Hearing vs Listening

Hearing vs Listening… Hearing and listening aren’t the same thing. What do you mean, Tom, you may ask? Listening skills are important in business… Actually, scratch that: IN LIFE. Yet there are still so many of us who fail to listen properly. (Myself included.) Hearing occurs with or without your consent… Like that aggravating mutt […]

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Making the best of a bad situation

A valuable life skill: making the best of a bad situation. I am a Social Media apprentice. Being an apprentice involves completing an NVQ course for college (which equals two A levels, if you were wondering.) For most people this means going into college once a week or once every two weeks to complete work […]

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Your Online Profile

How important is your online profile? It turns out: very. Facebook Just last weekend on a drunken endeavour, somebody took a picture of my group of friends in a club. We’re all generally quite unphotogenic anyway, but the one person that stood out was my friend who somehow managed to look like he was getting […]

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How to work smarter

Urgh, hard work. Nobody likes hard work, but there’s no way around it: you have work to do and it must be done or you risk being fired. This blog isn’t telling you how to cheat work and do less whilst still earning the same amount, you lazy buggers (keep dreaming) It is about how […]

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Dealing with distractions at work

It can be difficult to focus on work when your mobile’s ringing, new emails keep popping up, your work colleague keeps pestering you and your friend wants you to go for lunch. On top of that, you found a really interesting website which showcases a whole load of hilarious cat pictures. How ever will you […]

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