Ambitious professionals love to plan ahead. After all, it’s exciting to speculate about the future and develop new strategies. Unfortunately, even the best laid plans seldom survive the battlefield. Indeed, ask almost any successful entrepreneur how they reached their goals and they’ll likely tell you how often they had to adjust and adapt along the […]

Is there a leadership ambition gap among women? Research shows that, in fact, no such gap exists, and that women’s ambitions change at different stages in their lives. Nonetheless, when it comes to succession-planning and talent-development, too often, erroneous assumptions are made about women’s ambitions and their willingness to take challenging assignments. These assumptions give […]

As much as employers may wish otherwise, personal issues and out-of-work struggles can affect daily work performance and efficiency. But, particularly from the perspective of managers and executives, it can be difficult to observe subtle but meaningful changes in employee behavior over short periods of time. Managers and employers must be sensitive to these challenges, […]

No matter which industry you work in or which level of employment you hold, nothing compares to the feeling you get at being told that you are good at your job. The compliment is inspiriting enough when it comes from a peer, a client, or a family member, but the sense of accomplishment grows to […]

We all want to do as best as we can when it comes to our career and push ourselves to achieve maximum success, but sometimes it can seem like a difficult task. Whether you stay in the same role for the whole of your working career or not, the majority of us want to climb […]

Every business ultimately wants their employees to be productive. But there are some businesses that are better at doing that than others. Think logically for a second. When your employee is motivated, they will be able to perform consistently, be active in meeting their targets, even exceed them when they realize that what they are […]

The focus to increase your income typically pays off. As a freelancer, one thing that may be a significant help to you in increasing your income is no longer seeing yourself as an hourly worker. While you may have stopped charging clients at an hourly rate, you may still think of yourself as a typical […]