Employee Productivity Post from upStart HR This is a great posting from Ben Eubanks from upstartHR that summarizes some research on a manager’s impact on employee productivity. Be sure to click the links at the end of the post to see the original source of the info and the YouTube video.
Where you live shapes more than just your daily routine—it influences your happiness, health, and overall quality of life. In this guest post, Mackenzie Cottles from the Shoals Economic Development Authority (Shoals EDA) explores how remote work has opened the door to choosing lifestyle over location. If you’re weighing the decision between returning to an office in a place that doesn’t feel like home or working remotely in a community that truly fits your values, what would you choose? The right move could lead to a more balanced, fulfilling life.
Welcome to the March 2025 Leadership Development Carnival! Horizon Point is excited to host the carnival this month, featuring posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. The Framework for Organizational Excellence by John Spence Excellence isn’t accidental—it’s built with purpose. My new Organizational Excellence Framework brings together the key elements of success: purpose, culture, strategy, innovation, and simplicity. Read to see how it all comes together. How To Build a Better Relationship with Your Difficult (Icy) Boss by Karin Hurt You know the type: the difficult
After a year of “Open the Door” as our 2024 theme, we decided this year as a team that maybe we needed to simplify- our theme and our focus. As I discussed in my speech Taste and See, turning responsibility into obligation to open the door to anyone and anything brought about a state of too much in 2025. Like they say, there can be too much of a good thing. So in keeping with tasting and seeing what is good and letting that be the only obligation or responsibility to pursue, trusting that good things will flow naturally from
Productivity has always been one of our five operating values at Horizon Point. We tie it intimately to our value of passion, which looks something like this: Get stuff done. Get stuff done that is important and that we care about. We are adamant about protecting the fact that productivity doesn’t dictate how and where and when work’s done, but that it gets done and meets the need. This mindset hasn’t changed, but throughout 2024 our idea of what it means to be productive has grown and it is captured in our 2024 Book of the Year: Slow Productivity by