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Personality
My dictionary tells me that personality is the "personal or individual quality that makes one person be different and act differently from another." Personality is "the total physical, intellectual and emotional structure of an individual, including abilities, interests and attitudes." Personality is the sum total of all of our qualities. With this in mind, let's explore the benefits and ramifications of a pleasing personality.

How to get referrals
There's been thousands of pages written about this topic, but still, no luck. It's too hard.
Drive-By Flattery
If someone you know has done amazing work, don't just thank or compliment the person. Tell his or her boss. I call this drive-by flattery and do it all the time.

The Second Deadly Workplace Sin: Envy
Recently, I read an article from Careerbuilder.com about the Seven Deadly Workplace Sins. Two days ago, I gave you my take on Pride. This morning, it’s all about Envy.
Supervisor Training
The time has come within your organization to elect a new leader for a project, or to supervise a new expansion. What recognizable marks are there to help identify a potential supervisor amongst the organization? How do you train this new leader to effectively guide in such a way that proves successful? In this issue of Astronology we list some helpful tips in identifying and properly training potential and expectant supervisors.
Social Networking and Work
There are some dangers to social networking among colleagues. It's a good idea to have a clear policy in place regarding use of these sites between staff members.
When it comes to your network marketing opportunity are you all fluff or all substance?
If you use fluff to promote your network marketing / home based business, the results over time will leave you without an organization. Base your business presentation on substance which will sponsor fewer reps or distributors but build a solid, stable business for you.

Five Ways to Show Honest Appreciation
Appreciation, whether verbal or as physical shiny gold stars, is perhaps the greatest gift we can give to those around us. In the timeless How to Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie lists "Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation," as one of his fundamental principles. When was the last time you offered sincere appreciation or a gold star?
Are You Hearing What I’m Saying? – 10 Tips That Will Help You Improve Your Listening
Ernest Hemingway once said "When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen." How true that is. How many times has someone asked you how you were, but doesn't take the time to listen to your response? They may cut you off, start talking about themselves, or walk away. If you're like most people, this behavior probably leaves a sour taste in your mouth. People want to be heard and listened to; they want to feel like someone cares. If you find that your listening skills are poor or need tweaking, this article provides tips on how to be a better listener.

Professional Home Stagers Don’t Work For Free
The Staging Diva® shares her opinion about home stagers offering their services for free.

What's the best way to make your verbal statements more compelling?
It's time to make (and stick to) another one of those "I know it makes sense and it's good for me and I really need to make time for it" resolutions.
Effective Communication, Presentation Skills Are Stifled By PowerPoint
Every time I sit through a PowerPoint presentation, my distaste for this domineering technology grows. The speaker interrupts eye contact repeatedly, most of us more than one table back from the screen can't make out much of the lettering, and the give-and-take that should enliven any such presentation takes another nosedive -- offering nothing but the illusion of coherence. It's technology as a crutch, standing in poorly for the good old-fashioned display of public speaking skills that we have within us. It's business communication gone awry. We can all interact with an audience directly and demonstrate our presentation skills in well-prepared fashion. Well-prepared means a presentation that you've laid out in logical form, as if writing an email to an intelligent friend or associate. Rehearse it in front of a mirror. Be yourself.
Lower Stress By Increasing Attitude
Stress is something that effects us all in different ways. It's how you handle stress that has an effect on your well being. Here are some thoughts and action steps you can take immediately to change your attitudes and change your stress level.
What provokes you to give back?
This article delves into a study conducted 37 years ago on what actually motivated people to provide assitance to another. Although almost four decades old, the tale is fascinating. This is quick, simple, powerful, and provides a small group discussion for small staff meetings.
Honoring your promises are highly profitable
This article provides a demonstration of the impact of honoring one's spoken commitment. It is designed for a facilitator to use in a staff meeting.
Sometimes its one slice at a time …
Rather than going at a large task head on, breaking it down into pieces can relieve stress and provide a clearer timeline to where you want to go. Check out the powerful steps you can take to reach those larger goals.
Resolving a Bad Relationship at Work
The average full-time worker with two weeks of annual vacation spends up to 250 days or 2,000 hours each year on the job. Unfortunately, many employees spend this time interacting with co-workers they don't get along with, making their work situation almost intolerable.
Who Cares?
People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care. This applies to employees, children, students, a volunteer committee – whoever sees you as a leader. Caring meets one of six fundamental human needs, that when fulfilled, are teams can achieve Passionate Performance.

Why You Should Include Open Source Work in Your Portfolio
Very recently, one of our product architects posted a job opening on our site to find an additional engineer to add to our growing team (in a remote provider capacity). He received inquiries from a number of interested freelance provider candidates and then proceeded to interview to find the top provider for the team. Once he had narrowed the list down to just a few freelance provider candidates, he researched their work history in more detail, finally selecting a particular candidate in India largely based on an example of his work. What it ultimately came down for my co-worker in his freelance selection process was reviewing prior work on open-source projects. Why should you care about open-source work?
The Office Romance Dilemma
Office romance is becoming a more prevalent issue for the world of HR every day. In time for the Valentine’s Day holiday, Astronology takes a peek into this seemingly taboo subject.
DELEGATION FOR BEGINNERS
As business owners and managers it is so difficult to give up or give over control to someone else. The very thing that makes you successful, your ability to grow, build and manage your business can quickly become overwhelming when your hard work pays off. The control freak in you doesn’t want to let go, but a few strategies may help you to feel more comfortable.

Your Sanity Savers - Have Time for the Good Life - Part One
Interruptions can be a huge time waster! Today there are more ways than ever to get interrupted, someone at your door, phone, cell phone, pager, instant messaging, email and more. Gain control of your environment by practicing some of these tips. The following tips will help you gain control of your time and your sanity!
The Right Job - Part Five 'Compensation'
“The Right Job” is Part Five ‘Compensation’ in an integrated approach to human resources management. Returns are greatest when the organization is aligned and motivated.
Hitting a PR Homerun
When it comes to media relations, you are the messenger and the messenger must sell the message.

How Dealing with Difficult People affects you?
The difficult person is someone we simply have to deal with. In those situations, we have three options. These options are: 1) Try to change ourselves, 2) Try to change the other person, and 3) Resolve to tolerate the situation – basically decide to put up with them.

Business Working with Paranoid People by Valerie Orsoni
If I say: * Work place paranoia * Control freakiness * Aggressiveness * Lack of trust * Refusal to change * Distorted perspective * Intellectual rigidity ...does it ring a bell? These are but a few symptoms of what I call “workplace paranoia”. As we grow in our working environment we are “doomed” to one day be confronted by such paranoid people. Whether it is your boss, your partner, your employee or your assistant, their problematic behavior will inevitably impact yours.
3 Places To Manage Your Clutter and Free Up Your Energy!
Whether you realize it, clutter is a huge energy drainer. While most people think of clutter as being physical stuff, there are many more ways we become exhausted and drained.
The Two-Minute Drill
A co-worker who has been a critic of your work in the past is promoted to become your supervisor. What's your best career strategy? In this situation, you not only want to survive, you want to thrive. And, believe it or not, you can do well in these circumstances. Here is a three point plan for success.
Weakness is Expensive
Weakness is Expensive...Employees who lack personal power cost you money.
Getting Lucky, with Your Boss or with a Lady of the Evening: Speaking of Communication
Horatio Alger is dead. No one is going to take it upon themselves to discover your wonderfulness or the wonderfulness of your ideas. It's been said that if you're doing a good job and nobody needs to pay attention to you, nobody will. Consider it said again.
Of These 14 Work Behavior Sins, How Many do YOU Violate?
Are you a good co-worker, or are you annoying the life out of those around you? Explore the fourteen annoying traits outlined in this article to determine if your co-workers have had it with your recent behavior and what to do about it if the answer is “yes.”
Sam Walton: A Charismatic Leader
Sam Walton of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has been quoted as having said it takes just seven days for new employees to start treating customers the way they are treated at work. All the customer service skills and training in the world can be undone in only one week if an employee is treated poorly by his or her co-workers or boss.
The Secret To Great Relationships
Is there a relationship in your life that you would like to improve? What would it be like to go from good to a great relationship? Start making changes today.......
Personal Boundaries: The Key to Creating Work and Life Your Way
When you think of the word boundary, what images does it conjure up; A fence around a pasture, a concrete barrier between two lanes of highway, how about the Berlin Wall? These are all physical boundaries. What about boundaries in your work and life?

Maintaining a Healthy Job Share Partner Relationship
Being in a job share partnership is like any other relationship. It can really be compared to a marriage. As a matter of fact, you may end up spending more time working collaboratively with a job share partner than you do with your own spouse. So, it is very important to make sure that you work at the relationship just like a marriage. Here are some tips to keep it in check.

Other co worker Related Articles

Deaf Ears Still Need Communication
Amanda had a hearing disabled worker to place for employment. She called a potential employer, and was rebuffed. Jack said, "We've already got a deaf worker and he's just not working out."

Change Results In Stress
The stress faced by workers is substantial. For many workers, it is intrinsic to the job itself, where competing demands and pressures cannot be escaped. The sheer volume of work can also be overwhelming at times, whether one is a social worker, teacher, doctor, sales person, factory worker, supervisor or manager. Anyone in this kind of job knows, either from their own direct experience or from observing colleagues, that stress can have very serious consequences.
Diapers to Dentures: Who Is Managing Who?
Making the younger boss/older worker relationship work.

Networking is Not Selling
If you want to use networking the way it's meant to be here are a few tips that can help even the best net worker be better.
Are you an Employee or a Self Employed Individual ?
How to determine if you are or should be an employee or a contracted self employed worker.
Shift Work and Stress – Are You Tired And Up To Your Eyeballs In Debt Too?
If you’re a shift worker then you would know that shift work and stress certainly goes hand in hand with one another. Just getting up at 3am to go into work is stressful enough! So as a shift worker having just returned from a financial education conference in Sydney recently, one of the guest speakers announced something that absolutely shocked me to the core.

Getting Fired In Voicemail
A co-worker is fired in voicemail. How does that affect the remaining team members?
Background Checks for School Volunteers -- Necessary or Not?
Depending on the role of the volunteers and the level of supervision they will have, many believe school volunteers should be subject to the same screening criteria as any other school worker. These criteria are generally formed by the position or role of the individual and the level of unsupervised access the worker will have to the schoolchildren.
How To Make Money From Passions
To make money online many people jump right in before they are properly prepared. You know that to be a rocket scientist, a doctor, a brick layer, a construction worker, an office worker, a teacher there are prerequisites, things you must learn, before you can be successful, you don't just jump right in unprepared.
Employee vs Independent Contractor
If you own a small business or are thinking about starting one, you will need to have a good understanding of the difference between a regular W-2 employee and a 1099 independent contract. It is usually more beneficial for an employer to have a contractor rather than an employee because the employer does not have to spend the time and effort to do payroll for that worker. Unfortunately, you don't get to just choose which status you put a worker into. The IRS forces you to choose one status or the other based on your relationship with a worker. The more supervision you have over a worker, the more likely it is that the worker should be a W-2 employee. The more independence they have, the more likely it is that they should be a 1099 contractor.
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