“Every company needs hardworking, talented employees who can bring something creative and different to the table. Likewise, employees want to be confident their contributions are important and that their employers are investing time and money into their skills and career progression. High employee turnover increases expenses and decreases workplace morale and productivity. Businesses can’t thrive…
Over the weekend, I spent some time on campus here in Corvallis, experiencing some of the Homecoming events. One of the events was a free outdoor concert by country musician, and Corvallis native, Jackson Michelson. Now, it was a chilly night, with a lot of other student activities going on, and so the crowd wasn’t…
A pretty good list for anyone who is looking to improve their professional lives. Especially key for young professionals to understand that these 10 things matter, regardless of what your “job” is. Without them, you’ll never get anywhere. Top 10 Skills You Need at Work That Have Nothing to Do with Your Job
“The powerful speech pause might be the most important public speaking technique you will ever learn. This secret is something that I’ve used for many years. Dramatic pauses are so powerful that they should be illegal. In music, all of the beauty is contained in the silences between the notes. In speaking, the drama and…
” We might be working longer simply because we’re so unproductive.On our mobile devices, we’re doing two damaging things constantly: Multitasking Context switching Multitasking destroys our productivity, our brains simply can’t handle it, and context switching makes us constantly lose what we were doing and restart.” This sounds about right. Even working from home without…
I can’t say that I started blogging for all of these reasons 14 years ago, or that I continued for all of these reasons. But, a couple of them were true then, and remain true today. I blog to share my knowledge and my passions, to connect with other people, whether it be professionally here,…