Self Improvement

Imagine that you and several others have been shipwrecked on an island. Only one person in your group can speak the same language as the locals. Like the island spokesperson, a mentor is a compassionate person who influences your fate.

Using your cell phone on campus is often the best way of keeping in touch with your friends and classmates.

Trust is an essential element in any collaborative or mutually beneficial relationship. When you trust your peers and they trust you, it becomes easier to share information and work together.

Having beneficial professional relationships with your peers requires more than simply doing your jobs side by side in the same office.

For most people, an important part of work life is interacting with others. Breaks and socializing with colleagues are important too.

When you're proactive about organizational change, you regain a sense of control and can get the passion back into your work life.

It's often easy to identify the downside in change. But the problem with this type of attitude is that it doesn't help you face the future. Change won't go away, so you need to adopt a positive perspective to better come to terms with it.

Office romances have become a fact of office life in the contemporary business world.

If you want to influence your colleagues to do something, you need to do something for them or give them something they value. In short, exchange is the foundation of influence.

Common trade objects in business relate to people's ability to do their jobs. Several common types of trade objects include: