformation hashtag#employability
Interview Tips
Getting ready for an interview? Dress just one notch up from the anticipated attire of your interviewers. Be yourself, it’s ok to inject your personality. And, if you expect to be asked about being fired or laid off in the past, prepare a positive spin. hashtag#interviewtipshashtag#jobseeker https://hbr.org/2014/11/setting-the-record-straight-on-job-interviews
Engaged Students=Prepared Workforce
Check out this example of engagement, specifically, how schools are engaging students by celebrating in the workplace (school) something of genuine interest, something that’s productive and fun, accessible across genders and races, leveraging both strengths and weaknesses, interactive and collaborative and encouraging of multi-generational conversation and appreciation. These kids will do great work in environments […]
Diverse Employees Add to Company Culture
Cultural Fit is often referred to as a hiring goal. Rather than fit, experts like Chanel M. Lewis from Idexx says we should be talking about ‘Cultural Add’….replacing “How does this candidate fit with our culture?’ with “What will this person add to our culture?” https://usm.maine.edu/publicaffairs/usm-corporate-partners-panel-discussion-creative-strategies-workplace-recruitment-and
Bookstores – The Next Generation
This article presents so many great ideas: how bookstores can adapt, how to encourage a generation of readers, writers and thinkers, how to get kids working together outside of school face to face, and how to build and engage learning and working communities. hashtag#careerdevelopmenthashtag#funatwork
Build the Gig Economy For All
The gig economy is useful, exciting and has momentum. Thus, we need to have the conversation about employee protection and benefits to keep this new market growing in the right direction.
Do Your New Employees Know Why They Were Hired?
When you hire someone, use the information you learned in the hiring process to make your new employee’s on-boarding successful. They should know why they were chosen and how they can best contribute and grow. https://bit.ly/2lJR06H
Women Fighting for Equal Opportunity
When diversity and inclusion doesn’t happen from within, you might start your own company. That’s what women in South Korea are doing. South Korea has ‘shown the most progress in advancing female entrepreneurs’. But, it’s not an easy road to choose; being a pioneer means facing hurdles every day and requires the type of grit […]
Which Candidate Is Right for Your Team?
Hiring someone who will naturally ‘slide into your team’ is not easy. The secret goes beyond the classic interview. Listen here to learn more about knowing what you’re really looking for and how to hire for behaviors that work for your company. http://atthetable-patricklencioni.libsyn.com/episode-2-stop-hiring-the-wrong-people
All Students Should Be Offered Computer Science
It’s no secret that advances in technology shape the direction of the world of work and create the most new jobs. However, “Nationwide, most students never have the opportunity to take a coding class.” Wyoming teaches computer science at every grade level. How about in your state?
Take Vacation, Make More Money
Just the kind of confirmation that feels good to share – vacation is more than healthy, it has a positive impact on the bottom line! “If you take 11 or more of your vacation days, you are more than 30% more likely to receive a raise.” hashtag#balancedlifehashtag#healthyworkplacehashtag#bestpractices
Employees Can Be Happy
What makes people more efficient and happier at work? Make it easy for employees to move around the company, have smaller meetings, promote normal work hours and role model cross-department interaction. #employeeengagementhashtag #professionaldevelopment https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/15/upshot/how-to-win-neil-irwin.html