How to Be a Good Salesperson: The Key Steps to Take
Good sales reps will effectively earn the respect and the ongoing trust of their prospects. Great ones earn their loyalty, admiration, and new referrals. Good reps handle objections skillfully; great ones preemptively surface the concerns and eliminate them.
Reading Book Summaries: What Is Wrong with That and When It Might Be Adequate?
Reading book summaries is becoming more and more popular these days. And we don't mean books that you might be obliged to read for school or work but reading from a genuine desire to gain some knowledge. It is quite widespread among [...]
How to Maintain Friendships While Working From Home
This is a guest post by Annabel Maw. At the height of the coronavirus pandemic, the shift to remote work was immediate. In spring 2020, up to 88% of organizations worldwide either made working from home mandatory or strongly encouraged it. By fall 2020, 33% [...]
Make 2021 be the Year Your Dreams Start to Come True
This is a guest post by Peter Ruppert. It’s a new year, a chance for a fresh start, and a time when hope feels renewed for all of us. We can use this season of possibility to create new goals or set [...]
Comparing the Lives of Office Employees and Full-Time Freelancers
For the roughly 44 million Americans rocking a side hustle outside of their standard office hours, banking a few extra dollars every month isn’t just a nicety—sometimes it’s a necessity for getting by. But if you’ve got skills you’ve been dying to [...]
Common Questions and Answers Regarding White Collar Crimes
The American legal system is quite complex, especially to those without much experience or expertise in legal matters. When hearing about legal cases or getting involved with legal matters of your own, you might hear terms and phrases that don't sound too [...]
Tech and Tools You Need to Efficiently Work from Home
Work from home is here to stay. 2020 has taken work and learn from home to a new level which saw the whole family at home scheduling their day around work, cooking, school, play and relaxation. All these activities were mostly aided [...]
What to Include on a Career Networking Business Card
You can put almost anything on a business card provided that it fits. However, your business card only has so much space, and you have even less time to connect with the potential audience. Here's what to include on a career networking [...]
Thriving With Change, The Wooden Way
This is a guest post by Lynn Guerin. Has there ever been a time in your life when you’ve had to deal with the need to make many changes? Have these changes been heaped upon you by circumstances beyond your control? The recent [...]
The Digital Transformation: How to help your employees adapt to the change
Change is inevitable, especially in business. However, despite the inescapable predictions of change heading our way, whether it’s in the market, within the customer journey or within the ever-changing world of digital marketing, it’s not always easy to embrace – especially for [...]
How To Keep Your Audience Engaged With Your Content
A website has many different types of content. A website has articles, videos, images, and infographics to attract more traffic. This is why creating a website is beneficial for those students and young professionals who want to showcase their skills and talents [...]
Threading the Needle: How to Manage Without Micromanaging Remotely
Operating a business remotely comes with its own unique set of challenges. As a business owner, it’s important that you put strategies in place to manage your business efficiently going forward. You need to ensure that your team, and your business, is [...]
Interactive 3D Simulations Helping Execs & Employees Master Uncomfortable Conversations
This is a guest post by Merilee Kern The benefits of simulation-based training are indisputable and innumerable. Given its power and efficacy, this methodology is used in a litany of sectors beyond aerospace and military, where it gained its initial foothold. These [...]
Accessories for that Sharp Look – At the Interview or Workplace
How the right pair of frames can influence your career For some people, their glasses are the ultimate accessory. They're a window to their personality, their style and they're a simple yet effective way to make themselves much more distinctive. These days [...]
Navigating Change with Rapid Rebound
This is a guest post by Jill Ratliff. Change. It’s difficult, scary, challenging, thrilling, and above all, inevitable. Life is change, and change is growth. In the past decade especially, in order to drive growth, businesses have had to transform themselves—often again [...]
3 Things to Know Before You Enroll in Your Employer Health Insurance Plan
This is a guest post by Colin Anawaty. Most of us lack understanding — and confidence — in trying to guess our healthcare expenses each year. It’s like trying to solve the world’s most complex Rubik’s Cube while blindfolded, with our future [...]
Workplace Phrases that Raise our Heart Rate
“Let’s have a chat” Strikes Fear in Workers TheKnowledgeAcademy.com’s heart rate study reveals the workplace phrase that raises our heart rate most is: “Let’s have a chat”. On average, the phrase “Let’s have a chat” raised respondents heart rate beats per minute to 147 [...]
Personal growth – what to consider when making a career change
Do you feel as though you're stuck in a rut? Does your current job or career leave you feeling bored and striving for a promotion that just isn't there? If you've hit the glass ceiling or you need more of a challenge [...]
The Power of Boundary Setting
This is a guest post by Eileen McDargh When Robert Frost penned, “Good fences make good neighbors,” he was thinking of sheep wandering into a neighbor’s garden. Today, crafting fences (not walls) in our work and personal lives is a solid technique [...]
How to Successfully Run a Small Business
Being your own boss can be both rewarding and empowering. You could enjoy the freedom to manage your own time, without pressure from senior team members, no long and dull meetings to attend and no commute to the office. Setting up your [...]
Survey: 34% Of Workers Are More Burned Out Now Than A Year Ago
Drowning in work and feeling drained? Many professionals are, new research from global staffing firm Robert Half shows. More than one-third of workers surveyed (34%) said they are more burned out on the job today compared to a year ago. Of those [...]
Making Working from Home Comfortable during Winters: What you can do about Condensation on Windows
Working from home might be longer for quite a few of us around the world. As the seasons change and everyone is indoors and the heater running to keep your family warm, there might be some other things to worry about, having [...]
5 Secrets for Developing an Enviable Mentor-Mentee Relationship
This is a guest post by Greg DeLine. “Hand-ups, not handouts.” That’s the premise behind mentoring, and the core reason the practice works so well for entrepreneurs. When a mentor-mentee relationship hits its groove, both sides benefit from a cross-pollination of ideas [...]
How to Understand and Avoid Plagiarism?
Giving yourself ample time before writing a document is an efficient way to identify and prevent plagiarism. Rephrase or quote for your reference. Plagiarism involves taking the vocabulary or thoughts of someone else without quoting the original writer appropriately. Plagiarism often means purposely exploiting [...]
The pros and cons of Working from home
The world is a little different right now, and despite an initial period of working from home, some of us have returned to our offices recently. Only to be advised, yet again to consider working from home. With all these mixed messages, [...]