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🔒101: Collaboration overload

Too many cooks in the kitchen, also known as collaborative overload, is when communication and decision-making gridlock slow an organization’s flexibility, impacting employee engagement.

🔒Four key elements of a defense-in-depth cybersecurity program

The rise of ransomware and malicious cyberattacks in the past decade have driven the criticality for all businesses to expand their cyber programs to provide better, layered defenses.

🔒Spotting fake checks & protecting your business

While the majority of common fake check scams are meant to target consumers, businesses can fall victim, increasing the need to be educated about how to spot and stop check fraud.

🔒A mother & a business owner

Becoming a mother is an experience like no other, putting life into perspective in a way that is hard to describe.
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🔒101: Quitting employees

There’s a whole human resources checklist to do when employees gives their notices – informing other employees, communicating the news to clients, and retrieving company property.

🔒Use government tax incentives to save cash and stimulate growth

A variety of tax incentives are available to businesses with a proposed real estate expansion project, meaning the project is considered if it will result in job creation and a renovation or new construction at a Massachusetts site.

🔒10 Things I know about … Successful trade show participation

10) Commit early. Some trade shows provide a discount for early registration. The lower your costs, the lower your hurdle for reaching profitability.

🔒The unwritten double standard in dress codes

Because of systemic oppression, implicit and explicit prejudices and biases, imposter syndrome, and many more challenges very specifically tied to race, many BIPOC people have learned the code of living with the double standards they endure, including how we dress professionally.
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🔒101: Employee gossip

Workplace gossip can erode employees’ sense of comfort at work and their trust in colleagues with whom they collaborate.

🔒Why we switched to an unlimited vacation policy

Over that time, we’ve seen stronger team trust, decreased human resources paperwork, and faster recruitment. I’ve found when you treat your staff like the adults that they are, they rise to the occasion.
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