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Management Minute - November 2018 (noun)

  1. a free monthly email designed to help you improve your workplace excellence, with the latest industry news, trends, advice, and more

15 Qualities of Mentally Tough People

by Dr. Travis Bradberry Success Insider

We all reach critical points in our lives where our mental toughness is tested. It might be a toxic friend or colleague, a dead-end job, or a struggling relationship. Whatever the challenge, you have to be strong, see things through a new lens and take decisive action if you want to move through it successfully. It sounds easy. But it isn’t.

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Five ways to get more done by reclaiming your wasted pockets of time

by Elizabeth Grace Saunders Fast Company

Most people waste spare minutes on activities that give them no greater sense of accomplishment than if they had skipped them. As a time management coach, I’ve seen that most people can easily reclaim one to two hours of productivity in their workday by changing their default settings.

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Help Your Employees Spot Your Company’s Bad Habits: 5 Steps to Tossing Stale Best Practices

by Steven Goldbach Training Industry

Many business “playbooks” need to be dramatically reconsidered by calling out longstanding orthodoxies. Many of our core business processes based on “best practices” have become either virtually unrecognizable; irrelevant, given shifts in what’s possible; or, at worst, both.

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