How to Stop Toxic Leadership from Spreading a Virus in Your Company

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Toxic workplaces sometimes start at the top. Difficult, abrasive leaders can create a culture of tension, fear, and abusive behavior at every organizational level. Those types of leaders may produce results, but their actions also lead to dysfunction and employee turnover. Ending the pattern of toxicity starts with companies recognizing red flags, coming up with new … [More]

5 Tips to Focus Your Company’s Transformation as COVID Forces Change

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While the recession caused by COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on businesses of all sizes and industries, some are finding new ways to run daily operations, reach customers, re-shape their business, and stay relevant. But others are still trying to figure out how to transform, and an expert in the field says that launching a transformation begins with setting the right … [More]

Medical Advisory Services Co. Launches Medicare Services throughout Arizona 

Connie Health

Connie Health, a personal Medicare advisory service combining Medicare expertise and local advisors with data-driven insights, to help individuals make confident and informed decisions about their Medicare options, has launched its services in Maricopa, Pinal and Yavapai counties. Connie Health was formed in 2019 by Valley resident David Luna and partners Michael Scopa and … [More]

New Downtown Phoenix College IT Institute to Host (Virtual) Grand Opening Event

Phoenix College

Phoenix College is excited to join ranks with Arizona State University and the University of Arizona as it opens its first downtown Phoenix location. The grand opening will take place on Sept. 18, 2020 from 8 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. in a virtual format open to the community for live streaming. The virtual grand opening of the Phoenix College IT Institute will include remarks from … [More]

Magellan Health and Livongo to Co-create a New Digital and Clinical Care Experience across the Behavioral Health Continuum

Magellan Health, Inc.

Magellan Health, Inc., one of the nation’s leaders in behavioral health, today announced a strategic relationship with Livongo (Nasdaq: LVGO) the leading Applied Health Signals company empowering people with chronic conditions to live better and healthier lives, making Livongo for Behavioral Health available to Magellan Health customers and their members as the digital entry … [More]

Partnership to Deliver Customized Professional Development Curriculum to Returning Citizens

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The global pandemic has revealed widening social and economic divisions that can no longer be ignored. Fixing these issues requires commitment, innovation, and action from across sectors where business, academia, philanthropy, and government work together to reduce global inequality so that all individuals have opportunities to prosper. As one of the country’s most marginalized … [More]

What You Need to Know About Canceling Credit Cards

Take Charge America, Inc.

Closing a rarely used credit card may sound like a good idea, but it’s not as simple as some people may think. “Many don’t realize that closing a credit card can negatively impact their credit scores in the short term,” said Michael Sullivan, a personal financial consultant with Take Charge America, a national nonprofit credit counseling and debt management agency. … [More]

Weekly Jobless Claims Hover Above 800,000, Virus Continues Toll on Employment

U.S. Department of Labor

In the week ending September 5, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 884,000, unchanged from the previous week's revised level. The previous week's level was revised up by 3,000 from 881,000 to 884,000. The 4-week moving average was 970,750, a decrease of 21,750 from the previous week's revised average. The previous week's average was revised up by 750 … [More]

Their Take: Failure to Adjust for Inflation Makes Prop. 208 Destructive

NFIB

The threat to Arizona small businesses posed by Proposition 208’s 77.7% income tax increase will only grow each year due to the initiative’s failure to adjust to annual inflation increases, warned the state’s leading small-business association today. “Without an annual inflation adjustment, Proposition 208 goes from bad to worse,” said Chad Heinrich, Arizona state director … [More]

How to Learn a Company’s Unwritten Office Rules when There’s No Office

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Not every workplace rule, tradition or general way of doing things appears in the employee handbook. Newly hired employees often must figure out on their own how a company’s culture really operates, and how to maneuver within “unwritten rules” to move up in the organization. Now, with remote work that COVID-19 forced on so many businesses, that daunting transition from … [More]

Local Credit Union Joins more than 700 Companies Committed to Giving Employees Time to Vote

Arizona Federal Credit Union

Locally-based financial cooperative, Arizona Federal Credit Union is one of more than 700 companies nationwide who have now joined Time to Vote, a business-led, nonpartisan coalition that aims to increase voter participation in the U.S. elections. Voter turnout in the U.S. is one of the lowest in the developed world and one of the most common reasons people give for not voting … [More]

4 Make-or-Break Customer Service Skills and How to Find Them

by Ken Crowell

Poor customer service costs American businesses billions each year, while companies with friendly and attentive employees keep customers and attract new ones. Customer service personnel are the first point of contact with your company and can make or break your business. According to Ken, some of the top skills to look for include: Patience/Grace Under Pressure: Customers … [More]

Smart Search Enables Work From Home Efficiencies

SearchBlox

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, enterprise employees spent an average of 1.8 hours every day searching for the information and data they need to do their jobs. Now that they're physically separated from teammates and collaborators, finding that information is harder than ever. After all, prior to the pandemic only about 15% of U.S. employees worked from home and only some of … [More]

Partnership to Deliver Volume Manufacturing of Rapid, Lab-Free COVID-19 Testing System

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Benchmark Electronics, Inc. (NYSE:BHE), a global provider of engineering, design, and manufacturing services, and consumer genetic testing pioneers DnaNudge, announced a key manufacturing partnership to deliver volume production of DnaNudge’s rapid, lab-free reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) COVID-19 testing system. DnaNudge’s ground-breaking consumer DNA … [More]

High-Performance Brands Announce New Alliance

Bondurant School of High Performance Driving

Bondurant High Performance Driving School today announced a historic promotional agreement with PepsiCo designed to put their iconic beverages into the fast lane with the auto enthusiasts who attend Bondurant driver training programs. This is the first time that Bondurant has entered into such an encompassing agreement with an international beverage company. “Over the last … [More]

Federal Contract Accommodation Strategies during COVID-19 Announced

Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs

Everyone is adjusting their workplace for COVID-19 and the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) understands that federal contractors are trying to remain productive and are finding innovative ways to continue the work they do. In a continued effort to provide contractors with resources on how to remain in compliance, OFCCP is … [More]

Considering a Career Change Amid COVID? Consider an Essential Service Career

by Kassidy McDonald

Arizona’s jobless rate stands at 10.6 percent as of July 2020 and many unemployed in the state are left considering if they should continue to apply for jobs in their industry of expertise or begin to contemplate an impactful career change. Many essential service businesses, like engineering consulting firm Alta Southwest, have seen incredible growth throughout the pandemic and … [More]

Where Did the Time Go? 3 Techniques to Boost Your Productivity and Maximize Your Time

by Edgar R. Olivo

It is no secret that the pandemic has made our time feel very different, especially if you are a remote worker. For some people, there are not enough hours in the day, and for others the days are too long. Are you doing the most with your time? Time is a resource. And like any other resource, when planned properly, it can have great returns on many areas of your life and … [More]

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