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This is a guest post by Charlie Fletcher with edits by Lei Han A couple years ago, I knew I needed to ask for a raise. Like many of my millennial peers, I had enough to get by, but I couldn’t do much more beyond that. Having enough down payment to buy a house, maintaining…
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I was agonizing about what to do for weeks. I have dealt with incompetent co-workers before. Most of the time, I can make up for their incompetence fairly easily or at least work around it and not be affected. Not this time. This time, this colleague is a key partner to my work. If she…
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Happy New Year! Wow, its already 4th week of January. Where did the time go? I have been meaning to write about my new year aspirations. I am sharing them to help me be more committed. I hope they can also help you. Last week, I saw this great article – In the New Year,… ...
In my first job out of college, I worked in consulting and used to travel a lot and work late. One night, three colleagues and I finished work around 9pm and shared a cab back to our hotel. After being in the cab for 20 min, we knew clearly the cab driver was taking us…
Please login to view additional content. (Register here.)Strategic and impactful communication skills are critical to success in almost any career. Business professionals absolutely need these skills, but so do professionals in the technical arena, like architects, engineers, developers, etc… The better you can translate the technical details of your work into impactful, simple business and customer outcomes, the more a business audience… ...
You can achieve anything! Isn’t that a great statement? Now the important question is how. I hope this story and these 3 tips will help you achieve anything you want at work and in life. I love watching my kids try new things. It’s a marvel to witness how much effort they put into it,… ...
This is a guest post with edits by Lei Han Often, business communications take place remotely by phone or teleconference. However, negotiation experts recommend to always have important negotiations in person so you can take advantage of seeing all the non-verbal cues of the other party. People often subconsciously give away their thoughts and intended… ...