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How to Get to Know Your New Manager

Alright, so you’ve scored yourself a new boss and you’re thinking, “How do I get to know this person better?” You will be spending a lot of time with this person after all. Don’t worry, I’ve got you covered! After you have become acquainted with your job, your attention should focus on the cultural aspects…

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Handling Differences of Opinion

This week will be full of new opportunities and challenges. Here is my thought for the week: There is an art to handling differences of opinion. Sometimes, the debate resembles modern art where a masterpiece is made by splattering paint. “Mature people never make difference of opinion a means of conflict.” –Fethullah Gulen Once I…

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Building Better Working Relationships

This week will be full of new opportunities and challenges. Here is my thought for the week: Building better working relationships requires that you step outside of your comfort zone. “Your comfort zone is a place where you keep yourself in a self-illusion and nothing can grow there, but your potentiality can grow only when…

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The Key Strategy of Effective Communication

Have you ever walked into a meeting when tensions were high. Each side ready to lambast the other–Members of each side, unwilling to look on another in the eye. Emotions are running high until the words without reason begin to spew out. Blame is cast on the other with corresponding rebuttals echoing the same. Volcanoes of emotion erupting one after the next. Where is the voice of reason?

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Performance Victimization

Ever experience counter-productive work behavior that makes you feel as though you are going against the grain? You may feel stuck and this might be why…

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