When we think about aspects of health and wellness, the first things to come to mind are typically exercising and eating right. Our minds almost immediately go to states of physical health and wellness. While physical health is absolutely essential, mental health and wellness are also important aspects of being a healthy individual. Just as our physical wellness plays a large role in aspects of our everyday lives (our job, our family, our happiness), so too does mental wellness.
Maintaining a healthy and happy mental state is essential to fulfilling your full potential in every area of life. When it comes to your career and daily professional life, a positive state of mind can be your biggest asset. The right...
Rejections at interviews are not uncommon. But your success at every subsequent interviews depend upon how you handle your failure in the previous one.
How easy is it to overcome an interview rejection?
It took me 12 interviews to get my first job. With every failed interview, I kept loosing my confidence. Every subsequent interview seemed as if it was even more difficult than the previous one. It was later that I realized that it was not that the interview was difficult. Instead I was loosing confidence.
It was an uphill task for me to regain my confidence and keep appearing for interviews until I could get through.
Before we even discuss how to overcome interview rejections, a question to...
Are your spending more than 12 hours in your office and still unable to complete your work?
Is your team feeling demotivated and unimportant?
If you are wondering, why I asked these two different questions that has no relation with each other, then think again!! These two questions are related to each other.
I have still not forgotten that day, when my boss walked into my room once late in the evening just as he was passing by the office and found me still in the office. He looked at me and asked me, “What are you doing in office so late”? I had a sarcastic look in my eyes and replied, “Boss, I am trying to complete my work”....
Is aggression good for your career?
Many a times I have seen people in the top management being a bit too much aggressive. I have also come across quite a few employees in the lower management levels also who have exhibited excessive aggression. How good is aggression and what level of management does it benefit?
It is good to be aggressive, especially if you are into sales and marketing. It is said that the most aggressive of salesman are the ones who are the most successful. Aggression helps a salesman in pitching for his product with full confidence. In a way he overwhelms the customer’s thought process and induces him to think the way he wants him to think, thus...
What is the cost of a smile? We often do not realize what a smile could do to somebody’s day. Though it doesn’t cost you a thing to smile, we are reluctant to this one gesture.
That day was frustrating for me. I was already late to office and I had a very bad road rage verbal altercation with another driver and was cursing everyone I found on my way as I drove into the basement parking in my office. I knew the day would be a terrible one for me. As I reached near the door of the lift lobby, I saw the security-guard sitting there. With a gloomy face I leaned forward to open the door and suddenly,...
