10,000 Birds
AUGUST 16, 2020
I didn’t expect to see any birds. It was over 90 degrees F on a Georgia afternoon, the humidity adding an extra dose of discomfort. In a rare afternoon to myself, I had driven across the Florida/Georgia border to pick up a few things in a nearby town (curbside + social distancing), and discovered a historic estate, open to the public, along the road on my way back.
Sales and Marketing Management
AUGUST 21, 2020
Author: Nick Ziech-Lopez It’s no secret that people love text messages. Developed in the early 1990s, texting quickly rose to popularity due to its ease of use and low cost. It remains, by many estimates, to be the world’s most popular mobile application. And, while down from its peak in 2011, over 1.5 trillion SMS (short message service) messages are sent within the United States each year.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 17, 2020
Last week, I “attended” the virtual North American Ornithological Conference (NAOC). Because NAOC is so large, it is more accurate to say I sampled small parts of the enormous event. As I said in an earlier post , I was curious whether an ornithological conference would be interesting to a birder, so I plunked down $50 for registration and planted myself in front of Zoom for several hours a day.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 15, 2020
In the era of digital cameras and social media, images of birds are easy to come by. Even photos of the rarest of birds can be found, even heart-wrenching images of bird species that are no longer with us. The fleeting photo of an Ivory-billed Woodpecker tugs at and flies away with a piece of the heart, that final image of a Slender-billed Curlew is difficult to look at, it’s a stab deep inside.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 19, 2020
Back when I started birding during my youth in California, it didn’t take long for me to notice and appreciate how Northern Mockingbirds would sometimes do backflips in the air while singing. Northern Mockingbirds aren’t all that common in central Mexico, and for some reason, I rarely hear them sing here. Fortunately, I can meet my needs for acrobatic singing with our Blue-black Grassquits.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 16, 2020
August weekends don’t always promise birding excitement, but the tantalizing prospect of a singular sighting always exists. Don’t ever think that the best birds can’t appear at the most unexpected times. Case in point, my best bird of the year so far, at least in terms of my state and county lists, manifested in the form of two ridiculously unlikely Swallow-tailed Kites who have adopted improbable momentary residence in the Rochester area.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 20, 2020
A few days ago, I saw a Yellow Bittern trapped in a fishing device. The bird got very nervous when I approached, trying to strike me with its beak through the net. Now, I am sure there is one Shanghai fisherman cursing the evil person who cut a hole in his net. Herons and egrets are easily the most visible birds at Nanhui, particularly in summer. It is interesting to see the different evolutionary strategies of closely related bird species – the various snow-white egrets with their “
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 16, 2020
Striated Herons are fairly easy to observe around Broome even if they are rather sneaky around the port area. At Gantheaume Point they are reliably found throughout the year. The changing shape of the Striated Heron as it moves around the rocks as it feeds and as it moves up the beach as the tides come in are incredible. It is almost enough to make you wonder if it is the same bird or not!
Sales and Marketing Management
AUGUST 20, 2020
Author: Paul Nlolan As employers look to reopen and bring team members back to the office, if only on a part-time basis, it’s important to realize they cannot think of it as “business as usual,” says Mike Veny, who consults with companies on promoting mental health wellness. It’s not exaggeration to say we are living through traumatic times, he says.
Sales and Marketing Management
AUGUST 20, 2020
Author: Paul Nolan Allego, a leading provider of virtual learning and enablement solutions, surveyed employees and employers (HR reps) in two separate surveys to get a clearer idea how each side was feeling about technical and non-technical resources provided to them by their organizations, employee productivity and collaboration, and COVID-19’s overall impact on their company.
Sales and Marketing Management
AUGUST 20, 2020
Author: Taylor Napierski, Head of Client Success, Televerde It’s a tough time to be in client success. Client success is one of those jobs where you don’t hear many kudos when things are going well, but you’re the first to get a call when things go wrong. And that’s OK. It’s our job to be on the frontlines of client interactions, be they good or bad.
Sales and Marketing Management
AUGUST 17, 2020
Author: Charles D. Brennan Jr. We hear the term “new normal” from news outlets, friends, family and colleagues on a regular basis. It begs the question, how do we define this coined phrase? The new normal reference suggests an imposition between what we knew and what our future holds. Broadly brushed, it requires a re-examination of everything we aspire to accomplish, even the simplest of our daily tasks, our basic routines and how we interact with one another.
Sales and Marketing Management
AUGUST 20, 2020
Author: Paul Nolan A sense of accomplishment is vital for workers who are uncertain when they will return to the office. Increased communication from managers and clarity about goals and how performance is being measured helps workers maintain a sense of their performance. Writing for Forbes.com , leadership coach Chris Westfall offers these tips for helping workers be more productive in WFH settings: Help workers get comfortable.
Sales and Marketing Management
AUGUST 20, 2020
Author: Paul Nolan A key rule of managing remote teams in the pandemic is to keep in mind that everybody’s experience is different. Some employees may find WFH more conducive to their work habits, while others struggle with the lack of structure that the controlled environment of an office provided. Also, as psychotherapist Laurie Sharp-Page and others emphasize, employees always bring more than their work selves to the office; WFH magnifies that.
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Sales and Marketing Management
AUGUST 20, 2020
Author: Paul Nolan Dealing with anxiety: Feeling anxious is a normal, healthy human response to stressful circumstances. But sometimes fear and worry become excessive, causing intense physical reactions and disrupting one’s quality of life. Managers should remind workers to maintain healthy habits, including making sleep a priority, exercising, eating well, staying on top of medications and performing regular chores.
Sales and Marketing Management
AUGUST 20, 2020
Author: Paul Nolan As the COVID-19 pandemic extended beyond a couple months of working remotely, five work companions from a New York AI and machine-learning company searched vacation rental websites for a place they could isolate together to work and enjoy each other’s company. They ended up leaving their cities (one lived in Boston) for a five-bedroom restored bed-and-breakfast in Westbrook, Connecticut.
Sales and Marketing Management
AUGUST 20, 2020
Author: Paul Nolan “COVID-19 is taking a toll on our minds and emotions in a million little ways,” says Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) President and CEO Johnny C. Taylor, Jr. “Now, more than ever, employers should double down against stigmas and guarantee employees know of the resources, benefits and accommodations available.”. SHRM offers these tips for employers: 1.
Sales and Marketing Management
AUGUST 20, 2020
Author: Ari D.Kalechstein Even faced with a pandemic, leaders can motivate teams by being transparent and by encouraging positive change. Here are five critical factors that leaders can use to maximize the likelihood of successful company transition in times of crisis. 1. Be honest with your team. Instead of projecting bravado and sureness about the outcome of the pandemic, be honest with your team.
Sales and Marketing Management
AUGUST 20, 2020
Author: Paul Nolan It’s important to remember that your workers are more than the jobs they perform. Employers need to be aware that it’s not just the stress of working from home that may be impacting workers’ performance. “For a long time there was an erroneous belief that you could check your personal stress at the door when you walked into the office.
Sales and Marketing Management
AUGUST 20, 2020
Author: Paul Nolan Millennials are the country’s largest pet-owning demographic, overtaking Baby Boomers in 2017. The shift to working from home has caused many previous petless households to adopt an animal. Companies are taking notice and responding by incorporating pet-friendly perks into their employee policies. Never mind bring-your-dog-to-work days, The Wall Street Journal reports that companies are offering employees everything from an extra week of paid leave for new pet owners to $200 o
Sales and Marketing Management
AUGUST 20, 2020
Author: Paul Nolan Sports teams from the professional level to high school invest significant sums of money in their facilities to obtain peak productivity from their athletes. On the professional level, athletes are paid exorbitant salaries, thus it only makes sense for owners to seek the best return on their investment by supplying elite training equipment that can help draw out every bit of their skills.
Sales and Marketing Management
AUGUST 20, 2020
Author: Paul Nolan Using a hierarchy of controls as a response framework, companies can take a range of actions?—?weighing the effectiveness and financial impact of each?—?to combat Covid-19 in their buildings. Elimination of exposure by extending work-from-home policies is most effective but not feasible for all companies. Substitution activities identifies only the critical workers that must be onsite and physically isolates teams.
Sales and Marketing Management
AUGUST 20, 2020
Author: Paul Nolan Harvard Business School Senior Lecturer John D. Macomber says the book he co-authored with Harvard Assistant Professor Joseph G. Allen is aimed at making the business case for investing in healthy buildings. Here are some of the facts they present to make that argument. Workers in an optimized indoor environment?–?high ventilation rates, low volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and carbon dioxide?
Sales and Marketing Management
AUGUST 20, 2020
Author: Paul Nolan Allen and Macomber recommend that businesses begin tracking Health Performance Indicators (HPIs) as a means of measuring their building’s performance in terms of indoor environmental quality. HPIs can be divided into four quadrants according to the timing of indicators and what they measure. Their four quadrants are divided into leading and lagging indicators, as well as direct and indirect indicators.
Sales and Marketing Management
AUGUST 20, 2020
Author: Paul Nolan Since entire workforces have moved to remote offices, some companies have implemented various software programs that closely track employee productivity and time spent on tasks. Proponents argue these systems help workers who may struggle to focus in a work-from-home environment stay on task and even increase productivity from their days in the office.
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