“be Better” Tips for Everyone

By Cheryl Grace – theLadders Self-Assessment Quiz ─ TRUE or FALSE: 1. I think I’m a good listener at work, and that’s really the only skill I need to work well with my co-workers. 2. I feel like my co-workers don’t know how to relate to me, and it makes me enjoy my job less…

By Dede Henley – Forbes John Oliver called it whining. In a recent episode of HBO’s Last Week Tonight, he was talking about the complaints that men are voicing over the #MeToo movement. “I’m afraid to hire women.” “I don’t know the rules.” “I don’t know if I can hug a woman at work.” Whining,…

By WonderNeed For 75% of Americans, bosses are a major cause of stress at work. A Linkedin article published by Quartz magazine reveals that a bad boss can be as harmful to employees as passive smoking. The article also says that the longer you stay in a job working for someone who stresses you, the…

By Judith Humphrey – Fast Company We speak approximately 16,000 words a day. Ideally, we want our words and ideas to make a difference–particularly in the workplace. And for that to happen, our ideas must lead to action. We need to end our conversations with a call to action. Too often we hesitate when it…

By Rachel Weingarten – theLadders Frustration over the persistent gender wage gap and how to fix it have followed women in the workforce for decades. From Sheryl Sandberg’s early days of “Lean In” to her subsequent acknowledgement that it’s not always that simple, the conversation about how to change the lack of women in the…

By Joel Garfinkle – theLadders Many of us have had to battle the specter of arrogance at one time or another. No one is perfect, and the particularly intelligent must be especially careful about slipping into egotistical behavior. If you worry about being perceived as arrogant at work, read on to check your tendencies and…

By Gustavo Razzetti – theLadders Your life is waiting at the other side of your comfort zone. Inspirational quotes encourage you to do something you wouldn’t normally do — you are missing out on life, they tell you. However, crossing the line of your comfort zone is not easy — science shows that experimenting new…

By Monica Torres – theLadders Do people who see themselves as followers ever become leaders? There is hope to those of us who toil on the floors in hopes of making it to the corner office. A new study published in the Journal of British Psychology found that good followers make good leaders in the…

By Travis Bradberry – theLadders We all want to get ahead. Still, even when it seems you’re doing everything right — you’re never late to work, rarely take a sick day, and always meet deadlines —promotions can be few and far between. You’re putting the work in, so why aren’t you getting rewarded? The answer…

By Steve Thompson – UndercoverRecruiter Meetings represent those snippets in our day where we have to sit and confront our deepest fear: social interaction. Steve Thompson, Managing Director of the marketing, analytics and digital recruitment agency Forward Role, highlights the importance of meetings in an organization: “Meetings can be useful, but we’ve all been in…