Psychology Mauritius

Be Assertive While Being Yourself

If you’re reserved, you’ve likely been told you need to be more assertive at work. But if that’s not your natural style, how can you still ask for what you need and get what you want? Here are three ways:

06 Dec 2012, business.mega.mu

How to Know When It’s Time to Quit

You're thinking of jumping ship. Maybe it's your job, a relationship, a degree, or some other commitment that's both so hard to keep doing and so hard to leave. Should you stay or should you go? Here's how to decide.

05 Dec 2012, business.mega.mu

Do Collaborative Workspaces Work?

A few weeks ago, I was invited to lunch with a steering committee at my university whose mission was to design the interior of a new addition to their building.

04 Dec 2012, business.mega.mu

Trying to Make a Tough Decision? Try Asking the Five Fateful Questions.

When I’m reluctant to take a risk or face something uncomfortable, I ask myself these five questions which, in melodramatic form, I call the "Five Fateful Questions." They help me think clearly about a situation.

30 Nov 2012, business.mega.mu

Can Introverts Be Great Entrepreneurs?

Conventional wisdom suggests you must be bold and outgoing to be successful. Here's why the stereotype doesn't hold up.

30 Nov 2012, business.mega.mu

6 Ways Envy Destroys Career Advancement

Stop comparing yourself to others. This is why most people never get ahead in their careers. They waste valuable time trying to be what they are not – rather than valuing who they naturally are and building upon their own foundation of skills and knowledge for growth.

29 Nov 2012, business.mega.mu

10 Things You Should Never Say To Your Boss

While avoiding swearing, racial comments, flirting and off color jokes would seem fairly obvious, Jenna’s points about “sounding uneducated” and “rambling” are especially astute. But I’d like to take the subject a step further with my own list of leadership-limiting gaffes. Here goes:

27 Nov 2012, business.mega.mu

Eight Keys to Life Hardiness and Resiliency

As we navigate through challenging times toward a better future, it’s useful to visit some tried and true ideas regarding life hardiness and resiliency.

24 Nov 2012, business.mega.mu

Is Retail Therapy? Is Shopping Play?

A recent UCR Today headline proclaimed “Retail Therapy is Real.” This contained just enough truth to magnetize and draw my eyeballs. I’d recently written about how shopping is frontloaded with feelings of anticipation and surprise, much as gambling is, but delivers not much in the way of fulfillment. So, I was anxious to read the study that seemed to contest this.

23 Nov 2012, business.mega.mu

How Sadness Can Cost You Money

If sadness doesn’t leave us feeling bad enough, we now know that it can also cost us money.

22 Nov 2012, business.mega.mu

Five Keys to Enhancing Your Emotional Intelligence

Emotional Intelligence (EQ or EI) can be defined as the ability to understand, manage, and effectively express one's own feelings, as well as engage and navigate successfully with those of others.

20 Nov 2012, business.mega.mu

What the Shoulders Say About Us

Body language reveals a lot about a person, and it is often more honest than verbal communication. Certain areas of the body are more expressive than others—the shoulders being one of them.

18 Nov 2012, business.mega.mu