What do you do when you’re feeling kind of blah and can’t seem to shake it?
Do you have ways to snap out of those moods and create a sense of drive and purpose?
If yes, keep doing what you’re doing (and leave a comment at the end of this post with your secrets).
If you’re like most of us, you may need a little extra help to get your mojo movin’ again.
Here are five ways to inspire yourself: Click Here to Read Article …
Today’s startups are exceedingly scattered operations. Instead of a centralized work environment such as an office, managers and employees are functioning remotely, using the web as a means to share and communicate. In many cases it’s ideal way to begin a business, as the talent pool is greatly expanded, payroll reduced, and the overhead associated with “brick and mortar” practically eliminated.
The academic world has been slow to catch up with this change, leaving many business majors unsure of how to go about leading a scattered workforce. While all situations are different and therefore require an individually crafted approach, the following suggestions for efficiently managing remote workers are sure to come in handy in all cases:
It’s hard enough for business leaders to keep track of operations in an office where everything is under their watchful eye, let alone when workers are across the map. There’s no shame in depending on comprehensive, multipurpose management software to get the job done. Some, such as Asure Software, include a human capital management platform. This gives business leaders access to detailed data about employee productivity. Click Here to Read Article …
Wouldn’t it be great to maximize your performance and increase your personal productivity at work?
You already work hard, and you work long hours, but there are things you can do to make the time you put in more productive than it already is.
Here are six suggestions on how to increase productivity. Click Here to Read Article …
We all want to impress our boss.
It’s kind of in our genes to try to please the person in authority in our life.
We’d like our boss to like us and to consider us when special opportunities or promotions come up.
Of course, it’s not just your winning personality that’s going to get you that consideration.
So here are five ways to wow your boss at work. Click Here to Read Article …
Leaving a job, particularly one that you thought was a great fit for you and your career, may be a difficult decision to make.
Sometimes that decision is easy — we know early on that it’s a matter of time before we jump or get pushed to leave.
But in most other cases, it is not that clear cut.
There are obviously benefits to staying or we wouldn’t still be here, but clearly something — maybe a lot of things — are nagging at us, or we wouldn’t be having that internal debate.
So how do you know when it’s time to stay or go? It’s much easier to decide to stay and hope that things get better, but in other cases you might as well get out now. Here are a few situations that should get you thinking about moving to a new job or a new organization. Click Here to Read Article …
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We all know that stress is bad for us, right?
Maybe not.
Now both researchers and management experts are recognizing that some stress can actually be good for us too.
That’s right; some stress can lead to enhanced performance, improved productivity and allow us to complete tasks and projects that we thought were impossible.
So what can we do to manage stress and turn it into productivity? Click Here to Read Article …
As we grow in our lives and our careers, we pick up things along the way. Most of these things are positive and useful and allow us to grow into successful people.
But some of the things we hold on to are neither practicable nor of any use to us. In fact they only hold us back.
Two of those things are regrets and resentments, and what we discover is that we can’t get ahead while we are still pulling them along with us.
Regrets and resentments weigh us down and actually produce negative energy that will hinder our success. Until we deal with them. Click Here to Read Article …
Being positive can help at work and not just because you might feel better about yourself because you have a positive attitude.
There’s actual science that shows positivity can change our whole life and even increase our success at work.
Professor Barbara Fredrickson, a professor of psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of several books, including Positivity, has developed a theory.
She believes, after more than 20 years of research, that positivity can broaden your mind and build a better life and a bigger and better career. Click Here to Read Article …
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