July 17, 2017
Juggle Your Time to Shine at Work and Be a Great Parent
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age…
Posts categorised with 'Career Skills'
June 27, 2017
Resilience: Being Ready for Anything – #MTtalk
“A diamond is just a piece of charcoal that handled stress exceptionally well.” – Anonymous About This Week’s Chat What “Resilience” Represents…
June 5, 2017
The Key to Negotiating an Amazing Job Offer!
In the United Kingdom of the 1980s, there was a television drama called Boys From the Blackstuff, in which one the main characters would…
June 1, 2017
Drudgery: How to Take it Out of Your Day
If there is one thing that we all share in this life, it is recurring moments of drudgery. As universal as drudgery is,…
May 24, 2017
Your Top Tips on How to Boost Team Morale
It’s not always easy to keep team morale high. Sometimes something as simple as working with a colleague who is in a bad mood or…
May 22, 2017
From Emotional Apathy to Emotional Intelligence
The prisoner who now stands before you Was caught red-handed showing feelings. Showing feelings of an almost human nature. This will not…
May 8, 2017
You Don’t Have to be a Control Freak to Take Charge
As luck would have it, you’re reading this blog. Or did you make a rational, informed choice to take a look, having browsed the Mind Tools website?…
April 13, 2017
Presentations: Why You Need to Be Prepared!
I’ve been fortunate in not having to sit through a presentation that completely “bombed,” and I’ve been doubly fortunate in that the few presentations that I’ve…
April 6, 2017
How My Small Mistake Led to Big Problems
Learning from our own mistakes is how we progress. We can only hope that the consequences of them are not too burdensome.
April 5, 2017
#MTtalk: Disrupting the Hierarchy
Many years ago, when computers still had monochrome screens and could only run one program at a time, I worked in the property section of a…
April 4, 2017
How My Amazing Stupidity Turned Fun Into Bad Behavior at Work
When I was an intern on a small-town newspaper, I found a perfect recipe for disaster… or at least some very bad behavior in the workplace.
March 29, 2017
Your Top Tips For Getting Noticed at Work
Years ago, when newspapers were opening as well as folding, I was part of the editorial team that was setting up a new weekly newspaper.