This post is sponsored by Official Space, the UK’s favorite office space website. Almost everyone has used a desk at some point in their life. It’s just one of those things you do. From school to University to work, the desk is a tool built for a very practical purpose. But there tends to be…
Personal Effectiveness
If You Wait Until You’re Ready You Might Get Passed By
Confidence is a good thing. But waiting to be 100% “ready” has its drawbacks. Among them – the parade may just pass you by while you’re deciding if you have what it takes to join in. In this fantastic TEDx Talk by my colleague Dana Theus – you’ll hear a compelling story about two women –…
How to Get a Grip When You Screw Up
When you screw up at work, how do you handle it? Of course, it depends on the size of the screw up, right? Sent out a wrong meeting date to a few colleagues? No biggie. Send an apology email with the new date. Those are fairly easy to keep in perspective. But what if you…
Getting Ahead and Making a Difference at Work
Book Review: Getting Ahead by Joel Garfinkle The book Getting Ahead: Three Steps to Take Your Career to the Next Level is very straightforward in its premise: hard-working, competent professionals will not move their career to the “next level” unless they do three important things that many people say they’re too busy to do. The…
The More You Know The Less You Fear
I’m reading the book Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist by Michael J. Fox. When I this read quote, I was struck the notion that fear-based motivation is the “easy” way out. Building respect takes more time, but in the long run, is more effective. Food for Thought: are people being…