How to deal with a horrible colleague January 25, 2015 Find a common enemy, outsource your emotion, or take a leaf out of Abraham Lincoln’s book. If there isn’t someone in your current workplace who irks you, chances are there has been in the past. A Conference Board research group study published in 2010 showed that just 56 per cent of people said that [...]
The tiny signals that can destroy effective teams January 22, 2015 Physics can make the workplace more productive for everyone. Quarks are tiny subatomic particles. They are so small that they are almost impossible to detect, but they are the fundamental constituents of everything. In quantum physics, we are simply clouds of atoms and we interact with each other on both a physical and personal [...]
Pros and cons of making the move into consultancy January 21, 2015 You won’t necessarily have more security as a formal employee. If you're thinking about moving on from your current job – and over a third of UK workers are, according to research from the Institute of Leadership and Management – instead of finding work as a formal employee, it may be worth considering a [...]
Banish jobseeker jargon for a New Year career boost January 20, 2015 Your brand will suffer if you don’t differentiate yourself from competitors. Today is a big day for professionals: 21 January is traditionally when people kick-start their New Year job hunt. During the past few years, we’ve seen a significant spike in activity on LinkedIn on this day, as members revamp their profiles and look to [...]
Five delusions holding business back January 19, 2015 From strategic planning to managing their staff, companies are following false dogmas. We're now several weeks into January, and many people’s well-meant New Year’s resolutions will have already fallen by the wayside. But how refreshing would it be if our businesses committed to ridding themselves of some common – but disastrous – delusions in [...]
Quick tricks to add hours to your day January 18, 2015 Avoid creating a “data dump”, and find out why 17 minutes could be a godsend. It feels like it should be easy to be more productive – and many of us are constantly looking for ways to be so. A recent survey by Salary.com found that 69 per cent of people say they think [...]
Planning to look for a new job this year? Three helpful steps January 14, 2015 Bin old advice and make sure that you don’t lose sight of where you’re trying to reach. If you're thinking of moving jobs this year, you’re not alone. More than a third of UK workers are planning to leave their current position in 2015, according to research from the Institute of Leadership and Management. [...]
Corporate Hunger Games: Keeping the edge at work January 13, 2015 Learn to embrace risk and make sure staff aren’t being overstretched. Businesses need to work harder than ever before to sustain themselves. And that means leaders must be judicious, leaving deadweight and obsolete projects behind to open up capacity for new growth initiatives. Their employees cannot strive for victory while they lack sufficient mental bandwidth [...]
How to speak normally in a world of cliches January 12, 2015 Don’t talk in the way you think you should, says Elena Shalneva. Clear facts and your own voice are far more powerful. Having spent my career reading and listening to corporate presentations, I do not cease to be amused by how little genuine thought many of them contain. I am also intrigued by the [...]
The time-saving solutions you need this year: The Pomodoro Technique and the OHIO method January 8, 2015 How many of us tagged “be more productive” on the end of our New Year’s resolutions list? “I’ll start exercising three times a week, find a new job, oh, and try to work more efficiently.” The reality is, according to statistics from the University of Scranton, that a meagre 8 per cent of us [...]