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.
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Career Advice: How To Make Yourself Indispensable
In the current economic climate, people are always fighting for job roles. When jobs are scarce, you need to ensure that you can hold onto your role no matter what happens. Becoming lazy or complacent in a role won't cut it. Right [...]
How to Lead Like it Matters
Roxi Bahar Hewertson cites 4 ways managers, executives and CEOs can create a positive ‘ripple effect’ and make a real difference in their quest for success Whether you’re a manager, executive, or CEO, your leadership style matters. Whether you’re running a large [...]
From Sickness to Success: 7 Business Lessons Learned from Cancer
This is a guest post by Scott Petinga I never set out to be a “survivor.” My life's aspirations were pretty basic: become successful professionally, marry my soul mate, have two beautiful children and perhaps even retire early. Getting cancer certainly wasn’t [...]
What to Consider when Planning on Studying Abroad
Studying abroad is once-in-a-lifetime experience and those amongst us lucky enough to have the chance to do it often have an incredible time and amazing stories to share. However, it is a huge step, and with any big step, there are a [...]
Few Ways to Stay Green on the Job and Career
The term “environmentally friendly” is like catnip to consumers nowadays. Claim your business is an eco-paradise and you’ll gain entrepreneurial Brownie points from customers and the government alike. Indeed, it’s a strategy that’s helping out many big businesses. The Bank of America, [...]
Sticky Workplace Situations – Rx for the Workplace Generation Gap
Guest Post by Vicky Oliver When 20-something Millennials work with people who are the age of their parents and grandparents, generational clashes can happen. The newest generation of workers are more facile with technology than their older peers. Older workers, on the other [...]
Advantages of Flexible Work Schedules
In the business world today, it is no longer necessary to punch the clock in the office or follow the 9-5 principle to be successful and productive. Flexible scheduling is one of the most important employee benefits. Not only employees want it there are [...]
Life Lessons You Didn’t Learn In College-But Will Need at Work
Post by Vicky Oliver Millennials, or people born between 1983 and 1999, are a talented generation of workers, bringing with them new skills to the workplace. And while this generation has been studied a lot, not all studies concur on their conclusions. [...]
Pros and Cons of Online Learning
Individuals who actively participate and are enrolled in online learning courses, or e-courses, are trying to improve their careers and online expertise - and generally succeed. In the US, in 2012, 5.5 million students took at least one online course (National Center [...]
7 Most Common Negotiating Mistakes
While even the word “negotiation” can evoke fear, stress and anxiety for many, the intent is quite simple: to discuss and ultimately agree on a deal. Whether it’s a multimillion dollar contract or just deciding where to meet for lunch, life is [...]
Thinking of Giving Up? See this “Ibrahim Hamato – Nothing is Impossible”
Frustrated during your job search or a career not going the way you want it to? Despair and giving up would be natural thoughts but now and then someone or something inspires you. Perhaps this video would: "The unique story of a [...]
5 Tips to Adjust to Work Schedule Changes
Working odd hours, switching from a day job to one that requires you to pull all-nighters or moving from a part-time job to working full-time; change is never easy. When you are accustomed to a certain work schedule, adjusting to a new [...]
5 Keys That Unlock Better Organizational Effectiveness
Everyone wants to make a big impact when it comes to organizational effectiveness. After all, reaching your desired outcomes and goals in the most efficient way possible will ensure ongoing and sustainable organizational success, and success is one of the happy harbingers [...]
What Makes you Happy at Work?
Recently, Randstad polled 7,000 people from around the country and asked them to define what factors determine employee happiness at work. And, let’s just say, people don’t want to be lounging around. On the contrary, and according to the Randstad 2013 Employer [...]
Use of Social Networks at work
Use of social networks at workplace – right or wrong or can be assigned to the gray area? Social networks are sometimes seen as platforms where employees lose time in their working hours, to the point that some companies have blocked access [...]
Why Looking Back is the Key to Moving Forward
This is a guest post by Scott Petinga As a business leader, your focus is always moving forward...calculating that next move in your business strategy, the next goal or benchmark to be achieved, the next great innovation. Looking ahead is how I'm [...]
Pursuing an Online Education: 4 Tips to Get Started
With online and distance learning, students with tight schedules are able to get the education they want on a timeframe that works for them. While the flexibility of online learning is alluring, it takes dedication and self-motivation. Here are a few tips [...]
Inspirational Female CEO Quotes
A guest post by Grace Killelea. Some thoughts from successful women CEOs that you can use for inspiration. “The most important factor in determining whether you will succeed isn’t your gender, it’s you. Be open to opportunity and take risks. In [...]
The Water Cooler Revolution – Where the Team Rejuvenates
Motivating your workforce can be somewhat difficult, especially when many of the tried and tested methods are fast becoming tired exercises. Luckily for you, there’s a formula for professional drive – and it’s an easy one to crack. Better still, it can [...]
How Working Moms Can Defend Themselves against Four Energy Vampires
By Judith Orloff MD The newest Pew Study on parenthood found that 56 percent of working moms are stressed out by the demands of balancing home and work. Working moms are super busy, so they don't have time to deal with energy vampires who [...]
How to Become Your Own PR Person
This is a guest post by Grace Killelea. Having a good public relations or media specialist on your team is one of the keys to selling yourself. But regardless of how good they are - you are your best representative. After all, [...]
How to Extend Your Life at Work [Infographic]
If Americans limited their time of sitting by three hours the average lifespan would be extended two years. Use these simple excuses to stand every hour to extend your own life expectancy. STAND MORE SIT LESS - We all know that it [...]
What it Takes for a Manager to be a Leader
Regardless of your chosen career or occupation, there’s a good chance you’ll aspire to reach the top. Along the way, there are bound to be several obstacles and it’ll take a lot of hard work, but eventually the opportunity to be a [...]