Are you comfortable saying, “no” to your boss? It’s important to be a team player, however if your boss continuously piles new projects on your plate, inevitably you will have to delay other work or worse yet, not complete the request at all—which will reflect poorly on you. The ability to say “no” is a…
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Labor Day Lessons—The Residual Impacts of Employee Recognition
As leaders and organizations seek strategies to attract and retain top talent, many overlook one of the most basic and easily executed strategies—employee recognition. Shockingly, only one in three workers in the U.S. strongly agree that they received recognition or praise for doing good work in the past seven days according to a recentGallup poll….
The Four R’s of an Olympian Mindset
The 2016 Summer Olympics are a reminder that the ability to bounce back from setbacks is a key characteristic of top performers. Dale Carnegie said, “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” Here are four…
Four Reasons Your Brain Wants You to Book a Vacation
If you’ve ever driven a vehicle to your vacation destination, at some point, you had to refill its tank. Likewise, if you don’t refuel, you will come to a complete stop. The same can be said for your brain—if you don’t take a vacation, eventually you will deplete your brain’s reserve pool of power. Dale…