Tag: team

Burnout is a stress-related state of emotional, physical, or mental exhaustion. It occurs when the demands of a job are more significant than a person’s ability to manage them. Change projects contain environmental factors that can lead to team burnout, such as long hours, strict deadlines, an...

I came out in 2000 aged 17 having played all sorts of sports throughout my teens. Due to a serious ear infection that caused me to lose a section of my inner ear I am was left unable to play any form of sport that left my head unprotected. When I went to university in the UK in the autumn of 2000 I ...

No designer should have to work alone. It’s the team that helps them grow and evolves as a whole. A team with a right mix of skills and cultures brings along nuance of perspectives. It was around 2015 when the number of projects I could put up on my portfolio started to decline. It took me som...

According to a study on culture and motivation, play, purpose, and potential are 3 of the top 6 reasons people work. We think that hiring through Applied has a positive impact on the three simply by how the Applied Sift works. Working remotely has made people feel further away from their tea...

If you want to attract the best software engineers, offer a work environment that constantly challenges them to learn and grow both professionally and personally. Expose engineers to a wide array of technologies, let them explore and narrow down their interests, and always allow for a change of cour...

In the dynamic and ever-evolving world of the branding and marketing, diversity is not just a buzzword — it’s a strategic advantage. As the CEO of a 13-year-old, women-owned gamified graphics business with a staff of 8 talented women spread across 5 countries, I’ve learned firsthan...

What is the purpose of your role as Velocity Program Manager: As the Velocity Program Manager, I take 60+ early stage startup founders a year through our pre-accelerator, helping them find their feet in the entrepreneurial ecosystem and start to build the skills and connections they’ll ne...