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Today many companies are expecting their employees to do more work in less time. From interns to managing partners, people say yes to these demands because they want to be a team player, look eager, or simply be nice. But saying no can sometimes be
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Whether you are a CEO or entry-level employee, getting along with others is paramount to success and your career is no exception to this rule. While tenacity, hard work, intelligence and making the right decisions are all significant factors in the equation
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Do you get derailed at work by putting the work off? While some employees occasionally engage in procrastination, others make it a way of life. “Everybody procrastinates, but not everyone’s a procrastinator,” says Joseph Ferrari, a DePaul
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How do you know when you need to increase productivity at work? Does this sound familiar? You’re making the rounds at work, checking in on your employees and trying to make sure that everything is running smoothly. Everybody looks super busy,
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Maybe you have trouble recalling your clients’ names. Perhaps you draw a blank every time you introduce a new colleague to co-workers. You’re constantly thinking to yourself: Is it Joan or Jane? Tim or Tom? Larry or Barry?
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Back in 2008, Samuel Culbert, a UCLA professor and management consultant, published an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal titled, “Get Rid of the Performance Review!” The piece got a huge response from readers, and Culbert went on to write a book
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Imagine your co-worker storms into her office after lunch. She’s red-faced, tight-lipped and speaks to no one. She throws her briefcase on the desk, plops down in her chair and glares out the window. You ask, “Are you all right?” She snaps back in an angry tone
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For most of his career, Thomas D’Aunno has been studying how people give one another feedback. As a professor of health policy and management at Columbia University‘s Mailman School of Public Health, he focuses on health care, where the failure
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There are many reasons you may lack confidence at work. Maybe you’re in a job that requires skills you don’t have, or you’re less experienced than anyone around you. Perhaps you’re new to the company and feel uneasy about your ability to succeed—or you feel
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From an informal poll of communication experts and career advisers, these 10 words emerged as the most common fillers, qualifiers and jargon that mean nothing and will get you nowhere. Erase them from your vocabulary immediately.
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Can where you hang your hat shape the size of your salary? In short: Absolutely. U.S. job markets vary drastically by region, state and municipality. Women, who earn between 70 and 80 cents for every dollar earned by men, may be especially
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Relocating to a new city and beginning a job search is definitely a challenge. I should know. My family and I as we speak are planning our relocation to the San Francisco Bay area. While I’m self-employed as is my husband, there are challenges
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There’s no such thing as bad pizza. If it has chewy crust, zesty sauce and gooey cheese, it’s good in my book. But some things –like spicy Italian sausage, sautéed mushrooms and…
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No matter how busy you are normally in the office, there are always those days where you have nothing to do. You’ve filed all the papers, written all the reports, and even answered all your e-mails…
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Getting feedback from your boss is important if you want to move ahead in your career. You have to know what your boss sees when you are at work each day. However, your boss may not always be honest…
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