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Make Your Work Life More Satisfying

Learning for Work

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Learn: It Will Enhance Your Career

Think about the skills and knowledge you need to stay current and to prepare for the future. Then use the following tips to increase your effectiveness as you learn for work.

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Develop Your Job Smarts

You may be good at the specific tasks your work requires. But without job smarts, you may not be working for long. Find out how developing and using job smarts will help you succeed at work.

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Take Charge of Your Learning at Work

Are you a lifelong learner? Are you finding new opportunities to learn? Find out with this online quiz. Then take charge of your own learning at work.

How To Be Successful at Work

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Get and Keep the Work You Want

A positive attitude will help you find a good job. And it will help you hold on to your work in a competitive market.

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New Job? Here’s How to Make a Good First Impression

A bit of awareness and planning can help you relax and feel more confident, friendly, and focused, right from your very first day.

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Your First 2 Weeks at Work

Your first 2 weeks at work are important to your success. You’ll have so much to learn. Use the ideas in this article to get off to a strong start.

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Tips for First-Time Managers

Moving into management can be a great career opportunity. It can also be a major test of your ability to adapt to a new way of working. Follow these tips to get off to a good start.

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Position Yourself as a Valued Employee

Do you want to be recognized as a valuable employee? To be considered for promotions? To improve your earning potential? Get more out of your job by putting more into it. Here’s how to stand out at work for all the right reasons.

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Manage Your Manager

You’ve probably thought about how your manager manages you. But have you ever thought about how you manage your manager?

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Find and Work with a Mentor

A mentor is a trusted advisor who guides and encourages you in your career. Having a mentor can help you succeed at your workplace and in your career.

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Make Your Job More Rewarding

Bored at work? Thinking about quitting or looking for a new job? What if you could make your current job more rewarding? Check out these strategies.

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High 5 Your Way to Success

Just starting out on your career journey? Or making a change midway? Try these High 5 ideas to help manage the changes in your life and work.

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Time-Saving Tools for Busy Lives

When you start to feel overwhelmed, it's time to pick up some organizational tools and create the time and space you need to focus on the things that are important to you.

Career Progression

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Navigate These 5 Stages to Make the Most of Your Career

Your career journey will be long and varied. A good roadmap can show you where you are now and what you need to do to reach the future you want.

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Manager or Expert: Choosing Your Path

If you’ve done well at your job, meeting targets and wowing senior leaders with your expertise, you may be offered a role in management. But is management the right path for you?

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Find Out if a Promotion Is the Right Move for You

You’ve just been offered a promotion—congratulations! But is that promotion the right move for you? To help you decide, consider your answers to these 7 questions.

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Make Positive Career Moves with Career Laddering

How’s your career going these days? Time to make your job more rewarding? Or to move on? Learn how to improve and renew your career with career laddering.

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How to Impress Senior Leadership

That first meeting with upper management can take place any time—in an interview, during a presentation, in the hallway, or during drinks after work. Our best advice? Be prepared.

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How to Ask for Bonuses, Salary Raises, and Promotions

Learning how and when to ask for greater rewards at work is an important skill that can help you advance your career.

Personal Development

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Gain Control in Key Areas of Your Life

Change is part of life. No one is in control of everything all the time. When life hits you with the unexpected, you can reset your expectations and regain control.

How Does Your Attitude Measure Up?

To find out how positive your attitude is, try this quick quiz.

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Watch Out for Those Big Assumptions

What assumptions are you making? Sometimes the assumptions you make can get in your way. Check out these examples for ideas to challenge your assumptions.

5 Workplace Traps to Avoid

Learn about 5 of the most common workplace traps and follow these suggestions to avoid them.

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Learn to Communicate Authentically

Good communication skills can help you reach your education, work search, and career goals. But how do you communicate authentically? Find out.

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Build Positive Relationships

Are you doing your part in creating positive relationships in your life? Learn how to deal well with others and make a positive difference in your life and attitude.

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Bridge the Generation Gaps at Work

Sometimes, when co–workers have trouble getting along, the gaps or differences between their generations may be contributing to the problem.

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Move Forward With Positive Thoughts

If you change a picture frame, the picture itself can look very different. Try these suggestions to reframe self-defeating thoughts into positive ones.

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Create a Balanced Lifestyle

Would you like more time to do what you want to do? More balance between your work life and your home life? Try these strategies to balance your lifestyle.

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Improve Your Body Language Skills

Our actions can speak louder than our words. This Easy Reading article explains why it's important to know the message you're sending with your body language.

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