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How and When do You Make Time for Personal Development?

If you’ve been in the world long enough, you’ve heard the buzzword: Personal development. What can it get it you? How do you fit it into your routine? Does it mean you have to learn Twitter?

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Embrace stress (and make it work for you!)

Stress. Sometimes even the word can bring it on. And we have all heard how bad stress is for our bodies: heart attacks, high blood pressure, strokes, chronic headaches, depression, anxiety, and even...

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You Can't do it All ~ 10 Tips on How to Delegate

You don’t have to be a control-freak to have heard some truth in the phrase “if I want it done right, I have to do it myself.” While the base thought may indicate an admirable expectation of...

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Communicate with Your Employees and Keep Them Motivated

When you own a business, motivation and communication become two of your biggest tools when working with your employees. These two concepts go hand in hand when you want your employees to become a...

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5 Ways You May be Hurting Employee Morale

There are three types of bosses when it comes to employee morale: the boss who is very focused on keeping morale high, the kind who is solely worried about the job and neglects the morale aspect and...

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Empower Your Employees By Answering One Question: "Why?"

How does your company empower its employees? Many times, this question elicits solutions and actions: we implement open door policies with management; we conduct semi-annual performance reviews; we...

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Turned Down for that Promotion? How to Stay Motivated After Rejection

You work hard, present new ideas, and take the initiative every chance you get thinking that you'll be sure to get that promotion when it comes around. Gathering up the courage to ask for a promotion...

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3 Tips: How to Handle a Know-It-All Boss

Do you work for someone who thinks they have all the answers, but has little patience for the ideas of others? Do they have an opinion about everything and will share it regardless of its value to the...

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Keeping It "Business as Usual" Will Kill Your Business

In today’s fast-paced, technologically driven society, the marketplace can change on a dime. Businesses that not only succeed but thrive are the ones that can adapt to—or, even better,...

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7 Tips to Avoid Burnout

You’re going about your business, involved in the same-old, same-old—wake up, go to work, come home, go to bed, repeat. Then one day, BAM! You do a little self-examination and realize that, for...

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Are you Listening to your Customers?

It might seem obvious, but it bears noting: To fully understand your business, you need to understand your end customer. If you don’t understand your customers’ wants and needs, you can’t get...

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Invest in Your Employees: 3 Tips to Boost Creativity

Let’s face it, every business is looking for creativity from their employees. These are the employees that can really get something started in the business. The people that will knock-the- socks-off...

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Five Tips to Reduce Workplace Stress

Many business people find it easy to get caught up in the busyness of a typical day at the office. A little stress in the workplace is actually a good motivator. However, if you find yourself picking...

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7 Tips on How to Create a Learning Culture

How often do you see an employee or co-worker playing Solitaire on their work computer or watching the latest Youtube clips? Boredom at work often stems from people feeling that they have already...

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Introvert/ Extrovert Leadership Styles: Two Different Approaches, Two Unique...

Those who believe in Myers-Briggs say that there are two types of people in this world: introverts and extroverts. The tropes are upheld by psychology majors and anyone who utilizes the art of...

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What's Your Kryptonite? How to Acknowledge your Weaknesses

As viewers, we cheered when the Wicked Witch of the West was reduced to a puddle after a bit of a splash. We cringed when the Man of Steel was rendered powerless when exposed to kryptonite. And while...

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4 Tips to Stop Work Procrastination

Everyone has bad days from time to time -- Those days when you're drowning in important projects and can't bring yourself to start a single one of them. The Summer months seem to have even more of...

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How to Deal with a Mean Boss

Bad bosses come in all varieties, from the inept, to the overly friendly, to the micromanager. The most stressful of all bosses is one who is just mean. Most people who have worked in an office setting...

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7 Ways to Avoid Burnout at Work

You’re going about your business, involved in the same-old, same-old—wake up, go to work, come home, go to bed, repeat. Then one day, BAM! You do a little self-examination and realize that, for...

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4 Reasons you Should Use your Vacation Days

If your company asked you to work for free for an entire week would you agree to it? Most would be quick to respond with a definite no. However, according to an Oxford Economics survey published in...

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