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Althea DeBrule - EzineArticles.com Expert Author
Althea DeBrule, entrepreneur and seasoned human resources executive, has focused for more than 30 years on helping workers achieve their career goals.
A founding partner of RADSGroup, an organizational consulting firm specializing in human resources and management consulting services, she is recognized for her bottom line and practical application of career development and management strategies in a way that penetrates hearts and compels action.
She speaks and teaches at management conferences and leadership retreats nationwide ... [More]
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- Time Management -- Urgent vs. Important
[Self-Improvement:Time-Management] Life can be such a juggling act. Like professional jugglers, we try to keep 5 or 6 balls moving through the air at the same time. But unlike professional jugglers, we rarely succeed. Everyone is so busy these days. Work is performed at a frantic pace and people are in such a hurry. It’s very difficult to keep your priorities in line when life is so fast paced. But the negative consequences of so much activity—stress, damaged or broken relationships, poor health---can wreak more havoc than what we think we will gain. Are you a victim of "The Urgent"? Read on to find the answer.
- Showing Appreciation to Workplace Un-Sung Heroes
[Business:Careers-Employment] Millions of Un-Sung Heroes are born every minute! They are found everywhere—on street corners, in our homes, offices, and communities—wherever there are people in need of rescue. These special people, whose positive actions and initiatives are performed to benefit others, are not famous or in the news for what they are doing; but their efforts affect, enrich and touch countless lives. Every business has these Un-Sung Heroes. If you wish to know how to identify them, read on.
- Risk-taking - Get Your Feet Wet!
[Business:Careers-Employment] We often use the phrase, “Get Your Feet Wet” when we are just beginning to learn how to do something or are about to pioneer a new initiative. When we participate in a project for the first time, there is usually a hesitancy to step out into the unknown. The unknown elicits strong emotional responses, the chief of which is fear. We’re afraid to take chances or that we will make mistakes. This is especially true at work. This article shows you how to get your feet wet at work and take the risk-taking plunge to advance your career.
- Interpersonal Skill Building -- Yank The Suckers & Weeds
[Business:Careers-Employment] According to the National Gardening Association, suckers are rapidly growing shoots rising from an underground root or stem, often to the detriment of the tree. They can be very irritating and annoying for they bear no flowers or fruit. Unfortunately, businesses have suckers and weeds too. These unattractive thieves rob the organization blind by ruining its competitive advantage, and choking and stifling its people. This article shows you how to avoid these outcomes and outlines ways to effectively stop all but the most persistent of organizational suckers and weeds.
- Get In Career Shape
[Business:Careers-Employment] Research suggests that as many as 8 out of 10 employed adults are in the wrong job or career! They are in poor career-shape or have little or no career-stamina. Are you in poor career shape and need to develop a career workout routine? This article gives 10 ways you can maximize your workout and enhance your career.
- Experience Hear-See-Do
[Business:Careers-Employment] Research indicates that we retain only 10% of what we hear; 20% of what we see; 65% of what we hear and see; but 90% of what we hear, see, and do. Every day at work we demonstrate Hear-See-Do when we use a combination of our knowledge, wisdom and skill to perform a task or plan what we will do at a later date. This combination of intellect, insight and ability is called experience. This article discusses the value of experience and how you can maximize it for future career success.
- Energizing Synergy
[Business:Careers-Employment] Would you like to have more energy and synergy in your job and career? If you are not enjoying work the way you used to and if you would like to contribute in a manner that produces more results with less effort, then energizing synergy is what you need to cultivate. This article gives you seven simple tips to increase your personal energy to help you make a synergistic impact at work.
- Workplace Melodrama--A Flair For The Dramatic
[Business:Careers-Employment] In the workplace, melodrama happens when a minor concern or conflict is embroidered and overstated in such a way that it becomes larger-than-life and blown way out of proportion to the original issue. Many people often complain about the level of melodrama in their offices. This article introduces the M.O.D.E.L. Method for Handling Office Melodrama.
- Are You In A Groove Or A Rut?
[Business:Careers-Employment] Everyone has a favorite rut or two. They are comfortable, familiar and undemanding. If you stay in them long enough you begin to equate them with who you are and buy in to the belief that remaining steadfastly in them is all you can expect out of life. However, when you are in a groove, you are able to create and see things differently. Where are you right now—in a groove or a rut? If you wish to know more and how you can tell the difference and what to do about it, read on.
- Stop Whining and Ask For What You Want!
[Business:Careers-Employment] When you want something, the best way to get it is to make your request in a straightforward and positive way. You should not expect your boss or co-workers to read your mind and know what your expectations and desires are. Nor should you brood about the fact that someone else has not recognized what you think is obvious to everyone. This article gives 8 steps you can take to get your requests granted at work.
- Encouragement--Heart At Work
[Self-Improvement:Inspirational] Everyone needs encouragement. Bosses and co-workers alike face difficult situations and make mistakes or fail on a daily basis. They need help to cope with disappointment, fear, doubt and uncertainty. This article gives 10 tips on how to be an On-the-Job Encourager.
- Are You A Control Freak?
[Self-Improvement] One of the most frightening things a person can experience in life is to be out of control. It is part of our nature to take charge, direct and have power over things, situations and people. It is perfectly normal to want to be in control of your life. But when that control extends to imposing your will upon and dominating everyone else around you as well, then you are in danger of becoming a control freak! If this describes you and you want to know how to fix it, then read on.
- Building Successful Work Relationships--Playing In The Same Sandbox
[Business:Team-Building] There’s a tremendous amount of pressure as we grow older to learn to act our age (whatever that means). In fact, most people consider age a number not an indication of vitality, health or maturity. Nevertheless, too many of us leave the things of childhood behind us. This is both good and bad. It is good to leave childish behavior behind, but bad when we discard many childlike behaviors that can make us successful adults. One such childlike behavior is learning how to develop reliable relationships with others through experiences in the same sandbox that teach us how to cooperate, exchange ideas, and communicate. This article gives a seven-step process for building successful work relationships.
- Managing Change -- Endings Are Just Doorways to New Beginnings
[Business:Change-Management] Stop looking at your endings as negative things that happen to you even when they bring pain and stress. The bridge between our endings and new beginnings is like a growth spurt. Every human on the planet experiences a growth spurt every now and then. They don’t stop just because we’re all grown up! This article gives tips on how to handle life’s growth spurts caused by a continuous cycle of endings and new beginnings, and how to see them as blessings of new possibilities and fruitfulness.
- Workplace Fitness: Tongue-In-Cheek
[Business:Team-Building] The tongue is the main vessel used to speak. It accomplishes this by spewing out sounds and words. Although a small part of the body, it controls and affects the direction of our lives. Most of the time it does a lot of good; but sometimes it gets us into huge trouble, and controlling it is a lifelong process. This article will give you 10 proven ways to prevent you from getting foot-in-mouth disease.
- Stress Management--Getting the Better of the Daily Grind
[Self-Improvement:Stress-Management] There are many kinds of daily grinds. In the U.S. Corporate world today, to be busy working 12-16 hours a day is a sign of importance and ambition. The more time you spend at your job, the more you are envied—the harder you work, the higher you rise up the corporate ladder. Somehow we’ve gotten this work thing all wrong. Originally, work was not intended to be a grind, where we are crushed, pressed, mashed, and pounded into completing tasks and satisfying responsibilities. It was intended to be an object of pleasure, enjoyment, and fulfillment. If you wish to learn how to return your work to its original pleasurable state, then read on.
- Increase Your Knowledge: Read-and-Reap
[Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] When you form a regular reading habit, you reap untold benefits. Unfortunately, most of us just don’t seem to get around to it. So what’s a professional to do in this era of information overload? This article will give you a few tips to jumpstart your reading routine and develop an oh-so-necessary reading habit.
- Daily Motivation--Be Kind to Yourself for a Change
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] Numerous scientific studies have shown that being kind results in significant physical, mental and emotional health benefits. Every day you must plan to do something kind for yourself, and then stick to that plan. This article gives you 25 ways you can be kind to yourself, make small changes and move further along the road to stress-free living.
- Courtesy In The Workplace -- Can You Say, Thank You?
[Self-Improvement:Positive-Attitude] Thank you is such a beautiful phrase. When you say, thank you, it makes a world of difference. Recent research suggests that discourtesy in the workplace is rapidly becoming an increasing dilemma for businesses and organizations. Workplace incivility is growing, including an increase in bad manners, rudeness, coarseness, vulgarity, and a lack of respect. This article shows you how to form and maintain a "Thank You" habit.
- Managing Conflict --I'm All Wet and Can't Seem to Get Dried Out!
[Self-Improvement] Like the weather, conflict can be anything from a minor squall to a turbulent storm packing hurricane force winds. Quite often, conflict storms come up unexpectedly and we are not prepared with an U-M-B-R-E-L-L-A (See Dealing With Difficult People—Go Ahead, Rain On My Parade). This article gives additional tips to handle unanticipated and surprising conflict tempests that are not part of typical interpersonal relationship weather patterns.
- Dealing with Difficult People--Go Ahead, Rain on My Parade
[Self-Improvement:Success] We all have difficult people in our lives—you know, those folks of radically differing viewpoints who anger, exasperate, frustrate, and nearly drive us out of our minds! Difficult people tend to rain on our parades. This article gives eight surefire tips to successfully weather and survive interpersonal conflict storms.
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