The four-day workweek is an increasingly popular alternative to the traditional five-day workweek. This trend has benefitted from the sudden rise of the work-from-home population due to COVID-19. With roughly 40% of all American workers in either hybrid or fully remote settings, more and more businesses are switching to a
The effective communication umbrella is comprised of many skills. However, among these skills, many consider active listening an underrated skill. But there’s a reason why doing this is a mistake. Active listening is just as important — if not more — than speaking. Active listening is a critical component of
When entrepreneurs are in the early stages of starting their ventures, it can feel like navigating open waters without a map. Entrepreneurs will face several challenges throughout their company’s lifecycle, but the challenges they face during the first few years of their business are the key factors determining whether or
Outline: Preference vs. Binary | Building a System That Helps You Get Where You Want | The Answer To Distinguishing Preference vs. Binary | Final Thoughts Although some of us are born as we are and don’t veer from our authentic selves for even a second, some of us become
For far too many people, the holiday season starts out happy but ends up horrible. Why does it happen, and what can you do to prevent it from happening to you? Learn these three horrible holiday “habits” and my simple strategy you can use to keep the “happy” in your holidays.
The holiday season is fast approaching, and with it will come some reprieve from the “usual” work routines.
Whether you work remotely or in an office, the holidays offer an opportunity to slam the laptop shut and unplug, and not just from your devices.
Success – both at work and in life – requires resilience and the ability to weather the storms that inevitably occur. The key to building resilience is to focus on the areas of your life that are 100 percent within your control.
It’s one thing to work and live in your zone of genius. It’s an entirely different thing to discover who you are first. In today’s society, we often talk about how to live in and foster our zone, but first, we have to pay attention to the often-overlooked personal development necessary to start that journey.
For many people, failure is too heavy a burden to bear. The fear of failing keeps them from ever reaching success because they are too afraid to do anything that might lead to failure.
But there are many ways to use failure as a strategy to up the odds of success. Learning from your mistakes — and the mistakes of others — will lead you to where you want to be.
As a leader, what can you do to build effective and collaborative workplace cultures? You need to model the way. The first step is to use your interpersonal skills to enhance communication and establish relationships with people at all levels across the organization.
