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Learn to Delegate Tasks Like a Pro

There’s a fine line between being a working manager and a micromanager. Learning to delegate tasks like a pro will help ensure you and your team’s future success. Here’s what you need to do…

How to Get Promoted

Be a Better Leader By Asking Yourself These Questions

When you think of a successful leader, you probably think of someone confident and decisive. Not only do questions serve as an opportunity to solve problems and develop processes, questions can drive personal improvement and aid in delivering targeted and effective results. In this day and age, leaders are expected to motivate, engage, and influence. And this can be done most effectively by asking the right questions.

Career Coaching & Guidance

Giving your staff due recognition can play a big part in keeping them

With an endless war for talent and the consequent brain drain in the job market across various industries…….

Career Coaching & Guidance

How ‘explanatory styles’ can help temper a pessimistic outlook

Francis was upset. Having been the finance director of his company for the past five years……

Career Coaching & Guidance

Be the Boss Everyone Wants to Work For

As a manager, everyone wants to be respected and well-liked by their employees. Unfortunately, it’s a fine line to walk between being treated with professional deference and being treated like a friend who can be taken advantage of in the office. While it is important to maintain friendly relations with your team, as the boss, some distance must be maintained in order to preserve the working relationship. Here are some ways that you can ensure that you’re acting like the personable, yet respected boss everyone wants to work for.

Career Coaching & Guidance

The “two pizza rule” can be instructive for start-ups and big corporations alike

In recent weeks I met with business leaders of contrasting backgrounds who are grappling with different challenges…..

How to Get Promoted

Bad Management Traits To Avoid

Bad management is catastrophic to business on multiple levels: reduced employee morale, minimal levels of productivity, low retention of talent pool, lack of motivation and creativity, and a host other crushing factors that can destroy your bottom line. Gallup research reveals that a staggering number of employees, roughly 70%, attribute their own motivation directly to their manager…

Career Coaching & Guidance

What you need to do to get the attention of headhunters

As a senior-level professional, your quest for a new role will look distinctly different from what it might have been like 10 years ago…….

Career Coaching & Guidance

A more human side to your company is the best driver to attracting talent

For the skilled professional in Hong Kong, the employment market remains largely candidate-driven……..

Career Coaching & Guidance

Selfless positivity will give you long-term rewards

I recently read Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success by Adam Grant, which distilled a philosophy that has guided me…..

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Tips For How to Retain Your Best Talent

Hiring the right people for your company is a tough task to begin with, and once you’ve managed that, you’ve got to ensure your best talent thrives and grows…

How to Get Promoted

Salary Negotiation Tips

While many factors contribute to any professional’s overall job satisfaction, compensation is one of the highest rated factors that leaves employees feeling dissatisfied and undervalued in the workplace. No matter how fulfilling a job or role may be, take home pay is crucial to anyone’s quality of life and well-being in and out of the office. Although salary is a critical component to workplace happiness, most professionals aren’t very good at negotiating better pay for themselves.