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Summer Reading Adventure
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Read books, explore the city, win prizes! The Summer Reading Adventure runs from 1 December 2022 — 31 January 2023, and this year we are inviting intrepid explorers of word and page of all ages to join us — including adults!

Push yourself beyond your reading comfort zone and discover new genres, bestsellers and hidden gems within our collection. Use our Summer Reading Adventure as your opportunity to track your reading progress and to learn more about the history and authors behind your subject interest. Engage in a deeper and more meaningful way with the books you love, and discover your next all-time favourite book along the way!

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From the blog
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In library blogs this week:

Have you been finding remote working a challenge, or maybe struggling with a hybrid work team? Our recent blog offers up some resources.

Also in our blogs, global management consultancy McKinsey and Company offers a regular online series called Author Talks in which they present interviews with authors of newly published business books. In this blog we’ve linked some of these interviews with the books available in the Wellington City Libraries collection.
Did you know?
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WCL has a collection of NZ standards. Held at our store at Te Pataka these can be requested and consulted in the library branch most convenient for you. 

Standards are agreed specifications for products, processes, services, and performance. They are generally voluntary but can be mandatory when cited in Acts, regulations or other legislative instruments.

Standards provide potential solutions to issues, resolve problems, provide a means of compliance with legislation, and create commercial benefits such as trading opportunities.

If you need to consult a standard just email us at Prosearch to request a copy. You can find more about NZ standards on the website.
Tips for surviving the workplace Christmas function
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It’s that time of year – here’s some tips for surviving the workplace Christmas function.

Avoiding Christmas Party Disasters At The Workplace

As workplaces around New Zealand wind down for another year, employers are turning their minds one of the most anticipated yet nerve wracking events on their calendars - the office Christmas party.

How to manage a Christmas work party

Don’t make your next staff ‘do’, a staff ‘don’t’. Aasha Foley shares her business owner’s guide to surviving the Christmas season.

We are approaching the silly season at speed, and with that, one of the more eagerly anticipated events of the social calendar: the staff Christmas party. Amid the rush, plenty of business owners may forget to consider their responsibilities at the old end-of-year “do”, particularly with respect to health and safety and the need to avoid common social disasters.
Reports
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Business Payment Practices regulations

The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment is asking for feedback on regulations to support the new Business Payment Practices disclosure regime.
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Keeping Wellington safe

WCC is working with First retail and NZ Police to help keep our business communities safe and deter crime and theft.

The Eyes On partnership delivers safety and theft prevention training to local Wellington retail businesses.

Source – WCC The Pōneke Promise: November 2022
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Wellbeing Has Significantly Decreased Among NZ Business Leaders – Financial Pressures And Uncertainty To Blame

Mental wellbeing has decreased significantly among New Zealand business leaders over the past six months as financial pressures and political and economic uncertainty take their toll, according to the latest edition of the BDO Wellbeing & Business Performance Index - Te Rangahau o ngā hauora pai.

Running a business can take a toll on mental wellbeing.  To keep a business going, you need to take care of yourself.
This article offers five ways you can protect your mental health.
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What’s your online retail experience like for customers?

3 Winning Strategies for Engaging Your E-commerce Website Visitors

You only have a few seconds to make a great first impression—eight to be exact, according to Microsoft. After this short period of time, an online visitor has already decided whether or not they’ll return to your website. So, how do you ensure that they not only stay, but keep coming back?
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