The start of a new year brings with it a sense of renewal and the potential for a fresh start on goals, but reflecting on the previous year can also create a negative feeling, whether you feel your goals weren’t reached as you expected, or you generally feel you lost
Where you are today is the end result of all your decisions. For example, you have a job because you chose to look for and do what was necessary to get one. Imagine not ever making such a decision because you felt you had bad interviewing skills, and improving them
In an ideal world, the workplace is happy and harmonious. Unfortunately, you will sometimes be called on to deal with employees who make work an unpleasant place. There are ways to deal with these problem employees. When you first encounter an employee who has been labelled a problem, take a
Are you a confident person? Most people know whether they’re confident or not. Some have had feelings of self-doubt since the time that they were kids. And most of us feel a little diffident in the face of our dreams, especially if we’re big dreamers. There has to be a
Traditional brainstorming involves bringing a group of people together to generate as many ideas as possible. Judgment of the ideas is suspended to encourage both their quantity and diversity. The ideas are later combined and improved. Unfortunately, this technique has a number of problems that diminish both the quantity and
The holidays are a great time to recharge your batteries. Doing it company-wide can vastly increase morale and ultimately your employee’s productiveness. But getting your office ready to close for the holidays or an annual away day isn’t as simple as locking the doors. There’s a lot to consider. If you do
Although conventional measures of intelligence might help to determine whether a person is smart and grasps things easily, they still can’t help you to predict whether that person is going to be successful and happy in their life. They can’t help you to predict whether that person will advance in
Nowadays, many people recommend meditation for dealing with stress. But a lot of us are resistant to the idea of meditation. How exactly do you close your eyes and think about nothing? Is it even possible to do this? There’s no denying that meditation is hard to do. It requires
We’ve all seen bosses from hell—the ones who are never there when you need to ask them a question but who will scream and yell at you in front of all the employees when you get something wrong. You may not have direct experience with someone like this but you
The morale of your employees is very important. Negativity can be devastating. People will not be as motivated to work. Some may quit due to gossip about them. For this reason, you need to do everything that you can to get rid of it. Here are some tips to keep
