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Six Tips for Getting a Head Start on Your New Year’s Resolutions with an Hour Per Week Our schedules are packed to the max this time of year: we are all overloaded with party commitments, shopping...
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Tips for Divorced Parents to Keep your Spirits Bright (both Yours and Your Kids’!) During the Holiday Season The holidays can be a difficult time to be divorced. Most of us are accustomed to...
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Take Charge of Your Inbox Before it overtakes Your Workday If you are like most American workers, you spend about a quarter (28%) of each work day reading and responding to emails, according to a...
View Article‘Tis the Party Season
Six Tips to Make Sure the Office Holiday Party is Fun for Everyone Ah, the holiday season. For businesses it’s a time of offering thanks and celebrating customers and employees alike. It’s the season...
View ArticleHow to Find a Mentor
5 Tips for Mentor-Seeking, Cold-Contacting Professionals and Job-Hunting in your Industry Find the Right TimeThis is of the utmost importance. Depending on the industry in which you aspire to work,...
View ArticleSurviving a Tech Conference
10 Tips for Networking, Energy-Stoking, and Getting the Most Out of a Professional Conference As a freelance writer, I find that attending and covering conferences is one of the most valuable things...
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Amber Cox, VP and CMO of the Houston Dynamo and Houston Dash, Missouri Native, and Fan of The Four Agreements Amber Cox is the Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of the Houston Dynamo and...
View ArticleBe Your Own Advocate
6 Tips to Get Ahead Gracefully at Work Many of us ambitious women think that if we keep working hard, delivering great results and taking on more responsibility, we’re bound to get noticed at the...
View ArticleThe Dreaded Annual Review
Tips for an Effective and Constructive Annual Performance Review to Ensure Professional Success for the Coming Year The holidays are drawing near, and for many of us, this means parties, presents and...
View ArticleDecember Bday Ladies
8 Sharp Women Born During the Month of December 2015 is quickly coming to a close, and with the beginning of a new year right around the corner, the time has come to start thinking about resolutions,...
View ArticleTweeting Success 101
Tips and Tricks for Effective Twitter Engagement – From Learning the Basics to Becoming and Expert Use Twitter, they said. It will be easy, they said. So you created a Twitter account and you are now...
View ArticleToo Busy to Volunteer?
Carving Out Time Now for Volunteering and Board Work Can Have Huge Benefits for Your Future Is it critical that one do volunteer work? Will it kill one’s career not to get involved with a Board of...
View ArticleHoliday Party Faux-Pas
How to Avoid Holiday Party Missteps and Keep Your Focus on Professionalism During the Festive Season The holiday season means holiday parties. “Employees at all levels get excited about the holidays...
View ArticleDeveloping Workplace Spirit
9 Ways to Boost Staff Morale and Improve Employee Loyalty On the surface, keeping costs down and running a strict operation might seem the best way to enhance productivity. In reality, just a...
View ArticleSix Ways to Be a Good Leader
Be a Sponge for Industry Knowledge, Seek Great Mentors, and Be Connected to Your Workers The paradox of leadership is that, more often than not, the person in a crowded room who talks the loudest,...
View ArticleProductivity & Health
How Healthy Eating and Smart Planning Can Free Up Your Time and Increase Your Energy The end of the year is here, and many of us are starting to think about what changes we want to make for 2016....
View ArticleThriving During the Holidays
10 Tips to Help Your Thrive – not Just Survive – During the Holiday Season and Into the New Year The pressure is on with planning for 2016 – not to mention the 2015 holidays, plus everyday family,...
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Jessica Darcy on Creating Fun, Innovative (plus Made in the USA!) Eyeglasses for Kids, and Giving Back One morning, Jessica Darcy came into her daughter Ella Jane’s room to find that Ella Jane wasn’t...
View ArticleCoping with Mistakes at Work
Smart Advice on Dealing with Difficult Situations at the Office Mistakes happen. No matter what you do to try to avoid them, they are inevitable. But it’s how you handle dealing with an issue, and...
View ArticleInterview Tips & Essentials
10 Tricks to Help You Go Beyond the Fundamentals in Preparing for Your Next Job Interview While there are many articles written about interviewing skills, oftentimes they focus on the fundamentals...
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