Meetings provide teams with a chance to exchange ideas, share information, and learn new tools to be successful in the workplace. If a team communications effectively during meetings they will have higher productivity and successful projects. Poor communication during meetings can lead to wasting company’s resources and [...]
Networking opportunities arise pretty often in the professional sphere. While you may think your business card says more than enough about who you are and what you do, preparing to introduce yourself with your professional information is a great way to make a lasting impression. In this [...]
Controlling your emotions means you’re keeping emotions in check in the workplace. That includes not losing your temper! Learning how to control your emotions takes time, but once you learn it, you’ll experience a better workplace. In this video, listen to what the manager says. How did [...]
Active listening means you’re concentrating on what the other person is saying and asking follow-up questions if you don’t understand. Learning how to actively listen to someone may take time. However, practicing how to listen and respond is an important soft skill for the workplace. In this [...]
One of the most important skills in developing successful personal and professional relationships is critical thinking. Critical thinking is a high level skill that allows somebody to process information (especially external information) in order to make a decision, come to a conclusion, or solve a problem. Because critical thinking requires [...]
Flexibility is a willingness to change or compromise. In many cases, it means adjusting your own plans for your time to accommodate a need or opportunity to assist project coworker. It is not a skill that comes naturally to many people as it requires putting aside your [...]
Technology allows us to do things more easily and faster than ever before. For businesses, that means employees can do their jobs more easily, which saves time and money. On the other hand, with this new technology comes new guidelines, or rules, on how to use it properly in the [...]
Teamwork is a combined effort on the part of a group of people working together to achieve the same goal. Teamwork is built on three parts: vision, trust and communication. The first step to team building is to create a vision for the team. What is the team’s purpose and [...]
Interpersonal skills are also known as social skills. The process of using social skills is called socialization. We all learned socialization skills at an early age. Before we could even talk we were learning socialization skills from the caregivers around us. In the workplace, social skills are known as [...]
Professionalism is more than just how you look! It’s a way of speaking, behaving and even thinking that helps a person to be successful in the workplace. There is incredible payoff if you maintain professionalism in the workplace. Here are five ways that you show professionalism in the workplace [...]