Are you showing your employees enough support? Given that one-in-three workers would leave their companies for a more compassionate environment, there’s major incentive for companies to emphasize empathy skills sooner rather than later. For those of us working in a support role, our effectiveness ultimately boils down to how well we listen andContinue Reading
When Karla Cook, the current Editor of HubSpot’s Marketing Blog, first joined the team as a staff writer in July 2016, she realized she had more in common with most of her new teammates than she originally thought. As a rhetoric major at Bates College, a liberal arts school inContinue Reading
It was quite a day for Recode — a digital tech news site owned by Vox — to kick off its annual Code Commerce event. The morning’s headlines were crowded. Marc and Lynne Benioff (the former of whom is CEO of Salesforce) announced plans to purchase Time Magazine. The Adbusters Media FoundationContinue Reading
Whether you forgot a deadline, accidentally CC’d the CEO in a snarky email about the annual holiday party, or got caught insulting your boss on Facebook, embarrassing yourself at the office can feel like the end of the world. But while your little (or big) mistake might feel like aContinue Reading
By now, it’s clear: Facebook is trying to convince everyone that it’s putting the “social” back in “social media.” As the network begins to show a loss of followers under 25, is called out as a place where users argue with each other over contentious topics, and continues to faceContinue Reading
There’s a popular phrase that I’ve heard quite a bit throughout life: “Don’t get mad. Get even.” Sure, that makes sense — if you’re a character on a major soap opera or teen drama. But at the workplace, this kind of sentiment can be harmful. Anger, however — now that,Continue Reading
Office workers can pretty universally agree that buzzwords suck, but we’re all still guilty of peppering them into an email or a presentation here and there. There are certainly worse ways to bother your coworkers than corporate jargon, but intentionally cutting them out of your daily conversations can only benefitContinue Reading
Around here, we’re not exactly shy about our nerdiness. We love data. We love running experiments. And upon the release of a new report that combines the two, we gleefully geek out and immediately devour the results — always keeping in mind what they mean for marketers. One of theContinue Reading
Time is our scarcest resource, yet we spend so much of it doing things that are unproductive — usually without meaning to.
The average person wastes 31 hours in unproductive meetings according to Atlassian. And a McKinsey study shows we spend an average of 13 hours per week reading, writing,
When midday rolls around, you could spend your lunch hour grabbing a sandwich at the corner deli and then pretending to work at your desk.
Or, you could break a few world records.
