3 Ways to Be More Likeable at Work
We gravitate toward people who make us feel good. If you want to be that person, follow these tips to be more likeable at work.
4 Tips to Be an Effective Complainer
Those who are willing to speak out about what’s wrong can inspire people to help seek out a better way. Here’s how to complain effectively.
How to Be a Better Thinker, Innovator and Problem Solver
If we want to future-proof our businesses, and ourselves, we need to be able to think, re-think and even un-think current processes.
How to Sell Without Being a Slimy Salesperson
Try to get away with icky sales tricks and be prepared to have your reputation exposed—and commented on, shared, and warned against.
How to Build a Team That Supports Multiple Creative Styles
Rather than thinking in terms of lateral and linear thinkers, what if we frame people’s creative style as being that of a leaper or linker?
The Jerk Advantage—Do You Have It?
Jerks stand for something better and bigger and bolder. They change things. And they don’t care if you like them.
4 Stand-Up Ways to Get People’s Attention
Everybody loves a good joke, right? Sure. Until it’s not funny anymore. Even your guaranteed hit, the joke you could tell anywhere on any night and people would laugh, is not invincible forever. Unlike music, no one wants to hear your greatest hits more than once. You have to constantly write new material, while retiring […]
4 Tips for Working with People Who Couldn’t Care Less about Their Job
Gallup’s latest workplace engagement study says 20 percent of people are actively disengaged in the work they do and that at least 50 percent are not engaged whatsoever. For the less mathematically inclined, that equates to, at most, a mere 30-percent engagement. Now, many Type A personalities who define themselves through work (as most leaders […]
Why We Need Work-Life Blending, Not Balance
People seem rather fixated on the notion of work-life balance, yet it really is an old-school concept. Before the arrival of technology, our work lives and home lives were separated. We counted the time we spent in both, attempting to achieve balance much like you would on a set of scales. The problem is that […]
Dreading Your Next To-Do?
In an effort to achieve more, one of the traps we fall into is spending a greater amount of time on the things we are good at and, perhaps more importantly, the things we like. We are wired with a bias toward things that make us feel good. But in taking this approach, we can […]
Why You Need Lazy Employees
Who is the ideal employee? Someone who’s diligent, unquestioning, dedicated and hardworking, right? That’s what we in corporate behavioral research have always assumed. But what if another style of employee—one that’s a little more “lazy” in mindset—is equally valuable and essential to business survival today? How could laziness be an advantage in business? First off, […]
Gen Ys and Millennials: ‘They Might Be Right’
The Gen Y and millennial generations have been harshly criticized by its Gen X and baby boomer counterparts, people who have survived economic downturns, recessions, the digital revolution, outsourcing and off-shoring and still managed to maintain their “greed is good” work ethic. So they often look at their younger co-workers and think, You just wait, […]
