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Brooke Howell

Brooke Howell was small business and entrepreneurship editor at SmartBrief, developing several new newsletters and also editing publications in fields such as women’s business leadership and franchising.

Articles by Brooke Howell

Leadership

What your interns need

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Careers

Brooke blogs “The Office”: Gossip is hard on your career

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Leadership

This job is fun? For whom?

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Careers

Brooke blogs “The Office”: Formality vs. friendship

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Careers

Brooke blogs “The Office”: Who gets promoted?

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Leadership

Brooke blogs “The Office”: Awwwww

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Careers

Brooke blogs “The Office”: How is your coalition for reason?

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Leadership

Brooke blogs “The Office”: An affair and some souvenirs

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Careers

Brooke blogs “The Office”: Over-sensitive a bit?

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Careers

A word from the fashion police

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Management

Today’s bonus tracks: Don’t confine your employees to their cubes

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Management

Today’s bonus tracks: 7 tips for tolerating tough-to-take coworkers

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Management

Today’s bonus tracks: Simply “satisfactory” is purely pathetic

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Leadership

Overheard at Kennedy onRec 2009: Our overview of recruiting gems from sessions at this week’s Kennedy onRec Expo

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Leadership

Building a corporate social responsibility program

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Management

Today’s bonus tracks: Former mortgage broker finds happiness in automotive repair business

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Careers

Brooke blogs “The Office”: Violence is never the answer

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Management

Today’s bonus tracks: It’s time to scrap the old model for conferences

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Management

Today’s bonus tracks: 7 tips to help keep valued employees on board

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Management

Today’s bonus tracks: A fine example of what can go wrong when you mix your personal and professional lives

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Management

Today’s bonus tracks: Too much transparency?

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Management

Today’s bonus tracks: With court ruling, employer-sponsored wellness programs could lead to workers comp claims

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Careers

Brooke blogs “The Office”: Death of a paper-sales company?

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Management

Today’s bonus tracks: Bad economy leads to boom in counterfeit credentials

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Management

Today’s bonus tracks: Looking for a job? You’d better own a suit and wear it

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Leadership

Ready or not, H1N1 is here

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Management

Today’s bonus tracks: Majority of managers need lessons in leadership

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Management

Today’s bonus tracks: What to do about workers on medical marijuana

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Management

Today’s bonus tracks: 401(k) matches are on their way back

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Careers

Brooke blogs “The Office”: “Where’s the off button on this moron?”

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Management

Today’s bonus tracks: Navigating the year-end bonus minefield

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Management

Today’s bonus tracks: Don’t hesitate to talk to employees about problems with the way they speak

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Careers

Share a story of interview insanity for a chance to win an iPod

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Leadership

Today’s bonus tracks: The case of the cubicle crank

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Careers

Brooke blogs “The Office”: Not!

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Leadership

Today’s bonus tracks: Do onboarding well or risk the rapid loss of your recruits

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Careers

Today’s bonus tracks: GINA could cut employers’ ability to spy online

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Management

Today’s bonus tracks: Does on-the-job holiday shopping pose an IT risk?

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Careers

Brooke blogs “The Office”: Why you should always under-promise

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Careers

Brooke blogs “The Office”: A Dunder Mifflin Christmas

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Careers

Brooke blogs “The Office”: Harvard blogs Michael Scott

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Inspiration

Do you listen enough?

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Inspiration

What are your cheap tricks for boosting motivation and morale?

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Careers

How do you give feedback?

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Leadership

What are people saying about your company’s application process?

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Leadership

Do you let candidates know when they’ve been rejected?

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Inspiration

Do you keep your employees in the loop?

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Careers

How do you handle a flawed human when he or she is your boss?

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Inspiration

Do you force your employees to have fun?

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Leadership

What little things are you doing to make a big impact on your staff?

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Careers

Are you selling your soul by staying in a bad job?

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Leadership

To take or not to take? Personality tests in the workplace

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Inspiration

Do you care about your employees’ lives?

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Leadership

Do bonuses need a makeover?

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Careers

Brooke blogs “The Office”: Oh the times they are a-changin’

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Careers

Brooke blogs “The Office”: First think, then move

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Leadership

How does depression affect your workplace?

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Leadership

Whether formal or informal, mentors help you make your way

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Leadership

Do you feel better when you have more control at work?

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Inspiration

Must employers provide both monetary and non-monetary incentives to keep employees motivated?

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Inspiration

Is it better to take a slow approach to promotions?

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Leadership

Brooke blogs “The Office”: It’s a girl!

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Leadership

What sort of thought and planning do you put into your company’s internship program?

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Leadership

Brooke blogs “The Office”: No one likes a slacker

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Leadership

What inadequate support for caretakers is costing companies

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Careers

Brooke blogs “The Office”: There are no kings in business

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Careers

Brooke blogs “The Office”: Dodging drama

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Leadership

No business travel? Really?

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Careers

Brooke blogs “The Office”: Micromanagement failure

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Careers

Brooke blogs “The Office”: Not funny

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Careers

Brooke blogs “The Office”: Things get real

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Careers

Brooke blogs “The Office”: Whose business is it?

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Leadership

How pretty do you have to be?

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Careers

Brooke blogs “The Office”: Sniffing out the snitch

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Leadership

Live from NAWBO: Celebrating diversity

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Leadership

7 keys to successfully selling your business

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Leadership

@NYTBIZSUMMIT: “Don’t drop the baby”

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Digital Technology

@NYTBIZSUMMIT: How to get customers through community

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Digital Technology

Customer service is the new marketing

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Leadership

Americans love entrepreneurs — but don’t want their children to be them

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Leadership

Live from #IFA: Training takes time

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Social Media

Live from #IFA: “Social media is not a trend”

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Social Media

Live from #IFA: How franchises can put social media to work

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Inspiration

Live from #IFA: Are computers OK in training?

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Leadership

Live from #IFA: How 7-Eleven discovered the secret to success is service

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Social Media

Live from #IFA: A checklist for franchises getting started with social media

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Digital Technology

Live from #IFA: Prescriptions for plugging in from @TheDataDoc

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Food

Live from #IFA: How Tasti D-Lite gets social media right

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Restaurant and Foodservice

Live from #IFA: Accessing credit today takes cooperation

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Modern Money

IRS puts more scrutiny on online sellers — a Q-and-A with PayPal’s Eddie Davis

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Media

Spotlight on business-to-business: How Bizy brings daily deals to the world of business-to-business

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Leadership

How franchisors lead the way to entrepreneurial success

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Management

With a little help from technology, you can harness the power of social media for customer service

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Leadership

Live from #OPENNYT: Jay Goltz on hiring

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Leadership

Live from #OPENNYT: Customers want to connect with brands, businesses and their leaders

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Leadership

Live from #OPENNYT: Better safe than sorry is no way to approach social media

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Leadership

Live from #OPENNYT: The daily-deal debate rages on

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Management

Spotlight on Association Leadership: An interview with Forté Foundation’s executive director

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Leadership

NAWBO welcomes Diane Tomb and reflects on how far women have come

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16

Social Media

Gary Vaynerchuk explains why small-business owners need to stop debating social media and start using it

By Brooke Howell 05/26/16