According to Dawn Pons, the leader of North American executive development for EY (formerly Ernst & Young), “Coaching now is about fine-tuning the talents of people who’ve been identified as rising leaders.” Here are some tips for excelling in the coaching experience.
As more people experience frequent job changes, it’s important to have a large personal network you can call on to help you, says Karen Wickre, a self-proclaimed connector and networking guru. Here are her tips for building great contacts over time.
The Conditional Formatting tool on the Home tab, Cell Styles group offers something called Highlight Duplicate Values. Before you start jumping for joy, it really means values, not rows.
The United States has several expedited screening programs for frequent fliers, and now’s the time to apply for one, says Zachary M. Seward, vice president of product and executive editor of Quartz. Check out the benefits of each of these four programs.
Today at work, you may have dozens of interactions with people. How many of them, though, are actually worthy? Try this experiment on a busy day: On a sheet of paper, track with a simple mark how many individual times you discuss work with people—a mark for each meeting, office visit or casual chat at […]
One of the most pivotal periods in your relationship with your boss is those first few weeks while you’re getting routines established, learning each other’s temperaments and mapping out expectations. This is especially true when it’s the boss who’s new to the company and not you. You can make yourself indispensable and ease her transition into your organization if you do the following.
If you send your print jobs to the copier/printer/scanner that all employees use, you’re asking for a security breach on the morale-busting level. An employee waiting at the copier for it to spit out his job just might see your “list of employees who are getting year-end bonuses,” and not see his name on it. […]
Former Picnik and current PicMonkey CMO Lisa Conquergood says she learned a lot about how Google keeps employees engaged and productive while she worked there.