When it’s time to manage your employees’ performance, don’t forget to do the following: Make sure the workers’ goals mesh with your company’s or department’s goals. Do so by creating SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound) goals and align them with those of your department or company. Doing so means you will help your… Read more »
We never seem to have enough time. We have our work, things we need to get done at home, taking care of the kids, and various other tasks that need to be done. With all that we have to do, it seems that we can never catch up. We feel like we are running on… Read more »
What is it that determines how people fare in life? It’s the great nature versus nurture debate that has continued for some time. For some, nature is the prime determinant of how people do in life. For the nature crowd, your abilities are pretty much set at birth. And it is these innate abilities that… Read more »
Companies and employees are always trying to increase their efficiency at work, and even at home. There are many strategies that have been put forth to help people increase their efficiency. But there is one simple way to increase efficiency that you may have overlooked. That is through better organization. Here are a few ways… Read more »
Everyone knows that work can produce a lot of anxiety. There are deadlines, too much work to get done in too little time, demanding bosses, uncooperative coworkers. Since anxiety is an ever present companion at work, it is a good idea to know things you can do to cope with it, because if you don’t,… Read more »
When we meet someone in various business situations, we intuitively size them up – can we work with them, can we trust them? One way we do this is by asking questions. Job interviews are the most salient example of this. Hiring managers attempt to get a feel for job applicants through the various questions… Read more »
Everybody is familiar with the old saw that a picture is worth a thousand words. And there is a large degree of truth to the statement. An image can indeed convey instantly what a written essay might take many words to get across. The importance of images is apparent in the world of social media,… Read more »
Trust among coworkers at their companies is at an all-time low. Trust is built into our natures. It’s part of how we function in society. But often we sabotage our own attempts at creating a bond of trust with others because we are unaware of the effect that our actions are having. If you want… Read more »
Often in our jobs we are focused on our weaknesses – identifying what they are and trying various ways of overcoming them. Performance reviews reinforce this view because they often focus on a worker’s weaknesses and what they should be doing to work on them. But research is now showing that this may be putting… Read more »
When at work, we are constantly dealing with problems. They can be of various kinds – something doesn’t go as planned, or attempts to improve some process have hit a snag, or there is some type of conflict. And some problems can be more difficult to solve than others. The key to solving most problems,… Read more »