Preserving a Strong Team Culture with Remote Employees
With the pandemic, came a new shift in work conditions, with many businesses going to a remote work situation. This has turned out to be surprisingly successful for many companies. …
Emotional Intelligence – What is it?
Emotional Intelligence: “The ability to perceive and express emotion, assimilate emotion in thought, understand and reason with emotion, and regulate emotion in the self and others.” -- Mayer, Salovey, &…
Why Live Training is Best
As online learning platforms have become more available in recent years, many companies jumped at the opportunity to offer low cost, low infrastructure learning to its employees, in place of…
Time for You
Let’s face it: Summer just isn’t the time to work on you. With the kids out of school, family gatherings for the Fourth of July, backyard barbecues, and trips to…
Risk Management and Project Planning
Why is Risk Management the Key to Successful Project Planning? Every project runs into hiccups and bumps along the way. Some project managers will close their eyes and pretend that…
Open Doors to Your Future
When you loaded you backpack for the first day of school, do you remember feeling that sense of excitement and endless possibilities opening in front of you? While we may…
Public Speaking – Getting Your Audience to Play Nice
Presentations don’t happen in a vacuum, and there are many things that can occur to sway your presentation away from how you planned it to run. For presenters, the key…
5 Steps of Project Management – Step 1 – Initiating
Project managers divide each project into 5 steps, guiding it from conception to completion. These steps are Initiating, Planning, Executing, Controlling, and Closing. Today, we will discuss the first step,…
Effectively Manage Remote Employees
Quickly disappearing are the days of companies where all employees are based in one office. In our globally shrinking competitive landscape, drivers for this change include: speed to service, less…
The Telephone Game – Emotional Intelligence
Most of us remember playing the Telephone Game at a party as children: The first player thinks of a sentence, then whispers it in into the ear of the player…