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Top Advice on Getting The Promotion You Want
How to Get Promoted

Top Advice on Getting The Promotion You Want

While sometimes it may seem as though a promotion will never happen, you can ensure that you set yourself up for professional success. With careful strategising and intentional actions, the promotion you want can be within reach. Before making demands with your boss, clearly identify your goal and make preparations early on to make your ideal position an easy win. Consider the following questions and gather strong responses before you talk to your boss.

Time Management Tricks for Procrastinators
Productivity Tips

Time Management Tricks for Procrastinators

The procrastination club is well-populated with smart and talented people who sometimes struggle to get things done. People tend to procrastinate for one or several of the following reasons: you are frequently distracted, the task seems unpleasant, overwhelming, or too difficult, priorities are out of order, or there is a general lack of motivation for action. The good news is that there are strategies to combat each of these problems.

Practical and Effective Ways to Bring Mindfulness to Your Work
Advice Columnist

Practical and Effective Ways to Bring Mindfulness to Your Work

Mindfulness is about heightened awareness. Mindfulness means pausing and placing full attention in a given moment (or moments) to what is going on inside and outside of you without getting swept up in it and without judgement of your thoughts or emotions. Mindfulness means taking a pause to step back from the the hecticness of daily work and observe what is going on. Some ways you can incorporate mindfulness into your work include…

Leadership Skills for Women
Career Coaching & Guidance

Leadership Skills for Women

Many women feel they have to work twice as hard to be thought of as half as qualified as men in the workplace. Over time, there have been slight increases in the number of female world leaders and top executives, but things are far from equal. The good news is that many women have innate strengths and leadership qualities that make them just as, or some even more successful leaders than their male counterparts.

How To Work Better By Working Less
Productivity Tips

How To Work Better By Working Less

If you want to work better, abandon the idea that working longer hours means that you are a sure shot for employee of the month. To be more productive at work, try some of these ideas instead…

Mindfulness in the Workplace
Productivity Tips

Mindfulness in the Workplace

Feeling too stressful at work? If you encounter distraction in the workplace, it’s time to get a short break and pleasure your mind, let’s see our 5 great ideas on how to practice Mindfulness here…

Productivity-Killing Habits to Avoid
Productivity Tips

Productivity-Killing Habits to Avoid

We all wish to be more productive, especially in the workplace, and yet, most of us are doing things that get in the way of our ability ……

The Key to Happy, Motivated Employees
Advice Columnist

The Key to Happy, Motivated Employees

Managers, look around your office. Just a measly one in four of your staff feel engaged in the workplace, as recent surveys have revealed…….