Does your heart race at the thought of public speaking? You’re in good company. In fact, when polling company Gallup investigated our biggest fears, they found that speaking in front of others ranked second – more terrifying than heights or spiders and only slightly less scary than snakes. While feeling nervous is completely natural, letting [Read more…]
Great managers are like gold dust. A study by the research and consultancy company Gallup found that only about one in ten workers have the right qualities – and 82% of the time, companies promote the wrong person. But Gallup also found that another one in five people have managerial talents and could become high [Read more…]
Returning to education can be daunting, as you wonder whether you’ll be able to juggle your time and finances, and whether you’ll be able to fit in or keep up with a bunch of teenagers and twentysomethings on your course. The good news is that educational experts and mature students who’ve been down this road [Read more…]
We’ve all been there—staring at a screen full of faces, wondering why this hour-long meeting exists. Maybe someone’s explaining something that could have been a quick message. Perhaps key decision-makers are missing. Or half the participants are multitasking, cameras off. As teams spread across locations and time zones, running effective meetings has become more challenging [Read more…]
The way we work has fundamentally shifted. Many of us juggle video calls with in-person meetings, collaborate across time zones, and navigate team relationships through screens and chat messages. It’s a mix that can turn minor misunderstandings into bigger problems – a terse Slack message can be misread, or a colleague’s camera-off moment can be [Read more…]