Flu shots and behavior checks keep morale and productivity high By Eric Holtzclaw Cold and flu season is just around the corner, and many offices are encouraging their employees to get flu shots to keep sickness from impacting company productivity. Your employees, however, can spread behavioral infections too—ones that are far more damaging to your organization if left unchecked. That …
Selling in Two Realities
What world do your customers live in? Tailor your efforts accordingly. By Patrick McClure Most experienced sales professionals know that understanding the target market is of paramount importance in designing and executing an effective sales campaign. If you don’t know the personal characteristics, motivation, demographic details and purchasing habits of your potential buyers, you won’t be able to connect with …
Staying Healthy During the Holidays
Soon, the office holiday parties will begin. Here are some tips are how to stay fit from Glenneth Reed By Glenneth Reed It’s almost here. You know what I mean. The holiday season. It starts with Halloween, and ends New Year’s Day. In between are food opportunities galore. Two full months’ worth of temptations, parties, travels and more. If you …
Bringing True Connection to Coworker Relationships
Pointers for unlocking the secret to a more fulfilling professional life By Rick Goodfriend Working professionals in America spend an average of 45 hours a week at work; that’s well over half of the waking hours in the day. Despite these long hours, workers often see their colleagues merely as daily acquaintances whose brief chats in the break room serve …
12 Habits of Highly Successful HR Leaders
What’s the difference between an HR practitioner and an HR leader? According to our human resources guru, it’s these 12 traits.
Rise of the Digital CMO
Using technology to eliminate the digital disconnect in the C-Suite, increasing productivity and ROI By Will Wiegler These days, it’s hard to imagine life without technology. No matter the industry or application — whether sales or service, media or medicine — technology has become an intricate and inextricable part of every facet of our lives. However prevalent, one glimpse into many …
Focus Your Mind to Improve Your Business
Using Meditation and Awareness to Improve Decision-making and Productivity By Janet Taylor Having been a Corporate Executive for over 20 years, I know firsthand the excitement and the challenges of managing an ever-changing workplace. I started studying meditation in college, but it wasn’t until I was working long hours in a company that was growing rapidly that I started to …
Don’t Give Your Business Card to Just Anyone
Business card customs vary across the globe: Design and distribute yours appropriately By Neil Forrest A universal method of exchanging contact details the world over, the business card is an integral element of global commerce and professional relations. Just as nations have different customs in inhabitants’ everyday lives, they attach different meanings and etiquette to the exchange of their business …
What Success Looks Like: Striving to be Superwoman
Jo Stoner, SVP of HR at Informatica Corp., shares how sometimes, accepting the little victories as success. As a busy executive, wife and mother of two young children, success looks different depending on the day. Sometimes, it’s a work achievement you didn’t think you could pull off, another day it is seeing your older child forgive his younger sister …
What Success Looks Like: A Summer Sunset
For Lucy Kalkman, VP of Operations at Empire Today , success looks like summers spent lakeside, building memories with family and friends that will last a lifetime. By Lucy Kalkman Success is watching the sun rise over the lake with my family, fishing off of the dock, and watching my children catch their first fish. It is watching the …
Don’t Let Dinner Pass You By
Melissa Lanz, author of “The Fresh 20,” explains how amid a busy schedule she has created a plan for making eating healthy and simple Introduction by Jaclyn Crawford If you are anything like me, when you get home, making dinner can work its way to being the last priority. Sure you could prepare an elaborate meal like you had envisioned …
Fight the Fat: Turn Your Ordinary Office into a Space to Get Fit
Most of us spend our workday sitting. We asked Glenneth Reed, Fitness Blogger at Let’s Talk and Walk, to give her suggestions on creative ways to stay fit at the office. With a full-time desk job, I spend almost 40 hours a week sitting in front of the computer and that’s not talking about the time I spend at home …
Secret to reaching the top: Think, Act, Talk like a CEO
How can leadership be so difficult when defining its core principle is so easy? Leadership is simply the ability to get people to do what you want them to do
Organizing Your Office in Five Steps
Organization isn’t just for being more comfortable in your works-pace, but it improves work-habits and overall productivity. There is no underestimating the role an organized office plays in your peace of mind and greater success. Even now, with productivity conversations revolving around digital storage and electronic solutions, paper piles still run rampant on desktops across the globe. With these piles, …
Effective Communication in the Workplace
Non-verbal communication is just as vital as verbal communication, so what are you really saying? Studies show that nonverbal communication carries between 65-93% more impact than the actual words spoken, especially when the message involves emotional meaning and attitudes. These nonverbal cues include facial expressions, eye contact, gestures, posture, body movement, tones of voice, dress, grooming, touch, and even your …
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