Career Skills Blog Posts
Any Given Monday – Sports and the Modern Workplace
Life is all about making the most of your opportunities. Ice hockey superstar Wayne Gretzky made sure he did: "You miss 100 percent of the s...
What’s the Best Career Advice You’ve Received? — Your Top Tips!
The best career advice I ever received? “Stop moaning, and do something about it!” Though it’s served me well, at the time I remember ...
Do You Have “Fixer Syndrome”? – #MTtalk Roundup
When you jump in to "fix" things, how helpful is it really?...
Accepting Praise – How to Own Your Achievements
There's a lot of advice on giving praise, but how can we accept it gracefully? Mind Tools' Editorial Assistant, Alice Gledhill, explores why...
What’s Your Motive? – #MTtalk Roundup
Here's what happened in Friday's #MTtalk Twitter chat – about knowing your own motives, and understanding how they're perceived by others...
Do. Learn. Improve. – #MTtalk Roundup
Are there really things that you only can learn by doing – like bike riding, or falling in love?...
Self-Improvement in 106,078 Steps – Hard-Won Lessons From My 100K Race
I'd set myself the daunting self-improvement challenge of running 100 km in a day. Here are the lessons-for-life I learned – the hard wa...
Turning Fear Into Fuel: Countdown to a Challenge
I’m full of fear, and I only have myself to blame. Six months ago, I signed a form to say that I would run 100 km in a day. There̵...
