Valuable career advice can be gleaned from a variety of sources, including Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, Apple founder Steve Jobs and even Monty Python. Recently, Anita Bruzzese sat down with her dog, Annie, to find out why dogs seem to …
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All professionals need to know how to handle emotion in the workplace. Since the workplace is a social place, simply doing your job isn’t always enough. You need to be able to read people, resolve conflicts and manage relationships in …
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What can Lady Gaga and Led Zeppelin teach you about career and business success? Peter Cook believes quite a bit. As the author of “The Music of Business,” and head of the Academy of Rock in the U.K., Cook looks …
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One of my friends told me about how her co-worker got her in trouble at work for texting on the job. As a result, her manager told her not to text at work anymore. I asked her why her co-worker …
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A reader asks: I work at a relatively small organization (40-50 employees) that recently expanded from having two levels of management (executive director and department managers) to adding a third level of project managers. Our project managers were all internal hires, …
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Soft skills, including interpersonal communication and conflict resolutions, are becoming increasingly important in the workplace. In a study by CareerBuilder.com, they found that 71 percent of employers say they value emotional intelligence over IQ. In order to understand why soft …
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In their famous book, Getting to Yes, Roger Fisher and William Ury provided a negotiation strategy that has become standard for coming to mutually acceptable agreements in personal and professional conflicts. The model is based on five propositions, including: “Separate …
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