Use social media for work networking
Attorney and Internet marketer Mark Olson offers these tips for making professional connections via social media.
Category: Career
Deal with holiday stress
The holidays can be stressful for everyone. That stress can kill your productivity during a time when you need to be at the top of your game, as you wrap up the end of the year and prepare for 2015. Here are three key ways to combat stress this holiday season.
Tips on surviving professional conferences
Business conferences: Some people love them, but others find them stressful, intimidating and overwhelming. If you’re in the latter group, writer and editor Sarah Todd has tips to help you out.
Mind your P’s & Q’s this holiday season
The holiday season can be stressful enough without all the etiquette worries that can also come with it. Knowing how to act in situations that combine socializing with your career can be tricky, so we checked in with a few etiquette experts to help remind you what you should—and shouldn’t—do.
Tested your EQ lately?
Emotional intelligence is seen by many experts as a prime quality of leadership. Take this quiz and see how you’re doing when interacting with your team.
Show you’re ready to be a leader
Before you can step into a leadership role, you must first demonstrate to the higher-ups that you’re prepared for the next level. But, how do you do that?
Reframe questions to get what you want
When you make a request at work, the best way to get what you want is to “own the question,” says leadership writer and speaker Geoffrey James.
Easy ways to make yourself happier
If you are looking for happiness, you are looking for harmony. The Healthy Eating Guide’s Scott Christ offers some ways to make yourself happier.
1-Minute Strategies: October ’14
Make sharing the first thing you do when you get home after work … Take 225 words of notes per minute with a pen … Does it really take 10,000 hours of practice to master a skill as author Malcolm Gladwell claims?
Building trust in your business relationships
In business, trust can make you a better worker, a better manager and more valuable to your customers. Here are tips to help you build trust.