A global CEO survey found that 55% of CEOs are concerned that a lack of trust is negatively impacting their companies’ performance. Their concerns are warranted given that trust in leadership affects employee engagement, motivation, and openness about the challenges their team is…
A study from Manchester Inc. found that 77% of executives reported relationships with their direct reports as a result of workplace coaching. Those results are because unlike the majority of manager-employee interactions that tend to be transactional, coaching sessions – when done…
Your Engagement Manager is your partner in ensuring your virtual assistant service is effective. They take all of your ideas, questions, and concerns and use that info to better train your assistant and make sure you that you get maximum…
There are thousands of articles aimed at making you more productive and it can be challenging to decipher which ones work and how to implement the ones that do. We’ve done the time-consuming work for you and consolidated the most…
According to TISA’s State of Knowledge Management report, 43% of managers believe they could improve employee productivity by 30% or more if their organizations were sharing knowledge more effectively. Knowledge management systems boost productivity by giving employees access to processes, solutions,…
Poor productivity management is one of the biggest drivers of lackluster employee performance and engagement. Gallup research found that only about half of employees fully understand what’s expected of them and that their confusion alone lowers productivity by 10-20%. Many teams that…
A report from InsideSales.com found that salespeople only spend 36% of their time actually selling. The remaining is spent on non-revenue-generating tasks including: Admin tasks Prospect research CRM management (including data entry and cleaning) Scheduling meetings Though critical, these tasks…
According to the National Association of Realtors, only 13% of realtors have an assistant. Despite the low utilization in the industry, top producing agent and author, Brandon Doyle, says that hiring an assistant is the key to getting ahead of…
According to a recent study, business leaders waste an average of 21.4 hours per week on low-value tasks that don’t contribute to their goals. The wasted time consists of: Working on simple business tasks that could have been handled by someone else in…
A survey from AtTask found that employees at medium and large-sized companies spend only 45% of their time on their core responsibilities. The remaining of their days are spent on admin work, meetings, emails, and other miscellaneous tasks that don’t…
