VALDOSTA — The Quality of Life Association celebrates black history month with a narrated living timeline showcasing many famous Black history figures of yesterday and today. The fundraising event titled, “All Shades Art Exhibit and…
Business > Are Manufacturing Jobs Returning?
CBS Marketwatch Made in the U.S.A. is hot again, and the number of manufacturing jobs that are returning to the U.S. — or coming to the U.S. for the first time — from overseas has…
Business > Show Employees You’re Willing to Hear…
Harvard Business Review: Managers are often more accustomed to speaking than listening, but there are times when you need to shift gears and really hear your employees out. When you’re having a conversation, show that…
Business > The Bright Side of Negative Thinking
An Interview with Author Gabrielle Oettingen At least since 1952, when Norman Vincent Peale’s The Power of Positive Thinking was published, Americans have been inundated with the notion that the path to success can be smoothed…
Business > Measure Qualitative Performance in Employees
Harvard Business Review Performance reviews often require you to assess an employee’s performance on some qualitative aspects of the job. To do this objectively, focus on measuring behaviors. Aside from questions that are specific to…
Business > No, That Meeting could not have…
Harvard Business Review We’ve all been there. We’re sitting in back-to-back hour-long informational meetings. We try to sit attentively as waves of information are poured over us in report after report. Eventually, we realize the…
Business > To Boost Productivity, Try Social Incentives…
Harvard Business Review In an experiment, half the university students who were hired for a tedious, repetitive job – entering bibliographic records into a database – were willing to sacrifice part of their pay to…
Business > Know When to Ask for Help
Harvard Business Review People often don’t ask for help because they think it’s perceived as a sign of weakness. But you can’t be successful if you don’t ask for what you need. So here’s how…
Bush > Still Time to Contribute to an…
Stacy Bush, Valdosta Today Financial Contributor There's still time to make a regular IRA contribution for 2014! You have until your tax return due date (not including extensions) to contribute up to $5,500 for 2014…