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Category: Personal Development

Before you forward that email …

During a time of uncertainty, we all want to be helpful by forwarding valuable information via email to family, friends and co-workers. But this is the time to be extra conservative with email forwards containing supposedly useful info if you have the slightest doubt about their source.

Motivate staff: 3 tips

How can you encourage employees to finish a difficult task or keep up a sustained effort over a long time? Focus on what’s been accomplished, not simply what must still be done. Use past triumphs as the foundation for moving forward.

Technology: Your best friend and your worst enemy

Technology seems to be the best thing that’s happened to modern working life. But pair innovations with distractingly easy-to-use communication tools, the constant call of social media, and access to every game that’s ever been invented at the tip of your finger, and you’ll start to see why sometimes the bad outweighs the good.

Keep reliability intact

Reliability—doing what you said you’d do—is not a glamorous aspect of managing, but it’s a vital one. Organizational development consultant Mike Cook offers five tips for keeping your reputation up-to-date.

Attack your fears head-on

Given all the anxieties that trouble people at work these days, any way you can reduce your own sense of limitations can pay off for you and those who count on you. Here’s an exercise that can help you get started.