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.
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 [...]
Engaging Millennials: How to Get America’s Largest Workforce Invested, Retained and Performing to Their Full Potential
This is a guest post by Karen Leland. You know who they are. Those unengaged employees who simply show up, do their jobs and then go home, not giving their work a second thought. However, also fairly obvious are fully engaged employees—those [...]
Veterans: 3 Smart Financial Moves For Transitioning Back To Civilian Life
While serving in the military can be an extremely exciting and rewarding experience, it’s not easy to transition to a civilian life. One of the big things which can be a strain on a lot of veteran’s lives is a certain level [...]
Why So Serious? Easy Ways To Reduce Workplace Stress
It's hardly shocking to say that work can be stressful. We've all had those days where we come home drained and just want to curl up under the covers and hibernate. The problem is when those days start to pile up. The [...]
10 Bad Habits That Should Be Banned from the Workplace Forever
This is a guest post by Leigh Stringer Over the years, we have developed work styles that are not good for our physical, mental or emotional health. “It’s not that we’re bad people, or that we aren’t working hard,” says Leigh [...]
9 Ways Your ‘Negotiation Personality’ Can Undermine Your Success
This is a guest post by Eldonna Lewis-Fernandez. Here are three questions you may have never asked yourself prior to entering into a negotiation, but should: What kind of negotiator am I? What kind of negotiator would I like to be? And, [...]
6 Personal Branding Lessons Every Working Professional Can Learn from Trump and Clinton
This is a guest post by Karen Leland, CEO of Sterling Marketing Group. Despite having the two highest unfavorable ratings of any major presidential candidates in history, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have outlasted their competitors—and one of them is going to [...]
Dealing with Unethical Behavior in the Workplace: What to Do
Most people will have to deal with issues of ethics at some point in their working lives. They may find themselves being asked to do something they disagree with. Or they might come up against someone in the company who is behaving [...]
A Productive Rant About The Most Common Workplace Issues
Some people live to work; others work to live. However, whatever your mentality may be, I think everyone goes to work hoping for a problem free day. But, unfortunately, we can hear all too often some of the workplace issues both the [...]
Getting Ahead in Business: It’s Still Better to Give than Receive
This is a guest post by Vicky Oliver When climbing the corporate ladder, what type of person is most likely to make it to the top rung -- the ones clambering up without a backward glance, or those pulling others along as [...]
Your Bilingual Skills can get you that Job
This is a guest post by Vanessa Fardi of NEUVOO. Knowing other languages in a world that, thanks to globalization, has forced people to be bilingual and almost makes them forget their mother tongue, definitely comes in handy when looking for a [...]
Gamifying Goodness: New ‘Social Impact Scoring System’ Spurs a Movement of Competitive Kindness
This is a guest post by Merilee Kern. How nice are you? The xocial online community is calculating and curating “competitive kindness” to help mere mortals out-nice each other, and make the world a better place. Are you using your superpowers for [...]
Sit in the Driving Seat and Take Control of Your Career
Taking charge of your career is an exhilarating feeling. You need to ensure that you are in the driving seat, and that success is your core objective. If you can be decisive and driven in your career, you will get to where [...]