Some new hires receive their employee handbook the moment they show up for their first day on the job. In other cases, it’s provided to them as the last step of a formal onboarding process. Regardless of when they get it, however, the employee handbook should help team members begin the next phase...
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There’s an art and a science to creating a solid landing page. You want it to look good, sure, but it also needs to drive a desired action.
This is where user experience comes into the fold.
User experience, often stylized as UX, centers around how a person interacts with your website or product....
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The opportunities for Canadian manufacturers to begin “greening” their operations are everywhere — from the amount of electricity their equipment uses to the waste that often accompanies the production of goods. What’s sometimes challenging is knowing exactly how their journey should begin.
For...
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One of the great ironies of user experience (UX) design is that the more successfully it’s done, the more the world tends to take it for granted.
By now, for example, most of us get to a web site and know where to look when we want to dig deeper. There’s usually a menu running across the desktop...
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Efficiency is critical to make the best use of your resources. Productivity is paramount to fulfilling orders on time. But there’s a third attribute that tends to define the most successful manufacturers — one that may be less obvious to the public at large: transparency.
When many manufacturers...
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“Back to normal” is supposed to be a comforting phrase, especially when you’ve gone through the level of disruptions businesses across Canada and around the world have faced over the past couple of years.
For some people, though, “back to normal” might not mean a simple return to the environment...
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Even the best-managed companies have had to contend with challenges over the past two years that have put their leaders, their employees and even their customers to the test.
What we’ve seen over this time is a powerful synthesis of values, purpose and strategy that has reshaped the way successful...
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You can ask your customers to explain their problem over the phone.
You can ask them to read the documentation that came with their product, or which you’ve posted on an online knowledge centre.
You can ask them to come into a physical location to deal with the repairs.
Or you can ask them to...
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In many organizations, the sales team was using a hybrid work model long before we all started using the term.
Reps would regularly come to the office, for example, especially when they had to meet with their managers or the rest of the team. Those in sales have also needed to connect with their...
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