How To Solve The 8 Causes Of Workplace Conflict
The causes of workplace conflict are recognizable. Psychologists have identified eight causes of workplace conflict. Here's how to solve workplace conflict.
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Jeff Bezos’s Peculiar Management Tool for Self-Discipline at Amazon Meetings
We originally published this piece in 2017. Two years later, we added fresh advice for managers. The modern workplace’s vogue is informal information exchange. We sit in open floor plan offices so that we can spontaneously collide, chat, and collaborate. An office setup for generating ideas can be fizzy and…
How to Leverage Psychology to Provide Better Customer Support
Despite the growing popularity of instant-messaging support and “conversational agents”—better known as chatbots—actually talking to a customer on the phone is one of the best ways to engage in a real conversation and learn more about a customer’s problems. Done right, such conversations can be helpful, valuable, and e
How to Grow a Blog the Hard Way
Oftentimes, one of the biggest roadblocks to creating great content isn’t finding the time to write it or coming up with new angles to well-worn topics or establishing a regular publication schedule. It’s finding smart, knowledgeable subject-matter experts who are willing to actually write content. This, more than anyt
How to Set Team Finance Goals that Don’t Suck
Goals are the glue that holds a company together. Setting the right business goals help all the people in a company align around making progress and moving forward to a shared vision.
How to Motivate Your Female Workforce After Maternity Leave
A lack of support after maternity leave can lead to major talent losses at a company. But the losses can be avoidable if you take the right steps.
How to Sync Items from a Kanban Board to your Daily Standup
This is a guest post from Kim Kadiyala, Partnership Manager at Zapier. A daily status update is only as helpful as it is complete. If your team struggles to log their dones, goals, and blockers, rest assured you’re not alone. But if you’re using a project management tool like Asana, Trello, or Basecamp to take [...]
How to Make the Most of Your Summer Intern
Summer interns are meant to make your job easier, not harder. But since most interns have zero work experience, it's up to you to show them how things work.
Humor in the Workplace: What’s Funny or Not?
Humor in the workplace can improve your work culture and productivity. Make sure you do it right.
How to Focus on the Magic Even When Scaling Up
Teams of all sizes struggle with their process at some point; so what happens when your team needs to keep scaling up as quickly as it did in the beginning?
How We Grew a Six-Figure Email List
Giveaways grow email lists. Remember that people are generally reluctant to give their address up unless they're going to get something of value in return.
How to Make Your Company Email Totally Transparent
Transparency in your team email means that information is readily available to everyone and that accountability can be a part of your customer support.
How We Host Meetups
Customer meetups let you casually interact with your users, building a system of trust and loyalty for your company. Here's how we host ours!
Lessons From A Year In A Remote Team Culture
Every remote worker I’ve seen stumble and fail over the last year has had one thing in common. They weren’t involved in the remote team culture.
How To Plan For Daily Standups During The Holidays
With so much of your team taking time off during the holidays, here's how to revive your daily standups to make sure what needs to get done, gets done!
I Done This: Short Post, Best Post?
I Done This 2.0 automatically sets the default length of a Done List post at about 12 words.
How to run effective meetings with I Done This
The Qualaroo team was slogging through a Google document maze for weekly meetings but switched over to I Done This 100% to run more effective meetings.
How to Use an Amazon Echo for Your Startup Office
Meet the tool that will help you run your start up so you can focus on what matters. She's called Alexa via the Amazon Echo, and she will change everything.
How to Handle 3 Types of Workplace Conflict
Problems are always going to exist and be varied. Different contexts, causes, and intentions should influence how you deal with workplace conflict.
How To Work With A Motormouth
No one likes a chatty coworker. No one. Here are the different kinds of chatty coworkers to watch out for, and how to keep them from disrupting your day.
Introducing: The Penalty Jar
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How to Manage the Distinct Personalities of your Remote Team
Solutions to help every type of employee on your remote team win.
How to Sell New Tools To Your Team
New tools don’t automatically make a difference to your team. It's up to managers to get the ball rolling.
How To Start Real, Meaningful Conversations With Your Email List Subscribers
Here’s are the steps we took that got us 10X our email replies from our weekly newsletter here at iDoneThis.