Category Archives for "Job Performance"

While cash bonuses can be a helpful benefit to employees, cash does not have the personal feel most employees crave. Your hires want to feel

A stagnant career is something that numerous Americans constantly try to fix year after year. From trying to move up in the company you currently

According to a recent MarketWatch report, the average time an American worker stays at a job is only four to five years. Choosing the right career

Have you mastered your domain at work but are under appreciated? The way to fix that is to educate your boss on what “Domain Masters” like

Over the last few weeks, I’ve been exposed to some discussions not around “organizational tips and tricks” for getting organized,

It’s easy to become distracted and frustrated at work. Between a never-ending workload and an over-worked brain, it can be difficult to maintain

After Kate and I visited Puerto Rico at the beginning of April, it was clear knowing a second language (in this case, Spanish for us and English

Do you seem to have a perpetual cold? Do you avoid thinking about where you’ll be in five years – because you know it will be at the same

This infographic is from David Keane at Davitt Corporate Partners. American readers will need to do a little translation of Celsius into Fahrenheit

A successful career is made up of a lot of different components. Here are five good ones from College America.

In between all of the tasks, deliverables, fire drills and the rest of daily corporate world, it is important to step back a bit and take a look

Over the course of my career, I’ve attempted to find the best way to stay organized. And by organized, I mean putting tasks into categories

When it comes to our professional life, all of us aspire for success. No one likes the ‘average’ label. No one aims to be ordinary. We all

It seems you can’t get out of the year-end retrospective on last year — and all of the thousands of posts on New Year goals. Most

Pundits will tell you that maintaining a task management system is necessary for productivity. If you go out and look on the Google machine,

Every one of us uses a task management system. Whether you think you have one or not, you still use one. Many of us will keep our tasks in our

At this moment, on the Sunday morning that I write this, I have 1,312 emails in my inbox at where I work. Of those, 512 are unread. As I’ve

  How do you work with email? I mean, really, how do you work with email?  Do you read every one? Do you file every one after reading it?

In my last post, I talked about how the workplace has a crisis of attention. All of the tools we use to supposedly help our productivity actually

Knowledge workers face a paradox: all of the wonderful tools we use to help make us more productive end up distracting us from getting our work