People Skills
Everyone has an abrasive colleague that he or she just doesn’t know how to deal with. Here’s one example from the Admin Pro Forum.
When a problem doesn’t respond to solutions that have worked for you before, unlock your creativity with these approaches.
The way you look and act while on a business trip reflects back on your employer. Avoid making a bad impression on your next work trip. Follow these five tips for business travel.
Smart administrative professionals choose when and how to express gentle, yet forceful, disagreement. Here are three strategies to disagree gracefully, along with situations when each tactic makes sense.
Use your anger to cultivate your creativity … Give your network a boost by diversifying … Practice the 10/5 rule in the presence of co-workers.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in a workplace harassment case may alter the way future harassment suits are brought against employers.
Sociable employees of Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. never have to eat lunch alone, thanks to a new mobile app that connects co-workers who might otherwise never meet.
The carrot-stick method of motivation might not be all it’s cracked up to be. Studies find that motivation needs to be tailored to an employee’s personality type. Chad Brooks reports some recent findings.
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could say to a co-worker, “I know you don’t report to me, but I need you to drop everything and do this for me?” Well, with the right approach, and knowing how to ask, maybe you can.
Is it helpful to let a co-worker screw up a project to teach her a lesson? And if you think not, how do you deal with a colleague who insists on letting others make mistakes to show them the folly of their ways? That’s what one reader recently asked on the Admin Pro Forum.
Most people would be reluctant to befriend their supervisors on Facebook, according to a recent study by three college professors. But members of Gen Y are more willing than their older counterparts to do so.
Have you ever been in the awkward position of eating out for business and wondered who should pay? Invisor Consulting Managing Partner Steve Tobak offers six guidelines.
Mary Jo Asmus, founder and president, Aspire Collaborative Services, offers advice and conversational tools for anyone who wants to have a positive influence on others.
