How to Organize Your Work & Your LifePlay Your Roles Well
We’ve all heard of “role playing” as a way to work through problems and practice for difficult interpersonal situations. But the plain fact is that you are playing roles every day you are working … and living. Mostly, we don’t think about…
Help Yourself and Others Through Coaching
A key method for improving productivity and success is working better with others. In this context, “better” includes: 1) getting along with others more smoothly and 2) receiving more help from the people with whom you work. In this discussion, we’ll focus…
Strengthen Your Work and Life Relationships
Regardless of your abilities, regardless of what you do, regardless of the role you play in doing it, a key element in getting where you want to go in your work and your life is the strength of your relationships. That’s why…
Interpersonal Intelligence – The Key to Unlocking Extra Success
There are many kinds of intelligence, and each one has its own special value. Some people are good at math, others can figure out how to design or build complex mechanisms. There are naturally talented dancers and musicians, especially effective speakers and…
Boost Your Value to Any Project or Organization
I received a lot of positive feedback about my recent post on some personal characteristics to cultivate. However, many people asked to learn, as well, about some “workplace characteristics” that would make them more valuable on their next project or within their…
Building Trust
There are many characteristics that are important in building a productive, successful career and life. But none of them is more important than gaining and keeping other people’s trust. Why? Because when other people trust you, they are more willing to help…
Get Better Every Day
There are many great words of wisdom about the foolishness of comparing yourself to others – a comparison that rarely goes well, of course – but the one I like most is: “The only person you should try to be better than…
Better Ways to Lead A Team
As you become more productive and successful, you’ll have more and more opportunities to lead a team. Here are some suggestions to help you upgrade your performance as a team leader: Be Visible Although you’ll probably have administrative responsibilities as a…
Increase Your Motivation to Succeed
Motivation to succeed comes in two flavors: external motivation, and self-motivation. There’s not much you can do to upgrade your external motivation, which depends mainly on the ways other people and situations arrange rewards and punishments to influence how hard you do…
Build Your Reputation
In every working group, there is a hierarchy of people based on widely held perceptions of their individual effectiveness and productivity. You can move up in this hierarchy – and reap the rewards naturally offered those at or near the top –…
Central Elements of Good Communication
Very few of us have the luxury of working totally alone, which means most of us must report to, supervise, and/or coordinate our efforts with others. The more frequently this describes what you do, the more routinely good communication will be central…
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