Encouraging and increasing creativity at work can help grow your business and set its products and services apart from the competition. After all, fostering creativity can result in better solutions for your problems, more sales opportunities, and being able to retain and attract talent. In creating successful coworking solutions, Versa has looked into ways to help its members increase creativity at work. Six Ways to Increase Creativity at Work 1. Encourage brainstorming Installing a big whiteboard and having many markers handy can be a great way of encouraging employees to explore any idea they might have, whenever inspiration comes to them. The size of the whiteboard is important …
Ways to Increase Creativity at Work
How to Improve Your Personal Brand
Your personal brand is, at a very basic level, what you stand for. This is reflected in how you act, how you interact with others, the values you have, and how you project those values every day. Having a strong personal brand sends a clear signal to potential employers or clients what your strengths are, establishes your reputation, helps you build trust, and communicates exactly what you can bring to the table. Now it is important to note that your personal brand exists, whether you have consciously cultivated it or not makes no difference. So, it is in your best interest to start working on a strong personal brand that represents you exactly how you want it to. To get you started, here …
Coworking Space Can Benefit Your Business and You
Finding the ideal office space can be hard, especially if you are a solopreneur, a freelancer, or run a small business. After all, there are many things to consider such as the ideal location for your office, how easy it is to scale your business when it grows, the duration of lease terms that are offered, etc. And with a tight budget, finding decent office and/or coworking space that benefit your business can be a difficult and lengthy process. Of course, you always have the option of working from home and complement that with frequent visits to your favorite coffee shop. This will cut the cost of having an office to almost zero. But choosing either option usually means sacrificing your …
Top Ways Coworking Improves Work Life
Coworking spaces can be a great option for companies of all sizes, but for freelancers and entrepreneurs, these places and the communities that exist around them can be very useful resources that are also flexible enough to grow right along with your own business. Here are the top ways coworking improves work life: Networking Coworking spaces are great places to grow your network because of the tight-knit communities that exist within these spaces. All you must do to grow your network is to participate in any one of the many activities that each space offers. When you compare this to working from home or from your favorite coffee shop, you find that coworking spaces are better …
Versa Employee Spotlight: Faith Couch
At Versa, we love getting to know our members and employees on not only a business level but also a personal one. We recently welcomed Faith Couch to our team as our brand-new Community Manager! We hope you enjoy learning about Faith and the unique things she is bringing to our team here at Versa. Tell us what you were doing before you came to Versa? Most recently, I was working at the Southeast Ohio Foodbank. Prior to that, I worked in Bali and Jakarta, Indonesia. The majority of my adult years were spent in New York City with a myriad of work experience. What made you choose to come work at Versa? So many things! Especially the opportunity to bring together my love for …
Most Desirable Skills for Workers Post-COVID
The general sentiment is that it is now reasonable to start thinking about what the world post-COVID will look like. This is especially true for companies and workers as they either slowly go back to the office, or they start looking for new opportunities and evaluating remote work arrangements. For workers this means assessing their current skill set and determining the areas in which they are strong, and those aspects that could use a little refreshing or a full-on upgrade. But self-reflection is just the starting point. As we move forward in the future of work, it is important that workers know which skills will be the most desirable in the post-COVID workplace in order to focus …
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