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.
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 [...]
Want a Better Workplace? Let Employees Procrastinate
An analysis of workplace habits has found that the biggest causes of worker procrastination are internal problems, and that restricting workplace social media usage could make employees less productive. Conducted by office supplies company Viking, the survey of over 1,500 office workers [...]
Multi-generational Employee Motivation [Infographic]
As more baby boomers work well past retirement age, and tech-smart millennials continue to graduate and begin their careers, a modern workforce now includes employees spanning three distinct generations. The differences in the values, communication styles and work habits of each generation [...]
Don’t Let Your Nonverbals Speak for You in a Meeting
This is a Guest post by Beverly Langford. Although few of us love workplace meetings, they can be career boosters if you go prepared to help fulfill the meeting’s objective and strengthen important relationships with managers, peers, and direct reports. Meetings are proving [...]
What You’ll Need to Know About Going Freelance in Your Career
Many people can be fearful of becoming a freelance worker. And there is a lot that can go wrong. But there are also lots of benefits and opportunities that will come your way. Here are the key things that you should know [...]
Job Hunting and Social Media Cleaning: The Essentials
If you are in the market for a new job or career change, there’s one thing you can almost guarantee. Your prospective employer will be looking for your online presence in as many places as possible. And, like it or not, this [...]
Awesome Ways The Internet Can Help You Improve Your Skill Set
One of the best ways to help your CV stand out from all the rest is by adding as many skills to it as you can. If you are looking to improve your skillset and knowledge base to impress potential employers, one [...]
Cool Skills That Will Add Interest To Your CV
You feel confident with your interview technique. You can answer the questions about strengths and weaknesses with fluid ease. If you’re asked about campaigns, facts and figures from your previous job, you know them all. When you’re asked what you’ll bring to [...]
Time To Take Your Engineering Career To The Next Stage? Here’s How
There’s nothing worse than feeling like you’re stuck in a job role that shows no sign of progression. But as an engineer, you know better than anyone that you need to build those opportunities for yourself. So stop hesitating, and start taking [...]
Employee Security in Industrial Environments
An industrial site needs professional security measures. Whether you're starting an industrial business or joining one as an employee, this is crucial information. It’s not only about safety… but it’s mostly about safety When people think about security at an industrial [...]
Competitiveness at the Workplace [Infographic]
The Summer Olympics are approaching, but the competition is already in full swing -- in the workplace. According to a new OfficeTeam survey, nearly one-third (31 percent) of managers believe employees are more competitive with their coworkers than they were 10 years [...]
Employed? That Doesn’t Mean You Should Stop Searching
When you’re in steady employment, it can become pretty easy to get comfortable. This all sounds well and good, I’m sure. After all, comfortable employment is certainly more than many others can hope for these days. So you should just consider yourself [...]
Lacking Motivation? Here’s 6 Career Mistakes You’re Making
It can be demoralizing to read article after article about how to progress your career when you feel unmotivated. You’re given all these tips that require hard work and dedication, but what if you simply don’t feel that dedication? What if you [...]