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How to Handle Negative Feedback – 4 Tips

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Negative feedback is a fact of life. Sometimes it’s fair, constructive, and expected, but sometimes it can be completely out of the blue.   You cannot easily change your boss’s perceptions or motives for giving you negative feedback.  What you can control, however, is how you respond to it.  So learn how to handle negative feedback…  ...  read more

Communication Skills – 5 Tips to Increase Career Success

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Communication skills are some of the most critical soft skills for achieving career success during a job search or in the workplace.  Improving your communication skills is a huge task, since business communication encompasses verbal and written exchanges, formal and informal styles of communication, along with one-on-one discussions and group talks. Obviously, then, this article is…  ...  read more

Managing Upwards – Always Take Care of Your “Monkeys”

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In a separate article, I talked about a famous Harvard Business Review (HBR) article,  “Who’s Got the Monkey?”, and why an effective manager must let his team take care of the “Monkeys” (problems discovered during their work).  Today, I want to shift focus and talk about tips for the team members — How can you excel as…  ...  read more

How to Break into a Managerial Role – Part 2

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Previously, we discussed the first part of this real life situation that Jessica is experiencing.  Today, we will finish this topic on how to break into a managerial role with a follow up discussion I had with Jessica a few weeks later.  Here is her follow up email updating me on her situation and some…  ...  read more

Dealing with Difficult Personalities – 5 Effective Tips

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In my article, “Dealing with Difficult Personalities – What Not to Do,” I talked about 4 things not to do: Don’t react emotionally or defensively. Don’t try to change this person. Don’t complain to this person’s boss to try to resolve this. Don’t gossip about this situation with other co-workers. Continuing with my example with Anna, what…  ...  read more

#3 Most Common Mistake People Make at Work

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Perhaps you have heard the phrase, “Don’t assume, because it makes an ‘ass’ out of ‘u’ and ‘me.'” While it seems tongue and cheek, it’s very good advice. It’s amazing how we can understand this concept in theory, yet still make unwarranted assumptions at work. I think this happens mostly because we don’t even realize…  ...  read more

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