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Pledge your loyalty to one manager, and it can have a lasting impact on your future career, says Ian Mathews. Recognize the three essentials necessary to grow within one company and how to know your leader has influence, Mathews writes.
How good are your charts? Building good charts is quickly becoming a need-to-have skill for managers. If you're not doing it, other managers are, and they're getting noticed for it and getting credit for contributing to your company's success. Learn how to turn plain charts into smart, effective visualizations that convey your ideas. Here's how>>
You don't have to disclose every detail of your illness when you're staying home sick, especially if you have food poisoning, writes Sarah Todd. Most managers trust their employees at their word and don't need to know the dirty details about the affliction.
5 Tips for Building Engagement Programs Successful employee engagement programs entail research, varied approaches and best practices as unique as the company. HR leaders know that engaged cultures yield greater business results. Inspirus has resources to power your engagement and results.
Employers should consider discussing workplace vaccinations amid the measles outbreak. Whether employers can require vaccinations is a complicated question, but fighting misinformation and holding vaccination clinics are ways to start the conversation.
Don’t Let Complacency Derail Your Career Could being comfortable in your job mean you've become complacent? If so, you are doing yourself a huge disservice, according to Kellogg School of Management Professor Carter Cast. Learn how to combat your own worst tendencies.
"Shark Tank" investor Barbara Corcoran is quick to weed out negative applicants during the interview process, writes Betsy Mikel. Make a good impression by taking care to dress for the occasion and to not let age define your ability and readiness for the position.
Certain industries have increased remote job opportunities by 50% in the last year, according to FlexJobs, writes Jill Cornfield. Industries impacted include marketing, mortgage and real estate, engineering, nonprofit and philanthropy, project management, insurance, and math and economics.
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Children's social worker Roseanna Freiburghaus struggled with long hours and a heavy workload, which eventually led to burnout. She quit that job and focused on her recovery and building resilience, using cycling to work as a method to process difficult cases and ease stress.
Last month, 12,000 train passengers were delayed on two lines of the Kyushu Railway in Japan when several trains unexpectedly stopped with no explanation. The transportation company investigated the power outage and has now found that a slug was responsible when it went inside of an electrical power device, causing it to short circuit.
