The 2020 global health crisis caused a wave in business owners recommending remote work for as many employees as feasible. It’s now three years later, and while a portion of the market was eager to return to the office as soon as possible, the other portion happily stayed home. Some…

We recently looked into ways to improve teamwork and to perfect an individual’s fit into a team. This time, we’ll consider how to keep a team focused on improvement rather than solely on maintaining the status quo. As you can imagine, the value in your team displaying focus on getting…

In the previous article, we considered ideas to strengthen your team through the way you work together. This time we’d like to bring the focus back to the individual. What can make you better at whatever it is you do? …

We all know that a company is only as strong as its employees — but it isn’t only about individual strength and skills. Though they matter immensely, especially when processing straightforward tasks, research shows that when dealing with complex work, the way the individuals can work together makes all the…

Knowledge workers can sometimes experience an uneasy feeling, a sense of having not done much during their workday. It especially can happen if you get to compare your day to that of a physical worker. You might wonder: what was I doing all day? Did I accomplish anything in particular…

How a company approaches risk management can often be what makes or breaks it. While Kanban does not prescribe many rules in general, its support for a steady flow style of work allows risk management to be incorporated into it without problems. Performance history The most forthright advantage that using Kanban for…

For many of us, being able to focus was always a challenge — bigger or smaller. Now, we’re asked to do it while working from home, either full-time or partly. Depending on what it was that’s been making concentrating on the task at hand difficult for you, moving work to…

Whether you’re managing a team, are a part of one, or lead the life of a freelancer, or all of the above, we suspect you’re answering questions about your work and project status all the time, aren’t you? Would it not be clever to apply such a method of task…

An Agile take on marketing has the same objectives as Agile software development: meeting the customers’ needs quicker and better. The speed in action is a must in a world where your competition can shake up the market with a single Instagram story or YouTube video, receiving client responses within…