It’s a truism, that we all have our strengths and weaknesses. They make us complete. But it’s the former that make us successful.

Assertiveness is a skill you will need to develop to continue to be effective and experience career advancement.

Time management skills are essential to career growth and the following five tips will help you improve your game plan for long-term success.

Failure and success are cohorts. You can never have one without the other. Just look at some of history’s greats. And there are several contemporary examples as well.

Reach for the stars is a common phrase we have all heard before. As an adult you use the phrase to encourage others to pursue their goals and to aim high. If you say the same encouraging words to a child with a scientific mind she may tell you that her arms aren’t long enough or that stars are gaseous and that if she can some how find a yet to be discovered means to grab one it will vaporize her. Her perspective and accurate explanation quashes your creative wish for her to excel and your encouraging words become meaningless. She has missed your message. So many of us face this in our career.

By Dr. Jeff Van Pelt Which of these descriptions do you think is more accurate? Generation Y: born between 1982 and 2000. Right out of school they expect a high salary, corner office, and lots of vacation. They need close supervision, frequent feedback, and ample recognition. They show little company loyalty, and change jobs more [...]

Organizations need more than the best skilled and most knowledgeable employees, they need those employees to be committed and to be leaders. The challenges we now confront including the diversity in the workforce we lead, the constant improvement in technologies available, the flattening organizational structure and the expectations from the top, will require leaders to develop new skills and transform others to suit the changes ahead.

Building relationships is key to success. No one has career success, personal success or leadership success with out having first developed mutually beneficial relationships. For some people it seems to come naturally. They can connect, make friends, build relationships and make people feel comfortable around them. They are also among the most successful. What do they know?

Accelerate your career advancement by developing friends at work and in your industry. You can be a people magnet and build lasting business and social relationships.

The choices you make in your personal and professional life will affect your career and your ability to be an effective leader. Read about how you make decisions and how you can take the anxiety out of decision making to make the decisions for your personal life and your career.