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It is essential to influence your colleagues to get things done. How do you win and capture their heart and mind so that they can work things for you? Do you exert your authority or do you use unscrupulous methods to make them work? Using negative methods (as what we pointed) will only bring you further from getting closer to your colleagues. Yes, you may have gotten what you want. But this will manifest into negative sentiments towards you in future. You may not be able to have their full support in future. Therefore, it is prudent and wise that you need to win your colleagues heart using the right methods! Find out more with our tips here. Read the rest of this entry »
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Following our post on how to be a great leader, we are providing 8 more ways you can stand up to be call a great and effective leader. When people are to describe you in a statement, you want to be described as a leader that is consistent, firm, resourceful and flexible to changes. You will also be supportive and allow participation from the ground in running the organisation. How do you achieve that? Read more to find out! Read the rest of this entry »
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The way to influence your colleagues is to get them to like you. That’s the basic right? Regardless of it is your superior, subordinates or your peers you will need them to like you before you can get them to believe what you are proposing. Objectively, here, we are not showing the methods to be a first class boot-licker nor are we recommending you to brain-wash yourself to what the person you are influencing is. We are offering you methods that will make you generally pleasant, approachable and lovable by your peers. How do you do that? Read the rest of this entry »
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Personal branding is important in our everyday life at work. We want to portrait that we are a productive and approachable worker in the office. But is that the case all the time? Have you wondered why your peers were approach any colleague for help instead of you? We have the answers for you here. At times, it’s not just about your capability. We need to focus on your emotional aspect that you present in front of your peers too! How are you seen in the eyes of your peers then? Read the rest of this entry »
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Backstabbers are always the lurking danger in the workplace. We don’t have all the time to catch all of them else nobody will be doing actual work in the office! Furthermore, anyone can become a back stabber as time passes or a series of events happening to the potential individual. That is why, it is more important to focus our energy to become less likely targets of potential back stabbers or deter their negative emotions against us. Previously, we have mentioned 5 preventive measures against them. In this post, we have an additional six to get you prepared against them. Read the rest of this entry »
Author: admin | Filed under: Career Advice, Employee Satisfaction, Workplace Survival | Tags: Career Advice, Employee Satisfaction, Employers, mid-career, Workplace Survival | No Comments »
Much of what the career advices we get out there is to be a better worker, or improve your personal productivity at work or something of this “better” natural. Sometimes, we need to take a step back and ask, “Is this what I want?”, “Am I doing the right thing for myself?” or “Is this the right job for me?”. By answering such principle questions in our heart, it becomes easier for you to make a decision in your career. Now, you always have an option in your hand to leave the organisation. What will be the factors that will make you leave the organsation then? Read the rest of this entry »
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Much of your performance appraisal will come from your immediate superiors. Unless you are graded by your sales performance which is generally easier to benchmark with. Therefore, it is essential survival skill to understand if your boss likes you. Love you would be the best sceneraio that you would like to be in. With your boss liking you (not in terms of man-woman relationship), your career progression will generally be smooth than the others. That’s of course, your personal productivity being improved as well! Read the rest of this entry »
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It’s definitely not easy to switch do a mid-career switch. There are a lot of things to consider and it’s not easy to make a decision with a few hours of thoughts to it. A mid-career switch means that whatever you have built up in you and the things around you will not be usable anymore in the new environment. You need to start everything over again from scratch. What is resistance in every individual is that we are unable to give up easily of the things that we’ve built already. Let’s take a peek on what are the things that is holding us back… Read the rest of this entry »
Author: admin | Filed under: Career Advice, Workplace Survival | Tags: Career Advice, recession, recruitment, retrenchment, Workplace Survival | 2 Comments »
Following our checklist to find out if you will be a potential staff to be axed or the likelihood of being axed, we have a set of indicators that will tell you if you will be the next few to clear your desk! Fret not! It’s not the end of the world if there are signs here and there warning you of this impending danger! Most of the time, when you observe such signals occurring to you, it’s mostly too late. You can at least make some preparation with this final amount of time you have in the office to reduce the “damage”… Read the rest of this entry »
Author: admin | Filed under: Career Advice, Job Search & Application | Tags: Career Advice, employment, interview, recruitment | 1 Comment »
What we weren’t taught in school is the skills to get a job after you leave them. This is the most crucial and life survival skill that you need to get a job but it wasn’t taught! Strange isn’t it!? Therefore, in this post, we will provide a dummies guide for fresh graduates when they are applying for a new job and know what to expect in their application and interview process. This does not apply just only to fresh graduates. Even professionals will find it useful when they need to apply for a new job! Read the rest of this entry »
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