The Best Icebreakers for Work
Which are your favorite icebreakers for work? What are your least favorite icebreakers that you’ve had to ponder in a meeting?
The Best New Skills to Learn for Your Career
What do you think are the best new skills to learn for your career, readers? Where do you think there are deficits in your general field (e.g., more lawyers should know X)? If you want to personally learn a new career-related skill, what is it and how are you going about it?
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Becoming a Better Manager: Books and Online Resources
Update: We still stand by this advice on how to become a better manager (and links have been updated below), but you may also want to check out our latest discussion on online women’s management training. How do you become a boss and a more effective leader — whether you’re new to management or you’ve supervised people for a while and want to…
How to Become a Leader: Leadership Resources for Female Executives
Ladies, what are your best tips on how to become a leader? Reader S has a great question about how to grow her leadership skills as a young female executive… I’m not sure if this has been discussed before, but I’m looking for recommendations–either from you or your readers–on some good leadership skills workshops/trainings/webinars. I’ve…
