Category Archives: Personal Development

The 5 best moves you can make to optimize your benefits during 2024 open enrollment

By Emily Guy Birken November 18, 2023 Employment benefits, from insurance to retirement vehicles, are an important part of most compensation packages, above and beyond a paycheck. In fact, 54.3% of Americans receive health insurance through an employer, and 73% of workers have access to retirement benefits at work. But employers make regular changes to … Continue reading The 5 best moves you can make to optimize your benefits during 2024 open enrollment

Skipping your lunch break contributes to workplace burnout and makes you worse at your job

  By Shalene Gupta November 08, 2023 The best moment of the workday, in all honesty, is probably lunch. (Okay, maybe it’s the second best moment, and the first best is clocking out.) Yet, increasingly, the sacred lunch hour seems to be in danger of going extinct. EzCater, a company that provides corporate food solutions, … Continue reading Skipping your lunch break contributes to workplace burnout and makes you worse at your job

Individual Development Planning: From One-on-One to a Team Sport

Julie Winkle Giulioni January 11, 2022 Many leaders – even those deeply committed to the growth of others – find themselves cringing as the annual individual development planning (IDP) season approaches. And they’re not alone. Employees frequently feel a similar sense of dread as they prepare to sit down and plot out their goals, learning, … Continue reading Individual Development Planning: From One-on-One to a Team Sport

17 Personal Improvement Rules That Will Give You a Gargantuan Advantage to Achieve Things You Value

Ramon Nuez September 9, 2020 Michael Jordan writes, “I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” In 1978, 15-year-old Micheal … Continue reading 17 Personal Improvement Rules That Will Give You a Gargantuan Advantage to Achieve Things You Value

Why Self-Development is Important if You Want to Be a True Leader

Maini Homer — February 10, 2020 Every day, I see people who are not doing anything to improve themselves emotionally, mentally or even physically. They spend their days doing jobs they do not love because they have been conditioned to believe that they are not good enough for anything better. Photo by Kiana Bosman on … Continue reading Why Self-Development is Important if You Want to Be a True Leader

3 Productivity Hacks to Maximize the ROI on Your Professional and Personal Goals

Susan Quinn — December 18, 2019 2020 is quickly approaching and with it comes the opportunity to ‘course correct.’ Rethink what habits are keeping you busy but not really productive and build a new system that focuses on quality work. According to research, about 60% of us hope for a better future and accordingly set … Continue reading 3 Productivity Hacks to Maximize the ROI on Your Professional and Personal Goals