Five Tactics for Influencing Stakeholders

If you’re in a complex, cross-matrixed business, the chances are that your success depends on stakeholders across the organization with varied roles and responsibilities. When it comes to getting work done, it takes more than rolling up your sleeves and jumping in...

Five Tips to Make Constructive Feedback Easy to Give

Why is it so difficult to give feedback at work, even when it is well-intentioned? The answer is fear. Either fear of reprisal (if speaking to a superior) or fear of hurting someone’s feelings and creating an awkward work environment. These five tips can make giving...

How Happy Are You at Work?

With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, thoughts may veer toward personal relationships. I’d like to suggest you think of a different kind of relationship — your work. More specifically, are you happy in it? On a scale of 1 – 10, with 1 being the thought...

Setting Goals Make the Invisible Visible

Nobody says it better than the empowerment guru and motivational speaker, Tony Robbins, who advocates the importance of figuring out what it is you want and then taking action. There are so many examples of how setting goals have pushed individuals to achieve great...

Indies! Free Online University Course = Free Marketing

I’ve long been a proponent of free online courses offered through various universities around the world. I’m particularly fond of the offerings on coursera.org. I first blogged about Coursera in May, 2013 after I had enrolled in a 10-week chemistry course...

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