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When you’re working from home, it can be really hard to transition from work mode to personal mode, but it’s more important than ever to keep the distinction clear. Here’s how to make the switch.

First, establish a routine that eases you into work mode. Maybe it’s putting your dishes in the dishwasher, getting a cup of coffee, and then sitting down at your computer. Or maybe it’s doing a quick workout, showering, and then turning to your phone to check email. Do these activities in the same way each day to build the habit.

Then, make a plan for your day, blocking out time on your calendar for meetings, answering emails, or focusing on special projects. Finally, set a wrap-up routine to end your workday.

This could include doing a final scan to make sure you’ve responded to all critical emails, looking over your task list to decide what you will tackle tomorrow, and maybe even saying out loud to yourself, “The workday is done, I’m signing off.”

This tip is adapted from Harvard Business Review

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The shift to working from home means that most of us are spending even more time looking at screens. And we all know the science on how harmful excessive screen time can be to our sleep and focus. The good news is that new research suggests that blue-light-filtering glasses (which reduce the amount of light that reaches your eyes) actually work.

Specifically, the study found that the glasses boost the quantity and quality of people’s sleep, and this can lead to all sorts of positive benefits at work, including improved engagement, more ethical behavior, and increased creativity. Wearing blue-light-filtering glasses may be particularly useful when you’re at home, where work time often bleeds into personal time, and screen time can pile up fast.

We all want to be our best selves at work, and this may be a relatively low-cost and straightforward solution that can help you do that.

This tip is adapted from Harvard Business Review

Contrary to popular belief, creativity doesn’t fall off a cliff during a lengthy brainstorm. Our first ideas tend to be the most obvious, and it’s only by digging more deeply that new ideas emerge. So set aside more time for creative processes than you think might be necessary — whether that means extending a meeting or putting a follow-up on the calendar.

Also, ask your team to generate two or even three times as many ideas as you think you need. Setting aggressive quotas can help people push past those obvious, early-stage ideas. And finally, measure your results. For example, the next time you run a workshop, track when the best ideas were actually generated.

Was it by the team that brainstormed for one hour, or the team that took three hours?

Did increasing your team’s idea quota result in more creative proposals?

Testing out these different variables can help you calibrate your process and harness your team’s creative potential.

This tip is adapted from Harvard Business Review

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Our client is an expert team of experienced chartered accountants, chartered tax advisors and registered auditors, based in Colombo.

Looking for a candidate to carry out all aspects of company secretarial work, research and prepare documents and liaise with relevant government departments, clients, and experts by attending and participating in both internal & external meetings as required.

Ideal candidate should,

• Be a qualified Attorney-at-Law & Notary Public

• Have minimum 2 years of experience (preference will be given for exposure) in commercial & corporate law including intellectual property law, labor law, trademarks, company law, notarial work

• Possess company secretarial skills will be a definite advantage

• Have strong drafting & writing skills

• Be a Methodical & Dynamic person with good interpersonal skills

• Be below 35 years of age

If you are interested in joining our client’s team, please email your CV to [email protected]

These are trying times. But the job of a leader is to set a tone that empowers people to do their best work. So when the whole world is feeling down, how can you steer your team toward optimism? Here are four pieces of advice:

1. Make room for “organizational foolishness.” While careful planning and project management are important, you also need to create space to unleash your team’s imagination, creativity, and fun.

2. Invite everyone to become a problem-solver, then give them the autonomy to fix things and pursue new projects. Fostering a spirit of agency on your team will help them adopt a more optimistic mindset.

3. Strengthen personal relationships. Ultimately it’s human connections — with clients, patients, and colleagues — that keep employees upbeat and motivated.

4. Share and celebrate good news. There’s a lot of bad news right now, but as a leader you can put a spotlight on positive developments. Try distributing a newsletter that highlights what’s going well, or carving out some time for gratitude and positivity in your next team meeting.

This tip is adapted from Harvard Business Review

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An employee who left your company wants to come back. What should you do?

It may seem like a good idea to rehire them: Because the former employee is a known quantity, you may consider them to be a safer bet than a new hire. But new research shows that the decision to rehire a so-called “boomerang employee” may not be so clear cut.

On the one hand, rehires may require less onboarding and may contribute more quickly than new hires. However, they also turn over at a higher rate than other employees (and more than twice as often as people who were internally promoted). And while the job performance of a boomerang employee is fairly predictable, both internal and external hires improve more on the job over time.

So, if predictability, short-term impact, and lower training costs are your goals, a boomerang employee might be the right fit. But if you’re looking for someone who’s going to stick around, an internal promotion might be the way to go.

This tip is adapted from Harvard Business Review

Our client is an expert team of experienced chartered accountants, chartered tax advisors and registered auditors, based in Colombo.

Looking for a candidate to carry out all aspects of company secretarial work, research and prepare documents and liaise with relevant government departments, clients, and experts by attending and participating in both internal & external meetings as required.

Ideal candidate should,

• Be a qualified Attorney-at-Law & Notary Public
• Have minimum 2 years of experience (preference will be given for exposure) in commercial & corporate law including intellectual property law, labor law, trademarks, company law, notarial work
• Possess company secretarial skills will be a definite advantage
• Have strong drafting & writing skills
• Be a Methodical & Dynamic person with good interpersonal skills
• Be below 35 years of age

If you are interested in joining our client’s team, please email your CV to [email protected]