IIE Blogs

If you are an employee being promoted to a new job, first find out what the requirements are: the responsibilities, workload, and skills. Assess whether you have the resources – both professional and personal – to handle it. If you don't, can you acquire them? How long will it take?

Is the perception of "lack of emotion" indicative of someone not caring? Or not empathizing? Or not understanding the emotional gravity of a situation? And does that perception help or hinder a person vested with leadership responsibilities?

Sally doesn't want to leave her job. What are her choices? How can she change the situation? What is the responsibility of management? Of her teammates?

Stress goes by many different names, anxiety being the most common form. Anxiety encompasses the past, present and future. Stress in the workplace is a common occurrence, whether it occurred last week, today, or you anticipate its happening tomorrow.

For a company to survive in this world of technology, it would be advisable to devise a system which hires and recognizes talent by "rewarding" them in ways that feed their self-esteem as well as their pocketbook.

Even though you may think you’re wasting time with face-to-face encounters, I think that if you follow these few rules, you will find your relationships improving.

People in charge of projects must be keenly aware of their interpersonal relationships if they wish to operate effectively. And since so much of our work today is done via some technological instrument, so many opportunities for discussion are missed.