by Jen van Heerden | Dec 7, 2018 | Tips
Get your assertiveness on! A number of years ago when I was working in a large corporate, I received feedback from my manager that I had a “low tolerance for incompetence.” Interestingly, this is was not given as a piece of positive feedback, but rather it was a... 
by Jen van Heerden | Nov 9, 2018 | Tips
We’re a society obsessed with actions and outcomes. We’re bombarded with apps that increase our productivity, TED talks promising to revolutionise the way we get things done, and self-completing sentences in our gmail. Biodegradable coffee cups mean we can drink our... 
by Jen van Heerden | Oct 8, 2018 | Tips
Recently, I had a conversation with a woman in love with Twitter. She’s an Employer Branding expert by profession and tweets like the rest of us breathe. She couldn’t believe that I wasn’t on twitter and insisted that as soon as I got back to my laptop, I create a... 
by Jen van Heerden | Sep 4, 2018 | Tips
For decades, Industrial Psychologists have argued that regardless of ability, one of the strongest indicators of professional success is conscientiousness – sticking to a task until it’s done and completing it according to expectations. Conscientiousness is... 