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6 Top Tips to Help You Manage Your Virtual Team Finding key ways to manage your team’s performance and routine is vital to keeping your department in its best state. Effective management skills help to motivate your staff, bringing out their best assets and creating a dynamic working environment. But what if you manage a virtual team? Remote workers and working-from-home colleagues may not be residents in your brick-and-mortar premises, [...]

5 Signs That You Need to Leave Your Toxic Work Environment As an experienced working human being, you must have had your fair share of horrible bosses, lousy working spaces or even cold colleagues who make your life a living hell. If you haven’t experienced this rite of passage, be on alert; there are obvious traits that you’ll know to avoid, but there are a few that stem from the [...]

5 Ways to Improve Employee Satisfaction Keeping your team happy is one of the most cost-effective paths to productivity. There are many techniques that your company might already have adopted into their general Human Resources package, but there’s always room for improvement right? Even though you might already have a free lunch system at the office or a Friday beer day for all your staff, your team’s expectations grow [...]

7 Ways your Team can Benefit from Gender Diversity in the Office Gender Diversity is a practice in the workplace that can ensure an ethical and empathetic environment where everyone is equal, no matter their gender, sexual orientation, race or creed -  sounds like the beginning of a very serious political speech, but this custom at work does not need to be ‘serious’ it needs to be ‘normal’. A 21st [...]

It’s time to get the vacation you deserve! 5 tips to manage your team when on holiday You’ve surely heard all of those Spotify adverts that blast through your car stereo on full volume, just after you’ve heard your favourite song! The one that strikes a real nerve is the “it’s your time to relax” advert claiming that you’ve worked hard for your time away from the office and that [...]

How often should a company hold a team building event? Every since you’ve shifted to Timestead for all your time logging and job management needs, your team seems to have a lot more time on their hands; freeing them up to give their 100%... hey, they’re even socialising a little more, right? Well that’s great! It’s exactly what we wanted to create with Timestead; an efficient team of hard workers [...]