“Trust is the glue of life. It is the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.” – Stephen R. Covey – Welcome to the third in a series of blogs exploring relationships. In the first we looked at building strong and supportive relationships and their importance in the world of interviewing and life,
“A relationship without trust is like a car without fuel, it can’t move ahead.” – Invajy – We are exploring relationships here. This is the second in a series of three blogs on improving relationships. In the last one we looked at building strong and supportive relationships and their importance in the world of interviewing and life. Here we are looking
“You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.” – Joyce Meyer – In interview training we talk frequently about building rapport and establishing commonality as tools to build relationships with those we are interviewing. Much like in that arena, building strong and supportive relationships in interviews and life involves a blend of effective communication, empathy, and understanding. Do you
Everywhere you look nowadays there is advice on how to strive, beat the competition, be happy, successful, wealthy, thin, married to your soul-mate, have perfect kids, balance work, and life, win the marathon and then come home and make the perfect dinner. In other words, how to be perfect or at least our early twenty-first-century concept of perfect. There are
“Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.”― Roy T. Bennett How important is gratitude and affirmations in interviewing? Have you even considered these subjects when you think of interviewing, your work, or your life? This first
“Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they are yours.” – Richard Bach – There is nothing more crippling than losing your confidence. Without confidence, everything gets harder. You struggle to concentrate. Tasks feel overwhelming. If you stay there, you’ll even find a more long-term emotional impact, where you become bogged down in indecision or even worse might fall into depression.