HOW TO BUILD AND MAINTAIN GOOD WORK RELATIONSHIPS
What kind of work relationships do you have with your co-workers? You should take a moment to think about it before you proceed. We get to choose some relationships like our friends, acquaintances, and significant other. But one relationship we don’t exactly get to choose is our coworkers. Workplace relationships are a great deal as […]
How to Build Teamwork in Your Workplace
Teamwork makes the dream work. Accept my sincere apologies for going all Monday motivation on you. It is simply the truth. No matter where you work, you’ll almost likely come across situations where you’ll need to collaborate to complete a task, even as the boss. Collaboration is an important part of job success. It is […]
HOW TO HANDLE CONFLICTS OR BAD WORK RELATIONSHIPS
People are not strangers to conflict. Humans encounter it in their daily lives – with their friends, families, and, more importantly, in their professional lives. Nobody is the same, and in work relationships, when our various motivations, processes, and goals collide, conflicts arise. Employees who don’t get along and who don’t know how to build […]
Job Hopping Wasn’t a Hobby, I needed to Survive
This article tells Femi’s* story, moving from job to job within two years. Heads up: he isn’t a tech-bro or working within the startup system, so it’s not a case of many companies jostling for talents out there with their competitive benefits. In fact, in a world where startups are the in-thing, he says, it’s […]
Free Resignation Email Templates to Use in 2023
Ready to leave a job? Make your exit with any of these free resignation email templates below. Change is a constant. We grow, we get wiser, we graduate school, we transition from students to employees and then former employees. You’ve worked and have given your all in a company and now it’s time to move […]
MICROMANAGEMENT AND SUREFIRE TIPS FOR SURVIVAL
Micromanagement is one of the greatest plagues that could hit a work life! Can we talk about the office control freaks for a moment, please? Always watching you wanting to know what you are doing every second, and literally controlling your every move. How annoying! In this article, we discuss 8 surefire tips to survive […]
How to Manage Remote Teams Effectively
If you are not a business owner or an HR personnel looking for tips on how to manage remote teams successfully? I’m really curious as to why you are here. Either way, you are welcome to proceed. It’s no news that the COVID-19 pandemic changed the idea of work and forced many companies to have […]
Office Romance: 8 Nigerians on why it’s a yay or nay
“God forbid!”, Feyisola (A Lawyer) had her answer fiercely ready even before I could land. I had asked her if she would date or marry a co-worker, and just like many others who see it as a recipe for breakfast, she would never venture into such an affair. Like this BBC report admits, office romance […]
HR is full of crap! … or not?
When I think about HR, I remember Richard Williams and his ritualism geng in Living in Bondage. Between you and I, there’s no need for HR in any company. See ehn, all these HR people have special table reservations in hell. Maybe in your career journey so far, your encounter with HR professionals has left […]
Colleagues we will never forget
The workplace is a community of its own, and though what brings us together as colleagues is the work we do, we would always get to know each other beyond our professional personalities. In the process, friendships are made. Some even go ahead to become romantic partners (a whole conversation we had in this blog […]