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Ways to Manage Workplace Conflict Better
Conflict in the workplace is unavoidable. Here are nine tips to help you best navigate workplace disagreements. 1. Avoid editorializing and exaggerating during the discussion. Focus on the facts as well as potential solutions. It’s about the end game, not how you got to where you are. 2. Conduct individual chats. Then strategically attempt to identify common interests and expectations. 3. Create opportunities for healthy ...
Read More8 Tips for Conducting a Great Virtual Meeting
Today, face-to-face gatherings are becoming more the exception than the norm, as organizations embrace "virtual meetings" — audio or video conferences — allowing employees or clients in remote locations to connect via the web and by phone. As organizations become more global, virtual meetings are an absolute necessity in today's workplace. Remote-access meetings offer other benefits: the ability to invite more people; happier ...
Read MoreBest Practices: Top 10 Warning Signs of Workers Comp Fraud
Nearly 3,600 accounting, bookkeeping, tax preparation and payroll services firm employees reported a non-fatal occupational injury or illness in 2016, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. While most workplace injuries and illnesses are legitimate, occasionally employees try to manipulate the system by filing a false or exaggerated workers’ compensation insurance claim. Workers’ compensation insurance fraud is ...
Read MoreHow Organizations Can Streamline the Month-end Close
This process is a time of stress and long hours for employees, despite technological improvements. Companies have long sought ways to streamline processes so that accountants can spend less time collecting numbers and more time analyzing them for the organization's benefit. Many nimble organizations are finding those time savings in the month-end close. Closing the books quickly gives them the opportunity to take ...
Read MoreBest Practices: 9 Strategies to Finally Get Your Email Under Control
Email is important, but it's not your only choice. I'm guessing that, by now, you've done a deep dive into your email account settings. You know all the filtering and labeling tricks. But those email hacks usually just organize you. They don't do a ton to limit how many legitimate emails you get every day. For that, you have to lay some ground rules that have nothing to do with checking or unchecking a box. 1. Use ...
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