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Year: 2015

Year: 2015

We help you see the world differently, discover opportunities you may never have imagined and achieve results that bridge what is with what can be.

Don’t Ignore Your Personal Life

Good Leaders Don’t Ignore Their Personal Lives Good leaders put aside their own needs for the good of the organization — but that doesn’t mean they completely sacrifice their personal lives. Leaders who ignore their need for exercise, sleep, and recreation eventually succumb to brownout: the loss of energy, focus, and passion. Brownout is often… Continue reading Don’t Ignore Your Personal Life

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Don’t Ignore Your Personal Life

Decide How You’ll   React to Negative Feedback When criticism arrives unexpectedly, remembering how you should react to it is tricky.  Getting caught up   in the heat of the moment  can overwhelm our best intentions. Think through the reaction you want to have now, so that you’ll be ready when the time comes: Listen carefully to… Continue reading Decide How You’ll React to Negative Feedback

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Decide How You’ll React to Negative Feedback

Know When to Stop Checking Your Phone and Go to Sleep By now we’ve all heard the importance of getting enough sleep. Yet many of us let our technology sabotage us getting a good night’s rest.  Research has found that anxiety, due to fear of missing out,  plays a major role in how we use… Continue reading Know When to Stop Checking Your Phone and Go to Sleep

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Know When to Stop Checking Your Phone and Go to Sleep

Balance Your Personal and Professional Selves on Facebook More people use Facebook than any other social network, which means that you need a Facebook strategy for your career. This is especially true since we usually use our personal accounts when we’re on it. Here are some tips for managing your personal account in relation to… Continue reading Balance Your Personal and Professional Selves on Facebook

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Balance Your Personal and Professional Selves on Facebook

Be Careful with Sloppy Writing People judge you by your writing. They decide how smart, creative, and trustworthy you are — all from what you’ve written. So be sure your writing makes a good impression on the reader. Here are some common mistakes that can damage your reputation: Using lots of pairs or sets of… Continue reading Be Careful with Sloppy Writing

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Be Careful with Sloppy Writing

Get the Full Benefits of Walking Meetings Walking meetings are a growing trend, replacing a traditional sitting meeting in a coffee shop or boardroom with a little exercise. The benefits are plentiful:  Research has found that walking leads to increases in creative thinking, and anecdotal evidence suggests that walking meetings spur more productive, honest conversations.… Continue reading Get the Full Benefits of Walking Meetings

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Get the Full Benefits of Walking Meetings

Learn How to Say No to New Assignments Most of us say yes to requests and assignments without filtering them by what’s urgent,  let alone what’s possible. We like saying yes to our superiors, but agreeing to do too many things leaves us overstressed and overworked. A better approach is to remember that saying no… Continue reading Learn How to Say No to New Assignments

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Learn How to Say No to New Assignments

It’s OK to Ban  Devices from Your Meetings We love to hate meetings. But since they aren’t going away any time soon, we should think of ways to make them more effective. One answer is to ban devices. The reason is simple: devices distract us. Many people think they can finish an email or read… Continue reading It’s OK to Ban Devices from Your Meetings

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It’s OK to Ban Devices from Your Meetings

Know When to Speak Up About an Ethical Issue Sometimes you sense that something isn’t right at work. Maybe you suspect that a finance colleague is fudging numbers or that a coworker often sneaks out early. How do you know if it’s worth speaking up? Here are some tips for these tricky situations: Consider what’s… Continue reading Know When to Speak Up About an Ethical Issue

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Know When to Speak Up About an Ethical Issue

Don’t Make These Common Writing Mistakes People judge you by your writing, so getting a word wrong can make you look bad. Be sure to avoid these common writing errors in your next email: Affect/Effect: Affect is a verb; effect is a noun. It affected him. The effect was startling. All Right/Alright: Although alright is… Continue reading Don’t Make These Common Writing Mistakes

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