Getting a Promotion in the Best Way     Any office environment can be fraud with peril. Potential personal missteps that can hamper your career can appear at any time. You want to stand out, but doing it at the expense of someone else will more often than not come back to bite you in the future.   No one appreciates someone who brags about their accomplishments or who much they know. However, is your boss doesn't yet know how good you really are, how do you get them to notice you? How do you stand out without sticking out?   There are several ways to impress...

The Perks You Provide Your Employees Probably Don't Work Like You Think     Extra time off, foosball or ping-pong tables, an on-site health club all sound good, but do they really entice employees to accept a job offer or stay once they’re on-board? Research shows that most incentives have limited impacts on employee recruitment or retention.   An on-site gym sounds great, but will you worry that your boss will be watching your time while your counterparts are keeping their noses to the grindstone? After that tough meeting, a quick game of ping-pong sounds like just the thing to relax – but what about...

"Back to Work RI" Campaign Aims to Create Jobs Amid Pandemic   Gov. Gina Raimondo announced a new initiative aimed at helping Rhode Islanders get back to work. (patch Rhode Island)   With thousands of Rhode Islanders out of work amid the coronavirus pandemic, Gov. Gina Raimondo announced a new, multi-million-dollar initiative focused on job creation.   As reported in Marketwatch... It took 10 years for the U.S. economy to create 23 million new jobs. It took the coronavirus pandemic just a month to destroy almost as many. The mind-boggling deluge of layoffs suggests the lost jobs nearly match all the employment gains since the end of the...

To Thrive In Today's Business Climate, Critical Thinking is Critical     In a good economy, a bad business decision can be overcome. In today's business environment, it can be catastrophic     What exactly is meant by the term “Critical Thinking”?   The Foundation for Critical Thinking defines it as “…the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluation information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action.”   Or, as paraphrased by Ransom Patterson in College Infogeek, critical thinking is simply “…deliberately and systematically processing information so that you can make better decisions and...

$600 weekly jobless benefit will likely lapse before more aid is passed     Laid off workers would see a lapse in the additional benefits reducing their weekly income by more than two-thirds in many states.   Despite the overall success Washington has had getting aid to the jobless through this crisis, many Americans still appear to be suffering. More people are reporting trouble getting enough to eat. Households have been skipping loan payments, and many are worried that the U.S. may be on the verge of a housing crisis this summer as eviction moratoria are lifted. Cutting people off from aid will only make those problems worse, while pushing the wider economy...