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.
Top 10 Reasons Why Employees Leave Their Job [Infographic]
Good employees are a corporation’s greatest asset. Treat them well and they will be engaged and productive. Treat them otherwise and they will most likely be demotivated and eventually leave. High turnover of employees comes with a multitude of subtle costs, from [...]
How to Ace your Internship to Boost the Chances of Employment
If you’re looking to crack into a new industry, then one thing that can significantly boost your chances of making it a success is to get real hands on experience in the industry you hope to work in. Even if you ultimately [...]
3 Tips for Career Advancement For Millennials
Hopping from job to job seems to have become the norm among millennials, and you might be feeling the pull of this growing trend. However, it’s much more efficient and stable to climb the corporate ladder within the business you currently work [...]
How can an executive transition and work cohesively with his/her replacement?
This is a guest post by Howard Seidel. Executive hiring, up through the CEO level, represents one of the most critical aspects of organizational success. Yet while hiring marks the end of one phase, the process of effectively transitioning an executive into [...]
Should Your Colleagues Be Your Friends?
Think about it - we spend more time with our colleagues than with our friends, family, and partners. A standard work day is between eight to nine hours, which means if we work a five day working week then we spend forty [...]
The Secrets Of Climbing The Corporate Ladder
Ambitious people are always on the lookout for new opportunities to move up the corporate ladder and expand their careers. But what exactly does that involve doing? Here are some ideas to help you do well in the business world and get [...]
Celebrating Super Bowl at Work Can Boost Employee Happiness [Infographic]
Football’s biggest event is around the corner and the excitement in the workplace is building. But is the anticipation of the matchup throwing employees off their game or making them happier and more productive at work? A new survey from staffing [...]
Make Health and Safety a Priority at Work
Modern businesses have loads of issues to face that ones in the past didn’t have to worry about. Nowadays, accountability is a very strong tenant of most societies. And, of course, this is a good thing. It means that people have to [...]
What will you do find Career Satisfaction and Success at Work?
The average worker dedicates 40+ hours of every week to their career in a cycle that can last for well over 50 years. That’s a huge portion of your life, so it makes sense to enjoy it. Otherwise, the negative feelings at [...]
How to Turn Your Motley Office Team Into a Group of Professionals
If you look into your office floor and realize that your entire team of workers is a band of misfits, then you might be thinking about closing down your business or firing all of them. However, we usually have to make do [...]
How to Choose a Career that’s Best for you [Infographic]
Choosing a career is one of the most difficult things. According to Economist Neil Howe only 5% find a good career on the first try. There are a lot of thoughts you might have like: is my passion career worthy? Is my [...]
9 Tips to Increase Productivity at Work [Infographic]
Overtimes and burnouts are becoming the norm in the tech industry. But there are ways to do more efficiently. It pays to be productive at work, to get more done in the best way possible. Here are 9 effective tips to help increase [...]
The Advantages of Online Mentoring
Being a mentor is a big responsibility. You go through a process of guiding others to come into terms with his or her goals. Parents, teachers, coaches and other people who are willing to share their knowledge and wisdom to a youngster [...]
Performance management- Does your company need a makeover? [Infographic]
Performance management process can be stressful time for the management and the employees if not managed well during the year. With corporate management practices revamping as more millennials join management positions, we might see some major changes in performance management over coming years. [...]
Staying Engaged at Work: Why You’re Distracted and How to Refocus
If you've snuck a glance at Facebook or surfed the web during work hours, you're not alone. 7 in every 10 employees are disengaged at the office—and completing personal tasks during work time is the number one symptom of distracted workers. What [...]
Cheers to Positivity in the New Year: 3 Keys to Lead a Positive and Rewarding Life
In this post Dr. Jeffery Chapman, Sr offers expert strategies for helping people to shift their focus away from problems and onto a more positive, productive and rewarding life. It is sad but true: Americans are becoming overwhelmingly pessimistic. And, there is [...]
Is Your Company Family Friendly? [Infographic]
Some, but not all, companies are taking baby steps toward becoming more family-friendly, according to new research from staffing firm OfficeTeam. Just under half (49 percent) of human retargets (HR) managers interviewed said their organization has made policy changes to better accommodate [...]
3 Essential Steps to Plan Your Next Career Move
Planning the next career move can be daunting at times, but with the right plan of action anything can be achieved. When you feel that you need to take the next step in your career to find satisfaction and achievement at work, [...]
Keep Calm And Carry On Working: Ways To Beat The Stress Of Working from Home
Work at Home Going it alone as a freelancer has many benefits. From the freedom of (almost) setting your working hours to putting your feet up with a cup of coffee and getting on with your day’s work, there are [...]
The Anatomy of an Effective Executive [Infographic]
What makes a good leader? According to one survey, integrity is one of the top qualities of a corporate leader. However, having integrity alone isn’t enough to create a senior executive out of someone. As with every career path, experience is [...]
49 Percent of Freelancers Suffer from Work-Related Anxiety
Organisational psychologist and occupational health expert Professor Sir Cary Cooper CBE believes the gig economy is breeding a “sense of entitlement” among businesses, as a new study reveals half (49%) of UK freelancers have suffered from work-related anxiety in the past 12 [...]
Does You Career Still ‘Work’ For You? Reasons To Consider a Career Change in 2017
A career change can be incredibly scary. Your current job may be the one that you have studied for, trained in and gained years of education or experience. You’re probably used to a certain wage or level of responsibility. To think about [...]
3 Ways to ‘Speak Human’ in a Content-Crowded World
This is a guest post by Kevin Lund The new economy of conversation: How brands can make and maintain meaningful connections and create a lifetime value with customers in ways that’ll set your brand apart in a crowded marketplace, tell an authentic story, [...]
Companies and Employees Differ on Work-Life Balance Views [Infographic]
Are you getting enough help from your employer to juggle personal and professional priorities? While more than six in 10 senior managers (63 percent) surveyed by OfficeTeam said their company is very supportive of its employees’ efforts to achieve work-life balance, only [...]