This article was originally posted on Medium.com. Written by Lolly Daskal. Everyone wants to be more confident, but not everyone knows how to be assertive. Assertive falls right between passive and aggressive. If you’re passive about voicing your opinion, you may come across as submissive. And if you are aggressive with your viewpoint, you may come across as a hostile
This article was originally posted on Medium.com. Written by Amanda Grimmett. 1. Be On Time You don’t have to show up an hour early to be a good employee; just be on time. It doesn’t matter who you beat to the office on Monday if you’re too tired to do a good job, or it
This article originally appeared on Medium.com. Written by the Clinton Foundation. Lustia Nkhoma is a role model for women and girls in Malawi, and a leader in agricultural development. Lustia manages the agricultural extension team with the Clinton Development Initiative (CDI) in central Malawi. With CDI, Lustia supervises and mentors CDI field officers who are responsible
This article originally appeared on Medium.com. Written by Alice Avery. We’ve talked a lot about work productivity — increasing yours, increasing your employees’, and tips for small businesses and sales reps. What is less discussed, but often at the root of productivity problems, is motivation. We all have “down days” where we just… can’t. Easy tasks become dull, monotonous time-sucks. We
This article originally appeared on Medium.com. Written by Joanne Tombrakos. I love quotes. Especially the inspiring kind. The ones that make me stop and pause and I can feel resonating within me. I love quotes so much that I keep a special notebook in which I write them down and can go to when I
This article originally appeared on Thrive Global. Written by Heidi Richards Mooney. Whether you hold a full-time job or work as a freelancer, work from office or work from home, stress is a real issue that every working professional has to deal with sooner or later. As the work culture gets increasingly complicated and employees are expected
This article originally appeared on Medium.com. Written by Gabrielle Pelicci. My transition from Healer to Entrepreneur is a fairly recent one. Even though I’ve been self-employed for two decades, I’ve never considered myself a “business woman.” In fact, I’ve often thought of “business people” as greedy, self-serving, entitled or power-hungry — a clan of Voldemorts
As leaders, we have the responsibility to ensure the wellbeing of ourselves and our teams is catered for and, as a result, are able to perform at our best. But in today’s interconnected world, work-life balance is becoming more and more difficult to manage. We are expected to be reachable at all times. Research shows this is
This article originally appeared on Medium.com. Written by Lolly Daskal. Intelligent and successful leaders all do one thing better than anyone else. They are constantly asking themselves questions to stay relevant and insightful. Whether you’re running a company, heading up a startup, or leading a team, asking yourself these questions every day will help you get the
This article originally appeared on Medium.com. Written by Gabrielle Pelicci. When I scroll through my newsfeed on Facebook or Instagram, there are lots of glamorous photos of wellness entrepreneurs lounging on their laptops in their perfect apartments or doing inversions at sunset on a rocky beach. Yes, there is plenty of travel and major time spent on
