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Some of the top complaints about coaching or excuses not to coach that I hear include… – It takes too long! – It’s just easier to do it myself! – Things’ll happen faster and easier if I just tell our team what to do.

Have you been considering taking on a role as a mentor? Mentoring can be a very rewarding experience, but not just for your mentee. Here’s why mentoring may be a great next step for your career.

If you’re thinking your team needs a little coaching and you’re the right individual to do it, pause a moment. Are you truly qualified to be a good coach? What actually makes a good coach? Is it simply the ability to show others how to do what you’re good at, or tell them how you were able to achieve success?

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.