It’s ten juicy episodes, full of massive egos, incredible basketball, and a banging 90’s hip-hop soundtrack. It’s a fantastically brutal account of how the Chicago Bulls came to dominate the basketball scene throughout the 1990s.
The team was led to countless victories by three key players: Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, and Dennis Rodman.
This, coincidentally, demonstrates the concept behind the Pareto chart, and this Process Street post perfectly.
I’ll explain what I mean by this later. First, let me go through what we’ll cover in this post:
This is a guest post by Sharon Koifman, an expert in remote work with nearly two decades of experience running three companies 100% from her computer. Sharon has studied and researched not only how to operate remote businesses but how to create an amazing work culture where people love to come to work. These days Sharon runs DistantJob, a very unique recruitment agency geared specifically for finding remote developers who work from all over the world.
As the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) started spreading, many companies began advising their staff to work from home. With the virus now pandemic and many countries under some form of lockdown, there’s a large swathe of people who are working from home that have never done so before.
Are you one of those people?
If so, you may be wondering how you’re going to stay productive while working from home – especially if you have young children at home and are having to balance their care and education at the same time.
The good news is that it is doable. In fact, full-time remote workers have been doing this for years! You can learn from their wisdom (and mistakes) which I’ll share, so you can be as productive as possible.
Just make your way through the following sections in this guest post for Process Street:
This is a guest post by Derek Jones from Deputy, a global workforce management platform for employee scheduling, timesheets, and communication. With a focus on Emerging Retail, Derek helps business owners and workforce leaders simplify employment law compliance, keep labor costs in line, and build award-winning workplaces. Derek has over 16 years’ experience in delivering data-driven sales and marketing strategies to SaaS companies like MarketSource and Griswold Home Care.
One of the many factors that can help guarantee the success and growth of a business today is employee performance.
Most organizations know this. Therefore, they want employees that are as efficient as possible. However, that is easier said than done, especially in industries where activities often run at odd hours or even 24/7.
For such industries (like healthcare, hospitality, and retail in particular), one of the most important things they’ll need to manage is shift work scheduling.
Through optimization, the task of scheduling shift work will have a structure to minimizes employee burnout and improve overall performance.
Employees that work in an enabling environment have a higher chance to properly complete all important tasks – on schedule.
In view of that, in this Process Street article, we will:
Discuss some of the issues and challenges that surround shift work.
Take a look at up-to-date research regarding employee performance.
Summarize 3 shift-work goals you can incorporate to optimize your shift work schedule.
Give top tips on shift work scheduling to maximize employee productivity and retention.
Click on the relevant subheaders below to jump to that section, alternatively scroll down to read all, and find out how you can optimize your shift work schedules today!
This is a guest post written by Jeff Oxford. Jeff is a tech enthusiast who follows new trends in technology and digital marketing. He had been a speaker at the 2013, 2017, and 2018 IRCE and has written contributions to Forbes.com, InternetRetailer.com, and Infusionsoft.
Staying on top of tasks amid distractions is not a problem exclusive to the 21st century, although today’s folks have to deal with social media. It is the rabbit hole where anyone can willingly spend at least 144 minutes every day.
You can expect this statistic to rise when the expected three billion people, or 40 percent of the world’s population in 2021, will join the social networking sites.
With that and other things in mind, it’s no wonder that productivity and efficiency are the main targets of a tireless quest to achieve a productive work life.
According to Google Trends, the interest in productivity peaked in September 2018. While it has sustained some lows, the idea continues to gain attention as we speak.
Efficiency, like productivity, also enjoys high volume searches in the US.
Turning a blind eye on the impact of social media and relevant efficiency killers is counterproductive. Surely, limiting access to Facebook, Twitter, and other sites that compel browsing during office hours can help. Plus, smartphones have to go or be kept out of reach to avoid looking at it every 20 minutes.
It makes even more sense to face the battle head-on, combat technology with technology. Companies can focus their energies on speeding up, streamlining, sorting processes so that people have less time to wonder and wander about in the office.
Every workplace is different, and so are the people that populate it. However, office culture and personal quirks aside, this article will count exemplary technologies and tools that harness, not hinder, workplace productivity.
If you’d like to skip ahead then feel free to use the links below:
1 in 5 adults in the U.S. will experience a mental health issue each year, with 1 in 6.8 people experiencing mental health problems in the workplace on a weekly timescale.
Work anxiety is one such mental health condition which evokes a sizable economic cost from lowered employee wellbeing and sick leave.
In this Process Street article we explain what work anxiety is – and in that sense, anxiety in general. We then provide information on how you can take action on anxiety from a personal level and at a company-wide level.
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It’s the catalyst for hitting those important, internal targets that pave the way for long-term profitability and success.
But collaborating is far easier said than done – and especially for enterprise businesses.
In fact, 86% of employees and executives cite a lack of collaboration as the reason for the failures that have happened in their workplace.
Luckily, there’s a solution: Enterprise collaboration software.
If you’re new to enterprise collaboration software but still want to get your enterprise collaborating like pros, you’ve come to the right place.
In this incredibly-informative, super-streamlined Process Street article, you’ll learn the definition of enterprise collaboration software, find out the benefits of it, and discover the best software for enterprise-wide collaboration, depending on your needs.
This is a guest post by Ivan Boychuk. Ivan is a freelance writer who specializes in creating quality SEO content that ranks high in search engines like Google.
“Do what you do best, and outsource the rest.” – Peter Drucker
Peter Drucker, who was a legendary thought leader in the area of marketing, understood that outsourcing work to freelancers can be an effective strategy to increase overall business productivity.
Why?
Because hiring a freelancer can save you time, money, needless headaches, and it can bring fantastic outside talent onboard. But with so many people chasing after the freelance lifestyle, it can be a daunting task to sift through countless candidates and hire a quality freelancer for your business.
Don’t worry, though.
In this guest post for Process Street, I’ll explain what a freelancer is, what to look for when hiring a freelancer, and show you 9 great websites for hiring freelancers! Just read through the following sections:
This is a guest post by Travis Taborek. Travis is a content marketer and copywriter based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is a graduate of General Assembly’s Digital Marketing Bootcamp and has done SEO and content work for business ranging from small tech startups to corporations like TiVo. Read his work here.
Content marketers have their work cut out for them.
They’re tasked with generating fresh ideas for content that stimulates interest in a brand and demonstrates thought leadership consistently, frequently, and at scale.
Fortunately, there is no shortage of productivity apps out there to help keep your mind focused, your writing clear, your headlines eye-grabbing, and your calls-to-action compelling.
To help you do your best work possible, I’ll show you the 10 best productivity apps you need in your digital toolbox.
Specifically, after explaining what productivity apps are, I’ll break each app down into one of four categories – brainstorming, focus, creation, and general productivity – then highlight their features, use cases, and pricing plans.
Just read through the following sections in this guest post for Process Street:
Bulwer-Lytton was referring to good writing and effective communication being the most powerful tool of all. So powerful that it could win wars.
In business’ modern-day war against tough deadlines, seemingly never-ending workloads, and stiff business competition, Bulwer-Lytton’s adage still rings true.
But the rewards can only be reaped if checklists are well-written.
Not sure how to write checklists properly? Confused whether you’re penning checklists the right way or not?
I’ve got you covered in the following sections where you’ll learn what checklists are used for, why they’re so useful, on top of being given tips and tricks for writing checklists from 15 thriving companies:
There’s so much technology now. I would dare to say there’s even too many apps, pieces of software, and gadgets we’re using.
From different teams in an organization all using varying project management software, to spreading important information that really should be hosted in one place across a multitude of platforms, using too much software in the workplace can make things incredibly confusing. Not to mention overwhelming.
In reality, we could all do with a digital declutter, using only the essential applications, and ensure we’re utilizing those applications (such as Process Street!) intelligently.
This, in a nutshell, is digital minimalism – and it’s what I’ll deep dive into during the following sections:
