Let your body language broadcast your confidence … Keep track of your “must read” pile with Delicious.com. It’s a particularly useful tool for longer-term storage of important articles, and you can access it from any device … On your résumé, list accomplishments, not just job duties.
Turn away from your computer screen when talking with someone, so you won’t be tempted to read something or check a message.
Psychiatrist Judith Orloff describes intuition as “a still, small voice inside … an unflinching truth-teller committed to our well-being.” Take this self-quiz to determine whether you have a connection with your intuitive voice:
Find seating for meeting latecomers by asking attendees beside unoccupied seats to raise their hands.
Trying to create a paperless environment is a major challenge and a project everyone should participate in. Plan to involve key players who need to retrieve, store and update documents. Let the group help determine which documents must be stored. Break the project down into smaller parts. Separate e-docs into files as you would with a paper file system. This helps you decide which documents you can combine into a single folder with a single title. Once you organize these docs, the job will go faster and help you see what type of help you need. If you already use a Document Management Software program, PDFs can easily be moved into e-folders. Be sure to delegate and training. If you can’t delegate, you do not have a system that is logical to use and easy to maintain.
Question: “I’m not sure how to handle my new supervisory position. Before being promoted, I was friends with my former co-workers, so I’m finding it difficult to tell them what to do … I know I have to demonstrate leadership, but I’m afraid this will turn me into an unlikeable person. After all, does anyone really like their boss?” — Nice Guy
When attending a large group meeting, don’t sit with the people from your department or office. If familiar faces surround you, you’re less likely to reach out and make new connections.
Didn’t have the right snappy comeback to a colleague’s subtle put-down or the boss’s accusatory comment? “You have to be able to respond on your feet at work, and I think some people are becoming less adept at it,” says Kathleen Kelley Reardon. Some of her suggestions for comebacks:
Adopt the same strategy at the office that professional organizers advocate to keep homes clutter-free: For every new item you bring in, toss one out. Example: Take a moment to discard old directories and software manuals when the new ones arrive.
Neither Predictably Irrational nor Blink is new, but both nonfiction tomes continue to sell like gangbusters. And with good reason: Both titles help illuminate the way we think about choices and make decisions.
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