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Things are scary out there, and no one can afford to perform at less than 100 percent. If you're not sure how much time you're spending on your social network site, get an old-fashioned timer and set it for 30 minutes. It's time to get serious. It's time to get real, and get tough. Every time you have to reset it, mark it down.
However, if you anticipate a huge number of people and a lot of music, dance, and entertainment activities, choose a large enough party location. Send invitations via email or social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Live stand-up comedy performance. Look out for the perfect party location. Buy the ice.
" Encourage employees to perform random acts of kindness. Encourage employees to perform random acts of kindness and share their experiences. Set up a pizza-themed trivia game or activity to entertain and engage employees during the event. Without proper rest, you cannot perform at your best.
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At worst, your performance and cognitive functions are impaired, resulting in memory, management, and task completion problems. In October, scientists discovered that 75% of patients who experienced brain fog had a lower quality of life at work than those who did not. At best, brain fog makes you slower and less efficient.
But say, you have accumulated points for your exemplary performance at work. Open looped gift cards : They are typically branded with a credit card network such as Visa. Aside from motivating employees, most reward points systems help you track productivity and performance metrics. What are you going to do with the points?
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Most people get jobs from their network, not from a career center. And social media is the fastest, most effective way for you to build a network. As a Gen-Y who stopped going to college I found that real life experiences, networks and self education were more important and vital than a college education for my career track.
About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog Twitter can save your life Posted to: Networking February 10th, 2010 Del.icio.us Twitter answers questions so efficiently because there is such an incredibly wide range of top-performers. Is this your first time here?
Posted by Sinead on March 11, 2010 at 9:38 am | permalink | Reply The live chat Penelope refers to in this post was by far the most hilarious, entertaining, edge-of-your-seat "webinar" that I've attended from BC yet. I agree with Jenn and Andrew in that the webinars are a good balance of entertainment and knowledge.
Professional business networking. Above all, such team-building activities are entertaining as well as instructional. Gamification is entertaining, informative, and enjoyable, producing astounding outcomes. It doesn't matter if they make errors or perform poorly during training. Expert/speaker sessions. Mentorship.
Corporate Offers , a New York City startup, provides a free employee discount program with exclusive entertainment deals like Broadway tickets and Disney park access. The availability of flexible work arrangements can significantly enhance employee satisfaction while also positively affecting a company's financial performance.
It really is time that these bureaucratic hell holes actually started to realize they are performing a public service. Posted by Mike CJ on December 1, 2009 at 12:20 pm | permalink | Reply "It really is time that these bureaucratic hell holes actually started to realize they are performing a public service.
I flew my wife out on frequent flyer miles and all we had to do way pay for meals and entertainment. One day at a dance performance in Tokyo 3 Japanese women spotted me in the most Japanese crowd and came over to thank me for attending. My company paid for 2 extra nights in the hotel, (cheaper on a weekend than mid-week).
Posted by sophie on September 24, 2010 at 11:35 am | permalink | Reply Thanks for the thoroughly entertaining post. And SO entertaining! In other words, perform the damage control before it gets 'out of control' Things will be easier to fix this way. Give 'em the color they need. They'll eventually love you.
You can choose both practical and entertaining topics. For instance, you can order pastries from a bakery owned by a famous gay chef or book a queer artist for an online performance. Genders & Sexualities Alliance Network. Here are the steps: Announce the talent show and call for performers. Los Angeles LGBT Center.
It seems that while happy people would make better employees, interesting people may actually end up performing better in interviews. Posted by Jessie on January 7, 2010 at 2:32 pm | permalink | Reply I wonder how the happy v. interesting dynamic relates to careers, specifically interviews. Also, I love the New York City data.
Posted by Amy on September 30, 2009 at 3:33 pm | permalink | Reply It's really interesting to me, 'Lope, that you're such a good networker. Much of the time, when I network I fall into "hypnotic pacing", where I'm copying the other person's demeanor back at them. Check it out at: [link].
Good managers will do their own recruiting by having their own great network. It never occurred to me that the con calls are driving me crazy and I do I do it for sheer entertainment. And managers already recruit through networks – at least in areas of short supply, or PAs who they take from job to job with them.
Posted by principalspage on November 17, 2009 at 10:16 am | permalink | Reply The message I got from this is that though the activities you perform may not change, the motivation behind them maychange. As long as you can continue to perform the activities you love to do then that is most of the battle.
I'm sure you aren't selling such a caveman notion, but your comment reads like you believe sex is a duty women perform without any enjoyment for themselves. I celebrate the ability of humans to overcome challenges, be they women in the workforce or athletes challenging the limits of human performance. That is just an excuse.
Come back to us and entertain us with your wit, charm, and the general hilarity of your posts. "Psychological strategies that people can use to improve mental performance" is the heading of the article and it briefly discusses focus and productivity. It appears to me to be a very good book. Posted by Mark W.
Because I have an appetite for knowledge for it's own sake, I have very little patience for ignorant and shallow people or mundane and silly conversation,entertainment, etc. We look at others and their "happy buttons" and wonder how to make our "happy buttons" perform the same function.
I hope that the rule of past performance predicting future performance will skew more toward his former exits than mine. rather than entertaining any one of a few seemingly viable options (like getting your own farm) is not the right man for you. The strategy changes, the tactics change. I try to focus. I'm so sorry.
These kids need to turn off the Social Networks and read a book because school won't help them. Posted by Rachel Esterline on October 19, 2009 at 1:48 pm | permalink | Reply Pee– How would you be able to know if the Stanford study was performed in a meaningful way? I never thought we could, but apparently students try it.
Incredibly successful people, in addition to having more successes, also have WAY more failures than people performing at the "normal" level. Entertaining as usual but not particularly "how to" Posted by julia on February 19, 2010 at 11:11 am | permalink | Reply With you on Portnoy.
About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog We're nearing the end of email, maybe Posted to: Networking | Self-management April 23rd, 2010 Del.icio.us But then I thought about the viral nature of communication via social networks, and the statistic started to make sense.
My company, Brazen Careerist , just launched a company section in our social network. And Jeremy Owyang, from Forrester Research reports that, "In approximately two years social networks will be more powerful than corporate web sites. Nor will I play it when my community band performs it.) What an embarrassment!
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