Category: YOU.O
Do you feel as though you are just going through the motions at work and you are just performing the minimum required job duties because you feel there are no opportunities to climb the corporate ladder?
By nature, humans are supposed to be curious. Without curiosity, there is no way to learn and no way to make things better. The more curious you are, the more ‘doors of possibilities’ you will open throughout your life.
Effective leadership comes with its share of challenges, especially when an unexpected event occurs that results in serious turmoil at the leadership level where the leadership authority becomes splintered. When there is a crack at senior levels within an organization, conflict among leaders can negatively impact the entire organization which can put the success of a project at great risk. A plan is only as good as the people executing and managing the plan. One such example of a splintering in leadership is the General McCrystal incident.
The BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is now the most devastating oil spill in US History. As tens of thousands of barrels of oil flood the Gulf contaminating the ocean, killing wildlife, destroying the fishing industry, and affecting the lives of the so many people, BP’s chief executive officer Tony Hayward has become an important symbol of ineffective leadership. For business and political leaders, there are many lessons in leadership to be learned from the BP oil disaster.
When asked about the most dissatisfying part of their job, a great number of employees will say that it is their inability to move up the corporate ladder because their employer does not recognize their personal talents. Do you feel trapped in a company that seems neither interested in your future nor willing to recognize your potential value? What should you do?”
Have you ever woke up one morning and said to yourself, “Why even bother to get out of bed? There is nothing to look forward to as life is dull and dreary with no pleasant surprises and challenges.”
Today, employees in all types of job areas are finding themselves working in a toxic environment. A toxic work environment is an environment where the leadership spends more time on focusing on profits rather than making sure their employees are content with their jobs and work environment.
Job boredom has become a common problem in all types of work environments. For a business, there are a number of consequences to having employees who suffer from job boredom that can include:
Make a difference in this world by finding a job that unleashes the potential within you. By identifying your job focal point around attaining positive and astonishing changes in the world can have many rewards. It discloses to others that you are not just looking for “a job,” but instead a rewarding job that will make a difference in the world.
In our society, which includes the business world, when most people think of emotions, they tend to consider them as a liability. In other words, conveying emotions is a barrier to personal and business success.
Whether it is a social, business, or intimate setting, our emotions play a big part in how we interpret and react to an event. When we communicate, how we feel and how we interpret what others are feeling, play a key role in how we interpret the messages received and we respond to the messages.
Each one of us is connected to our emotions. Our feelings are a reaction to an influence that contacts our own unique nature and results in a specific action or behavior.
Most of us know that when it comes to our personal lives, the ability to sense the emotions of others as well as understand our own emotions before reacting, plays a fundamental role in building and maintaining strong relationships.
However, when it comes to relationships in the workplace, many leaders do not realize that astute emotional intelligence can help build positive relationships leading to happier and more productive employees.
Who has time to think about the future? For many, simply paying the bills is enough to fill up virtually every day with work and other chores.
For others, unemployment or other personal difficulties can make thinking about the future a frightening prospect. Despite a general lack of time and sometime motivation on the part of many, the question should not so much be who has the time, but it should be who can afford not to think about the future?
For many years, career counselors, and personal or success coaches have helped thousands of people discover what they truly want to do in their lives and careers.
Whatever your lifestyle or career stage, these professionals can help lead you through a process of self-renewal – an excursion into self-discovery that will help you clarify your inner values and achieve personal success.