The education infographic is a breakdown of the highest paying careers and average lifetime earnings based on education levels. We take a look at several factors like race, gender, and degree levels achieved to show readers the statistics and possibilities associated with higher learning.
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2013
Top 20 Highest Paying Careers
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Feb
2012
Building a Successful Business Team
Building a successful business team is probably one of the most difficult parts of creating a successful business. Whether you’re one of a team of three business partners or the leader of a team of ten people in a larger department of a large business, building a successful business team is important. Since you’re working with people here, building a business team can be a bit unpredictable. There’s no such thing as a perfect business team, but a good team will be a blend of people with different work traits […]
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Nov
2011
Solving the Leadership Puzzle
Many of the challenges we face as a leader seem tough, unusual, and perhaps unsolvable. Many puzzle enthusiasts, working on puzzles as diverse as Sudoku, crosswords, video games (and more) thrill for puzzles with those same descriptors. Perhaps our leadership lesson from them starts from recognizing their attitude and it’s important to ultimate success. Rather than procrastinating or ignoring a tough problem, puzzlers get started. Once they get started they likely use a three step formula (consciously or not) to help them get going. 1. Look for patterns. 2. Find the way in. […]
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Sep
2011
Team Building to Improve Efficiency
by yewenyi Team Building to Improve Efficiency There is no doubt about it; Team building certainly does improve efficiency in the workplace. Very often people from different cultural or ethnic backgrounds find it difficult to work together. They are under the pressures of their work and do not then have the time to find out just where the other person is coming from or what makes them tick. It’s like working with strangers all the time – people you are not quite sure you can trust and you don’t empathize […]
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Aug
2011
Benefits of Team Building
Benefits of Team Building The term “team building” has become a buzzword in recent years, and has many connotations. In terms of corporate development, team-building exercises are important not for the immediate experience of the activities performed by the team, but also for the group skills, communication and bonding that result. The activity be it an obstacle course or the Chocolate Challenge is merely the means to the end: a high-impact learning experience. Team-building programs provide realistic experiences that empower individuals to contribute to common goals. The success of most […]
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Aug
2011
Team building activity
Some cool team building images: Team building activity Image by IITA Image Library Team building participants at Library pit stop for treasure hunt during team building activity at R4D Week 2010. (file name: R4DRace00442) Team building activity Image by IITA Image Library Team representatives performing "road block" task as part of team building activity. (file name: R4DRace00137)
Read moreby Art Institute of Portland Leadership Development, Developing Building Learning Leadership Skills Leadership is vital for any organization’s sustained success. A great leader at top makes a big difference to his or her organization. Everyone will concur with these statements. Experts in human resources field mention the importance of leaders at all levels, and not just that of the leadership at the top. It is not without reason that companies like 3M, Proctor & Gamble, GE, Coca Cola; HSBC etc. have known to put in place processes for developing leaders […]
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Apr
2010
11 Keys to Define Success:
Success might mean, but is not limited to: a level of social status, achievement of an objective/goal, the opposite of failure! 1. Confidence: an unshakable belief in oneself based on a realistic understanding of one’s circumstances; a trait that most people admire in others and strive to acquire themselves. 2. Curiosity: being eager to know and learn; always showing interest and giving special attention to the less obvious; always being the person who says, “I want to know more about . . . .” 3. Decisiveness: arriving at a final […]
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