Leadership Advice to everyone at work. Be REAL: Reliable, Efficient, Accountable and a Listener Eve Ash’s REAL acronym is one everyone would be wise to consider, no matter what their place in the office hierarchy.
Advice Successful problem solving will change your career, here’s how to do it Problems are life’s ingenious habit of tossing a curly one in our path, just when things are going smoothly or when they couldn’t be worse.
Advice How to plot your career path Whilst we often think about where we want to be in the near future or by the end of the year or within a few years, it’s often hard to come up with a clear vision.
Advice The sad reality about handling personal grief at work Facebook’s chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg has recently been in the news as a consequence of the sudden tragic loss of her much-loved husband, SurveyMonkey CEO Dave Goldberg.
Jugglehood Coping with the death of a work colleague What is the worst thing that can happen in the workplace? You get overlooked for a promotion? You work hard for no reward? You miss the submission date of a big tender? These all seem like huge ordeals when we are faced with them, but there are much worse things that can happen.
Advice Four strategies for surviving a toxic office Whether we’re talking SMEs or global conglomerates, all too often, excuses are made for office toxicity.
Health ‘3.30-itis’ getting you down? Five ways to beat the slump We all know the feeling – we have been ploughing through work all day and we feel a yawn emerge.
Advice The 10 qualities of accountable people Some lazy types among us can confuse accountability with being held to account, and will avoid it like the plague.
Health The halfway mark: Three healthy challenges to set you straight for the rest of the year Have you just been through a tough six months? Well, half the year is almost done! For some, a time to celebrate achieving results within deadlines and, for many, end-of-the-financial-year madness.
Advice Five ways to motivate and inspire your team Have you ever seen people quietly celebrate when they learn that their manager won’t be in the office that day? This is a bad sign.
Advice Create a culture of collaboration An unproductive, stressed team is often fragmented, unmotivated and lacking direction with unhealthy thinking patterns that block effective collaboration.
Advice The follow up: The 7 ways people show their true colours by following up (or not) There’s a follow-up and there’s being a pest.