1-Minute Strategies: November ’14
Get moving—even if it’s just for a few minutes … Learn the power of the doodle … Boost your chances of career success with three simple steps.
Category: Personal Development
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.