Top 5 Workplace Blogs of the Week - Workology

Top 5 Workplace Blogs of the Week Top 5 Workplace Blogs of the Week Were happy to bring to you 5 blogs we read this week that we thought were overwhelmingly fantastic! Hope you like them! If not, post your own and maybe if theyre  cool  enough well post them next week! Happy Friday! Top 5 Workplace Blogs of the Week How to Love Your Job When You Don’t If youve been reading our weekly 5 blogs youve noticed a trend. A lot of people hate their jobs and we are trying spread tons of advice on how to love your job even when you hate it. This blog is a  perfect example. Damn You Auto Correct! (train your employees to proofread) This is a funny. Please read and if you dont laugh read it until you do. A little humor on this fantastic Friday afternoon! Your Job Is In Jeopardy. It’s Not Fair. Deal With It. (Here’s How.) Learn how to deal with a boss who hates you and a job that you may lose within a week. We all know it sucks, but the sooner you get over it the sooner you find a better opportunity. Today’s Work/Life Strife Explained Were going back in time for this one. Do you work 80 hours a week so you dont have to work 40 hours for someone else? Do you work 60 hours a week, when youre only getting paid for 40? Or are you one of the smart individuals who work 20 hours a week, tell your boss you work 40, but know how to organize all your stuff? Well, this infographic is pretty cool. Are you overworked and underpaid? Social Siesta Lands at #SXSW Interactive 2013 #SOCIALSIESTA The party to be at is coming to SXSW this year for its 4th installment.  The event will take place Saturday, March 9th, 2013 from 1-3pm in Austin, Texas. The waitlist is growing, reserve your tickets  while you still can! Were done! Unless you have others..welldo you? Post them below! Share with us! Afterall, sharing is caring!

The Best Career Options for Extroverted job Seekers

The Best Career Options for Extroverted employment Seekers The Best Career Options for Extroverted employment Seekers 1. Wellbeing callings are ordinarily consistently sought after, so you can hope to have a protected salary and a drawing in workplace as a physical specialist. Broadly, physical advisors make about $73,000 every year and spotlight their work on helping patients with supported physical wounds. Outgoing characters can flourish as physical advisors as their cordial characters and want to assist individuals with willing assistance inspire patients to push for recuperation. 2. Employments in HR are essentially individuals arranged and require run of the mill assignments including the enrollment of new staff and taking care of issues with current staff individuals. The overwhelming spotlight on representative commitment calls for elevated levels of mingling and loads of eye to eye time with both current and imminent workers. The middle pay for a HR pro is nearly $53,000 every year. 3. Another calling in the medicinal services field requiring great relationship building abilities is dental cleanliness. Dental hygienists, with a middle compensation of about $73,000 every year, commonly help dental specialists with patients while attempting to keep them quiet and go about as a contact among patients and staff. 4. Outgoing people are normally agreeable as the focal point of consideration and maybe no occupation shouts out for that consideration more so than acting. Entertainers keep up an ordinary discourse with different on-screen characters and set staff and stay up with the latest system of contacts so as to continue working. The middle compensation for an entertainer is about $51,000 every year. 5. For those laborers driven by bringing in cash, functioning as a team lead might be a solid match. Project supervisors require high magnetism so as to connect with clients and persuade them to purchase what is an offer. Not exclusively accomplish project supervisors work legitimately with clients yet additionally direct the administration of a whole deals group. Pay rates can fluctuate from work to-work yet the middle compensation for project leads is more than $107,000 every year. 6. One thing social butterflies can be generally excellent at is intercession. Being the go-to individual for compromise is extraordinary preparing for a vocation in intervention. An expert middle person helps individuals, or gatherings of individuals, to settle clashes with different gatherings by equitably looking at contentions from the two sides of a contention to discover shared conviction. The middle compensation for go betweens is above $53,000 every year.

10 Things you can do with a Bicycle ME Today March 2012

10 Things you can do with a Bicycle ME Today March 2012 10 Things you can do with a Bicycle ME Today March 2012 10 Things you can do with a Bicycle Politeness of www.engineeringforchange.org Since innovators have reworked the bike as a modest force flexibly for heap items, the universes most productive transportation gadget currently handles everything from crap to frozen yogurt. Here, we have gathered together ten of the most functional and imaginative ways that bikes are serving networks in the creating scene. 1. Husk corn Prop a bike on a stand, append this corn sheller, and two individuals can fill a 90kg sack of corn in a short time, which is around multiple times quicker than doing it by hand. One individual pedals, different drops corn into the sheller. Jodie Wu, a 2009 MIT graduate, and Bernard Kiwia, a Tanzanian bicycle technician and innovator, set out to really focus to make the corn sheller in 2008. Wu established Global Cycle Solutions, a social undertaking that takes the sheller to towns around Tanzania. GCS has since made another bicycle driven gadget, a cell phone charger. Video: youtube.com/implant/EFHXoNckivE 2. Hone blades Afrigadget posted this short video of a bike fueled blade honing machine at work in Nairobi, Kenya. Dwindle Karagu transformed a bike into a blade sharpener that he can utilize while accelerating set up. In certain pieces of the creating scene this machine could be a practical business as an area honing administration. Video: youtube.com/insert/9bx_PkNIfK4 3. Strip for parts to make a windmill William Kamkwamba constructed his now-celebrated DIY wind-controlled generator from rescued parts, including a bike casing and chain. As he told E4C, the windmill lit lights that Kamkwamba introduced himself in his home in country Malawi when he was only 14 years of age. Bicycle parts show up in another breeze controlled plan: a family-sized generator for homes in country Guatemala. Launch Design, a San Francisco-based building firm, sorted out the model of a generator utilizing a DC engine and a bike chain. The generator is intended to connection to a vertical-hub wind turbine that is produced using privately sourced parts and modest enough for a country Guatemalan family to manage. Video: youtube.com/implant/kZMsR-SyGxk 4. Charge a battery Fenix International built up a bike fueled generator to revive its altered batteries for off-lattice homes in creating nations. The batteries are sufficiently large to control low-vitality apparatuses and LED lights in homes, and theyre intended for wellbeing, toughness and long life. To charge them, Velo generator units join to the rear of a bike, raise the back tire to keep the bicycle fixed, and energize the ReadySet in 60 minutes. In five to ten minutes of accelerating, the generator makes enough capacity to charge a cell phone or force a bank of LEDs for two hours. 5. Channel water Waterborne infection is a main enemy of youngsters under age five around the world, and a crippler of economies, keeping kids home from school and grown-ups home from work. In people group where open cook fires are the main line of water treatment, consolidating the universes most productive transportation gadget with a water channel is a smart thought. Two bike controlled water channel plans grabbed our eye. Nippon Basic Co. concocted Cyclo Clean, a bike fixed with a siphon to draw water from a stream or well and a vigorous, three-channel framework to cleanse the water. The channels are intended to last without swap for a long time, and the tires are cut verification. It can channel three tons of water in 10 hours. Cyclo Clean is pedal-fueled utility at its generally refined, in this way, the Aqueduct resembles Cyclos eccentric younger sibling. It is a tricycle with bubbly bends and a sky-blue paint work that siphons up to two gallons of water through a channel while the rider rides. It doesn't draw water from an outside source, as Cyclo, and Cyclo handles a lot more prominent volumes of water, however Aqueducts one bit of leeway is that it can carry out its responsibility moving. Video: youtube.com/insert/ - U-mvfjyiao 6. Use it as an emergency vehicle The bike rescue vehicle is a thought imagined in provincial Nepal, where there are not many vehicles and temperamental open transportation. It is an ease down to earth answer for crises, and it tends to be developed locally by bike mechanics. Down to earth Action has distributed a free development manual for the rescue vehicle, a two-wheeled trailer hitched to the rear of a bike. The carriage has sufficient space for two individuals to sit or lay, and it is outfitted with a sun shade and stuns to make the ride progressively agreeable for a harmed individual. Our Solutions Library has subtleties. 7. Cross a waterway Borne of a relationship separated by a stream, this land and/or water capable bike changes into a pedal-controlled watercraft. At the shore, coasts drop down from the haggles vehicle takes its rider accelerating over water to visit his affection enthusiasm at her awkwardly found home. Anil Gupta, originator of the Honeybee Network, has considered the land and/or water capable bike a case of exceptionally imaginative advancement among his companions in India. Video: youtube.com/implant/REx9rMDbqRg 8. Siphon water Bikes can control water siphons for drawing great water, water system and evenlawn sprinklers. A group at MIT built up a promising plan for a bicycle fueled water siphon. What's more, this youthful creator consolidated a bicycle controlled siphon with a moderate sand channel as her entrance in the Specialized Innovate or Die rivalry in 2007. Video: youtube.com/insert/fJJsK3kZTCQ 9. Siphon out a pit toilet In neighborhoods where pit lavatory upkeep is irregular and crude sewage can in some cases flood into the road, a versatile, minimal effort crap siphon can diminish the spread of illness and spare lives, also include a little poise. A group of building and business understudies have transformed a bicycle into a toilet siphon and constructed a business around it called Sanergy. The siphon is the initial phase in a waste-to-vitality process that Sanergy has made for creating networks. Video: http://player.vimeo.com/video/20800577?title=0byline=0portrait=0 10. Wash garments Family garments washers can pedal their approach to limpieza in Peru, where a MITteamturned a bicycleandoil drum into a clothes washer. Thebicilavadora got a trial atanorphanage outside ofLima,shown in the video.The bicilavadora can spare time and help keep the clothing, and clothing soap,out of the streams and lakes where garments are oftenwashed. Video: youtube.com/implant/xd4gPZAdQJw

Professional goal setting and managing your manager

Professional goal setting and managing your manager Professional Goals Master Barista and Asian Super Hero Kato from the Green Hornet Professional Goals In the past two blog posts we discussed two related topics. A candidate  who was VERY accomplished and someone any company would love to hire. Unfortunately, she didn’t realize that she needed to be descriptive and detailed about her accomplishments. Hence she looked just average. Why hard work goes un noticed and the benefits of talking about what we are going to do BEFORE we do them.   This weeks post I share how to list  out your accomplishments BEFORE they are complete. This does few  things: Removes the stress of bragging about what we have accomplished with our managers after the work is done Ensures that you and your manager are aligned in what you are working and that the work is important and valued Gives the actual work (and not just the final results) value that your manager can see, understand and appreciate. (Especially needed  when managers dont know what you do) When we do this, our manager: Has pre-written material when it comes to your review. (This makes your review the easiest to write for your manager, always a good thing.) Understands our professional  goals and can help or notify us when opportunity comes up. Low maintenance employee Managers want to work with employees who are self-directed and need little to no management. The way we keep our managers off our back is by keeping them updated on what we are working on and why. One simple way to do this is outlined below. Commit to your manager in writing, the actual task you are going to accomplish over the next 3 to 6 months. (hopefully it is something that is important to your manager) Put together a very brief synopsis on why your project is important to the department or the company Outline the steps needed to accomplish this task and include dates when individual milestones will be hit Update your manager via email in a consistent format and time cycle so your manager becomes trained to your specific style. Do the above and  you will stand very tall amongst a low bar of folks doing nothing proactive about their careers.   Yeah, I’m in HR and I just said that.     The Goal So, for instance, let’s say I am a coffee boy in training at the local Acme Coffee Haus that also specializes in coffee roasting. I happen to love coffee and my goal is to become a full-fledged barista. How much do I love coffee? I buy coffee beans on the internet and roast them in an air pop popcorn machine myself. Believe it or not, I grind them in a hand grinder and weigh coffee portions for consistent flavor profiles. Call me a coffee nerd, but I watch the Barista Championships on YouTube. What can I say? I live in Seattle and I got me some dreams bitches! Not part of my career plan Grunt work for a newbie As a coffee boy in training, I get to sweep up the floor which is covered with coffee beans, ground coffee, used  coffee grounds and empty sweetener packets. I get to clean the toilets and when the Master Roaster wants a sandwich from Jimmy Johns, I get the privilege of running around the corner and coming back with a Number 9 on wheat with a bag of plain chips. Basically, I am the rented mule at the Acme Coffee Haus and I don’t get any trophies when I bring back the Master Roaster’s sammy in record time. I do NOT get to touch the coffee roasting machine, I do NOT get to steam any milk, and I do NOT get to wear a cool flat brim hat with our Coffee Haus Logo on it. I get dickus. The Epiphany One day after cleaning up a spilled triple latte with extra mocha, and a splash of mint with whip,  I get frustrated and say to the Barista, This is bull shit!   When you going to make me a Barista? Haven’t I paid my dues yet? All I get in return is the equivalent of The Devil Wears Prada and an  order to fetch a Number 9 on wheat with a plain bag of chips. Fuming, I storm out and slam the door. I can’t believe this shit.   On the way back from Jimmy Johns with Number 9 on wheat in hand, I have an epiphany.  I can’t wait for the Master Roaster or Barista to feel sorry for my broom pushing ass. Only a feel sorry would  wait and pray that someone takes me under their wing. I gotta hustle yo! The Pitch That night, I put together a list and the next morning, I present the following to the Barista. Barista, My dream is to become just like you. You have an important job and I admire what you do. You make the  customers  day start off on the right foot every morning with their fix of caffeine. All our customers like, admire and tip you. They feel important around you when you remember their names and their drinks. You are a bad ass Barista.” (A little suck-up never hurts).   Professional Goal The Milestones needed to hit  the goal “My goal is to get off the rented mule program fetching sandwiches and become a “Barista in training”. In an effort to become the Barista in training, I am going to do the following and hope this puts me on the path to becoming a Barista. Read the book “Barista for dummies” over the next 10 days. Memorize 10 customer’s names and their drinks in the next 20 days. Familiarize myself with all  the pastries we have and their calorie count in the next 30 days. I am going to memorize all the drinks that we make from Americano to Double Mocha with an extra Splenda and no whip AND THEIR PRICES in the next 40 days. The business logic Barista, if I get onto the path of becoming a barista, you could take a three-day weekend and have a back up (thats the business case for this goal). I think the above are important steps to becoming a Barista in training. If I do the above 4 things, would that QUALIFY me for the title of Barista in training if a position were to open? Manager / Employee Negotiation Barista looks at me  shaking his head side to side. “Newb, I like your moxie. You got heart kid, and you are on the right path, but you got a few of these wrong and obviously, you have a lot to learn. Let me see that list. Barista for dummies. . . Check, I like it. 10 customers names and drinks in 20 days? We get 300 customers a day. How about 20 names and their drinks this week. At your rate, it will take you over a month. Skip number 2 and that calorie counting bull shit. If our customers knew how many calories were in an apple fritter or the pumpkin spice bread, we would lose out on a high margin item that requires no work to serve. 86 that! You need to memorize the names of the coffee blends we sell and their characteristics in the next 2 weeks. I want you to know what coffees are fruity, which are from Africa, and which are good for drip vs. espresso. Memorize the flavor profiles You do all that and then we can THINK about calling you a barista in training. Don’t be thinking you are going to be touching any espresso machines!  Got it coffee boy? Email confirmation to Manager My plan in place, I update the list and send an email confirmation with  the revised list to the Barista AKA, the manager. I read  something like: Thanks for taking the time to talk about my Coffee Career here at Acme Coffee Haus. I am excited. Just to confirm, I am going to do the following over the next 40 days and then I will qualify for being a Barista in training. I am going to:   Read the book “Barista for dummies” over the next 10 days. Memorize 20 customer’s names and their drinks in the next 5 days. Learn  all the drinks that we make from Americano to Double Mocha with an extra Splenda and 2X  whip AND THEIR PRICES in the next 40 days. I am going to memorize the names of the coffee blends we sell and their characteristics in the next 2 weeks. I will explain what coffees are fruity, which are from Africa, and which are good for drip vs. espresso. Manager updates Over the next 40 days, I send the Barista, AKA my manager a weekly update on my progress.  After 2 weeks, a progress report might look like: Barista, just a quick update on my progress towards my goal of becoming a barista in training. Goal: Read the book “Barista for dummies” over the next 10 days. I have read the first 4 chapters and have 3 to go. I learned the history of coffee and the different styles of espresso machines on the market. It’s a great book and is giving me background on coffee. I didnt realize there was so much behind the culture. Goal: Learn  20 customer’s names and their drinks in the next 5 days. I have surpassed this goal and am now working on 40 customer names and their drinks. It’s cool to be able to greet customers by name when they come in! Watch and count my peeps tomorrow morning! Goal: Familiarize myself with  all the drinks that we make from Americano to Double Mocha with an extra Splenda and no whip, AND THEIR PRICES in the next 40 days. This is done and was relatively easy because all the drinks build off each other. I get the pricing structure now. Ready to be tested. Goal: I am going to memorize the names of the coffee blends we sell and their characteristics in the next 2 weeks. I will explain what coffees are fruity, which are from Africa, and which are good for drip vs. espresso. I am still working on this one, but have itemized the blends of coffee we sell and categorized them by country of origin, flavor profile, and price. Still working and tasting the various ways the different coffee is prepared but I still have a few weeks and am confident I will pass your test. For the record, at the end of the 40 days, you just wrote your own review. Your manager can cut and paste what you accomplished straight  into your review.   The pressure is now on the manager The Barista didn’t think I was going to follow through with my professional goals. He thought I was going to give up or quit. Suddenly, he realizes he is going to have some pressure on his hands. The closer I get to finishing this list, the more pressure there will be to find me a Barista in Training slot. My boss, the barista knows the qualifications of the job “Barista in training”.   The barista knows that I know, we agreed to the qualification of the job “Barista in training”. By his own words, I will be qualified.   I backed him into a corner. Barista realizes he made an informal commitment and unless he wants to look like an ass, he is going to be training a barista, ME! He won’t have an excuse that I am not qualified because of the first two bullets. He also realizes that he has someone who is serious about becoming a barista and is willing to put in the time and effort. The pressure pays off Over the next 2 months, I get to touch the espresso machine, I get to steam milk and I get to serve drinks. I even get a flat brim baseball cap with the logo. We see a couple of coffee boys and girls come through and most quit after a week of cleaning toilets. But there is this one young kid that seems to really want it. . . I think I need someone to fetch me a Jimmy Johns. Who schooled who? Interestingly, I observe the Barista approach the Master Coffee Roaster and say: Master Coffee Roaster, my professional goal  is to become just like you. You have an important job and I admire what you do. You make peoples day start off on the right foot every morning with their fix of java. Customers might not know who you are, but everything revolves around you. The baristas wouldn’t be anything without your skill as a roaster and that expensive machine wouldn’t be worth squat without your discerning nose. You are a bad ass Coffee Roaster.” Professional goal: Coffee Roaster My new professional goal “My professional goal is to get off this barista job and not have to talk with customers. In an effort to become a Coffee Roaster in training, I am going to do the following and hope this puts me on the path to becoming a Coffee Roaster like you. . . . See you at the after party, HRNasty nasty: an unreal maneuver of incredible technique, something that is ridiculously good, tricky and manipulative but with a result that can’t help but be admired, a phrase used to describe someone who is good at something. “He has a nasty forkball. 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