My 3 Secrets to Make Working From Home Work
Working from home is an attractive proposition for many reasons such as time saved commuting, a better work/life balance and benefits to the environment such [...]
How To Be Unproductive During Your Summer Staycation
Remember when technology hadn’t yet infiltrated our lives and blurred the boundaries between work and home? Remember when we could take a vacation and we [...]
5 Ways to Improve a Vacation Coverage Policy
A vacation may not feel exactly like a vacation if we keep getting pulled back into work. That’s why a lot of teams arrange for [...]
What the Stock Market Can Teach Us About Productivity
As we know, the stock market rewards short-term performance. It cares little about our plans for next quarter or next year. It is purely focused [...]
Effective Family Meetings
You may have family time planned for this week, but do you have a family meeting planned? Family meetings are a great opportunity to bring [...]
The Best Way to Overcome Meeting Drain
As extroverted as I am, nothing makes me dread a day more than back-to-back meetings. All. Day. Long. It isn’t the meetings so much as [...]
Freemail Friday: Two-month Update
Here at Clear Concept, we have been working under our “Freemail Friday” policy for two months now. We are committing to no internal emails on [...]
Managing Your Technology at Home, So It Doesn’t Manage You
Technology has improved our lives and efficiency in so many ways. At the same time, technology is speeding up our pace of life. It has [...]
Introducing Email-free Fridays at Clear Concept
Many companies have introduced email bans as a means to combat email overload. Some have forbidden emails over the weekend, and others have declared certain [...]
Manager Proof Your Office
The memory of a brutal 2014 Canadian winter is beginning to thaw in our minds. We put snow shovels in the garage, misplace our car [...]