Articles tagged "Professional development"

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.

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.

Imposter Syndrome: Why You Have It and What You Can Do About It

Many of us worry about not performing well enough at our jobs, not getting good enough grades, or not having as much knowledge and experience as our peers.

How to Land Your Dream Job with One Spreadsheet

Job hunting feels like more of an art than a science—especially if you recently graduated or are starting from a place of unemployment. But finding and landing your dream job doesn't have to come down to luck.

Effective Networking: 6 Apps to Meet New People and Build Professional Connections

Success isn’t just about what you know. Who you know plays an outsized role, too. Relationships spark our creativity, help us land jobs, teach us things we'd never learn on our own, and, frankly, make life more interesting. Easier said than done, though.

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 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.

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".