“If were to ask a raise from your boss, describe the social context that your share with him/her,” I told my business communication class a few weeks ago. One student said that his best case scenario would be that he is friends with the boss. Probably 90+ of them raised their hands when asked if [...]

• 1 Comment

One philosophy that plagues many a small business owner is that notion that “The customer is always right.” While total customer satisfaction should be one of the goals of your company, there may be cases where in you don’t have to consider everyone who enters your store a valued customer.

• 1 Comment

You’ve sent a thousand copies of your resumé for the past months and finally it has paid off. You’ve been hired for a kick-ass job, and you’re dying to show everyone just how amazing you are at work. Well, there’s only one way to do it and that is to do it. Sure, you have [...]

• 0 Comments

Writing a letter to a dysfunctional family member can be a real chore. Imagine having to muster all your energies to write down things while seething rage and frustration boils inside you for being born in such a weird environment. That is, if you’ve been unfortunate to be in such a condition. You probably [...]

• 0 Comments

Video games are so popular these days. With your kid hunched over the PC or console set, determined to destroy the enemies, you can’t be unconcerned if the violence of these video games won’t affect his behavior. It’s really a concern why many kids “have no lives at all” opting to play video games rather [...]

• 0 Comments

How could you miss your meeting with an important client? How could you have forgotten that last Tuesday was your dentist appointment? You set these appointments because you planned on meeting these important people at the set time. Never miss another appointment again by following these easy steps.

• 0 Comments

So you want to be a saint… Every bitch arrives to a point in her life where you just want to be nice to everyone. If you don’t agree to the previous sentence you can just stop reading. But if you do, then we’ll help you change your ways so can be Miss Congeniality.

• 9 Comments

An interesting question asked by one of my students in class. “Is sucking up necessary to get a promotion or a raise?”
Well, let me clarify the context of the question. We were analyzing a scenario of an employee wanting to ask for a raise from his boss and this was to help them understand the [...]

• 0 Comments

I was discussing personality type as a factor that can affect office behavior with my class the other day. I suggested that they take a Myers-Briggs Type Indicator test to see how they’d fare. I shared that, for me, knowing about my personality type and being aware of others’ helped me a lot on how [...]

• 0 Comments

It’s a sad fact that everyone is capable of cheating. Even if probably one’s resolved never to cheat things can go the other way and totally out of hand when you’re in that mucky situation. In any case, given that reality, we always keep certain assurances to yourself that your spouse or partner will never [...]

• 0 Comments

Here’s another set of tips for women out there.
Ok, so you’re young, hot and gorgeous.. so why hasn’t that guy you met last night called or texted you yet?
Every now and then we get to see (or if we get lucky) meet, a cute, sweet guy. Almost every girl knows how hard it is [...]

• 0 Comments

I’ve recently taken up a teaching post with a university teaching business communication. One thing I’ve observed with kids today is their penchant to take up the “kinder” instructors and most especially those who give high marks. While each university might have its own grading standards, there are bound to be teachers who really think [...]

• 0 Comments

Okay, so I’m not a girl and I’m in no position to write something about dating tips for women. This one’s courtesy of my friend Anj who graciously provided you ladies with a few tips on going out on your first date.
There is never going to be an easy way for anyone to be a [...]

• 2 Comments

The boons and banes of social networking.
Seven sex offenders were arrested for violating their parole by going online and posting profiles on social network MySpace. Data was provided to Texas police by MySpace. This is part of the preventive measures done by the State to curb the victim-finding activities of these sex offenders. Many [...]

• 0 Comments

So now you’ve decided to take your dating status to the next step. A serious relationship probably is the next great milestone next to the engagement (which is supposedly just a formality). So there’s an emphasis on the word serious here. It involves a lot of things from exploration to getting to know more about [...]

• 2 Comments