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Career/Work Life

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Accessing the Power of Meaningful Work
In an interview late in his life, the psychologist Sigmund Freud was asked to expound on what he felt were the most important constituents of life. His answer? “Liebe und Arbeit.” Love and work.
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The “Active” Leader: Harnessing Willpower to Move from Ideas to Action
We know what we should be doing, now how can we get it done?
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Are You Sabotaging Yourself?
Habitual lateness. Extreme disorganization. Not following up sales leads. This quiz helps to identify how we might be sabotaging our own efforts.
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Are You A Warrior at Work? (Quiz)
How can one bring more of the warrior to work? This quiz can help.
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Attraction
The law of attraction. It’s not just some woo-woo theory, it’s scientific: like matter attracts like. This article explores five key ingredients for attracting what one really wants.
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Becoming a Trusted Leader
Trusted leaders inspire the best performances from their teams, but how do leaders gain that trust?
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Bounce Back: Developing Emotional Resilience
Resilience is key for successfully navigating the major upsets in our lives. Fortunately we all can enhance this universal capacity.
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Bridging the Gap: Improving the Emotional Connection to Work
Overwork, anxiety and lack of challenge and recognition have colored the overall emotional connection of workers to their jobs. This article explores pointers on how to bridge the gap between how workers feel and how managers perceive them to feel—and how to help workers plug into a more positive emotional connection to their jobs.
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Brilliant Ideas
Everyone has ideas, but how does one generate brilliant ideas?
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Building Endurance for Maximum Performance
On paper, Teri’s life is everything she’s ever wanted, but lately, she just doesn’t feel the enthusiasm for her work that she used to. She’s often tired and impatient and also feels distant from her husband and kids. What’s wrong?
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Burnout
Burnout has more to do with attitudes, work styles, and behavior than with any specific job situation. Article explores warning signs and eight ways to avoid burnout.
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The Business Results of Coaching
We know that coaching works, but how do we measure its results?
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Creating Systems for Success
Most of us run our lives with a handful of systems, but don’t take advantage of how systematization could improve productivity, gain customers, and more.
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Curiosity in Business and Life
Curiosity has been given a bad rap, when in fact it’s a key ingredient for a fulfilling life.
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Dealing with Difficult Coworkers
There’s one in every workplace—a coworker who annoys, takes credit, steals ideas, backstabs—but that doesn’t mean the other workers have to be victims.
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Designing the Alliance—Empower All of Your Relationships
To create a mutually successful experience in any relationship, apply the coaching concept designed alliance.
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Developing Dynamite Presentation Skills
Surefire tips to improve presentation skills and make a greater impact.
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Disconnect: Exploring the Emotional Connection to Work
What do workers feel about their work? How can managers redirect their employees’ emotional energy from the negative to the positive side of the ledger.
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Don’t Miss a Step: Take Time to Celebrate!
The important fifth step in achieving a goal is too often left out.
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Do You Have Workaholic Habits?
There is a clear difference between enthusiastic, energetic work toward a highly valued goal and workaholism. That difference lies primarily in the emotional quality of the hours spent. This quiz will help a person see if he or she has a problem.
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Effective Listening for Leaders
With organizations and individuals so focused on the bottom line, it’s easy to ignore “softer” goals, such as listening well. But those goals are essential for success.
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Ethics Are Good for Business
With Enron and other corporate scandals garnering headlines, “ethics” and “integrity” are often discussed. But what, exactly, do they mean? And how can they be profitable?
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Everyday Leadership: It’s An Inside Job
What are the inner qualities that remain constant among all types of effective leaders? Leadership is a way of life, an expression of our fullest and best nature and it starts on the inside.
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Finding the Balance of Competing Devotions
These days, the ultimate question may not be “What is the meaning of life?”, but rather, “Where do I find the time?”
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Full Speed Ahead with “Yes, and” Thinking
What common phrase can destroy desire, stall great ideas, and endanger enterprise? A hint: most of us say it many times every day.
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Getting Things Done—On Time!
If planning is the key to getting things done on time, why is it sometimes regarded as an impossible luxury? Here are some ways to help keep those projects on track.
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Giving an A: Possibility Not Measurement
Give them an A and encourage the best in one’s employees, co-workers, and family.
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A Good Laugh Is Good for Business
“The arrival of a good clown into a village does more for its health than 20 asses laden with drugs,” observed Thomas Sydenham, a seventeenth century British physician, who may have been the first doctor to recommend laughter as the best medicine. Science has proven the doctor correct. It’s good for the body and for business.
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The “Hat Trick”: How to Wear the Right “Hat” for the Task
The days of wearing a single hat for a career are long gone. And that can be a very good thing for business.
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High-Gear Motivation: How to Hit Your Peak Day After Day
Hitting our peak every day is a challenge, but by heeding these suggestions, we can stay on a strong course.
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How’s Your Joy Level at Work?
Do people have to do work that they love in order to feel joy? Not necessarily. Here’s how to bring joy to anything.
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How to Succeed with Failure When All Else Fails
Had it not been for failure, humankind might never have known the magnificent Audubon bird paintings that gave rise to the Audubon Society or the inspiring music of Handel’s Messiah.
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How Well Do You Delegate?
Whether a person work with others, or alone, he or she may still suffer from the “Lone Ranger Syndrome”—that managerial malaise that causes folks to work excessively long, hard hours because only THEY know how to do something right. Whoa, Silver! There is a cure.
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How Well Do You Handle Workplace Conflict?
Like taxes, conflict in the workplace is inevitable. That isn’t all bad. Handling conflict well leads to many benefits.
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How Well Do You Manage Your Energy?
It is the skillful management of energy, not time, that most significantly affects high performance. Take this quiz to see if you could be managing energy in a healthier way.
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How Well Do You Motivate Others?
As the quiz reveals, there is more to motivation than the three Ps.
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How Well Do You Practice Empathy at Work?
As the quiz reveals, empathy is an extremely important skill in the workplace.
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How Well Do You Present?
What does it take to be a great speaker? Take this quiz and see.
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How Well Do You Recognize Those Who Work With You?
What’s wrong with employee-of-the-month, coffee mugs, and length-of-service awards? This quiz will show more effective ways to express a job well done.
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The Importance of Follow-Through
How important is follow-through? Learn the components of follow-through and suggestions for increasing one’s success.
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Increasing Personal Productivity
In-depth exploration of strategies for getting more done in less time—and enjoying the process.
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Job Transition: Why the First Few Months Are Critical
He got the job; the hard work is over. Right? Wrong. Getting hired is just the first step.
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Keeping Your Cool When Negotiations Get Hot
Whether negotiating a raise, contract, car purchase or business deal, bargaining ability is a key skill worth learning and honing.
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Making “Impossible” Thinking Possible
Thinking impossible thoughts is not just the realm of fairy godmothers or eccentric inventors. Break out of mindsets and make the impossible possible.
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Marketing for Business—and for Life
Apply marketing principles to get what one wants out of relationships and life.
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Mastering “Must-Have” Speaking Skills
No longer simply a “plus” in the business world, public speaking skills are essential. Fortunately, they can be learned.
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Oh, the Tales We Tell: Getting Beyond Our Stories at Work
Outlines a path of investigation into the horror stories people tell themselves. It shows how to get beneath those stories to the beliefs and assumptions that really live there, and then offers a strategy for using that self-awareness to free oneself.
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Optimism—a Positively Essential Business Skill
Some people are optimists, others are pessimists. Nothing can be done about it. Right? Wrong. Optimism is a skill even a pessimist can learn.
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Organize Yourself for Success
Demonstrates the connection between organization and success and also offers a detailed strategy for implementing—and maintaining—an effective organizational system, including the laser-focused approach that successful executives employ to dispense with clutter.
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Overcoming the Obstacles to Midlife Career Change
Making a career change in midlife can bring new energy and joy, so what’s stopping us?
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Parenting as a Management Tool
Parents and managers have many tasks and skills in common.
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Personal Branding
A “personal brand” for celebrities makes sense. Madonna and Lance Armstrong craft and maintain their brands as enthusiastically as the Coca Colas and Nikes of the corporate world. But a personal brand for everyone? Absolutely.
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Perspectives at Work
It is usually our perspective, the way we think about a situation—rather than the actual situation itself—that leads to joy or pain.
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Pitching A Project Past Resistance
Sara’s proposal is finally ready to present. Her Power Point slides are perfect. She’s even wearing her lucky blouse. So why does she have that gnawing feeling that somehow her proposal is going to get shot down?
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Playing the Inner Game to Win
Explores the common internal roadblocks that hold people back. Suggests ways to confront those obstacles, and makes suggestions for achieving seemingly impossible goals.
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Play to Your Strengths
In order to succeed we have to conquer our weaknesses, right? Wrong. Our strengths will set us free.
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Procrastination—Everyone Talks About It, but Nobody Does Anything
Imagine the space this article fills is blank. Imagine the time and energy it might take someone who procrastinates to: 1) think about doing the article 2) put it on a list of “to dos” 3) talk about doing it 4) promise himself he will start it tomorrow 5) promise himself he will definitely start it tomorrow….
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Productive Partnerships
Explore what makes a successful partnership and practical suggestions for where and how to begin looking for a partner.
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Putting the Value Back in Performance Evaluations
Looks at the common problems with performance evaluations, explores the elements of a valuable appraisal and offers five recommendations for how to write one.
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Saving Ourselves from Self-Sabotage
Is there any relief from the snake of self-destruction that coils in many of us? This article can help.
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Scare Yourself Into the Life You Want
Do the thing you fear—and get the life you’ve always wanted.
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Self-Quiz: Are You “Too Busy”?
Many people complain about being too busy, but forget that they have a say in the matter. This quiz offers help and insight.
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Sharpening Your Profit Focus
Sharpen your profit focus and learn ways to enhance the profitability of your business.
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Standing Out as Outstanding
How can a business stand out from the din of modern life? These ideas can help.
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Stronger Performances Through Mentoring
With books, consultants, the Internet, there’s no dearth of sources for information and expertise. But where does one go for ongoing wisdom, for experienced advice? Increasingly in business, the answer is: mentors.
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Taking Control: It’s a One-Person Job
Wanda wants to be promoted to senior management but has been told she doesn’t have what it takes to make the leap. Her thought: “I can’t control what others think of me.” So what can she control?
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Taking Feedback (to Heart)
When given difficult feedback, many people respond in unproductive ways. But it is possible to take the dread out of feedback and receive it as a gift.
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Ten Questions to Ask Yourself Before Taking a Leadership Role
How well do I know myself? How do I handle failure? These questions and more can help clarify if a person is ready to move into a position of leadership.
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Thinking Like an Entrepreneur within the Corporate Walls
Explore “intrapreneurship,” including the value and benefits of such an approach for both the individual and the organization.
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Time for a Productivity Tune-Up!
Scheduled maintenance. It’s not just for cars.
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Time Is More Than Money—It’s Your Life!
Imprisoned by the perception that time is a limited resource, people rush from one commitment to the next, believing they haven’t a minute to spare. They yearn for more time, yet feel anxious and guilty when idle. But there’s hope.
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Time: It’s Not How Much You Have, It’s How You Chunk It!
You can’t add more hours to the day, but you can make better use of the hours you do have.
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“Tolerations” Take a Toll
What do desktop clutter, inadequate tools for the job, a too-chatty co-worker and a troublesome relationship with the boss have in common? They’re all tolerations, those little or big things we put up with that sap our energy and drain our life force.
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Top 10 Best Email Habits
What’s the secret to success? The joke’s twist of the adage answers: 10 percent hard work, 90 percent ignoring email. Luckily, we don’t have to go that far.
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Top 10 Considerations When Choosing Partners
What are the important considerations when deciding on a business partner?
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Top 10 Myths About Public Speaking
A speaker memorizes the speech, uses a lectern, and doesn’t worry about the introduction. Isn’t that right? No?
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Top 10 Powerful Questions to Ask
Strong work relationships, high morale and improved performance are all byproducts of good questions. Here are ten to get one started.
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Top 10 Sources of Stress
Many people would find it surprising—and enlightening—to realize that stress is more often caused by internal pressure and anxiety than by external circumstances.
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Top 10 Steps to Achieve SMART Goals
Making SMART goals is a great beginning. Then one has to accomplish them.
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Top 10 Tips for Great Idea Generation
Generating great ideas can be a challenge. Here are ten ways to get the juices flowing.
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Top 10 Ways to Be Accountable
Keeping commitments that we make only to ourselves can be challenging. Here are ten ways to begin.
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Top 10 Ways to Get the Job
There’s more to getting the job you want than having the best résumé. Here are ten strategies that work.
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Top 10 Ways to Handle Adversity
People can’t prevent hard times from happening, but they can control their response. Here are ten suggestions for coping well with difficult circumstances.
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Top 10 Ways to Lighten Up at Work
A lighthearted approach aids career advancement, reduces turnover and absenteeism, and enhances productivity and work performance.
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Top 10 Ways to Have Productive Business Meetings
Business meetings: stressful, a waste of time, nothing ever changes or gets done. They don’t have to be that way.
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Top 10 Ways to Take Care of Yourself at Work
Self-care at work increases effectiveness and productivity. So how can a person begin?
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Top 10—Team Support
A leader’s job is to ensure that the highest level goals of the organization are realized. Here are ten ways to accomplish that.
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Top 10 Year-End Review Questions
The end of the year is not just a time to prepare for the next year. It’s also a great time to take stock of this one.
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The Ultimate Act of Self-Care: Clearing Clutter
How can clearing clutter lead to a better life? Clearing away physical clutter often has the unexpected effect of clearing away emotional clutter, too, that may be holding us back from our heart’s desire.
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The Value of Conflict
Most people would rather go to the dentist for a root canal than confront a colleague with something that bothers them. But conflict doesn’t have to be a negative experience.
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Working the Networking Groups
Looks at ways to make networking a successful and enriching experience, including tips for discerning which networking groups are best for you and how to get the most out of each mixer.
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