Cydcor culture Archives

March 28, 2018

Everything You Didn’t Know about the History of April Fools’ Day

We can all agree that April Fools’ Day is a lot of fun. It’s the one day each year when it’s perfectly appropriate for even the best behaved among us to play pranks on our friends, test our ability to fib with a straight face, and set our inner mischief-makers free. But where did April Fools’ Day come from? How long have people been celebrating? And, how do they celebrate April Fools’ Day in other countries? We’ve done some digging […]

August 9, 2017

Workplace Culture: Exploring Employee Culture at Cydcor

We are a people helping people business. In the fast-paced world of sales, marketing, and entrepreneurship, we know that we succeed when our people do. They are the future of our business, and that’s why every aspect of our workplace culture is designed to help people succeed and achieve their goals. We achieve this by offering unique opportunities such as professional development trainings and conferences, giving back to local and global communities, and much more. Are you ready to write […]

May 3, 2017

8 Easy Team Building Activities

1. Mine Field Equipment needed: blindfold, any collection of random objects (i.e. chairs, small tables shoes, notebooks, etc.) Skill focus: communication How to: Break the group into pairs. Place random objects throughout the room to create an obstacle course. One team member wears the blindfold while their partner guides them, verbally, through the course. The goal of this team building activity is for all team members to use their communication skills to successfully coach their partners around the obstacles to the other side […]

April 27, 2016

Cydcor Reviews Outliers: The Story of Success

About Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell What makes high achievers different from you or me? Malcolm Gladwell answers that question with his book, Outliers. Many overachievers believe in one of the core concepts in the book: the “10,000-hour rule.” Gladwell suggests that to be the best at something, you need to study it for 10,000 hours. In this book, he finds the outliers—men and women who do things that are out of the ordinary. Outliers is a […]

April 29, 2014

Cydcor reviews In Over Our Heads

Description of this book: In Over Our Heads by Robert Kegan is an exploration of the mental demands in modern society. The book discusses how we are overwhelmed with expectations about our roles from work, family and media experts. It then goes on to discuss how we might navigate all that stimuli into a productive, happy life. The book showcases how we often feel overwhelmed and what happens to our brains in those situations, then how to cope. Kegan, a […]