Tips on Onboarding

“Although it sounds like just one more business buzzword, ‘onboarding’ is critical to the success of your new hire — and to your company. George Bradt, co-author of “Onboarding: How to Get Your New Employees Up to Speed in Half the Time,” says employers are “generally terrible” at onboarding. As a result, he says, 40…

YAWNING COOLS THE BRAIN?

“It’s easy to be offended when a colleague yawns while you’re talking. But that yawn may not mean what you think. A growing number of researchers believe the purpose of this little-understood behavior is to cool the brain, says a research review published earlier this year in Frontiers in Neuroscience. Changes in climate affect how…

IF A CLUTTEREED DESK IS A SIGN OF A CLUTTERED MIND, THEN WHAT ARE WE TO THINK OF AN EMPTY DESK?

 Many managers promote ‘clean desk’ policies for the purpose of  boosting work efficiency and productivity.  And it is true that conventional wisdom would suggest that a disorganized and messy environment can clutter one’s mind and complicate one’s judgments.  But a recent study challenges this conventional link between a messy environment and a messy mind. In a series of…