It’s easier to shy away from conflict. Because there’s a fear of rejection from our peers and managers. However, conflict isn’t necessarily a bad thing and can lead to better work.
Good news! You’re already well on your way to improvement if you’re looking at this blog. The first, and sometimes biggest, hurdle to improving performance at work is seeking it out.
We're going to break your perception of employee feedback and help you rebuild your relationship. You'll like this version of feedback much more, we promise. 🙌
Learn how leaders from YouTube, General Motors, and Walt Disney leveraged interpersonal skills like empathy, communication, and influence to drive business value.
Lately, there’s been a big shift in workplace mentality: An increasing demand for women leadership. In fact, fifty percent of Americans now say they’d prefer working in a women led team.
Interpersonal skills, similar to soft skills, allow you to connect with others, work together, and are key to helping you to advance in your career and your life.
To understand inclusion, we need to understand and get to the root of unconscious biases and issues that professionals face. So, how do we do that? Well, it starts with you and shifting your fixed mindset to a growth mindset.
As a first-time, young professional with a new job, I thought my biggest obstacle was adjusting to work life. However, in recent light of the virus outbreak, I’ve had to navigate conversations about my safety and adapt to work-from-home life (WFH) all while adjusting to a new city.
"I was tired of being a founder and desperately needed a break," said Leah Culver in 2013. Fast forward today, Culver recently sold her third startup, a podcast app called Breaker, to Twitter. However, it wasn’t always a piece of cake.
Developing a growth mindset is not only a skill to have in the workplace but all parts of life. Reflecting on your experiences, discovering the positives, and physically meditating on them can alter our attitudes and create some epic experiences.
It’s important to expand your bandwidth, get equipped, and support your team during these sensitive times. Here are the top five professional and soft skills to keep under your belt amid COVID-19.
We touched on how the power of Zoom, Google Hangouts, and Slack video seamlessly connects individuals from great distances to remote life, but all work and no play isn’t fun.
In an office setting, you know overcommitting is a recipe for disaster. Apply that same mindset while working from home. We understand that saying “uh-uh” doesn’t come naturally, but communicating a healthy no will avoid burning out.
Now is the time to work those verbal communications muscles (even if you can't go to the gym). We're answering some of your frequently asked questions on video chatting etiquette. Wear pants, put that sandwich down, and let’s get into it.
You asked and we've delivered. Now, you'll be able to track your progress, check out analytics, and view feedback on a specific skill all in one place. Understanding how you're doing on a skill just got a whole lot easier.
We interrupt your regularly scheduled work-from-home program to bring you some unnervingly, to-close-to-home tweets about WFH. Depending on what day you're on in terms of quarantine (we're on day 5), here are some of Matter's favorite #WorkFromHome tweets:
Professionals are now relying heavily on technology to handle multiple tasks, improve workflow, and just have some kind of interaction. We've compiled our go-to apps to helps us truck through this outbreak.
As a first-time, young professional with a new job, I thought my biggest obstacle was adjusting to work life. However, in recent light of the virus outbreak, I’ve had to navigate conversations about my safety and adapt to work-from-home life (WFH) all while adjusting to a new city.
There is no one size fits all guide on how to handle a crisis like the coronavirus. Every team is made up with different individual needs and the best policy will be one that adapts and evolves with the situation, in this case, the outbreak.
Lately, there’s been a big shift in workplace mentality: An increasing demand for women leadership. In fact, fifty percent of Americans now say they’d prefer working in a women led team.
It's ritualistic that when we do something wrong, we follow up with “sorry.” But, profusely apologizing is a sign of an empty promise. So, why do we apologize when there's nothing to apologize for?
When Indra Nooyi stepped down as PepsiCo’s CEO after 12 years, she would not only be regarded as the first female CEO, but a leader whose unique methods changed the trajectory of the multinational corporation.
