“When you dismiss their compliments – or worse – mock them, you make people feel silly for having made the effort. Don’t ever do that. The most powerful thing you can ever say is a simple, unqualified, “Thank you.””
Maybe you’re looking at work-life balance the wrong way. Yes, working is something we have to do to survive. We also, however, have to eat to survive. Yet, how often do you hear someone roll their eyes and say, “Having to go to a restaurant is cutting into my Eat-Life balance.”
It’s a valuable exercise to occasionally turn our focus a little more inward. The truth is, many of the challenges we have with other people can have origins right in our own little brains.
Here are five questions you should ask yourself from time to time:
A Great Mentor Can Change Your Life There’s a great quote by Thomas Jefferson
The ability to motivate the people around you is a tremendous skill to acquire. But how do you do it? Here are three general strategies you can use to motivate other people:
The things you will learn as a mentor will stay with you all of your life.
The first thing you’ll learn is that the process of teaching and guiding an eager student will have a unexpectedly positive impact on you.
If you work in a large organization, you can sometimes feel like a tiny, invisible piece of a gigantic puzzle. What does it take to get noticed if you’re hoping for career advancement, or even just a little recognition? Here are 5 rules of getting noticed:
Being gracious, and concepts like ‘charm’ and ‘dignity’ have become something of a lost art. Here are five critical rules of graciousness.
There is an iconic passage in Bessie Anderson Stanley’s famous poem “Success”: “(He has achieved
Be a Champion of Change NOTE FROM SHAUN: When I first wrote this, the
When You Talk,
Are People Listening?
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