Our time is minimal, and our days go by so fast. Spend it with optimal energy and focus, and spend it doing your work in a way that you enjoy. While the work still needs to get done, there is nothing wrong with changing your routine and finding better ways to focus on your work…
10 Things You Can Do To Build a Meaningful and Productive Relationship With Your Co-Workers
Greet your co-workers daily. When given the opportunity, say hello to your colleagues. Small gestures like this can go a long way and plant the seeds for a friendship and respectful working relationship. Sometimes a simple smile is enough to brighten someone’s day. Making this effort won’t go unrecognized. Check-in with your team. Make it…
6 Tips for Improving Your Focus
With all the daily distractions, stresses, and to-do’s we have to get done, getting focused and “in the zone” for work can often be challenging. Knowing how to combat these obstacles and setting ourselves up for focus is key to the success of our work. We need to have the tools to get motivated and…
5 Things You Can Do to Create Work-Life Balance
Work-life balance. Is this a real thing, or just a unicorn that so many of us are endlessly searching for? And what exactly does work-life balance even mean anyway? While each of us interprets something a bit different from it, the basic principle is that it means having a satisfying amount of time available outside…
4 Ways to Be An Effective and Respected Leader in Your Workplace
Be an Effective Communicator For you to communicate ideas and concepts that are valuable to your team, you need to share them in an effective and easy-to-understand way—the success of your team relies on how well you, as a leader, can motivate and delegate with your words. What we say and the way we say…
5 Benefits to the Remote Work Model
As we approach two years of many people making the shift to working remotely, many people are now facing the decision to either return to the office or to continue working remotely. While weighing these options, people realize that they can thrive, be productive, have better time management, and perhaps enjoy a better quality of…
3 Ways to Rebuild Human Connection in a Dispersed Workforce
While many organizations did not expect to still be in a state of influx with the “return to office” discussion, one thing is clear—hybrid workforces are here to stay for the foreseeable future. While many employees don’t miss commuting to and from the office, they do miss the human connection an office environment brings. Couple…
Overcome Your Fears
When we have anxiety or a fear of doing something, we often spend more time thinking about the “what if” scenarios—creating more anxiety than just taking action to get over said fear. What have you been putting off for years because of fear? Is it getting in the way of you achieving your goals and…
3 Ways To Win Friends and Influence People
Is one of your goals this year to improve your people skills? With so much human interaction gone digital in the last couple of years, it’s understandable that people may have digressed in the people skills department. Just like with a muscle, you can lose it if you don’t use it. Thankfully, it just takes…
4 Ways We Have Contact With the World
When communicating with others, we have to remember that perception is reality. How we communicate with others and how they perceive us involves more than just our words. How we carry ourselves through our day and amongst others makes a difference. Dale Carnegie once said, “There are four ways, and only four ways, in which…