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21 Tips To Be Productive And Happy At Work

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Let me start with a disclaimer, I am not pretending that I am a guru of some sort who knows how to handle work pressure in any situation. I am writing this as I think this may help you if you are in a similar situation as I once was. It was becoming difficult for me to increase productivity, I wasn’t able to concentrate and wasn’t producing results I wanted to produce. Then I made these small adjustments.

20 Tips To Be Productive And Happy At Work

It’s not that I practice all of the days in and day out, but I follow most of them every day. In a way, this is similar to the other projects I mentioned before, how to be a better person in 15 ways and how to feel good and increase productivity.

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5 Ways to Protect Your Employees

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Although this is a personal finance blog, I write about small businesses a lot. Here we will focus on the employees of your business. In order to run a successful business, you need to have a fleet of happy employees. You need to keep them energized and protect them from any kind of harms or hazards.

5 Ways to Protect Your Employees

Protecting your employees is key since they are your most valuable resource. There are many areas that you need to put practices in place so that you can keep your employees protected, but in this article, we are going to focus on only five ways to protect your employees.

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How Certifications Help in Your Career

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Certification courses are of great help for students that wish to acquire specific skill sets within a short span of time. I am not talking about the courses that are usually pursued by students to save time and money from getting a college degree. I always feel a college degree is extremely important for getting highly paid positions later on.

How Certifications Help in Your Career

This is a situation where you’re in a job and you want to grow up the ladder. Sometimes only showing great skills at work doesn’t mean you’re capable of handling more responsibilities and adapt to the changes the new position requires.

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Tips to Revamp Your Resume

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The other day we had layoffs at our workplace. A few people I know were asked to leave.  I assisted one of my colleagues to revise his resume. And soon I was getting 2/3 resumes a day to look at. I was happy to assist them. What I found though was that their resumes were out of date. Some even worked for about 20 years in our company. they never had to do their resumes.

Tips to Revamp Your Resume

In a global economy, no one is safe, no job is secured. automation, robotics, shifting priorities, competition, regulation. You name a reason, for which our job security is at the bottom. The only thing we can ensure though is that we get a replacement job somewhere. Your resume is the first impression that you can create a potential new workplace.

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How To Organize Your Office To Increase Productivity

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Most people just do not realize how much their living and working environment impacts their personal productivity. If you are working out of a messy and cluttered area, you probably waste a total of 30 minutes a day trying to track down files or items that need.

Organize Your Office To Increase Productivity

Not only does this type of space keep you constantly distracted, but it promotes negative working energy as well. With that being said, you probably hear people say on a daily basis that they just don’t have enough room in their office to get organized, or their office really isn’t designed for their needs.

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How Does Getting a Good Night’s Sleep Help You Perform Better?

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To be a top contributing member of your workplace you must start by taking care of yourself in your private life, and that includes loving and being loved by your family and friends, having a hobby and most importantly, getting a good night of sleep, every night!

Good Night's Sleep Help You Perform Better

This is easier said than done for most people during the summer months. Tossing and turning during hot nights is one of the largest contributing factors to a poor night’s sleep. The best way to combat this problem is to spend in a good quality mattress.

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Be Better Employee: How To Write Winning Emails

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If your job requires you to spend a significant amount of time in front of a computer, how many mails do you write per day at work?

I do send around 30 -50 emails per day on average which includes mails to my team members, direct reports, leaders and colleagues. I write mails to people working in my organization or some other organization we deal with.

It is very difficult to cope with a inbox which receives a mail every couple of minutes and you require to answer a few of them as soon as possible.

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How To Decorate Your Office Cubicle – To Stand Out in the Crowd

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An honest confession – until recently, my cubicle at work looked like a trash bin. I spent some money and energy fixing up my cubicle, and now it’s the envy of others.

In this article, I will talk about decorating a cubicle in manly ways. I have seen good, bad and ugly workspaces occupied by ladies, but they look so different from a man’s cubicle.

And honestly, I have very little idea of improving a woman’s cube. So, this article mainly aims at men. For women, there’s no better place than Pinterest to get ideas.

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3 Ways to Advance Your Project Management Career

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As the economy makes its slow rise after the recession of 2008, the job market is gradually growing. Fortunately, this means more employment opportunities for professionals of all ages. On the other hand, this also means that the job market is becoming more competitive than ever before.

3 Ways to Advance Your Project Management Career

The college has become a necessity for most, and the number of people with degrees and certifications above and beyond a bachelor is also becoming more common.

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