If you work in health care or health coaching, it’s very tempting to use guidelines to establish goals for patients. But it’s not an effective […]
Social Media Illusions: Impression Management and Comparison Standards
Zilla van den Born, a Dutch student, recently spent six weeks posting updates and photos from her gap year tour in Asia on Facebook for […]
Think Before Choosing Heroes: Comparison Standards, Contentment, and Performance
Whether you think of yourself as a pack animal or a lone wolf, chances are you are constantly looking to the people around you as […]
The New Self-Promotion: Personal Branding as a Career Strategy
Any very large company has teams who are not aware of what other teams are doing. It’s simply impossible for any one individual to keep […]
Assume the Best to Communicate Better
Recently I completed a training called Crucial Conversations, about how to tackle difficult discussions effectively. One key message of the training was that often our […]
Unemployed? Feeling Lonely? Some Reasons Why
The always-fascinating FiveThirtyEight Economics blog published a report on the ways unemployed people spend their time in comparison to folks with jobs, drawing on data […]
Listen for Opportunity’s Knocks
One blog I follow is the Evil HR Lady, written by Suzanne Lucas. Lucas recently posted a column with some simple strategies for being more […]
Innovation by Argumentation
I’m hard-pressed to think of any professional work where innovation doesn’t matter. If you develop products, offer services, or any combination thereof, it’s important to […]