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.
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 [...]
4 Tips for Maintaining Professional Appearances While Dressing Fashionably in the Work Place
Guest Post by Amy Kline Any and every female go-getter is faced with the challenge of being both assertive and respected; a leader and a team player. Unfortunately, it often is the case that we are judged by our dress first and [...]
Is Your Company Relocating You? How to Plan a Smooth Transition
When working for a company that has multiple locations, relocating employees may be a common occurrence. Some people may volunteer for the new position, while others are requested to go for one reason or another. Going somewhere new is exciting, but moving [...]
How Distance Learning Degrees Boost Career Prospects
The internet has made our lives undeniably easier. For example, 30 years ago it was literally impossible to order a signed copy of Simon & Garfunkel’s Sound of Silence from eBay as you lounged around in your underwear stuffing chips into [...]
Professional Women Still Marginalized
Reports reveal painful truth despite ‘incontrovertible proof’ that women are key to business, economic & societal growth This post is by Michelle Patterson, Founder and President of The California Women's Conference and President and CEO of Women Network. It’s a painful revelation. “At [...]
5 Ways Women in the Private Sector Can Turn the Economy Around
This article is contributed by Michelle Patterson Women are making a powerful difference in business, in today’s economy, and in family life. The adage that there is power in numbers definitely applies. The Bureau of the Census states that women currently outnumber men [...]
Tips on Presenting a Proper Image at Work [Infographic]
Being successful in your career takes a number of different factors. Women have to work hard, be smarter, and strive to prove that they are qualified for whatever jobs they are undertaking. One of the biggest mistakes that women make in the [...]
Here’s how to Conduct Performance Reviews like a Boss (as a first time manager)
Remember when you were invited to the yearly performance review with your manager? Did you like or hate those meetings – if you’re honest with yourself? Since you are the manager now, conducting performance review meetings with your employees is part of [...]
Five Difficult Workplace Types – and How to Get Them to Cooperate
This is a guest post by Judith Orloff . The workplace is filled with difficult personalities--bullies, know-it-alls, rumor mongers... Our fallback reaction when faced with problem people at work is to either assert ourselves or walk swiftly in the other direction. But [...]
5 Rookie Mistakes People Make in Their First Job – and How to Prevent Them
This is a guest post by Vicky Oliver A new study found that 2014 college grads face a challenging job market--and may end up having to take a low-quality job to start with. (Here's the link.) But whether your starter job will [...]
5 Ways a Blog Can Get You Your Dream Job
When blogging first became a thing, bloggers were dismissed as amateurs who used the platform primarily as an outlet for whining. That unfair characterization, of course, has radically changed by now, with countless professionals earning their entire income from blogging, and Fortune [...]
What is the Appropriate Holiday Card Etiquette in Business?
It’s once again the holiday season, and many in the professional world wonder: “Should I send members of my management team some sort of holiday greeting card? If so, is it appropriate to dash off an email with holiday wishes, or is [...]
Using Corporate Philanthropy Programs for Employee Engagement & Retention
“Years of experience and months of research have strengthened our belief that doing well by doing good is more than just a catchy phrase. Corporations that apply rigor to creating effective marketing and corporate social initiatives can help build a better world [...]