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A Positive Mindset Leads to Success
Success only moves the goal posts further away, which pushes happiness over the horizon.
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How to Increase Your Happiness
You will increase your happiness and optimism if, every day, you write down or say three things you’re grateful for.
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Rational Optimism
When we are surrounded by negative input our brains start to think negative things are more true than positive things.
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How to Ask for a Raise
Sharon Melnick shares her surefire advice for asking for and getting the raise you deserve.
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Attitude of Gratitude
Practicing an attitude of gratitude can reap benefits in health, relationships, and even careers.
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Managing Your Boss: Keep Them Happy
If you do your part to keep your boss happy, your job will be much more pleasant.
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Managing Your Boss: Giving Your Best Work
Your boss needs to know how to get the best work out of you.
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Managing Your Boss: Success
The secret to success may lie in how successfully you can manage your manager.
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Managing Your Boss: Moving Up
Your ability to move up in an organization depends on your relationship with your boss.
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Managing Your Boss: Preventing Overwork
Your time is a resource that needs to be protected and utilized well.
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Resilience Versus “ Presilience”
The concept of resiliency is insufficient; that's why you need presilience.
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Laughability and Alignment Create Perspective and Purpose
Laughability provides perspective while alignment provides purpose. Both are necessary for moving forward despite obstacles.
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To Adapt, Change Your Vantage Point
True adaptability is being able to see a situation from multiple points of view.
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Beware of Adaptability Demons
Adaptability demons are the forces that stop you from thinking positively and moving forward.
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Establish Expertise to Secure Your Career
To acquire "career insurance," you need to establish your expertise within your organization. That means learning continuously, sharing your knowledge, and communicating your value.
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Think Before Reacting
Reacting badly to a situation does not solve the problem—it makes you the problem. Always take the time to stop, breathe, and think before responding.
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To Be Better, Ask For Input
You cannot be better on your own. Being better means asking others "What can I do to be better?"
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Unrealistic Demands
Work is only going to get more demanding, and employees need to find healthy ways to deal with it.
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Increase Your Visibility
If you want to be noticed, you have to stand in the line of view.
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Getting Recognition
If you want recognition, sometimes you’re going to have to toot your own horn.
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Promote Myself
Promote yourself in a positive way that suits your ethics and integrity.
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Keep Influence Groups in the Loop
Don't leave your influencers wondering what happened. Maintain momentum for your initiative by looping back to the people who support your idea.
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How to Use Skills and Contacts
When you draw on assets from different areas of your life in both skills and contacts, you can expand your circle of successes.
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How to Develop Confidence in Yourself and Others
Confidence is not all or none; there are four levels: 1) the confidence to try—to attempt; 2) the confidence to learn—to progress; 3) the confidence to do—to be competent; and 4) the confidence to teach—to fuel the confidence of others to try.
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Fight Imposter Syndrome
Do you ever feel like an imposter? That's just anxiety talking, not the truth.
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How to Feel Comfortable at Social Events
Unstructured social events are a main driver of anxiety, so introducing structure can lessen that nervousness.
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Safety Behaviors
The very safety behaviors that people use to calm stress may actually be counterproductive.
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Ways to Gain Confidence
The learning curve at a new job can be intimidating, but confidence will come with practice.
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Small Blunders Increase Your Likeability
Little mistakes can actually make you more likeable as a person.
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The Importance of Having a Vision
A vision is like an internal compass; it tells us what is important and guides us through good weather and bad.
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Forging Strengths in the Flames of Adversity
We create our missing strengths in the flames of adversity, through will and skill.
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Alchemy - Harnessing the Power of Adversity
Think of adversity not as an impediment but as a pathway to greatness.
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Pioneering Possibilities: Problem-Solving and Innovating
The most exciting times in life occur when one reaches out and becomes a pioneer.
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How Do I Become the Successful Person I Dream About, and Deserve to Be?
People don't achieve goals because they don't write them down, plan, commit, and make goals that are achievable.
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Dealing with Adversity
Dealing with adversity is a five-step process: 1) own it; 2) identify the best short term and long term outcomes; 3) do something you can do without asking permission; 4) identify someone you need to influence to achieve a desired outcome; and 5) take action.
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Invest in Yourself
If you haven't invested in yourself, you won't have anything worth giving away to others.
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Be Intentional to Be Successful
John Maxwell gives his absolute best single piece of advice to people who want to win.
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Reach Outside Your Comfort Zone
Imposter syndrome is a real thing, but it can be easily overcome with a few reminders.
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Get Noticed as a Young Professional
Young professionals who get involved get noticed. Participating in meetings is a great way to get started.
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Avoiding Situations
Avoiding life-threatening situations is natural, but most work situations aren't going to be do-or-die.
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SWOT Analysis for Individuals
Though generally used on businesses, a SWOT analysis can be just as useful for evaluating yourself.
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Step Outside Your Comfort Zone: Hidden Truths
You are flexible, brave, and capable. And you can step outside your comfort zone.
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Overcome Your Inner Critic
Nearly everyone struggles with an inner critic, but it can be defeated.
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Measure Your Worth So You Can Negotiate Your Worth
Negotiating the best possible salary or getting the best possible raise starts with understanding and measuring the value you bring to your organization.
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Introverts at Work
Introverts are valuable employees, but they are often misunderstood.
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Overcoming Bad Decisions
Everyone makes bad decisions occasionally; what's important is to know how to move on.
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How to Get What You Want
Whether you’re selling a product or the idea of a pay raise, Aarons-Mele gives you tips to make sure you get what you want.
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Learn to Play to Your Strengths
Lots of people will tell you to play to your strengths, but Dan Cable will tell you how to actually do it.
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Own It!
Elite performers take responsibility for every outcome in their lives. When things go wrong they never point outward.
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Switch Off After Work
To be the best version of yourself when you get home, take time to switch off before you get there.
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Whose Purpose is it Anyway?
Organizations that perform at a high level stand for something and contribute to the world. Profits without purpose lowers motivation.
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Total Persistence: No Matter What the Odds
The single characteristic of successful people is total and absolute persistence.
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The Pitfalls of Personal Goal Setting
Pursuing goals without regard for anything else sets blinders that close off opportunities.
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How to Be Liked in the Workplace
Possessing natural charisma is great but most people have to put forth extra effort in the likability department. These six tips offer a successful plan to improve your likability.
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Seek Expert Advice
When faced with a challenge, the first question you should always ask is, "Who can help me?" Get SET with strategic, emergency, and tactical experts.
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Best Practices for Rebels at Work
Are you a rebel at work? If so, practice Carmen Medina's top five dos and don'ts for sharing your ideas without sabotaging your career.
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Understand Your Why
The ability to persevere is the difference between those who succeed and those who don't. Find out how to push through your darkest moments.
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Protect Your Personal Brand
Treat your social media profile the same way you’d treat your credit information. Protect the value you’ve invested in your brand.
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Undermining Your Personal Brand
Some professionals damage their personal brands without even being aware of it. Are you?
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Social Media and Your Personal Brand
Social media is crucial to building and communicating your brand.
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Professional Reputations
Discover how to establish and protect your number one asset: your professional reputation.
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Define the Purpose of Your Personal Brand
Developing your personal brand depends on having a strong plan. These three steps lead you to identify and developing your purpose.
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The Value Proposition of Your Personal Brand
Creating a value proposition is integral to your personal brand. Design your value statement as if you are marketing a new product.
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What's The Worst That Can Happen?
A little perseverance goes a long way. Jeffrey Hayzlett recounts one his first experiences as a salesperson in this story of how to pick up and move on in the face of adversity.
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Define The Purpose Of Your Leadership
True and lasting leadership derives from intrinsic motivations. William George shares a touching story about how never to lose one's sense of purpose.
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Sticky Floors
Sticky floors are the self-limiting beliefs that prevent individuals, especially women, from reaching their potential. Here’s the way to get unstuck.
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How to Deal with Managers Who Pile on the Work
Too many projects? Too few priorities? Is your manager the cause of your overload? These four steps allow you to tame any beast of a manager who continuously heaps work onto your plate.
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The Ultimate Skills List
What skills do you need to be successful in the next 20 years? Bill Jensen shares his ultimate list of the skills that are critical to creating value.
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How to Simplify
In a chaotic world, the ability to simplify is a valuable superpower. Bill Jensen shares five steps to becoming Mr. or Ms. Simplicity.
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The 3-2-1 Rule for an Awesome Day
Turn each and every day into an awesome day with Bill Jensen’s easy-to-implement 3-2-1 rule.
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Greatness: How to Be Your Best
The road to greatness begins with “just not sucking.” To be your best, you need to be present, listen for understanding, and make more purple.
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How to Think Like an Entrepreneur
Whoever you are, whatever you do, and wherever you work, following three key principles will help you to become an entrepreneurial thinker.
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Get Your Talents Noticed
In a world where everyone is being pulled in different directions, your talents can easily go unnoticed—unless you’re using these three techniques to get recognized.
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How to Work for Someone You Don't Believe In
It can be quite the challenge to work for a boss you don’t believe in. These tips help you to make the best of the situation and, at the same time, develop your own leadership skills.
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Making Powerful Requests
If you’re one of the many people who find it difficult to ask for help, a shift in how you think about help can make it easier.
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Signs of Stress
Early signs of stress include tightness in the neck and shoulders, and difficulty breathing. Later signs include sleeplessness and upset stomach. If stress progresses further it can lead to various illnesses.
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Inventing the Future
Nigel Barlow explains how we can create our future.
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Rethinking How to Open Your Mind
Stop saying "Yes, but." Start saying "Why not?" and "What if?" instead.
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The Creative Leader Avoiding Job Blindness
Nigel Barlow explains how to remain a curious, creative beginner.
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Building Confidence in Yourself
Confidence in yourself is the foundation from which all of your actions take place. By building that confidence, you stand stronger as a person and as a leader.
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Discovering Your Theme for Change
To make change easier, look for the one big theme that intersects between what other people want for you and what you want for yourself.
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The Confidence Factor
To increase confidence, perform an action that's just beyond your comfort zone every day.
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Effectively Managing Across Boundaries
Spend time with people who are different from you. This will expose you to ideas that can lead to innovations.
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How to Raise a Values Question Without Putting Your Career in Jeopardy
People facing a values issue may think the leader doesn't care. Most leaders do.
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Overcoming Immunity to Change
A commitment to change often competes with other commitments, with the result that nothing changes. To move forward, test the assumption that something bad will happen if you do change.
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Knowing When to Think Critically
We all have the ability to think critically, but we need to know when to apply that skill.
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The Trust Game
Lisa Callahan describes a two-person game where the outcome can be win-win or win-lose depending on trust, a feeling associated with oxytocin in the brain. We can, however, be fooled by our brains; it is important to step back and be objective in situations of trust.
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Daily Journaling and Self Reflection
Spending five minutes on a diary at the end of a day helps workers to keep things in perspective and deal more effectively with problems. Diaries help the worker celebrate progress in work and personal growth, cultivate patience, and plan the future.
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Invest in the Process, Not the Outcome
Actions are within your control but not their outcomes. Set goals; then forget them. Put all your energy into the activities needed to reach the goals. John Wooden, in the Basketball Hall of Fame as both a player and coach, never talked about winning, only about effort.
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How to Be As Resilient As a Daruma Doll
A Daruma doll has no arms or legs and is weighted at the bottom. Knock it down, and it always springs back. To be like a Daruma doll invest in the process, not the outcome; and live in appreciation and gratitude of what is good in your life, not on what’s wrong.
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Bullying by Expectations
If everyone in your group feels overwhelmed, go to the boss as a group, but if you are the only one feeling overwhelmed, that’s bullying.
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The First Mindfulness Capacity: Allowing
Mind time practices are meditations developed to teach three key mindfulness capacities. Allowing, the first capacity, prepares you to go to a place of choices and learning.
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Supervisor and Subordinate Roles
Supervisor or subordinate? Most likely you wear both hats, but are you clear on what your responsibilities consist of for each role?
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Being Authentic
How do you know if you are authentic or fake? Discover how identifying and conforming to attributes that apply to your personality lead you to being true to yourself.
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Goal Setting
When setting a goal, ask how you will know when you have achieved the goal.
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Agility Requires Assessments
To be more agile in a fast changing environment, as a person or as a company, stop from time to time to assess where you are with respect to your goals. The sooner you know where you are, the sooner you can make changes.
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Improving The Quality Of Your Contribution
Only speaking up when you know you have the right or popular answer may be safe, but it isn't the best contribution you can make, as Don Vanthournout shares from his own experience.
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How to Increase Accountability
To increase your accountability, ask the opinion of someone you respect and admire. This will increase your chances of acting on the advice given.
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Eating Habits Impact Performance
Bad eating habits can negatively impact performance at work, but with mindfulness you can turn bad habits into good ones.
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
The 7 Habits embody the essence of a balanced, integrated, powerful person and creating a complimentary team based on mutual respect. They are a complete framework of sequential principles.
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Habit 1: Be Proactive
Stephen Covey points out that we choose how we respond to life's circumstances.
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Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw
The Seventh Habit is about taking the time to regularly "sharpen the saw"; to renew physically, social/emotionally, mentally, and spiritually.
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How to Become an Essentialist
Essentialists live by priorities. Priority setting is not something on a to-do list; it’s the work of life. It’s not just that setting priorities matters; it’s “This is who I am.” Only failure and leadership can simplify your life. Choose to simplify by setting and living by priorities.
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Intentionomics: The Economics of Intention
Intentionomics gets at the reason you do what you do--and it has an impact at both micro and macro levels, explains David Penglase.
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From Passion to Goals, Clarity to Certainty
With doubt comes uncertainty. Keith Abraham explains how to get over this hump so that you can achieve those things about which you are most passionate.
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Creating Momentum
Activity cures inactivity. Keith Abraham shows why people don’t need to be motivated; they just need to create momentum.
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Advice From a 95-Year-Old Man
Most people have three fears: fear of failure, fear of success, and fear of change. Keith Abraham shows what it takes to overcomes these fears and, surprisingly, it’s not all that difficult.
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Articulate Your Intention
It’s important to be able to articulate your intention, says David Penglase. It lets people know exactly what you are focused on doing, and why, and it helps develop a rapport with people.
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Ask Yourself Every Hour, 'What Did I Do?'
Do you really know how you spend your day? David Penglase suggests tracking your time for one day--with the intent of being more intentional and creating good habits.
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Practical Prodding: Intention Reminders
We all need a bit of practical prodding--some sort of reminder of our intention, to keep us on track--explains David Penglase.
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Managing Positive and Negative Stress
Max McKeown describes a stress clock, with negative stress on one side and positive stress on the other.
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Being In Your Element
To say that someone is in his or her element means they’re doing something for which they are really suited.
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Pursue Your Passion
College is not for everybody. Sir Ken Robinson tells the story of a man who only wanted to be a fireman. His high school teacher discouraged him but that’s all he wanted. Later, as a fireman he saved that teacher’s life.
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Office Politics
Office politics are unavoidable, but you can learn to make the most of the system with these essential tips.
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Dealing with Gossip
Gossip is an unfortunate fact of life, but it is simple enough to address in an adult manner.
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Overcome Imposter Syndrome
Am I good enough? Do people know I’m a fraud? Questions like these plague individuals who suffer from imposter syndrome, but there are ways to overcome self-doubt.
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Achieve Your Goals
Are you among the 8 percent of people who actually achieve their goals? If not, this action plan will help you to accomplish what you desire.
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Decisions That Make the World Better
To positively impact our organizations, our communities, and the world itself, we must lead and make decisions as humanitarians.
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Dealing with Uncertainty
Uncertainty can put anyone on edge. Eddie Obeng shares three techniques for dealing with all the things you can’t control.
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Live Event: Working Better Than Before: Understanding Habits to Manage Yourself, and Others, Better
This Live Event was originally broadcast on Tuesday, September 20, 2016.
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Using Calculated Risks to Define Your Value
Defining your value requires having the courage to take calculated risks based not only on your own strengths but also the strengths of others.
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Focus on What Fulfills You
It’s important to find what fulfills you, because when you’re fulfilled, you’re successful.
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Successfully Managing Up
Asking your boss some key questions can help you manage up more successfully.
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Dealing with Conflict
When two people don’t agree, first reward them for bringing up the issue. Then observe the issue in a neutral light, explain how it affects you, what you want, and end with a contract. Handle conflicts assertively, not aggressively or non-aggressively (as a passive aggressive).
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Be Selfish
Don’t assume you’re not important. Your needs are important as anyone else’s. Add your voice at the table. If you have a conflict, speak directly. State your view, how you feel about the situation, and what you would like to see happen. Jodi Detjen gives an example.
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Stay True to Your Passion
Ron Cohen’s dad used to advise, “To thine own self be true.” What do you want to with your life? What turns you on? What gets you up in the morning?
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Developing Yourself: Be Proactive in Getting Feedback
Everyone on Nicole Piasecki's team has a self-development plan.
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Break Rituals Increase Productivity and Prevent Burnout
Break rituals refresh your mind and body, making you healthier and more productive.
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Choose Your Values
Looking for meaning or motivation? Develop your values.
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It’s as Important to Be Kind as to Be Clever
The importance of human connection may not fit on a spreadsheet, but it is incalculably worthwhile.
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A Challenge Is an Opportunity
Internal struggles and awakenings can make us better leaders. Karina Andersen shares a personal story of how the challenge of dealing with a personal tragedy turned into an opportunity for growth.
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Why Resolve Wins
The difference between winners and losers is the ability to keep going.
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Stress Management
We need to experience stress to grow, but growth actually occurs during the recovery period that follows stress.
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The Truth about Mental and Emotional Engagement
The best predictors of engagement are the connection between activities and values, and your physical health.
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The Why Formula
Most people spend their life earning a living rather than designing a life. If you don’t have a strong enough “why” you’ll never do the “how.” What work matters to you? What’s the next step toward that work? By what method? How can you create momentum?
