5 Tips on how to create and polish your own successful elevator pitch
‘A crisp elevator pitch isn’t useful just for times when you’re job hunting. There are often opportunities to shape the way you are perceived by others, but most people miss them.’ Dorie Clark Like it or not self-promotion seems to be a necessity in our hyper...
Happy World Kindness Day: A Kinder Kind of Work
Kindness at work It’s World Kindness Day today. However, wouldn’t it be great if there was kindness every day, in all spheres of life?/! In Harvard Business Review (Jan 02, 2018) Make Civility the Norm on Your Team, Christine Porath says, “Unfortunately, my...
Bullying in the workplace Part 1: Sticks, stones, and words DO hurt!
19% of Americans are bullied, another 19% witness it 61% of Americans are aware of abusive conduct in the workplace 60.4 million Americans are affected by it 70% of perpetrators are men; 60% of targets are women 61% of bullies are bosses, the majority (63%) operate...
(Re)thinking Assertiveness – Tips and Tools for Your Toolkit
Most of us have struggled with assertiveness at some time or another in our personal and/or professional roles. If you are introverted, or female, or from certain self-effacing cultures, there is a higher possibility of you being perceived as unassertive – which can...
The Sour Truth of Feedback – Theory Vs Practice
“We all need people who will give us feedback: that’s how we improve.” Bill Gates Have you ever given what you believe to be well thought out, developmental feedback with good intent, sensed it to be well delivered and then have had it fall flat, or worse be poorly...
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