Posted on 22 March 2012. Tags: being productive at work, career development, inter-office communication, leadership, office tips, program management, task management skills
By J. Thompson
Online Career Tips Staff
Have you ever started a meeting and all you heard were crickets in the background? Or conversely, everyone talked over one another and after it was over there was little traction. In fact, you left more confused.
No matter where you are in your career, effective project management and leadership in meetings are important career development traits and they’re universal in just about every organization. Before you send out the next invites, check out these simple tips for leading purposeful meetings.
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Posted in Career Tips
Posted on 07 March 2012. Tags: books in the office, creating a reference library at work, finding your muse in the office, how to get inspired for work, inspiration ideas, motivation at work, office tips, reference library
By J. Mason
Online Career Tips Staff
We’d like to think that there’s a mystical muse out there just waiting for us when thought-block hits. I hate to break it to you, but there is no muse. The inspiration and motivation you need at work will be coming from a fire you light up for yourself.
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Posted in Surviving the Office
Posted on 20 December 2011. Tags: being a team player, how to deal with chatty co-workers, how to survive the office, office tips, redirect a co-worker
If you need an energy drink to keep up with the speed of a co-workers mouth then you need a better tactic to escape the conversation. Try instead giving them a task to perform for you. You can assign a sense of urgency to it. This way they feel the need to move on a bit quicker.
This doesn’t mean you should avoid personal conversations altogether, but save those talks for lunchtime. Keeping the topic focused on work will help to quickly end the conversation, and leave you a little less frustrated.
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