Personal Branding in the Age of Digital Media: How to Stand Out and Build Your Reputation Online

The days of a potential employer reading your resume and hiring you after a simple interview are long gone. In today’s increasingly digital world, finding and grabbing hold of career opportunities requires personal branding. This is how today’s professionals attract and keep the right sort of attention. What Is Personal Branding?  This phrase often appears in conversations about internet content …

Unlocking Your Inner Drive: Tips for Tapping into Intrinsic Motivation

Have you ever found yourself struggling to get out of bed in the morning? Or perhaps you’ve had a project you’ve been working on for months, but the motivation to see it through to completion seems to have vanished. If this sounds familiar, you may be lacking in intrinsic motivation. So, what is intrinsic motivation? Simply put, it’s the drive …

5 Barriers to Critical Thinking for Problem Solving

Critical thinking is being able to think clearly, rationally, and logically, understand connections between ideas, and engage in reflective and independent thinking.[1] It’s the key to problem solving. Critical thinking skills are one of the more desired skills in schools and workplaces. However, they aren’t taught in schools, leaving people to find their way to critical thinking on their own. …

Why You Need to Develop Your Critical Thinking

Critical thinking is fast emerging as one of the most desirable skills in the workforce. It’s the kind of skill that can apply to all aspects of your life. This ranges from the personal to the professional, lifting you to new heights by helping you harness and focus your thinking. What is Critical Thinking? This thinking is defined as the …

Who’s Responsible for Psychologically Safe Organizations?

Creating a psychologically safe environment where employees feel that they can freely generate ideas, fail forward, and learn from mistakes is an organization-wide responsibility. In order to have each workspace flourish with psychologically safe spaces, organizations must be aware that psychological safety flows from the top, trickling down through multiple leadership levels. Who Has Responsibility for Psychological Safety in Organizations? …

Moving to a New State and Starting a New Career

Guest Post By: Gloria Martinez You’ve decided to move to another state, and you’re going to get a fresh start. You’ll need to find a home and choose what you’ll do for income. Right now, you’re probably feeling a bit overwhelmed. Luckily, VIP Innovations has put together some ideas on how to make the move and start your new life. …

Why Creating Psychological Safety in the Office is Crucial to Success

Psychological safety is emerging as a crucial aspect of a successful organization. Effectively employing this concept throughout your organization, understanding it, and accepting it, will help you help your employees succeed. What is Psychological Safety in Organizations? Everyone needs to feel safe; feeling safe is one of the foundations of everyone’s hierarchy of needs. This applies to physical and psychological …

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Creating Resilience Through Proactive Planning

Five Steps to Prepare Your Organization We are in an age of disruption, with businesses facing challenges from every direction. The only way for organizations to survive is to become resilient—able to respond quickly and effectively when faced with a crisis. But building a resilient organization isn’t easy. It requires careful planning, thoughtful strategies, and a commitment from leaders at …