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ApochroMinute 9: Social Distancing Networking
Today in the ApochroMinute, a quick tip to help you build and deepen relationships in your network, even in a time of social distancing.
11 Rules for Supervising Remote Employees
Last week we shared 11 Rules You Need to Know for Working Remotely, whether occasionally or full-time. As we noted, 70% of workers around the world are remote at least one day per week, and more than 50% work remotely at least half of the time. That means that more and more managers now supervise people working remotely. And, particularly due to COVID-19, more and more employees are suddenly working remotely without time for them or their supervisors to nail down the logistics.
ApochroMinute 8: Automate
On this week’s ApochroMinute, time management and the benefits of automation.
11 Rules You Need to Know for Working Remotely
With more workers being given the option to work remotely either in general or due to Covid-19, this week we’re resharing our popular 11 Rules You Need to Know for Working Remotely.
ApochroMinute 7: Eliminate
On this week’s ApochroMinute, time management and the benefits of elimination.
ApochroMinute 6: Executive Presence
Executive presence is critical to your professional success, and it’s more than feeling confident giving presentations.
On this week’s ApochroMinute, a simple step you can take to improve your executive presence today, and a brand new, free tool to help you assess and improve your presence: our exclusive Executive Presence Profile Quiz.
Applying for a new job? Consistency counts
If you caught this week’s ApochroMinute, you know that it’s important for your résumé, cover letter, references, and other materials to have consistent fonts, margins, and headers. Making sure your materials appear consistent is important, and once you have that taken care of, you can help your candidacy by making sure you are putting forth a professional image.
Apochromatik Book Bundle 6: Be Your Own Valentine
Today we are releasing Apochromatik’s sixth book bundle, and it is a special edition.
On February 13, Amy M. Gardner was thrilled to speak to one of her favorite gatherings of the year: the Be Your Own Valentine event hosted by Chicago Certified Financial Planner Jen Dawson of Hemington.
In honor of this the seventh year of this special event, we’re sharing a book bundle that ties into Amy’s presentation to the female lawyers, accountants, consultants, and executives in attendance.
Lawyer Well-Being Week, May 4-8, 2020
With the announcement of Lawyer Well-Being Week May 4-8, many firms are wondering how they’ll participate without adding more stress to already overloaded staff.
How is 2020 going for you?
If your check engine light comes on in your car do you go on YouTube, buy some self help books, check with friends, ignore it as long as you can, and eventually take it apart in the evening after work in your garage? Or, do you call your mechanic or car dealership to run a diagnostic? The vast majority of us don’t have the technical skill to troubleshoot modern cars...but do we have the technical skills to troubleshoot our career and personal goals?
8 Tips to Fit More Reading into Your Schedule in 2020
There are plenty of reasons reading more is important for professionals, from improving brain functions to keeping up on trends and developments in your industry, giving you something to talk about and think about outside work and family, to just feeling like you are using your brain. But when was the last time you sat down with a novel or any other book you didn’t have to read for work? In fact, 31% of Americans report that they have read just 1-5 books in the last year.
ApochroMinute 4: Conference and Event Dressing
Today on the ApochroMinute: Conference and Event Dressing
Exercise: 9 Tips to Find the Time
If you have a fitness-related goal you haven’t made progress on yet, you’re not alone. When you’re trying to juggle a career and a semblance of a life outside work, finding time to exercise isn’t easy. Here are some tips to help.
Go Streaking and 4 Other Tips to Create New Habits
“I’m too old to create new habits,” the client told me.
“What do you mean?” I asked, assuming I was misunderstanding. Nope, I was not:
“I’m too far along in my career and too set in my ways at this age to learn a new habit,” he clarified.
“Aren’t you 30?” I asked.
“No,” he said – “I’m 31.”
ApochroMinute 2
Trying to adopt new habits and finding it harder than you expected? In just 60 seconds, this week’s ApochroMinute explains why, and how you can move forward.
Don’t make resolutions, and 6 other tips for success in 2020
Last Wednesday wasn’t magical.
There, I said it. Yes, the new year is exciting – time to turn the page on 2019, and look forward to the blank slate of 2020. If your inbox is like mine, you probably had an onslaught of emails Tuesday and Wednesday with subject lines like “New Year, New You,” “New Year, New Discoveries,” or my favorite: “New Year, New Shoes” (because evidently, the 2019 me is good enough, but my shoes aren’t?!).
Video of the Week? Not in 2020...
Where’s the Apochromatik Video of the Week? After two years, it’s been retired. Instead, check out the ApochroMinute. Huh? Keith R. Sbiral explains.