An organized workspace means you will be more productive and increased productivity means that you will thoroughly enjoy what you are doing also spend more time pursuing it. This will fetch you a hell amount of money and you will feel happy and satiated at the end of the day. You will take less time to locating lost papers and missing files. And this is how you jubilant you are going to be in office, then voila! Stress and anger will stay miles away from you.

If you are organized and your desk doesn’t look like a disaster, them I guess you will be amazed at how much you can accomplish in a single day. Successful in a job means being organized in time as well as physically disciplined. Always keep your workspace clear for the task at hand and throw out everything unnecessary. This will help you to complete the job in time, meeting tight deadlines and thus keeping your boss in all praises and your mind and body both stress free too. Also try not keeping piles of useless paper copies when they already exist...

Emotional intelligence is an important feature for you career graph and helps to create abilities that will improve your worth and foothold in the company. Emotional intelligence is quite different from intelligent quotient (IQ). The emotional intelligence skills (EI) are generally not measured by expertise tests or standard intelligence. Workers with better EI skills have better advantage when compared to highly intelligent people who are moody and have temper tantrums.

Possessing EI skills can sometimes be everything for reaching success and the top of any career ladder. However EI also does not mean being ‘nice’ or giving free reign to your feelings. EI helps to build leadership skills and competencies. It helps to build cohesive teams at all levels in the organization. EI helps an individual leader to comprehend his purpose and how it aligns with the company’s vision. The emotionally intelligent or competent persons are those who have the potential to identify their own and someone else’s emotions and...

Our present day salesmen are becoming more and more impatient and anxious to climb the success ladder, show quick and instant results and earn a lot of perks and incentives in the process. For any salesman to succeed, he needs to have complete support and help from the organization. In addition to that, passion for the job, hard work and perseverance are the key fundamentals for a sky high sales figures and outstanding performance. However if either of this is lacking from the company’s side or from the salesman, then it leads to poor sales target and shoddy performance. Consequently, the sales man will be held responsible for the outcome even if ti may not be his fault and this causes anger, frustration and a feeling of defeat among salesmen.

A good salesman is also a good drill master. He knows how to get his sales figure to required target. However, very often the accounts department demands an increase in the sales without agreeing to increase expenses thus curtailing potential investments. This creates...

Nurses are most of the time stressed out, frustrated and angry. And this can be attributed to the international shortage of trained and capable nurses. Consequently, nurses are overworked, treated unjustly, feel burned out and are not given their due worth. This in turn results in feelings of anger, resentment and hurt. Anger and indignation on part of the nurses is understandable. However this anger is not justifiable if it is too intense, destructive and prolonged. It can cause harm to others and destroys personal and work relationships.

In order to curb these intense feelings of anger and wrath, it is the need of the day for nurses to learn how to manage and effectively cope with this seething anger. A few anger and stress management techniques must be incorporated as part of their daily lives. Nurses are responsible along with other health care professionals for the safety, treatment and recovery of chronically ill or injured people. When nurses are angry and hurt, it ultimately leads to fatigue and...

It is good to love your job and probably even be a workaholic. However if you trample certain limits, then it’s surely dangerous and hazardous to your health and physical well being. Working overtime or for longer schedules is by far the single biggest cause of stress and stress related ailments are a silent killer. They have an indirect impact on the person’s physical and mental health. Longer working hours means lower productivity as it tends to cause concentration lapses. It is wiser for the business to work smarter than longer.

Long work hours can also put off sexual intimacy between partners as one of them is always working which leads to frustration and depression. Meeting friends, socializing, community service, personal health and fitness and hobbies are all put on the back burner because of excessive working hours. It simply makes your life a mess. You feel pressurized and stressed all the time due to lack of sleep, concentration lapses and unwanted family squabbles. Losing on sleep during weekends...

Whether you like it or not, at some point of time you will be forced to face a workplace conflict. Conflicts at your workplace occur usually when an individual or a group of them have had differences in respect to what they are aiming to attain keeping in mind their personal benefit. There are a few common types of conflicts that are bound to happen from time to time. There are interdependence conflicts wherein one person’s job is affected or depends upon someone else’s cooperation and input or output. For instance, if a sales person delays the entry of his sales record, then the accountant in charge will be late with his reports. This results in a conflicts between the both and can be resolved if both the concerned people set a fixed date and are required to stand by it.

Cooperation and team work minimize differences, optimize the use of resources and enhance working relationships. Conflicts may also arise when employees have a different style of performance for completing a job. To site an example, Paul...

Conflicts at work are inevitable. Conflicts at work usually occur when an individual or a group of colleagues fail to attain what they want while seeking for their own self interest. Although inevitable, conflicts at work can be minimized or resolved. Poor communication, weak leadership or lack of team spirit triggers conflicts and difference in opinions among employees or coworkers. Conflicts at work can be destructive when it leads to harmful or abusive behavior like fighting or name calling and steer away attention from more important and crucial matters, polarizes employees into warring groups, thus reducing team spirit and sharpening rifts and differences. Workplace decorum and sanctity are quite essential for the daily functioning of the company and its employees. There has to be a certain standard of workspace etiquette that needs to be maintained and each employee must learn how to deal or avoid conflict at their workspace.

The most simple and result proving technique is to keep your mouth zipped...

“I opened my inbox and there it was again, a whole lot of forwards from my colleague. I enjoyed each one of them in the beginning but there seemed to be no end to this junk mail. My inbox would be full up to the brim and my mornings would start clearing it and sending them in the trash can.” Haven’t you heard this before?

Well! This is not a very rare situation but if you find the forwarded emails irritating and irksome you can always keep deleting them. It’s definitely not a solution to the problem and if you feel the need to erase the issue at its root, then try and speak to the sender of theses forwards. Maybe you can tell him that you are already stressed with an overload of work and you really don’t find the time to read all the forwards. If he is smart enough he will be able read the hidden message. However if the forwards still linger in your inbox in spite of polite and repeated requests, then I guess you need to give him a piece of your mind. There is no need to get into a brawl or fist fight but...

Most employees are struggling to say ‘no’ to work for longer hours. Working longer means you have to sacrifice your time with your family and friends and also your freedom and independence. It is usually not an easy decision more so when the deal is lucrative but it’s you who have to prioritize and decide what comes first for you family or work. If you are ready to say ‘no’ to a request for working overtime, be polite and gentle while you are refusing and justify it with a rock solid reason. Don’t criticize anyone for offering you this proposition and let the other person save face.

Explain your reasons for denial in full length and tell them that you have come to this conclusion only after much deliberation and you regret every bit of it. Tell them how important and dear your independence is to you or justify it with a family issue like someone’s ill health or your need to complete your education along with work. Such issues do melt a heart and you can get through smoothly. There are a lot of people in...

Displaying anger at your workplace either at your supervisor or subordinate can be a reaction to unfairness, work overload or incompetence. It also could be triggered due to a major incident as in a demotion, a lay off or someone else’s promotion. But in today’s workplace scenario, exhibiting anger, wrath and rage is just not acceptable. One has to learn to tame the fierce tiger. In fact more and more companies are realizing how an angry employee can negatively affect the workplace.

Initially being tagged as a screamer used to be sign of ‘macho’ an indication that you are expecting better performance and results from your colleagues. Sadly it worked then as people never bothered bringing up a controversial work issue with a colleague who has a reputation of screaming and exploding. However, that has radically changed. In fact one of the key requirements for successful employees is the ability to focus and remain calm and composed even in the most tumultuous situation. If you are at logger heads with your...