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Your stance and how you use your hands during conversation can say a lot about you. In fact, some individuals will judge you based on these two things before you even open your mouth. This means that you need to make sure your stance and hand gestures say exactly what you want them to say.

Do you aspire to be a leader at work? One surefire way to get your voice heard and lead your team to victory is to actually make sure that there are, well, people playing on your team.

A study from the Journal of Vocational Behavior found that those with high emotional intelligence at work often use their finely tuned social skills to become more embedded in the social fabric of their workplace and overall more liked. They’re able to get more people on their team, convince those people to then serve their purposes and later rise above them to take the higher salaries and promotions they want.

Yes, your emotional intelligence directly impacts your annual income. Don’t believe me? Check out this study published in the Journal of Organizational Behavior (link in the first comment below). Particularly, it notes that your emotion recognition ability (ERA) is directly related to your annual income.

It’s called the Primacy Effect and it’s the notion that the first impression you have of someone is the one that you carry with you forever.

Nearly 70 percent of professionals make some sort of career-related New Year’s resolution…but we all know how New Year’s resolutions normally go. You start out strong and then lose steam somewhere in mid-January or February.

When you’re asked to complete a self-assessment at the end of the year for your manager or boss, it’s a chance to show them how hard you’ve worked and where you’ve improved. But when you’re conducting a self-assessment for your own personal gain and development, it’s time to take a good hard look at your actual current state.

Christmas parties — they’re either an excuse to see your coworkers getting a little too tipsy in the name of the holiday spirit, or a boring snooze fest. But perhaps this year’s holiday party could be a little different, maybe even a great networking opportunity?

Are you finding that you’re not seeing the results you want from your team? Maybe it’s not them, maybe it’s you. Your leadership style could be damaging morale, leading to poor work, increased absences and bad results from your team overall. Here are five ways you could be messing up.

You have some great talent on your team, but you’re worried you’re not using them to their potential, and that maybe they’ll end up quitting or just stagnating, sitting in their office chair, doing the same thing day after day, never truly benefitting themselves or the company. You know who we’re talking about. You probably had someone in mind as soon as you read the title of this article.