Giving Feedback
Providing feedback: How to give constructive feedback
  • Productivity

Giving feedback is part of professional communication – no matter whether you’re a manager, coworker, or customer. Feedback gives people the opportunity to understand whether a collaboration is working well and where there is still room for improvement. But if you give feedback, there is a risk that the recipient will feel personally attacked by the criticism. Feedback rules help to minimize this...

Providing feedback: How to give constructive feedback
WOOP Method
WOOP Method: Achieving Success Despite Obstacles
  • Productivity

Just think positively and it will all work out? No matter whether it’s a business or private context, hardly any plans succeed with that approach. The WOOP method combines proven techniques for achieving goals and establishing new habits. Rather than simply ignoring potential obstacles, the WOOP strategy explicitly accounts for them in its plans.

WOOP Method: Achieving Success Despite Obstacles
NPS - Net Promoter Score
Net Promoter Score (NPS)
  • Productivity

“How likely is it that you would recommend our company to a friend or colleague?” The NPS, short for Net Promoter Score, is limited to this “ultimate question” asked to gauge customer satisfaction. We explain the concept behind the management tool, how you calculate the NPS, and why critics question how valid the NPS is.

Net Promoter Score (NPS)
Set up a home office
Setting up your home office for safe and efficient working
  • Productivity

Working from home continues to gain importance as part of modern work life. To ensure that you can work efficiently and securely from home, certain precautions should be considered. Generally, employees are free to design their home office spaces as they wish. However, there are times when the employer has a legal responsibility to ensure the safety of your home office setup. Find out what your...

Setting up your home office for safe and efficient working
Company & job reviews
Job reviews – what is important for companies and employees
  • Productivity

How important is a company’s review in a job search? On the one hand, job review sites support potential applicants in finding a good potential employer. In addition, the assessments provide employers with feedback. On the other hand, how reliable and helpful the actual feedback is can be questioned, seeing as the feedback is anonymous. What should employers and employees look out for? And which...

Job reviews – what is important for companies and employees
Curriculum vitae template
Curriculum vitae: Template and tips
  • Productivity

On average, HR spend four minutes on each application. That’s why you should make sure your curriculum vitae is setup in such a way that it’s easily skimmable – the best way to do this is with a tabular CV, which covers all your bases. With our free CV template, we’ll show you how to create this kind of CV and what contents HR look for.

Curriculum vitae: Template and tips
Pomodoro technique
Pomodoro technique: How to resist distractions and increase productivity
  • Productivity

Distractions and multitasking are among the greatest productivity killers of our time. With the Pomodoro technique, you learn focused single-tasking that significantly increases your productivity and improves the quality of your work. Find out what other advantages this time management technique offers, how the method can be put to use and which apps can help you.

Pomodoro technique: How to resist distractions and increase productivity
Verbal communication
Verbal communication – the key to mutual understanding
  • Productivity

Verbal communication isn’t the only factor that determines the success or failure of a conversation, but it plays a key role. You’ll achieve your goal more quickly if you can express yourself clearly and skillfully. You’ll also handle critical situations in your day-to-day work more effectively if you have targeted strategies for communication.

Verbal communication – the key to mutual understanding
DISC assessment
The DISC assessment: Outdated test or useful tool?
  • Productivity

For many years, the DISC assessment has been a popular tool used by companies to improve their management style, collaboration, and sales. If you know which of the four DISC assessment types match your personality, you can gain valuable insight to improve your work and influence your career development. But the test has also been under scrutiny.

The DISC assessment: Outdated test or useful tool?
Mind mapping programs | the best tools for thinkers
Thinking made easy: the best 7 mind-mapping programs, explained
  • Productivity

Mind maps are the preferred method of tapping into the creative power of the human brain for those with particularly intelligent minds. Usually, people simply reach for a pen and paper but are soon confronted with the limitations of these traditional tools. Digital mind mapping tools are the next step: presenting complex idea structures and concepts is not just faster and easier, the end result...

Thinking made easy: the best 7 mind-mapping programs, explained