Productivity Tips
Burning out at work and what to do about it
It can happen to even the most dedicated and ambitious employees. For a number of reasons like heavy workload, friction with colleagues……
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How to Get Promoted
8 Tips to Get the Company Bonus You Deserved
Every good employee reaches a point where they need to ask their manager for a well-deserved year-end bonus. Whether it’s annually, or every few years, asking for a bonus can be a dreaded occasion. Employers will not always freely give out bonuses for a variety of reasons. An employee who knows their worth and knows they are due for a bonus needs to muster up the courage to speak to their boss and make a strong case for why they deserve to receive a bonus. There are tips that will help the process go smoothly and have you smiling all the way to the bank.
Productivity Tips
7 Horrible habits productive employees should avoid
Whether it’s nail biting or skipping breakfast, most people are aware of their bad habits in their personal lives……
How to Get Promoted
Practical Career Advice From Top Employers
Navigating a successful professional path is extremely challenging. When it comes to overall career goals, most people tend to look upwards to positions in senior level management with higher salaries and greater responsibilities for guidance and inspiration. While there isn’t always a sure-fire path to success, many prominent business leaders, CEOs, and other senior executives, past and present, have been open and vocal about what they believe is the best career advice out there for those looking to climb the corporate ladder to greater heights.
Job Search in Hong Kong
Prepare your stories before the interview
Hiring managers want to hear your story. They know past behaviour predicts future performance, so they ask for specific examples of times when you navigated office politics or delivered measurable results. The technique is called a behavioural job interview, and you know it is coming when you hear the prompt: “Tell me about a time when you … ” The next phrase can be almost anything: assumed a leadership role, saved your company money, disagreed with a boss, juggled multiple tasks or overcame an obstacle.
Career Coaching & Guidance
Play to your strengths
For too long, performance management and leadership development have focused on fixing managers’ weaknesses, rather…
Career Coaching & Guidance
Women: it’s your choice to lead
Ihad the privilege of being on the panel of the recent Women of Our Time conference organised by the …
Career Coaching & Guidance
Sell your success
Job candidates are regularly advised to “sell themselves” at interviews, but what does this mean in…
Career Coaching & Guidance
Keeping it fresh
If you’re a senior manager with aspirations to lead a company, you’d do well to look beyond the bounds of your…
Advice Columnist
Tips for the would-be financial controller
Becoming a financial controller can be a springboard to a management position. Finance directors and higher executives increasingly rely on financial controllers to assume responsibility for internal finances.
Career Coaching & Guidance
Lead and inspire
Charismatic executives are not just born, they are made. If you have recently been promoted and are now leading a team, you have the chance to transform yourself from a competent manager into a true leader. But it’s all too easy for leaders to slip unconsciously into poor behaviour without realising it.