When you know the reasons behind missing deadlines, you can’t help but question the importance of having deadlines at all. The truth is deadlines are important because they give you a goal to work towards.
Accordingly, you have to get into the mindset of constructing a plan, setting priorities, and getting into the nitty-gritty of a task.
That’s why we’ve created this guide which will help you meet your upcoming deadlines.
The debate of open offices vs. closed ones has been a hot topic for years. And even though a definitive conclusion in favor of either has never been reached, open offices have somehow become the norm.
These days, you can find open offices everywhere, regardless of company size or industry. But does this mean they’re good for us?
We’re going to consider many workplace factors and evaluate if each is a Pro or Con in the case of open offices. Feel free to skip to the ones that interest you the most.
Have you been stressing out about all the work you have this year? That’s understandable, but you shouldn’t forget that you can take breaks and vacations from work here and there to make your upcoming year less exhausting and more productive. We did the research so you don’t have to. Use our bulletproof month-by-month vacation guide to hack the most convenient vacation bridges in 2018.
To take ownership of your work is to step up to the plate, take control of the task at hand, and take full responsibility for the triumphs and failures. It allows you to lead your projects, fully learn from your mistakes, and manage your own career growth.
It’s the difference between having to do a task and wanting to do a task. So how should you do that?
Many companies are confused when it comes to the promotion system they are going to follow to promote employees. Some of them prefer to follow the easy way of encouraging seniors just because they spent quite a lot of time in the company. Others prefer to promote employees based on performance.
A meaningful life is about how you impact other people’s lives, and how much your engagement in life satisfies your needs and benefits your society. It’s no wonder that most people usually search for jobs that have a meaning beyond their job titles.
Even when you work in a corporate, whose priorities might not be changing people lives to the better, you can always find your way to have a social impact through what you do in your day-to-day job. Along your journey to find, create, or cherish the social impact of your daily tasks; you may find it useful to get some help to deepen the meaning of your career mission.
It’s natural for us to ignore mental health issues we cannot see, and stress at work is no exception. However, it’s exactly the intangibility of stress that makes it crucial for us to recognize and address it.
Work-related stress is “negatively related to performance,” according to a research paper titled Job Stress and Its Impact on Employees’ Performance. The authors of the paper found that the higher the stress, the lower the performance. That’s why you have to identify workplace stress and learn how to manage it effectively for optimum results and better well-being.
Here is our comprehensive stress-management action plan for work-related stress.
It’s not every day that you come across a tried-and-tested rule guaranteed to optimize your effort and improve your output such as the 80-20 rule.
Life is not always as we want it, especially the professional side of it. We all have our ups and downs, and we are not machines to perform at our best all the time. You are probably reading this article as you approach your quarter review or appraisal meeting. This article is to help you know how to handle the situation in which you hit rock bottom with a bad appraisal.
Everything you need to know to understand the complexity of the job-hunting puzzle.