Articles tagged "Professional development"

How to Ease the Pain of Hearing Critical Feedback

Learn why we're so resistant to criticism (even the constructive kind), how people can more productively receive feedback, and why it’s critical to understand your own biases.

Make Every Word Count: How to Nail Your Next Presentation

I once rapped Biz Markie's "Just a Friend" in front of a 300-plus person audience. The occasion: I was in charge of the personal training department on our college campus, and I needed a way to introduce our program during an all-staff meeting.

Use Your Work and Learning Styles to Build Better Professional Relationships

Everyone has their own unique preferences, habits, and strategies for getting work done.

The Art of Delegating: What and How to Delegate to Your Directs

Surprise! Pushing your unwanted projects onto someone else actually increases productivity for everyone. For the overworked manager juggling their business development duties with supervisory activities, delegating sounds like a gift from beyond.

Success and Side Projects: How Your Hobbies and Unrelated Interests Help Your Career

Copywriter. Designer. Illustrator. Filmmaker. With how competitive the world has become, it’s no wonder why we're obsessed with titles. Focusing on a speciality makes you more appealing to employers and shows clearly where your skills lie.

The Top Online Communities for Entrepreneurs, Marketers, Designers and Developers

The internet is an infinite resource of knowledge, with billions of pages about every subject imaginable. But its greatest strength is connecting people to that information—and to each other.

Treat Your Career Like a Triathlon: 11 Productivity Lessons from Endurance Athletes

Imagine adding a part-time job to your already crazy schedule. Turns out your friendly neighborhood triathlete has. Training for an Ironman—a 2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bike, and 26.

6 Tools to Help Turn Your Team’s Daily Reading into Big Ideas

For many professionals, daily reading is a mix of digesting industry news and blogs and brushing up on best practices.

Support Roundtable: Pros from Five Apps Talk Tone, Tools and Traits of a Top Hire

One of my favorite things about working in a customer support role is the larger support community.

Don't Let Tech Lingo Hold You Back: 7 Common Developer Terms Explained

Spend a little time with developers and it won't be long until you hear acronyms like "DB" and "AWS" or see the word "get" repeatedly misspelled as "git".