Career Skills
Career skills help you do a great job, communicate well, and get promoted, but these same skills will also help you thrive in your life outside of work.
That's why we created this collection of expert guides and coaching programs to help you learn how to identify and improve on the different types of career skills. Let's start hacking your work and life!
How to influence people (without being manipulative)
Did you know you can influence people to do whatever you want?
Michael Metcalf
How to create a 5 year plan that fires you up (with examples)
Do you know what you’re doing in five years? Or, do you know what you want to be doing in five years?
Kat Boogaard
What is divergent thinking? Definition, examples and its link to creativity
Divergent thinking lies at the heart of creativity. It's a way of figuring out answers, solutions and ideas in a free-flowing, spontaneous way.
Michael Metcalf
Life planning: Your ultimate guide to transformation in 2024
Our lives unfold in mysterious ways. Sometimes, perceived setbacks turn into serendipitous moments, and rejection redirects you to a path that's better than you could have imagined.
Emma Norris
Goal-setting strategies for success: The surprising science
Growing up as the only child to a single mom in Queens New York, Daymond John didn't feel like he had a lot of options.
Amy Rigby
How to address your career aspirations in a job interview
Picture this: You’re interviewing with a hiring manager for an open position. So far, you’ve nailed every single question and are feeling confident that the interview is going well.
Kat Boogaard
8 intelligent tips for building rapport with anyone you meet
Whether you’re a new employee trying to make a good impression, a teacher welcoming new students for the school year or a salesperson trying to close a deal, building rapport is what makes everyday interactions like these productive and successful.
Amy Rigby
Ace the interview question: how do you work under pressure?
Pressure drives us to achieve great things for causes we care about. It brings out the best in our abilities and can push us to the next level of our potential.
Michael Metcalf
How to build good work relationships and why they matter
Building good work relationships is one of the best ways to become more productive, enhance your collaboration skills, and create more opportunities for yourself.
Michael Metcalf
A definitive guide to fostering interpersonal relationships at work
It can be tricky to navigate interpersonal relationships at work, without question -- just as it can be tricky to navigate any interpersonal relationship.
Ted Bauer
25 companies with the best benefits in the world
What if you could find an employer that would help you pay off your student loans?
Amy Rigby
How to be successful: start winning at life with these tips
How do you define success, and what does it mean to be successful?
Michael Metcalf
6 ways to improve your collaboration skills
"Collaboration skills" is a workplace and resume buzzword that isn’t going away anytime soon. This is mostly because collaboration is deeply integrated into the job roles and workflows of most organizations. Whether you love collaborating or hate it, it’s part of how work gets done. Nobody works in a vacuum.
Kat Boogaard
Creative problem solving: 6 steps to improve yours
Creative problem solving, sometimes called CPS, is a proven method for approaching a problem or a challenge in an imaginative and innovative way. It helps you redefine the problems and opportunities you face, come up with new, innovative responses and solutions, and then take action. The creative problem solving approach comes from the work of Alex Osborn in the 1940s, which was then subsequently nurtured at Buffalo State University. It's one of the most tangible problem solving approaches out there today; you can view it almost as a mix of creative thinking and critical thinking.
Ted Bauer