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• Grudge-Holding: Seriously, What’s the Point?

  I don’t know how to hold a grudge. I’ve never met anyone who has done something so terrible to me (killed or seriously hurt someone I love on purpose) that it warrants harboring an extremely negative opinion of them for months or years on end. Even when Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 03, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Attitude & Motivation, Emotional Intelligence, Office Politics, People Skills, Professionalism

• Pursuers Versus Persuees At Work

  My husband sent me this theory on friendships by the wife of a prominent ESPN blogger. He doesn’t remember where he found it, so I’ll just have to quote rather than link: “I have always said that female friends are "pursuers" or "pursuees." I am a "pursuee." Read More... Posted Friday, October 10, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 1 Comments Filed under: Emotional Intelligence, Office Politics, People Skills, Blogging, Work

• Do You Read Between the Lines?

  An acquaintance of mine was looking for someone to clean her house once a month. Because the safety of her home and her family is important to her, this woman held interviews in her home. She asked the standard questions that one would think to ask a Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 10, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Communication, Emotional Intelligence, Office Politics, People Skills

• Inconsistency: Accept It and Move On

  I love the show Jon and Kate Plus 8 . For those of you who might not be familiar with it, it’s a reality program on TLC that follows thirtysomething Pennsylvania parents Jon and Kate as they raise seven year-old twins and four year-old sextuplets. I like Read More... Posted Friday, July 04, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Emotional Intelligence, People Skills, Work

• What if YOU are the Jerk?

  Bob Sutton’s book, the No A**hole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't , has been generating buzz since it was published last year. Sutton, a professor of management science at Stanford University , argues that a**holes—those Read More... Posted Friday, April 11, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 1 Comments Filed under: Communication, Emotional Intelligence, Office Politics, People Skills, Professionalism, Troubleshooting

• Is Your Mom Following You to Work?

  Anita Bruzzese has an interesting post on mothers’ influence on career success . Anita cites the work of a psychologist, Stephan Poulter, who has written a new book, The Mother Factor: How Your Mother's Emotional Legacy Impacts Your Life. The book’s thesis Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 09, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Attitude & Motivation, Emotional Intelligence, People Skills, Personal Development, Work

• Wasting Others’ Time: Don’t Get a Prescription from Your Doctor

  I’ve been spending a lot of time in doctors’ offices lately. No, I’m not sick – just 36 weeks pregnant. And having a doctor’s appointment at least once a week inevitably means that my productivity goes way down. This is because one waits longer for a Read More... Posted Friday, February 29, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 2 Comments Filed under: Emotional Intelligence, Management, People Skills, Daily Life

• How to Break Up with Your Boss

  In their January/February issue, Details Magazine has a provocative article on how to break up with a boss who’s holding you back. The article tells the story of Michael Rogers: “Michael Rogers had lunch or cocktails a couple of times a week with the Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 30, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Communication, Emotional Intelligence, Office Politics, People Skills, Professionalism

• Likeability Trumps All

  With Iowa behind us and the New Hampshire primary tomorrow, everyone I know who’s remotely interested in politics was tuned in for the Republican and Democratic candidate debates, sponsored by ABC News and Facebook , that took place this weekend. Myself Read More... Posted Monday, January 07, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Communication, Current Affairs, Emotional Intelligence, People Skills, News and Politics

• Beware of Subtle Self-Sabotage at Work

  We’ve spent some time on this blog discussing the warning signs that you may be in firing range at work, or that you’re unhappy in your current job situation. This week, CNN.com has an interesting piece on ways we might unknowingly sabotage our own efforts Read More... Posted Friday, December 28, 2007 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Attitude & Motivation, Creativity & Innovation, Emotional Intelligence, Office Politics, People Skills, Personal Marketing, Productivity, Troubleshooting

• Is Showing Sympathy Outdated?

  A few months ago, I wrote about the possibility that chivalry was dead in the modern world . Recently, though, I’ve wondered if some types of consideration might be dead too. Here’s where this is coming from. In early November, my mother and my husband’s Read More... Posted Friday, December 21, 2007 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Attitude & Motivation, Emotional Intelligence, People Skills

• Actions Speak Louder Than Words

  Scot Herrick over at Cube Rules is doing a great series of 30 career management tips. I especially liked the post this week on watching what people at work do more than what they say. Scot tells the following story: “My father, when I was very young, Read More... Posted Monday, September 17, 2007 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 1 Comments Filed under: Communication, Emotional Intelligence, People Skills, Personal Marketing

• It Seems the Theme This Week is Respect

  I recently wrote a few career advice articles for Yahoo!, and on Friday one of them was on the home page. I’ve talked a bit with my colleague Penelope Trunk about the joys and perils of writing for Yahoo!, and the “spirited” conversations that take place Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 15, 2007 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Communication, Emotional Intelligence, People Skills, Blogging

• Beware of Misplaced Frustration

  This week I was in San Francisco, and while I was there I took my grandmother to a hair salon that had just opened in her town. We’d made an appointment for 10:30, and we waited and waited until 10:45 and then 11:00 had come and gone. There was only one Read More... Posted Friday, August 10, 2007 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Communication, Emotional Intelligence, People Skills

• Six Tips for Blanking on Someone’s Name

  As a person who believes in the power of using people’s first names when networking in business, but who has a permanent impairment when it comes to remembering them, I found this post from Gretchen Rubin over at the Happiness Project extremely valuable. Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 20, 2007 7:56 PM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Emotional Intelligence, Handy Resources, People Skills, Troubleshooting