If you want to get ahead in your career, just start doing the job that you want to have. Go rogue, in other words. That’s the advice of Tom Henschel, a coach who has groomed leaders from some of the world’s best-known companies. “Just start doing the job when you want that next promotion,” he […]

Most of what we know about hiring great people is wrong. But don’t despair. If you discover what really does make the difference between your best employees and the rest, you may be able to fish from a pool of undiscovered talent, more productive than before, cheaper, and easier to hire and keep. This is […]

If your boss calls you into a meeting and says you need to improve your performance, are you being bullied or are you being coached? Increasingly, employees are deciding that their manager is simply a bully and a growing number are laying very serious complaints. A case in point is a boss, working in the […]

Did you hear the one about the guy who couldn’t get a job because he was unemployed? Except that it isn’t a joke for people who find themselves knocked back because an employer believes there is a whiff of failure about someone who isn’t already in work. This belief, that it is better to hire […]

If you want to get ahead at work, make sure you are seen. It is not important whether you are working or doing the crossword, just make sure you get some of that “face time”. It is an unfortunate fact that we are judged as more dedicated and hard-working if we are under the direct […]

Why don’t men laugh when women use humour in the boardroom? Some have said that women aren’t funny but the truth appears to be that men just don’t get the joke. “If you go into any workplace, the greatest source of laughter will be where the women are,” says Margaret Byrne, who studies behaviour in […]