How did you arrive to your current professional destination? And more importantly, is this your final stop? Have you ever asked yourself those questions and what were the conclusions to which you have arrived? Was your career path a straight line with smooth, strategic, well planned transitions or have you taken a number of unexpected turns along the way? What …
Follow your dreams
Work is only a part of your lives, but yet it takes so much of them for so long that we owe it to ourselves to be honest how we feel while there and adjust accordingly. If you are unhappy and not near retirement please perform an assessment of your needs and qualities and focus on that nexus of what …
Respect employees’ personal time
Respect your employees personal time. Please do your best not to “bother” your staff (except in rare, emergency situations of course) outside their work hours with work related questions and responsibility. If you find yourself consistently contacting people outside work hours chances are that there’s a big problem at play. You may have “bottlenecks” within your operations and you should …
Motivating yourself
Sooner or later you will have a day or two, maybe even a week (hopefully not much longer than that) where you will lack motivation to contribute, to put in your 100%. On those days (and in general) you can do several things to try to recapture your motivation: Be grateful what you have – strengthen your spirit Keep your …
Delegating work and responsibilities
You have heard people speak of the importance of delegating work and responsibilities, but you still question its merit and value. You don’t know whether it is the right thing for you to do as you want to be in control and trust yourself the most (maybe even, only yourself?). Let me begin by stating that trusting yourself is extremely …
Take vacations and go away
Whenever needed mentally or physically take the time away from work and relax, decompress and enjoy. During this time, you shouldn’t do ANY work, none, zero! Stay away from work, phones, computers, technology in general and just focus on the moment, yourself, your family, friends (whoever is accompanying you on this vacation) and relax. Vacations don’t need to be exotic …
Telecommuting: be flexible on work locations
As long as people are accountable, productive and valuable to your organization in most instances it shouldn’t matter where they work from. Don’t dismiss telecommuting as soon as you hear it mentioned, but rather do your diligence and consider it within your environment. It can go a long way in boosting morale, productivity and contributions (not to mention less people …
Work shouldn’t be a prison sentence
Most of us will spend a third of each of our days (most of them at least) at work so you better make sure it’s not a place that brings out the worst out of you. You deserve to be happy, positive and enjoy what you do so focus on finding what you love and are passionate about, put a …
Based on your resume, would you hire yourself?
Keeping one’s resume up to date is generally not at the top of “to do” lists since most of us don’t change our jobs frequently and as such our resumes quickly become outdated, inaccurate and forgotten. However, considering that we got our current jobs in part due to that old, outdated paper representation of ourselves we should definitely keep them …
Work and happiness shouldn’t be mutually exclusive
Since most of us haven’t won that elusive jackpot yet (trust me, I’ve been trying) we continue to work for a living. It’s a job to some, career to others, yet a place we all go to to earn money (on average 5 days a week) so that we can enjoy the rest of our lives. Considering how much time …