If you’re ready to learn how to quit a job with class, great! It’s so important, in the long-term, to leave your manager and coworkers with a respectful goodbye. It’s also the right thing to do. Before we get to the specific steps, I’d like to share a little story on WHY I’m so glad […]
Leadership
How to Stop Crying at Work
I know this sounds like a depressing post topic. But it’s not meant to be. I’m very pregnant at the moment, so knowing how to stop crying at work has become a necessity: not because I hate my job (I love it), and not even because of the tiny person sleeping on my bladder (though […]
Why You Should Never “Fake It ‘Til You Make It”
I gave the advice “Fake it ’til you make it,” before. I did it happily, borderline smugly even. Usually, I follow it up with a classic career story of mine, which I will now tell to you (Lucky you; Please imagine me smoking a pipe in a mahogany office). Many moons ago, on the first […]
Why Caring Less is the Secret to Success
This is an eye-opening guest post from Corrie Shanahan, the author of Do it, Mean it, Be it. The Keys to Achieve Success, Happiness and Everything You Deserve at Work and in Life (Career Press). I was speaking recently at a large financial institution that operates in Latin America. The topic was personal branding. We […]
3 Keys to Escalating Performance in the Workplace and in Everyday Life
We’re thrilled to feature this guest post from leadership expert and author Mark Sanborn! It is adapted from his new book “The Potential Principle.” Every day we “perform,” at work and at home, in ways big and small. Because we can’t (and shouldn’t) give every performance the same attention, it is easy to be lulled into […]
Stop Procrastinating, With Neon Index Cards
So how can index cards make you stop procrastinating? It sounds like a stretch, right? But it’s not, so long as you like colorful index cards. The point here isn’t the index cards themselves, though they often work for me. The point is that you can stop procrastination by switching up your tools. In my […]