Category: Communication

  • Servant Leadership – How Meeting the Needs of Your Team Can Make You a More Effective Leader

    A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.– Jim Rohn, American entrepreneur. By the Mind Tools Content Team Why Servant Leadership? Through servant leadership, your team learns to trust you,  knowing that you are  “there for them.” …

  • Your Health Matters: What Is Narcissistic Personality Disorder?

    by JEANINE BARONE Many of us possess at least a touch of narcissism. And with the advent of social media, what might once have been considered pretty self-obsessed behavior—for instance, repeatedly taking photos of oneself (a.k.a. the “selfie”)and posting them online for public viewing—has become not only culturally acceptable but even expected, at least in some…

  • Office Friendships Can Hurt Your Career–A Lesson Learned The Hard Way

    BY ALLIE HOFER Regardless of our specific fields, we all have experience with personal relationships in the workplace. Anywhere from the daily exchange of a cheesy colloquialism to a close friendship cultivated over years of working together, it’s inevitable that the line between personal and professional will be blurred and the two sectors will intertwine.…

  • 6 Telecommuting Hard Realities No One Tells You About

    BY ANNAMARIE HOULIS Photo credit: Pixabay TAGS: Work-life balance, Flexibility, Google, Slack Technologies, Forbes, FlexJobs, Workplace Before I took the leap to freelancing full time, I’d assumed that telecommuting would mean never wearing pants and getting to answer emails from the comfort of my bed. Certainly, there are those elements. But there’s a lot more to it than I’d never anticipated, and there are some legitimate challenges.…

  • How Power Changes People – the Paradox of Power

    THE PSYCHOLOGY OF POWER First there was Bill Cosby’s sexual harassment charges, then the Uber Crisis and CEO Travis Kalanick’s resignation amid an investor revolt and just last month, movie mogul  Harvey Weinstein was ousted from Miramax by his own board of directors in light of dozens of sexual harassment allegations. Some of these behaviours…