Her World, December 2011

Interview with Hega Schultz, CEO of HS Coaching & Consulting 1. You just broke up with your boyfriend, and are feeling very depressed. Personal issues including family problems, emotional difficulties, illness etc. can have a great impact on your job and therefore ultimately affect your chances to advance your career. Therefore is it is wise to keep your private life separate from your work life, even though one may begin to run into the other. Learn how to manage personal issues and negative emotions and keep them from negatively affecting your job and career. It is not a problem to let your colleagues know that you broke up with your friend but stay away from dwelling on your depressed feelings to your colleague. The more you talk about it, they more you will leave the impression that you are unable to cope with the situation and that your performance will be affected by it. 2. You have a terrible hangover. You will be over the hangover in a day, so why bother and share that info with your colleagues? If you look terrible, then tell them that you don’t feel ...

Simply Her, July 2011

Interview with Hega Schultz, CEO of HS Coaching & Consulting   1. What advice would you give to a worker who is caught between her two supervisors/bosses? Stay clear out of the conflict, it is not your task to solve this situation and do not take sides. It's important not to be negative about one boss or complain about him/her to the other. Help to make work priority and not their relationship with each other. Organise your work properly and let them work out their problems on their own. 2. Whose side should she be on? Should she even take sides? Why/Why not? It is not advisable to take sides at all as this is not only unprofessional but also you end up being caught in a conflict that is not yours and will probably make one more enemy. It is best to stay neutral, do not mediate between them nor talk very positively about one of them to diffuse negative comments. If one boss rants about the other listen politely, do not comment on it and change the subject. Make clear that you are not part of this relationship problem and are not willing ...

How To Be More Efficient At Work

Time is a luxury for so many of us. We’ve got deadlines to meet and clients to please. It seems like the second we show up at the office, our time and attention get diverted away from the most important tasks at hand. Before we know it, we’re spending the day in meetings and casual conversations when we could be working. Does this sound like you? If it does, try out these tips for being more efficient at work. Focus your priorities. Most of the tasks you think you need to do usually aren’t all that important. This applies at all levels of business. 80% of the money you make will come from 20% of your customers. Now that might not apply to you specifically, but here’s the basic idea. There is probably at least one thing you do that provides more value than all of the other things you do combined. Focus on that one thing. Everything else should come second to it. Small and menial tasks can easily take up the bulk of anyone’s day. If you can find a way to delegate those tasks to someone else who is better at them, you’ve got a win-win situation. Photographers ...