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Mapping your customer’s journey? Try the same with your employees

October 27, 2022 by David Gambrill

Monitoring your company’s systems and processes, as opposed to monitoring the work output of your individual employees, may be the answer to boosting your company’s productivity by 9% to 10% annually, suggests a new article by Harvard Business Review. A

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Hybrid workplaces: 5 emerging trends

March 18, 2022 by David Gambrill

COVID-19 has changed workers’ expectations, although it’s not clear yet whether company executives see this new emphasis on personal well-being and remote flexibility as “a temporary pendulum swing, or the beginning of our new normal,” writes Jared Spataro, corporate vice

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How much you’re lying to yourself about time management

June 17, 2021 by Adam Malik

While George Costanza may claim that his entire life is a lie, most people will tell about 200 lies a day — and many to themselves about what they’re doing and what they can actually accomplish, according to an expert

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Forget data: The case for going with your gut instinct

June 8, 2021 by David Gambrill

Data analysis may be held up as the gold standard for making sound business decisions. But a recent study suggests gut instinct — when backed up by simple decision aids — may actually be better in situations of high uncertainty.

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Managing your remote workforce in a post-COVID world

January 5, 2021 by David Gambrill

Flexible work arrangements appear to be here to stay, even after the pandemic is gone, and several in the P&C insurance industry are turning their minds towards how to manage a more remote workforce in the future. Imagine future office

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Communicating during COVID: What industry employees want to hear from their leaders

September 3, 2020 by David Gambrill

Okay, so it appears the pandemic crisis will be with us for a long time, with P&C organization employees already feeling uneasy, worn down, and uncertain about many things — their health, job security, sending kids back to school safely,