Manner Monday: Business Etiquette Q&A

Every Monday Blogging4Jobs invites our resident Etiquette Expert, CareySue Vega (@Etiquette101), to share tips when it comes to etiquette in the workplace during our own Manner Monday segment. This segment is for the practitioner who is focused on creating a more etiquette-friendly environment.  Business Etiquette Q&A Q – “We are an office of ten people […]

Building a Workplace Cutlure of Advocacy

We talk constantly about how to use individual employees to leverage a brand. I just attended a session at South by Southwest called “Cultures of Advocacy: People, Product and Change” and it was interesting to hear the perspective from big (and even global) brands like GAP, Southwest Airlines and agencies that have worked in similar […]

3 Reasons to Dump Employee Performance Reviews

Can we talk about performance appraisals? This corporate sham is one of the most insidious, most damaging, and yet most ubiquitous of corporate activities.  Everybody does it, and almost everyone who’s evaluated hates it.  It’s a pretentious, bogus practice that produces absolutely nothing that any thinking executive should call a corporate plus. Harsh and provocative, […]

Women in the Wokrplace: Success & Likeability

Success & Likeability of Women in The Workplace From Silicon Valley boardrooms to restaurant kitchens to the armed forces, much attention has been focused lately on how women are viewed and treated in traditionally male-dominated professions. Even though women have made great strides in these areas during the last few decades, stories of women being […]