【推荐1】The worst time to look for a job is when you must have a new one immediacy.     1    . If you are no in need of an immediate career change, here are ways you can improve your long-term career prospects:

    2    . You do not have to be qualified for these positions now, nor do they have to exist in your company, but these roles should appeal to you. They are career options that look interesting. Pay close attention to what attracts you, and write it down.

Subscribe to (订阅) a career specific magazine. All businesses must stay relevant to (保持联系) their customers in order to win the competitions and increase revenue(收益).     3       This information allows you to see which companies and professionals are leading the pack.

Be professionally curious. Talk to people about their careers. Learn more about how success is measured in other roles, departments and companies. Expand your business knowledge through interactions with people regularly. You never know what connections may be relevant when you start your next job search.     4    .

As in all things in life, getting ready early in the face of a difficult task is always less stressful than reacting to a career surprise.     5     No matter how secure you feel today, the time will come when either you or your employer decides it is time to change.

【推荐3】In addition to being an important driver of personal health, optimism has been thought as one of the most important qualities of an innovative (创新的) leader.     1    

Leaders who are too optimistic can actually reduce their team’s morale (斗志) and productivity. This is because too much optimism comes across as blind to the challenges that a team may face along the course of a project.     2    

One way is to focus on the challenges that lie ahead for your team. When leaders talk about the reasons why an approach might not work, someone on their team is more likely to jump in and insist on why the team will succeed. It’s a bit like reverse psychology (逆反心理).

    3    Ask questions such as, “What problems do you see that I may be missing? Are there reasons we shouldn’t go on? And where might our assumptions be wrong?”

Through this line of questioning, you as the leader acknowledge that there may be challenges while also showing your confidence in your team to overcome them.

    4     But at the same time, employees want their managers to recognize the barriers they overcome in order to help the team succeed.

The next time you want to encourage your team, express your confidence in their abilities while acknowledging that there may be struggles along the way. That’s right.     5     Leaders who see the glass as too full actually reduce the success of their teams.

When difficult people express themselves orally, they generally want at least two things: they’ve been heard and they’ve been understood. As a good communicator should be a good listener, five steps are advocated toward good listening.

The first step is cooperating(合作). How does a difficult person know that you’re listening and understanding? In fact, it’s through the way you look and sound while he is talking. You may help him to fully express his thoughts and feelings. You do this by nodding your head in agreement, making certain sounds of understanding.

When the peron begings to repeat what’s been said, it’s a two: turning that you repeat some words he is using, sending a clear signal that you’ve listening carefully and that you think what he is saying is important.

Having heard what he has to say, the next step is clarifying. At this point, you start to gather information about what is being communicated. Ask same open-ended questions, which will allow you to figure out what intention he is hoping to satisfy.

The fourth step is to summarize(概括)what you’ve heard.This allows you to make sure that both you and the difficult person the same page. When you do this, two things happen. First, if you’ve twisses something, he can fill in the (细节). Second you’ve shown that you’re making an effort to understand completely. This increases possibility of gaining cooperation from him.

Having listened carefully, you’ve now arrived at the point of confirming with the person that he feels satisfied that this thoughts have been fully voiced. Ask if he feels understood.

Then enough sincere listening, questioning, and remembering are brought together, understanding is usually achieved and a difficult person he comes less difficult and more cooperative.

【推荐2】Small talk, also called chitchat, is short conversations people have with others, while they wait in line at the store, at family events or work. Many people find these small conversations about random topics difficult. Some people say they hate it. Others say small talk is a waste of time. They may even call it idle chitchat or idle chatter, meaning it doesn’t do anything, so they think little of it.    1    .

These exchanges can open doors that may lead to larger, more meaningful conversations. When you first meet someone or talk to someone you don’t know well, it would be awkward to begin a conversation about a really deep topic.    2    Let’s say you make small talk with someone at a party. But they only want to talk about their cats. Then you can talk about animals together first, which may lead the conversation to the way you want.

    3    Chatting with a colleague about his child may help you to understand more of his life outside the office. This could help build healthy work relationships.

Small talk could even help your larger communities----your relationships with neighbors and colleagues. Exchanging a recipe with a neighbor may make her noises upstairs easier to live with.

    4    Most people said they do not talk to strangers while travelling on a subway. Researchers at the University of Chicago then asked some participants in a study to talk to people while communicating to work on a train. They found that those who made small talk with strangers were happier than those who sat alone.    5    Maybe your life will become more cheerful just because of it.