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.
Daydreaming Brits: Almost a third of us can’t go 20 minutes or less without checking our phone at work
New survey conducted by Lenstore reveals which activities and conversations we get distracted the most during. New research from Lenstore has revealed which activities we find it the easiest to get distracted during, with household chores taking the top spot (82%) Over [...]
The Value Of Digital Skills In The Modern Workplace
The digital age is stretching continuously into every aspect of our daily living. Those in information technology aren’t the only ones that need to be prompted by this change. It’s the reality that people must be aware of in our present world. [...]
What to Consider if You Want to Advance Your Career
Some people find themselves stuck in a dead-end job, but they fail to take any steps to make changes. As a result, they often end up doing a job they are bored of and that offers minimal opportunities or perks for many [...]
11 Effective Ways to Make Sure Employees Feel Appreciated and Valued
In every organization, there are certain rules and regulations that the employees must always maintain. Perhaps the most common one is to maintain the hierarchy chain within the organization. However, it is also very common that due to strict hierarchy chains, the [...]
How to Make Corporate Travel Easy for You and Your Employees
When you’re managing a business, you will soon discover that traveling with your employees will sometimes occur. Business travels might happen for a variety of reasons — it can be a team-building event or a meeting with your business partners. No matter [...]
4 Questions To Ask Yourself To Find A Fulfilling Career
For some people, choosing their career path is easy. They know exactly what they want, so they’re able to create a plan on how to achieve it. However, some people find it difficult to choose a profession they want to engage in [...]
Training For Career Growth: 10 Things To Consider When Choosing A Program
Given that a career program equips you with the required skills on what you hope to do for the rest of your working life, it should be a carefully thought-out process. Choosing a program isn't the same as choosing a job or [...]
3 Tips to Help You Get Your Next Career Move Right
This is a guest post by Bryan Adams. Stay in the corporate world long enough, and you’ll eventually want to leave. For me, it happened early. I was 25 and had just set out on my career path. I was the only [...]
How to Reduce the Impact of Divorce on Your Career
Dissolving the Marriage If you're considering ending your marriage, you're most likely dealing with one of the most difficult decisions you will ever make. The consequences of leaving a marriage can be huge, but let’s talk about the grueling process first. By [...]
Personal Accountability: How to Unleash the Power to Create the Life and Career You Want
This is a guest post by Penelope Przekop A major reason why paychecks get larger as the scope of responsibility widens is accountability. Many complain about the high salaries of corporate executives. I won’t comment on compensation packages, but I will say [...]
6 Tips To Reinforce Your Business Password Security
You may feel that your business is so small that there's nothing worth stealing from your database or computer systems. However, hacking is a crime of opportunity, and cybercriminals will steal anything that takes their fancy. If you don't have a robust [...]
Traveling for a Business Trip? Don’t Forget to Pack These 5 Essentials
As traveling to certain parts of the world for vacations is becoming more common again, so is traveling for work purposes. Whether you’re a remote worker traveling for business, or you’re a part of a company that requires travel, there are a [...]
What To Do if You Fail the MCAT
Often considered as one of the toughest pre-med admission exams, many candidates who're not serious enough tend to fail the first time around in their MCAT exam. Though it's difficult, the exam can be more manageable by preparing properly with time and [...]
Rethinking Mentorship: 6 Do’s and Don’ts
This is a guest post by Areva Martin, Esq. Not long ago, a friend of mine was applying for a leadership position with a nonprofit. On paper, she looked overqualified for the job. But she had put a lot of thought into [...]
5 Reasons You May Decide On Switching Career Paths
Some people get lucky enough to figure out what they want to do for money very early in life. They might have a shining ideal of what job they want and the path they can take to get there. This doesn’t happen [...]
How To Launch a Freelance Web Design Business
I admire your entrepreneurialism. Really, I do. After all, you're launching a freelance web design business, regardless of the plethora of available code-free themes and content management platforms. And the estimated 30,253 plus freelance web design developers already working in the USA! [...]
Why Are Young Workers Shunning a Career in Sales? Start With These 5 Misguided Myths
This is a guest post by Alex Dripchak “The pay is high and jobs are plentiful, but few want to go into sales,” revealed a recent report in The Wall Street Journal. A recent Wall Street Journal article (“Sales Can Be a [...]
This Is How to Change Careers the Right Way
Growing up, we're told to college and earn a degree for a job that we will hold for the rest of our working lives. Or so they say. However, reality paints a different picture. The truth is, only 27% of college graduates [...]
Helpful Tips for Parents Interested in Returning to School
It’s never too late to expand your skill-set or change career paths. As the professional landscape continues to change in unprecedented ways, this has become more apparent than ever. Whether you’ve already completed a degree program in your chosen field or have [...]
How to Foster a Growth Mindset in Your Team
You've experienced the benefits of having a growth mindset in your own life. It's helped you get where you are today. But like any concept that expands your mind and challenges your paradigms, it's got you looking more critically (even judgmentally) at [...]
What Are the Main Types of Personal Debt That an Individual Can Have?
From personal, educational, mortgage and more, debt defines the finances of Americans like nothing else. American households hold almost 15 trillion dollars of debt. One reason why that number is so high is that there are many types of personal debt. Many [...]
5 Things to Do Before You Say I Quit
We've had a lot of free time that we didn't have before we all started working from home. Then, there's a constant distraction of the phone next to us. And then, there's stress and/or burnout that's not helping either. Frustrations, distractions, reflections, [...]
Commuting to Work: Stay Alert to Avoid Accidents
Seven Ways a Car Accident Can Impact Your Career With the workforce around the world heading back to work - well partially if not all, it's time to remind ourselves to stay alert on the commute. There are a lot of ways [...]
5 Simple Marketing Tips For Beginners
Marketing is one of the most daunting aspects of starting a business. Often new business owners find that their marketing campaigns aren’t yielding the results一clients, customers, or sales一they want. Thus, having the right marketing strategy, techniques, and tools is crucial to success. [...]