“be Better” Tips for Everyone

By Lindsay Tigar – Ladders Oftentimes when you’re eying job descriptions, you’re haphazardly and unintentionally checking off what requirements you match. Being fluent in programs, applications and languages are your hard skills — the technical aspects that allow you to master your job effectively and efficiently. While a robust set of hard skills is necessary…

by: Monica Torres – Ladders As anyone who has had a good mentor or a bad boss at work knows all too well, when someone believes in you, it can make all the difference. A new survey by the American Psychological Association of 1,076 U.S. workers found that a manager’s support can make or break…

by: Jane Burnett – Ladders Task and project management platform Redbooth recently partnered with data content firm Priceonomics to look at when productivity spikes and slows down durning the work week. The research team reportedly took a look at anonymized data of Redbooth users, numbering in the hundreds of thousands. Here are some of the…

by: Awareness Act Integrity, for those who are not familiar, is quite important. It is the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles. People who have a strong sense of integrity are sadly a rare breed. However, there are still some people left in this world with integrity, and usually, they share the…

BY:Rachel Weingarten _ TheLadders Remember that time you told off your boss in front of everyone else in the department and then flipped her the bird for good measure? It. Felt. So. Great. For about a nanosecond, until you realized you’d become the office pariah and no one would even talk to you for fear…

by: David Wilk, Frank Ford and David Ahearn – Ladders As improv comedians, the same philosophy and principles that work so well for us on stage also work very well when we apply them to our business. Here are four ways you can apply improv techniques to help you succeed at work. 1. Become an…

by Travis Bradberry – Ladders Toxic people defy logic. Some are blissfully unaware of the negative impact that they have on those around them, and others seem to derive satisfaction from creating chaos and pushing other people’s buttons. As important as it is to learn how to deal with different kinds of people, truly toxic…

by: Reuben Yonatan – UndercoverRecruiter In the busy, fast-paced world of business, it may be surprising to learn just how important empathy is when it comes to your personal level of performance and how well you can interact and work with your co-workers. Low levels of empathy can cause many problems in the workplace –…

by Travis Bradberry – Ladders We often confuse being productive with working as fast as we can, every second of the day. We fear that slowing down to get organized will kill our productivity, but the facts suggest otherwise: The average office employee spends over one hour each day just looking for things. The average…

by: Travis Bradberry – Ladders There are so many things that can get good, hard-working people fired. Honest mistakes often carry hard-hitting consequences. A recent study from the ePolicy Institute surveyed more than 300 companies and found that a third of them have fired employees for the misuse of company technology. Companies are so worried…