Career Development

By Michael Vavakis

A perennial challenge facing human resource professionals is keeping employees motivated at work. What drives someone to put in 100 per cent of their energy at work? What makes an employee consider a company a great employer?

By Akhil Shahani

"Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; if it is not managed, nothing else can be managed." - Peter F. Drucker

One of the major causes of stress is work overload and not having enough time to accomplish your tasks. The easy way to get out of this predicament is to get organized and managing your time effectively. The goal of time management should not be to find more time. The goal is to prioritize what is important and use the time available wisely.

By Cheryl Clausen

If you’re a daily To Do List maker you probably enter a lot of stuff in your day planner that shouldn’t be there. First, daily To Do Lists require seven times the effort and attention that a weekly To Do List takes. This redundancy reduces your efficiency because you’re constantly carrying things over from the day before. Writing and re-writing the same actions over each day is in reality giving yourself permission to put things off. That leads to the bad habit of doing it later that turns into procrastination. Or it simply lowers your self-confidence because it doesn’t look like you’re making any real progress.

By Shafir Ahmad

The better you use your time, the more you will accomplish. Here are three simple techniques that will get you more efficient and more organized.

Dr. Gary S. Goodman

Just a second ago, I picked up some paperwork my lawyer asked me to fill out. This is normally the stuff that induces me to procrastinate, but not today. Hmm, why is today different? I asked myself...

By John Watson

Performers in any kind of competition speak of the importance of belief and confidence. The stars who win gold medals often describe how they believed, and even knew, that they would win the event before it started.

Does belief, then, always work? Not in American Idol.

By Jill Koenig

Every goal you aspire to achieve can be broken down into five simple steps. There is a formula for success that works over and over and over. The bigger a goal seems, the more complicated we can make it and the more likely we are to become distracted.

If you are not making consistent progress, if you are not succeeding in reaching your goal, break it down into this simple five part strategy.

By Kim Simpson

There is no true 'failure' in life if you play your cards right. We're at that half-way point in the year when some folks start looking back, pondering the New Year Resolutions they made on January 1, and abandoned soon after. The resolutions were probably a laundry list of things that needed to be 'changed'. I like to call them 'sins'. It's that same long tired list that folks make year after year.

By Derek Cheshire

There is creative potential in all of us, and trying to create room for it to flourish can be a challenge. A reasonable degree of creativity is a natural output of mentally and socially healthy people. As in any other human activity, practice and training can develop it. It is, however, quite a fragile state, and many things can, and often do, disrupt it, so that in many cases we are not operating to our full potential.

By Derek Cheshire

A survey by Accenture found that around 90% of Managers are likely to answer all of the questions incorrectly. Many school children under the age of six will actually get these questions right. What does this say about Management thinking?