Nervousness can result from many things – a certain situation, a concern about being embarrassed, or a worry about forgetting information (remember having pre-exam fears that you’d forget everything you’d learned for a big test?) Most adults dread feeling nervous and are therefore tempted to eliminate situations that prompt nervousness and the sense of unease […]
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Rate Your Company’s Culture – Positive, Uncertain or Toxic?
The importance of a positive company culture is well-documented and is finally getting the attention it deserves – from business magazine articles, academic journals, and employees. The culture of a company impacts not only the organization’s overall health but also its performance. Some say that an organization’s culture is like glue – it holds the […]
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3 Tips for Preparing for a Big Interview
Careful preparation for a big interview or client meeting is critical to confidence and success. How do you prepare for potentially career-changing events? Below are three tips to help to build self-assurance, harness past success, and hit the bull’s-eye. Recognize that your non-verbal communication will speak louder than your verbal communication. Remember to sit straight and be alert in the waiting room and in the interview. Did […]
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In Today’s Team-Based World, Success Comes From Flexing Your Individuality
Do you bring your individuality to work every day? In today’s team-based corporate world we may forget to flex our individuality at work. Some believe this oversight is hurting the workplace. Susan Cain, author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, argues that too much teamwork can actually be […]
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Feedback: Quick tips for giving feedback
Feedback is a key concept discussed in academics and business because it is critical to the process of improvement. Just to clarify, feedback has two meanings in the world of organizational behavior. This article relates to the more commonly used meaning – feedback to explain how well an employee is meeting goals at work. However, […]
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What Makes You Unique?
I remember learning in gradeschool that each thumbprint is unique and being both dumbfounded and intrigued. Could it be that no one on the planet had a thumbprint just like mine? The lines in my friends’ thumbs seemed similar, if not identical. What made each of our thumbprints special, different, and distinct? During my childhood – an era when I prized conformity […]
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Get Motivated – No Excuses
It’s difficult to sustain motivation – it’s the reason we fail when trying to implement new diets, exercise regimes, business plans, or parenting tactics. There are a countless excuses we can conjure up to help ease the pain when falling short – we are too stressed to diet today, too tired to exercise this morning, […]
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Twitter: Inform, not MeForm
PsyBlog put out a great article today entitled “Twitter – 7 Highly Effective Habits.” My favorite among the 7 tips is the second on the list “Inform, not meform”. What the author means by this is that giving knowledge to others is a great way to use Twitter, but imparting more information about oneself […]
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College Degrees Required, Not Preferred
The New York Times article that ran two days ago (February 19, 2013) indicates that the “college degree is becoming the new high school diploma: the minimum requirement, albeit an expensive one, for getting the lowest-level job” (http://http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/20/business/college-degree-required-by-increasing-number-of-companies.html). As a college instructor, I am not surprised by the depressing title of this article “It Takes […]
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The best thing …
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. Abraham Lincoln
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