Career Advancement: Strengthen Your Company Network
”I’m known as a steady worker but don’t get the choice projects. I know I…
Marcia Zidle
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Effective Management: Should You Break the Rules?
Stop at the red and go on the green. Wait your turn. Treat others the…
Leadership Skills
Advance Your Career: Get Out of the Shadows and Get Noticed
Get Noticed and Out of the Shadows to Advance Your Career Do you sometimes feel…
Improving Yourself
Change Management: How to Avoid Resistance Part 1
How do you start out on the right foot so that everyone will get on…
Leadership Skills
10 Job Stress Tips
Life’s little hassles mount up until you say to yourself, “If one more thing goes…
Improving Yourself
Manage Work Stress Before It Manages You!
Stressful situations are all too common in a workplace that’s facing budget cuts, staff layoffs,…
Improving Yourself
Effective Meetings: The Top Three Challenges
“I hate meetings…they are a waste of time. We just talk, talk, talk…nothings gets done!”…
Leadership Skills
Career Anchors: What Motivates You?
Not everyone is motivated by the same thing. It really is different strokes for different…
Improving Yourself
Is Conflict at Work Good or Bad?
Conflict is an inevitable part of life. Conflict is inherent in our differences—in people’s differing…
Leadership Skills
Getting That Next Promotion
I do my job faithfully every day and I do it very well. Why is…
Improving Yourself
Building a Winning Team
Winning teams aren’t created by accident. Rather, the team leaders or manager functions like a…
Leadership Skills
My Boss is a Control Freak
Do you have a boss that demands frequent and unnecessary reports or hovers over you…
Improving Yourself
Priority Management: Focus on the Big Rocks
“It’s now time for a quiz.” said the speaker to a group of managers. He…
Leadership Skills
The $125,000 Thank You
All companies go through tough times but it’s the way management handles it that makes…
Leadership Skills
Are You a Workaholic?
Getting consumed with work is easy to do, especially when we spend most of your…
Improving Yourself
Are You Relying Too Much On Your Strengths?
A popular notion is that you should only focus on your strengths rather than develop…