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.
Category: Career
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.
Why music helps when working out
A variety of recent studies have explored the connections between people’s motivation during workouts and the music they listen to as they exercise. What they’ve found is that music does make a difference.
Take this self-quiz and audit yourself for burnout
At times, you may feel your motivation begin to flag. But while a little dysphoria is normal, the blues can turn into full-blown job burnout.
Top 10 admin resources on Twitter
Jasmine Freeman, Vice President at Office Dynamics (@OfficeDynamics), recently shared, on her blog, her top 10 “must follow” admin resources on Twitter.
4 good things about being selfish
Selfishness is often seen as a negative quality, but Melissa Deuter, a clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Texas Health Science Center, disagrees. She and another expert offer a few reasons why being selfish can be good for you.