“be Better” Tips for Everyone

By Danny Rubin – theLadders Do you speak “Millennial”? Taco Bell does. Or at least, the company hopes it’s become fluent in the language of its biggest fan base. The Associated Press has previously reported that Taco Bell execs feature a “Millennial Word of the Week” at their headquarters in Irvine, Calif. For instance, they…

By Karen Hertzberg – GlassDoor Workplace stress touches most of us at one time or another. In fact, according to the American Institute of Stress, 80 percent of us feel stressed at work. Deadlines loom. Bosses make unrealistic demands. Restructuring means anxiety over job security. Although stressors may be an inherent part of work life,…

By Travis Bradberry – theLadders You are annoying your boss and colleagues any time you take your phone out during meetings, says research from USC’s Marshall School of Business, and if you work with women and people over forty they’re even more perturbed by it than everyone else. The researchers conducted a nationwide survey of…

By Sarah Landrum – theLadders In business, it’s all about who you know. That’s why networking is such an important skill to master. Whether you’re chatting with someone in an elevator or attending an industry conference, you never know who you’ll meet — and that’s precisely why you start the conversation. You might be new…

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…