What Makes Our Workflow Work As the Director of Communications at QIP, I am constantly managing multiple projects that differ in scope, type, and size. At one point about eight years ago we had over 15 videos being developed at…
Category: Balance and Health
Free Icon Giveaway for International Women’s Day
Free Icons to Celebrate International Women’s Day Feel free to use these illustrations by QIP Graphic Designer Min Yang! Please credit “Min Yang, Graphic Designer, Quality Information Partners” if you use them in published materials. Alt-click on icons below to…
Free Back-to-School Icons
Free Icons to Celebrate Back to School Happy fall! Feel free to use these illustrations by QIP Graphic Designer Min Yang! Please credit “Min Yang, Graphic Designer, Quality Information Partners” if you use them in published materials. Alt-click on icons…
How QIP Cares for Its Staff
How QIP Cares for Its Staff It’s February and for many, the season of love. With Valentine’s Day around the corner, it’s the perfect time to show your organization and staff love and care. I took a moment to reflect…
Managing Schedule Transitions
Managing Schedule Transitions Switching tasks can be stressful. And as often as we all switch gears—between tasks, projects, and meetings—transitions are a regular and recurring source of tension in our work lives. But it is possible to improve one’s time…
Lasso and Brown on Leadership
Lasso and Brown on Leadership Ted Lasso, the Apple TV+ series that won a 2021 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series, touched people’s hearts from its first episode. Were you part of that audience? What moves us about Ted…
Lessons from Running a Virtual Company for 16 Years
Lessons from Running a Virtual Company Before the pandemic shutdown in March 2020, when I told anyone I ran a virtual company, they almost always declared how their office could never operate virtually, implying that our remote status made us…
Tips and Tricks for Remote Workers
Tips and Tricks for Remote Workers Working from home has many benefits — no commuting, no need for matching socks — but it also comes with challenges. In the 15 years since Quality Information Partners (QIP) opened, our staff members,…
Time and Productivity
Time and Productivity What part of the work day is most productive for you? While many employers might like to hear a response along the lines of, “all day, every day,” research into organizational science and behavioral economics suggests otherwise.…
Corporate Giving Gets Personal
Corporate Giving Gets Personal Corporate giving has recently increased among American companies. Bolstered by $405 million in contributions related to disaster relief last year, it totaled $20.77 billion—up 8 percent from 2016, according to Charity Navigator. Tax breaks for charitable giving…