When most people land a new job, they are full of excitement and begin contemplating how they can be successful. After a while, responsibilities become routine and the balloon of motivation that was once ready to burst is now almost completely deflated. Before we dive into ways to maximize your motivation, consider the three components…
Category: Soft Skills
Nice to Beat You—Four Ways Workplace Competition Pays Off
Dale Carnegie once told a story demonstrating how powerful competition in the workplace can be. To incentivize workers in the Charles M. Schwab steel mill, Schwab wrote the quantity of steel that the day shift had produced on the floor. The night shift worked extra hard to top the day shift’s number and soon both…
Three Reasons to Welcome Rejection
Everyone fears rejection although it is inevitable. No employee will procure the funding necessary to commence a huge project every time. There are no sales representatives with a 100% close rate. Executive Boards decline requests made by stakeholders every single day. Accepting that rejection, set-backs and losses are inevitable does not mean giving up or giving in. Instead, continue…
The Top Five Reasons Employees Leave Organizations
The US is the most overworked developed nation in the world given1: In the U.S., 86% of males and two-thirds of females work more than 40 hours per week. 134 countries have laws setting the maximum length of the work week, while the U.S. does not. In every country included except Canada and Japan (and the…