3 Easy Ways to Reconnect with Your Colleagues

As we reintegrate back into society, coming back from holidays, returning to work, and interacting in person with others, we’re faced with an “awkward” phase. As workers, you’ve forgotten how to interact with teammates, colleagues, and coworkers without a screen. Although bonding continued over shared situations or interests (working from home with kids, unruly pets, …

Why You Need a Successful Business Roadmap

Successful businesses don’t just come out of nowhere. The businesses that succeed are the ones that have a clear strategy for growth and a roadmap for getting from startup to IPO. But by roadmap, we don’t mean a traditional plan or strategy document. We mean a concise visual representation of where you’re going and how …

How to Build a Better Professional Network

It’s common knowledge that your professional success is heavily influenced by the professional network you create. Even so, we often expect our network to grow passively – with little to no work on our end. Unfortunately, that’s not how it works. Building a better professional network happens over time and with quite a bit of …

Recruiting Tips for Small Businesses

The success of your small business relies on having happy customers – and employees. And the latter usually entails the former. In this challenging time of worker shortages, here’s how to ensure that your small business continues to attract top talent.

How to Create an Agile Workplace Model

Flexibility and adaptability have been seeping into the workplace lexicon for years now. With the events of this past year, we’ve seen just how important it is for businesses of all sizes to be able to adjust and pivot on a dime – and to give their workers the same option. As at-home working gives way …

How to Manage Hybrid Teams When Returning to the Workplace

The past year has given leaders a crash course in handling remote teams. Everyone rose admirably to the challenge, pivoting to digital workspaces, virtual meetings, and cloud-based task management. But the gradual return to in-person working presents a new leadership challenge: managing hybrid teams. We know by now that remote workers have fundamentally different work …

Coworking Spaces for Lawyers and Legal Professionals are an Ideal Choice

As the world begins to return to in-person working, solo attorneys, lawyers, paralegals, and other law professionals are rethinking how and where they work. But large law offices or chambers can be expensive, inflexible, or scarce in terms of availability. Little wonder legal professionals looking for space are turning to coworking as a viable option.

Digital Technology is Not a Substitute for In-Person Connections

This past year, businesses have scrambled to find new ways of working. In a socially distanced world where remote working has become a requirement, organizations small and large have found themselves working in environments completely mediated by digital technologies. But while tech can bridge the gap in a pinch, it’s not a true replacement for human …

Certified Business Enterprise Certification: Breaking Down Home Office Barriers

If you’ve spent the past year working from home or outside D.C., you might have missed out on valuable procurement opportunities. The D.C. Department of Small and Local Business Development gives preference to Certified Business Enterprise (CBE) certified companies – meaning that CBE-certified organizations get the first look when competing for government contracts.