Teaching Business Communication and Workplace Issues

Putting it off until "later" is not something uncommon we say to ourselves, especially when Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest are a click away. But when it comes to work, procrastination definitely has some expensive costs.

"The U.S. gross national product would probably rise by $50 billion if the icon and sound that notify people of new email disappeared," Piers Steel, an associate professor at the University of Calgary told the Associated Press. . .

Narcissists are hard to deal with. They're vain, extremely selfish, and typically don't have the mental capacity to think beyond their own needs.

But they can also be great leaders. . .

What makes you, you? Is it how you think of yourself, how others think of you, or something else entirely?

At TEDxYouth@Manchester, Julian Baggini draws from philosophy and neuroscience to give a surprising answer.

The key to figuring out what isn't working in your life is understanding some basic psychological facts about yourself — like why we can't resist paying attention to danger, or that people see what they want to see. . .

Why is it that between 25 and 50 per cent of people report feeling overwhelmed or burned out at work?

It's not just the number of hours we're working, but also the fact that we spend too many continuous hours juggling too many things at the same time. . .

A common goal is to become more organized or productive, and a common complaint is that it is more of a challenge than first anticipated.

We all have our personal challenges; there are things we know we should do but simply don’t. Tasks that we ought to do but simply don’t want to. Habits that we want to implement but struggle to apply. Techniques we know we will benefit from, but somehow there never seems to be the time, the discipline or the commitment to follow through. . .