What are the Most Common Traits of People that Rise to the Top and Get Promoted? Are you hoping to move your career forward with a promotion this summer? Moving up the corporate ladder at work isn’t just a matter of luck, people who get promoted have certain key traits in common, and they are traits that you can …
How Does Caffeine Affect You at Work?Â
Are you a coffee addict or soda fanatic who must hit the coffee or vending machines the minute you walk in the door of your job? While your caffeine habit may seem harmless and may help you connect with coworkers as you chat over a good cup of coffee, the truth is that your caffeine habit may not be the …
Workplace Safety
The Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, Excel Industries lawn products company in Kansas, and the WDBJ TV station shooting in Roanoke, Virginia in which two on-air reporters were killed by a former employee, are all tragic reasons why businesses large or small must have an emergency action plan in place. Despite these and other workplace shootings incidences, many U.S. …
Understanding Emotional Intelligence. What it is…and do you have it?
Do you have emotional intelligence, more commonly referred to as EI? Emotional intelligence refers to the ability to identify emotions and manage them. People with high EI not only know their own minds, but are also really emotionally aware. They know what others are feeling, they can help others to cheer up or calm down, and they can regulate their …
Organizational Essentials: Cultivate, Sow, Feed and Weed
May is usually the signal to get out in the garden and begin the process of connecting with the earth, cultivating the soil, considering what to grow–and everybody’s favorite pastime–pulling the weeds that have sprouted up over the winter and early spring. It is sometimes backbreaking work as we reshape disorder back into a space that delights and intrigues us. …
