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Happy New Year everyone! Hope you all had a great holiday or at least one that was better than mine. I can’t believe it’s 2015. Usually I love holidays as it gives me time to relax, regroup, and faced the new year with renewed energy. I didn’t have such luck this holiday season. Work was super stressful and I didn’t have as much time with the family as I would have liked. ...
Wow, it’s already Christmas week and I barely had any time to enjoy it. I have been rushing around for the last few weeks – so much to do and so little time. Do you know the feeling? Well, I am realizing it’s self-imposed. I want to do everything and fit it all in. In the meantime, I am forgetting to enjoy any of it. ...
Effective communication with your boss is essential to your career success. One of the things your boss will always want is proactive communication of your work status & progress. It will show that you are on top of your work and you respect him enough to keep him informed.
This not always easy. Below is a situation a Soft Skills Gym member faced. What would you do if you were him? Share your comments below. He agreed to let me share it in case his situation and my advice can help you learn how to better communicate work status with your boss. ...
This article on how to be 10% happier at work is inspired by reading a blog post Penelope Trunk wrote on How to Love the Job You Have – Focus on One Good Thing. It was a touching personal story and it sparked an epiphany in my mind – we often spend too much time focusing our thoughts and speech on what we don’t like about our jobs vs. what we do like. ...
On Oct 29, 2014, against all odds, the San Francisco Giants narrowly won Game 7 of the World Series against the Kansas City Royal by the score of 3 to 2. I learned everything about baseball from my husband who is a diehard Giants fan. Since meeting him 10 years ago, I have had much more appreciation for this game – all the strategy involved with the lineup, the pitching, and the catcher. ...
A friend shared this Youtube video with me and I literally cried. It talks about one stereotype that we all know about and how it affects us. It’s amazing how stereotypes are so common in our society. Sometimes people use it intentionally in their communication to put down other people out of insecurity and other times people use stereotypes in their conversations and don’t even realize it. ...
Someone just asked me to answer on Quora – How to deal with a unreasonable tough boss? I want to share my answers here in case you also have a tough boss. The person who asked me this question didn’t provide specifics, so I offered 5 general tips on how to deal with a tough boss that can work in any situation. ...