by Bhatt Unnati | Sep 30, 2020 | Career Advice
Every company has employees who are, shall we say, less than great at their jobs. They’re probably not bad people. But they lack the skills, or the motivation, or just the raw intelligence, to do effective work. Sadly, their problem becomes your problem when you end...
by Bhatt Unnati | Sep 30, 2020 | Career Advice
Oprah and Melinda Gates are right. “Fitting in is overrated,” Melinda Gates recently replied when asked for her biggest piece of advice for young women. “I spent my first few years at my first job out of college doing everything I could to make...
by Bhatt Unnati | Sep 30, 2020 | Career Advice
Years of research provide a major clue as to how to get the most out of your team. Great companies are made up of great teams. It’s one thing to hire a bunch of rock stars, but it’s a completely different thing to get those stars to work together....
by Bhatt Unnati | Sep 30, 2020 | Career Advice
“Focus is about saying no,” insisted Jobs. Here’s how to decide when to decline an opportunity. Often we think the key to success is all the amazing things you do. But many successful people will tell you that’s exactly backwards. The real magic is...
by Bhatt Unnati | Sep 30, 2020 | Career Advice
It is human nature to want to feel recognized by managers and coworkers for good performance and hard work. We are wired to receive praise and recognition, and it’s good for our brains. The chemical dopamine, a neurotransmitter produced in the brain, stimulates...
by Bhatt Unnati | Sep 30, 2020 | Career Advice
In 1914, just six years after the Ford Model T took America by storm, Henry Ford took a radical, revolutionary step: He doubled his workers’ pay and cut shifts in his plants from nine hours to eight. Not surprisingly, Ford’s move was ridiculed by many at...
by Bhatt Unnati | Sep 30, 2020 | Career Advice
A lot of the time, it can seem like being insanely busy at work is just the norm. Good employees are always tackling big projects and saying yes to more work, right? But being too overwhelmed can lead to burnout and slip-ups. The problem is, a lot of hard workers can...
by Bhatt Unnati | Sep 30, 2020 | Career Advice
We deal with emotions in every interaction, every single day. From work to home to social events, life, and family, our emotions range the gamut. So, when expectations are high and, often, resources are low, managing emotions in the workplace can seem like the norm...
by Bhatt Unnati | Sep 30, 2020 | Career Advice
Best-selling author Martin Yate, a career coach and former HR professional, takes your questions each week about how to further your career in HR. I have good experience and had a solid 12-year work history, up until the spring of 2019 when I got laid off after a...
by Bhatt Unnati | Sep 30, 2020 | Career Advice
What do President Trump and Bernie Sanders have in common? Or Fox News host Tucker Carlson, Nobel Prize-winning Clinton administration economist Joseph Stiglitz and billionaire investor Ray Dalio? Among many other prominent elected officials, commentators, public...
