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.
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, [...]
How to Create a Personal Logo [Infographic]
In today's tough labor market, job seekers have to work harder than ever to get noticed. One of the most powerful ways to stand out from your competition is a personal logo. Personal logos are just what they sound like—an icon that [...]
Why Resolving Employee Conflicts Is Good for Company Culture
Regardless of how well-organized your business is, employee conflict is a simply inevitable thing. At some point, your employees will succumb to the pressure of working on a demanding project, and conflict is bound to happen. While this is something that [...]
Understanding Workers’ Compensation
What do you really know about workers’ compensation rights? You may have heard, for example, that workers’ compensation is a social insurance. This is correct. Because the insurance is based on a contract entered into by both the employer (management) and [...]
How Better Writing Skills Help Build a Successful Career
Sometimes, we don’t even realize how important good writing skills can impact our future, including our careers. That’s what we are going to talk about in this article. As an employee, employer, professional, or a new grad trying to break into the [...]
5 Hacks for Pushing Through a Tough Work Project
No matter what kind of job you’re in, there will be projects and tasks that will test your limits and abilities. When faced with an obstacle, stress levels can rise and productivity levels can decrease, making the project feel near to impossible [...]
Search Engine Rankings: Are You Using These 6 Meta Tags Your On-Site SEO Strategy?
Meta tags are invisible tags that provide information about a website page to visitors and search engines. While most people who work in the SEO (search engine optimization) industry are well aware of the importance of meta tags, they may not realize [...]
Some Tips on Working Professionally from Home
Many people consider work from home a perfect opportunity to get more sleep, work in pyjamas, and have a flexible schedule. At first glance, it does sound like living the dream, but once you take a closer look, you will notice a [...]
Are You Taking the Right Kind of Risks in Your Career
Risk is something that is often looked at in a negative way, with many people not willing to go out on the ledge in the hope that something good happens. But here’s the thing, without risk, it also means you could be [...]
Gain and Give Respect: Do You Have These Qualities to be a Good Leader
It's easy to sit in a corner office, delegate tasks, and call yourself a "leader." Being a good leader will set you apart. Employees who work under great leadership report being more productive and overall happier and more connected to their work. [...]
Things to know about Interning or Working in DC
We can make a lot of jokes about how many people wish Washington DC would drop off the face of the planet. There's plenty of hatred for politicians on both sides of the aisle as well as Congress in general. Yet it [...]
Preparing for a Post-COVID-19 Career: What Skills and Knowledge Should You Focus On?
The current state of the world calls for the ability to adapt to the changing landscape. In the past few months alone, more than 15 million people have lost their jobs due to the economic collapse caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. This [...]
Investing During a Pandemic: COVID-19 & the Effect on the Stock Market
In the last hundred years, our world has not seen a pandemic of this scale. The world stock market crashed earlier this year, right after the pandemic’s first deep impact. Covid-19 has put most of the world on standstill, locking people at [...]