Liar, Liar: will you be fired?
I’ve worked for my company for three years. I started out as a junior graphic designer, then I became a senior graphic designer and for the last eight months, I’ve managed our department. Here, I manage a team ...
3 Highly Effective Ways to Deal with a Chronic Complainer at Work
My coworker in the next cube over is a classic case of a chronic complainer at the workplace. I used to be friends but over the years I have distanced myself from him because I cannot deal with the toxicity any...
3 Signs You’re Educated But Not Very Smart
“Stupid is as stupid does.” This line appears in Forest Gump, and is a variant of “Handsome is as handsome does in J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. The proverbial saying can be traced as far back as the 14...
Can you fire someone for sleeping on the job?
A few years ago, our front desk representative let a 20-something interviewee into the meeting room and advised her that the hiring manager would be there in just a minute. The hiring manager walked in not even...
Good Leaders Care About These 3 Things, Do You?
In a workspace, there are two types of leaders – leaders and good leaders. There is a reason good leadership is an important asset to the company, its work culture and the employees as well. A leader is like th...
The Many Ways You Can Deal With A Compulsive Liar at Work
I worked for a media company for a little over four years and there was a person, who we will call Betty who started two years after me. We worked in different departments and about a month after she started sh...
This is How Successful People Become More Likeable at the Workplace
Have you ever noticed that there are some people at the workplace towards whom others are involuntarily drawn to? They don’t do any extraordinary things, neither are they celebrities. They do the ordinary thing...
Want to Learn the Best Leadership Lessons? Spend Some Time with Children!
Every aspiring entrepreneur looks up to a leader or a story for leadership inspiration. We even go through various articles and documentaries of leadership lessons. But we tend to ignore beautiful little human ...
Use These Five W’s of Delivering Bad News to Your Employees
A manager has to handle many aspects related to his subordinates but the one he dreads the most is delivering any kind of bad news to them. Such bad news can include anything from dismissal of an employee, sala...
When You Wear Your Outfit, Accessorize it With Confidence
Confidence is the one virtue that can set apart winners from losers. There are times when a person might not have put in cent percent efforts for a project but his confidence can mark the victory. In comparison...
Become a Good Storyteller to Take Your Business to New Heights
If you are one of those lucky people who had the privilege of listening to grandfather’s stories, than you might know that there is more to storytelling. It is not just storytelling but it is more of an art. Th...
Resilience is the key to successful leadership
Do you have the ability to face problems and hurdles in business with resilience? As a leader or a business person, the most important virtue you need to have the ability to exude a tough exterior during hard t...