Shared stories remind us of who we are, where we’ve been, what we’ve seen, and what we’ve laughed and cried over. Stories can be short – one note-card. Stories can …
Workplace: SWOT
SWOT: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats is what the acronym stands for. Used in strategic planning sessions and in organizational goal setting, SWOT is a tool that provides insights, focal areas for continued actions and behaviors as well as pinpoints areas that need improvement and additional focus for success.
Nesting: NestingCards
NestingCards are a unique way to send notes, celebratory cards, and uplifting messages. Seven cards nestle into seven envelopes which fit inside each other like the doll-inside-of-a-wooden-doll set of nested dolls. …
Workplace: EA
EAPs can help people help themselves and their family members. If your company doesn’t have an EAP, create a resource list of contacts and phone numbers that can be helpful to team members and their families.
Workplace: KIS at Work
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Nesting: Retooling
This year, the Nesting blog is retooling at the recommendation of our customers and team to fine-focus on what our core product NestingCards® is, how to use the cards, and …
Nesting: Addition
More people working and schooling from home is leading to more additions – on human and construction fronts. Human additions have happened during many historically challenging times, during power-outages, and …
Workplace: Research
Research and development (R&D) are a business necessity; expense categories; learning opportunities; and potentially costly undertakings. Consider the R&D spending in 2020 to come up with a vaccine for COVID-19 – materials, labor, testing, more testing, and more materials and labor all over the world.
R&D typically applies to product development. Inventors and patent seekers look at the market, at unmet needs, at needs that could be better met, and at both technological as well as manual approaches that might lead to a new or better anything. Engineers and product managers look additionally look at how much demand might there be if we create it and attempt to sell it. They ask questions such as “will our investment be paid for, adequately rewarded, and make us more money than if we hadn’t done the research and development that lead to the production and marketing costs to release this new object?”