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When work becomes overwhelming and the tasks are piling up, stress can kick in. A little stress can be a good thing, making you focus more clearly and reducing the chances of being bored. However, when stress persists long term or increases to higher levels it can become detrimental to your work. Rather than helping, the increased level of stress then makes the tasks even more difficult to manage. Here are some easy tips to try when the stress gets too much:Write things down. This helps to keep you organised, freeing your mind to concentrate on one task at a time without the worry of forgetting something. Visualizing your outstanding jobs on paper helps put them in context, making them appear more manageable.Keep your work area tidy and clutter free. A mess around you will not make for a calm environment. The clutter can be distracting, make it more difficult to find things, and reduce the amount of calming space you have around you.Have a stretch. Stress leads to tense muscles and … [Read more...] about Reducing Your Stress Levels in the Workplace

Marketing has always been about rules/principles. Because at the end of the day, how smart your marketing is depends on how well your understand some of its basic rules. Now, when we talk about rules, one rule that stands out today in the marketing world is the 80/20 rule or the Pareto’s principle. Before you get confused, the 80/20 rule is nothing new and businesses have been applying it in their marketing knowingly or unknowingly. So what does the rule say? It’s simple: 80 percent of your results  come from 20 percent of your efforts. In marketing terms this means that 80 percent of your sales result from 20 percent of your marketing/advertising efforts. Or 80 percent of your business is generated from 20 percent of your customers. Applying the 80/20 rule can take our online or offline business places. It can not only save you money but also help you increase your profits in the long run by giving your business more leverage and your marketing a more focused direction. Begin by … [Read more...] about 80-20 Marketing, Redefined

Working part time is a way many people achieve a better work/life balance, allowing time to walk the children to school, spend more time with loved ones, pursue hobbies/ interests or do volunteer work. It's also a great way to get more from your job. Reducing your hours can mean enjoying the job more when you are there. Work will be less tiring, there will be less exposure to office politics, and pursuing others things in your free time should make you a happier person, which you will carry with you when you are at your job. Having a job that's part time, gives you the freedom to pursue other choices which helps you to value the job more, compared to one where you spend much of your weekly life there.So what steps can be taken to make a move to part time hours possible?At Work:If part time is a viable option where you work, ask for a pay rise. The increased income may in itself make reducing your hours financially viable. If not, maybe look for a new job that offers part time … [Read more...] about How to Save Money To Go Part-Time

What Are Soft Skills? A little over a decade ago, social psychologist Dr. Daniel Goleman wrote a bestselling book that turned how organizations evaluated their employees upside down. "Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ" established an entirely new means of evaluation and became a popular psychology bestseller. Now, in addition to IQ, standardized tests such as the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) and school grades, individuals could be evaluated for their emotional intelligence. "Soft skills" is a casual reference to the bulky term "emotional intelligence," often shortened to simply EI. Divided into two types—ability emotional intelligence and trait emotional intelligence—emotional intelligence can be defined as the ability to identify, assess and control the emotions of oneself, others and groups. Are Soft Skills Important to Business? According to Arlene Sota's article, "Soft Skills Are Key to All Success," "Studies have shown [that] individuals who scored … [Read more...] about Soft Skills for Hard Times

So you finally graduated college and have the coveted degree you need to find a job. But somehow after those four long years of school, your resumé just looks empty. You can't get a job without experience and you can't get experience without a job—and so begins the endless cycle of job hunting. Although this situation might seem hopeless, there's a way to use other experience to your advantage. Volunteer work is a great way to give back to the community, while also developing experience in your field. Careful, though: not all of your volunteer experience will be a great fit for your resume. The following tips and guidelines can help you discern between what's appropriate and what you might want to leave out. Ask Yourself, "So What?" So you spent five years in Africa building wells so the locals there could have access to clean water. So what? This experience undoubtedly had a major influence on your life and your character, but is it really relevant to the resumé you'll be sending … [Read more...] about Is Your Volunteer Experience Resumé-Worthy?

Employers tend to make a ton of mistakes during the whole recruiting, interviewing and hiring process. Therefore your company's hiring manager needs to evaluate and re-evaluate his/her hiring practices if bad employees are being hired on a regular basis. In the following article we discuss a few mistakes that hiring managers make when hiring new talent... 1. Going too Narrow with Job Specifications Every manager wants to hire the best talent while being in the rush. New employees are usually hired because a project requires the right help or a specific set of skills. But since most hiring managers don’t have the time to cover the training process, they go overly narrow with the job specifications, which is a mistake. What every hiring manager needs to realize is this: When you hire somebody, you’re paying for his abilities, and not for specialized knowledge of a tool or technique. A good hire will almost always learn how to use the tool you hand him or her and if he lacks some … [Read more...] about 3 Mistakes by Your Hiring Manager That Are Costing You a Fortune

Procrastination can be misleading. For instance think of a standard email inbox and instead of getting emails about meeting minutes you are getting 'tasks' to put on your do to list. Before you know it, there are is one thousand unread emails sitting in your inbox. A productive worker would say to themselves, "okay, let's get cracking!" But there is several other characters in this scenario and they are all belong to the procrastination family. There is social media and his younger brother, YouTube and his twin sister, Vimeo. Sure procrastination can be very relaxing and fun; especially you are watching a comedy show on YouTube. But it is not making you productive, now is it? In order to beat your procrastination tendencies, you first of all have to make a conscious decision to beat it, because the power of just doing tasks in and out of work comes from the power of your mind. And ironically it is your mind that is increasing your urge to procrastinate in the long run. Such as, have … [Read more...] about The Power of "Just Do It" at Work