The Ten Best Gifts To Give Your Employees

Whatever trinket or cash reward you decide to give your team, here are 10 must-have employee gifts for 2017. If your team already has all 10 of these gifts, congratulations to you and to them! 1. The gift of latitude. Let your employees decide how to do their jobs. Within a few weeks on the…

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6 Tricks To Mastering Conflict

by Travis Bradberry  When you’re a nice person, conflict can be a real challenge. Not that mean people are any better at conflict; they just enjoy it more. How you handle conflict determines the amount of trust, respect, and connection you have with your colleagues. Conflict typically boils down to moments when the stakes are high, emotions…

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8 Things Exceptional Bosses Constantly Tell Their Employees

CREDIT: Getty Images Whether you’re managing an intern or running an entire business, your employees’ success (and your own skin) depends on your leadership. Thankfully, the solution for motivating your team and squashing any issues is right at the tip of your tongue. It all starts with communication — the skill experts point to as…

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Office Holiday Party Etiquette

Your company’s holiday gathering is just around the corner — time to let loose and party with your coworkers after a long year, right? Wrong. According to business etiquette expert Hilka Klinkenberg, the cardinal rule is to remember that no matter how festive the occasion, it’s still about business. Don’t fall off the fast track…

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How to Make Change Stick

by Lisa E. Hale, Ph.D. Top-down, command and control doesn’t work any more. What works is finding ways to truly lead – so that your team is inspired, and so they bring their creativity and energy to bear on high level goals. A team that trusts, and is fully on board with the mission, will…

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How Smart Companies Get Employees to Brag About the Business

OCTOBER 1, 2015 READER RESOURCE Your employees can provide the strongest, most passionate endorsements of your business — if they’re engaged. An astronomical 96 percent of employees who are engaged in their jobs try their hardest at work. If that many of your employees are giving it their all, day in and day out, your company…

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How to remember names.

I bet you have never heard or said, “I know your name, but I can’t remember your face.” Though in most cases that phrase would be absurd (usually the face is right in front of you) it is entirely common to remember the face but not the name. This despite the now cliché admonition made…

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Bad Habits You Must Eliminate from Your Daily Routine

by Dr. Travis Bradberry You are the sum of your habits. When you allow bad habits to take over, they dramatically impede your path to success. The challenge is bad habits are insidious, creeping up on you slowly until you don’t even notice the damage they’re causing. “Chains of habit are too light to be…

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9 Habits Of Highly Emotionally Intelligent People

When emotional intelligence first appeared to the masses, it served as the missing link in a peculiar finding: people with average IQs outperform those with the highest IQs 70% of the time. This anomaly threw a massive wrench into what many people had always assumed was the sole source of success—IQ. Decades of research now…

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