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☆ Eagles coach Nick Sirianni: Highly successful people ‘get a little bit better’ each day—but there’s 1 thing in your way
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-06 | by ( Natasha Piñon | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

After the Philadelphia Eagles advanced to this year's Super Bowl, head coach Nick Sirianni set a simple goal for his players over their next two weeks of practices — be a little bit better today than you were yesterday. "Our job is to get a little better each day, to climb," Sirianni said. "We don't need to think about getting way down the road here, but how do we get a little better today?" For Sirianni, who's in his second season as the Eagles' head coach, that's the key to achieving success. Small-scale focus adds up: Experts recommend breaking down ambitious goals — like winning the Super Bowl — into smaller, achievable tasks that can be sustained over a longer period of time.

☆ Nearly 2,000 CEOs think their companies won't be able to make money in 10 years, survey says
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-04 | by ( Natasha Piñon | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

That's almost 40% of the total number of CEOs surveyed across 105 countries for PwC's annual global CEO survey. More than half of the CEOs surveyed cited shifts in consumer demand, regulatory changes and labor shortages as challenges to their profitability over the next 10 years. And despite the concerns, most of the company leaders surveyed — 60% — aren't planning any layoffs, at least over the next 12 months. However, the report's prescription for worried CEOs may not bode particularly well for some workers. The surveyed CEOs said they want to make such bold decisions but aren't currently prioritizing them.

☆ Job interview tips to help you get hired: What to say, mistakes to avoid, how to answer key questions and more
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-02 | by ( Cindy Perman | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

Career coach Natalie Fisher said there are four common reasons why you might get a job interview but not a job offer: 1. The Art of Tooting Your Own Horn Without Blowing It": Pump yourself up before you walk into a job interview. Interview tips from an HR pro who tracked her job search on TikTokAnd finally, a few job interview tips from Jordan Gibbs. Here are a few of her top job interview tips: Never count your chickens before they're hatched. Read more job interview tips from Gibbs and how she ultimately landed her job.

☆ Meetings aren't ‘the enemy’: HR expert's No. 1 lesson from 3 years of no-meeting Wednesdays
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-01 | by ( Natasha Piñon | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

"Their calendar looked like a massive game of Tetris, where they didn't have breathing space," Rogerson, now the company's global head of people, recalls. Sixty-seven percent of workers say excessive meetings prevent them from doing their best work, a 2019 survey from consulting firm Korn Ferry reported. "If you've been in back-to-back meetings, even having an hour break is just bliss," Rogerson says. But making these no-meeting days work is a bit more complex than simply banning meetings from your Wednesday calendars, Rogerson says. You might not end up with fewer meetings on your weekly calendar, either — and, turns out, that's perfectly fine.

☆ The secret to having successful relationships and being a superstar manager comes down to 2 words
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-26 | by ( Natasha Piñon | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Psychologists Dr. John Gottman and Dr. Julie Schwartz Gottman, who studied 40,000 couples, found those simple words were the No. For starters, saying "thank you" is good for your health — no matter the context. In his 2022 book "Say Thank You for Everything: The Secrets of Being a Great Manager," Edwards outlines 19 things every new manager needs to learn — and saying "thank you" is the kicker. Two out of every three workers surveyed said their manager could improve at giving in-the-moment, positive feedback. Managers can start by saying "thank you" for small, everyday tasks.

☆ A more useful way to measure intelligence, XQ is 'the new EQ,' says USC research scientist
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-26 | by ( Natasha Piñon | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

There's a new way to predict success: XQ, or experiential intelligence. Rather than book smarts or empathetic abilities, experiential intelligence is a measure of how your life experiences have shaped the way you think, what you know and how you use that knowledge. "[It's] the combination of mindsets, abilities and know-how gained from your past experiences," Soren Kaplan, author of the book "Experiential Intelligence: Harness the Power of Experience for Personal and Business Breakthroughs," tells CNBC Make It. And while you might work to improve your EQ, for example, you don't require training to start applying experiential intelligence to your own life. "Everyone has experiential intelligence," Kaplan says.

☆ 4 great unexpected job interview questions—and how to answer them, says HR expert
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-24 | by ( Natasha Piñon | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Canva fielded more than 220,000 job applications last year, ultimately hiring just over 1,000 of those applicants, Rogerson says. If you're a manager, take note: Unconventional interview questions help fend off trite, pre-written answers. This approach to interviewing is gaining steam, especially as more and more companies drop educational requirements for job openings. Here are four questions every manager should bring into rotation, Rogerson says — and how to start preparing for them. They're more about learning who the candidate is, how good they'd be at the job and whether they'd thrive in your workplace.

☆ Distracted at work? Tips from an attention expert to reclaim your time: ‘Manage your manager’
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-22 | by ( Natasha Piñon | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Much of Eyal's work, including his bestselling book "Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life," revolves around conquering distractions. Here's how to identify your most problematic distractions:Start talking about it"The problem of distraction at work is that we can't talk about the problem of distraction at work," according to Eyal. Sync up your schedulesFor employees, becoming less distracted is all about communicating needs: "Manage your managers," Eyal says. "It tells them, 'This is my focus work time, from 8:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. It's my time to work without distractions,'" Eyal explains.

☆ Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson changed his daily routine to do less: 'I was forcing a lot of the things'
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-20 | by ( Natasha Piñon | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Taking on more led to intense productivity for Johnson — but that "plate is always full" mentality eventually had a breaking point. In many ways, though, the opposite is true: Research shows that multitasking diminishes your performance and output. While it's hard to pull back like Johnson did, research shows it could be the key to more long-lasting success. That's especially true when rest time occurs during the workday: Research shows scheduling in breaks can stimulate creativity and improve efficiency and concentration. But there is no success alone," Johnson told CNBC Make It in 2021.

☆ Yale research: Highly successful people argue differently
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-19 | by ( Natasha Piñon | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

One group was instructed to adopt a competitive mentality in order to "win" the argument, while the other group was told to "argue to learn." An "arguing to learn" mentality rests in viewing contentious conversations as collaborative exchanges that can deepen your understanding of a given topic, rather than battles to be won. That mentality can hold the key to success: Research shows open-minded people perceive the world around them differently, leading to an increase in happiness and creativity. One of his key takeaways from the study is that approaching hot-button issues from an "arguing to learn" mentality can help shift your own thinking. You're getting the right answer more often," he explains.

☆ Amid 'quiet hiring,' here’s what highly successful workplaces should focus on
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-13 | by ( Natasha Piñon | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

In 2023, "quiet hiring" — when a company redistributes staffers or recruits short-term contractors instead of hiring full-time employees — could dominate the workplace. How quality workplaces improve retentionThriving companies conduct regular surveys and host check-ins to track employee engagement, Labbe says. Quiet hiring itself can also help with employee retention. Emily Rose McRae, a Gartner HR analyst who helped coin the term "quiet hiring," told CNBC Make It last week. At Toptal, during periods the recruiting team wasn't busy, some team members moved over to the sales team, Labbe says.

☆ Highly successful people use this 1 skill to get more from reading, says Northwestern expert
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-12 | by ( Natasha Piñon | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Anyone who's ever curled up with a good book knows the health benefits of regular recreational reading. There's a single tweak you can make to your reading habits to become even more successful, says Northwestern management professor Brooke Vuckovic, who teaches a MBA class on extracting leadership lessons from literature. Her tip: After you've finished reading a new book, try describing it in one sentence. There's another benefit, too: When students in Vuckovic's MBA class write one-line book descriptions, they're often struck by how differently other people see the world, she says. One person might write a summary about Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" that focuses on the central love story.

☆ Bestselling author James Patterson works 77-hour weeks to stay productive at age 75: 'Hungry dogs run faster'
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-11 | by ( Natasha Piñon | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Bestselling author James Patterson's first book published 47 years ago — and his hustle hasn't stopped since then. Patterson pointed to a piece of guiding advice from his grandmother that helps illuminate the drive behind his work ethic. Typically, Patterson writes an initial 50- to 70-page outline for a story before encouraging his co-writers to start filling in the gaps with sentences, paragraphs and chapters, he said. As for the writing itself, Patterson writes longhand, with an assistant transcribing his handwriting into typed drafts, he said. Sign up now: Get smarter about your money and career with our weekly newsletterDon't miss: James Patterson's writing started as a side hustle—now he's one of the world's highest paid authors

☆ Highly successful people read books differently, says expert: An 'underused and incredibly powerful...way to develop ourselves'
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-10 | by ( Natasha Piñon | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

From Bill Gates to Barack Obama, successful leaders are often diligent readers. In Vuckovic's MBA class on moral leadership, students read and analyze novels and short stories to determine how power and empathy manifest in the workplace. "Our best leaders are looking for ways to develop themselves, and fiction represents an often underused and incredibly powerful, low cost, ongoing, pleasurable way to develop ourselves — if read correctly," Vuckovic tells CNBC Make It. By answering those questions, you develop a "crucial skill" for leaders, Vuckovic says: interpersonal awareness and empathy, which has been shown to foster welcoming and thriving workplaces. Now, you're practicing self-awareness, another critical skill for successful leadership, Vuckovic says.

☆ Workplaces can do 1 simple thing to help employees grow, says expert: 'If you could do that for $1 per leader, you should'
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-09 | by ( Natasha Piñon | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

It's a paltry sum for many companies, but when spent intelligently, it can help promising employees become effective leaders, says Katy Tynan, a principal analyst at Forrester who co-published the report. Without quality leadership, employees become disengaged at work, leading to retention issues. That means if five employees making $100,000 annually quit, your company might need to spend $500,000 replacing them. The problem: Leadership development isn't something you can simply throw money at. Here's her advice for employees who want support, and workplaces struggling to retain them.

☆ Gartner expert: College degrees matter less in 2023 job applications
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-05 | by ( Natasha Piñon | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Your college degree might not matter quite as much in your 2023 job search as it used to. That translates to a de-emphasis on four-year degrees, McRae says: One of the most useful ways to attract "nontraditional candidates" is removing education requirements. Amid a tight labor market, the trend could accelerate dramatically this year. Based on current trends, they projected 1.4 million jobs could open up to workers without college degrees in the next five years. So, what does a potential influx of "nontraditional candidates" mean for you?

☆ ‘Quiet hiring’ will dominate the U.S. in 2023, says HR expert—and you need to prepare for it
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-04 | by ( Natasha Piñon | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

A new year is here, and with it, a new workplace phenomenon that bosses and employees should prepare for: quiet hiring. Sometimes, it means hiring short-term contractors. Quiet hiring is all about that third category, even if it doesn't technically involve any new hiring at all. Alternatively, companies with few movable employees can hire short-term contractors to help keep things afloat throughout the year, which McRae refers to as "external quiet hiring." How to take advantage of quiet hiring

☆ You may not know the difference between 'habits' and 'routines'—and it's your key to success in 2023, says attention expert
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-01 | by ( Natasha Piñon | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

"The definition of a habit is the impulse to do a behavior with little or no conscious thought," Eyal says. "Most of the things that people want to turn into a habit will never be a habit." Approximately 45% of our daily behaviors are habits, like where we eat meals each day or how we get ready for bed. "If a behavior is effortful, it can't be a habit by its very definition," Eyal says. Expect changes to be hardInstead of aiming for habits, he says people should focus more on building routines, since, by definition, routines acknowledge the difficulty of changing patterns.

☆ The 4 best success tips CEOs shared this year—from Tim Cook to Delta’s Ed Bastian
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-31 | by ( Natasha Piñon | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Here are some of the best success tips that top CEOs shared this year. And magic to be found in the service of others.”Claire Babineaux-Fontenot, Feeding America CEO Claire Babineaux-Fontenot, the CEO of Feeding America, knows the importance of giving back. Beth Ford, Land O'Lakes CEO Land O'Lakes CEO Beth Ford is no stranger to success. “Often, we think, ‘Nobody is going to see the good job I’ve done,’ or we’re scared to ask for help. Yet, if you do ask someone for help, or ask for what you want, people will reach out and give it to you.”

☆ Harvard expert on the worst thing about New Year’s resolutions—and how to beat it: ‘A profound loss of energy’
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-31 | by ( Natasha Piñon | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

In Lahey's eyes, the worst thing about New Year's resolutions isn't the fact that we "fail" to fulfill them. "It's like people drink the Kool-Aid, [and think] 'If I really intend to make this goal happen, and I can't, I'm a loser. "I think it's just a profound loss of human energy." "But the thing that really got her attention was [when] she said 'I consistently say 'yes' to the one-off [meetings]," Lahey added, which was contributing to Brown's sense that meetings were a waste of time. Unlearning our assumptionsLahey says that when she walks people through their own "Immunity to Change" roadmap, the final column is "almost always" unrelated to the column one, much like Brown's.

☆ 8 top business leaders—from Yelp, Zillow, Dell, and more—on the habits they want to cultivate in 2023
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-30 | by ( Natasha Piñon | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

Dell TechnologiesJen Felch, Chief Digital Officer and CIO"Going into 2023, I'm focused on cultivating a habit of asking better questions. In 2023, I'm resolving to tackle my own executive burnout, and to be more authentic about it. In 2023, I'm committing to meditating 10 minutes per day, five days a week. Ultimately, entrepreneurial employees have the passion to make the 'new' happen, powering through hurdles, and inspiring real innovation around them." NextdoorSarah Friar, CEO"In 2023 there are several important habits that I will cultivate to help me and the Nextdoor team succeed.

☆ Stanford work-from-home expert on the 2022 prediction he’s glad he got right: 'It’d be pretty horrifying if I got it wrong'
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-29 | by ( Natasha Piñon | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Long before the pandemic, Nicholas Bloom, a Stanford economics professor, was already studying the most effective work-from-home policies. So, armed with decades worth of research and thousands of pandemic-era interviews, what's the one prediction Bloom says it would've been "horrifying" to get wrong about 2022? With a year's hindsight and additional research, Bloom says this prediction has largely borne out, noting that it felt particularly easy to predict by the end of 2021. In it, he advocated for employee choice with regards to what days of the week they'd work in the office. "There's this famous saying that people overestimate technology in the short run, and underestimate it in the long run," Bloom adds.

☆ Adam Grant says this skill can make you highly successful—but ‘there’s not a book’ on how to do it properly
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-23 | by ( Natasha Piñon | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

But Wharton psychologist Adam Grant says high achievers actually display a different trait: the ability to follow. "I see a lot of students who want to lead and they don't know how to follow," Grant said. Grant isn't the first to notice how difficult it can be for self-proclaimed leaders to develop a following. Meanwhile, the recruits who saw themselves as followers were often seen by their peers as leaders. But there's a problem, Grant said: Despite an abundance of leadership research, there's no reliable playbook for learning to effectively develop following skills.

☆ People like you more than you think, Harvard and Penn research shows—how to parlay it into workplace success
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-21 | by ( Natasha Piñon | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

You never get a second chance to make a first impression — but it's probably not the end of the world. That's according to psychology research from Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania and leadership coaching company BetterUp, which found that many adults routinely underestimated how much others liked them in small group settings and while working in teams. The impacts are far-flung, Boothby says: If you think you're well-liked around the office, you're more likely to give honest feedback about teammates' work, helping your team communicate more effectively and perform better. The analysis, published last year, built on prior research from 2018 — which showed a persistent gap between how much people thought their conversation partners liked them versus how much they were actually liked. Luckily, you can translate that knowledge into highly successful relationships at work.

☆ 'Uncreative people' can use this simple tip to easily brainstorm new ideas, Adam Grant and Brené Brown say
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-14 | by ( Natasha Piñon | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Just ask organizational psychologist Adam Grant and leadership researcher Brené Brown. "I grew up thinking I was completely uncreative," Grant said. "All of a sudden, it was 'conform, conform, conform,' which aligns with the research we see on shame and creativity in kids happening ... in middle school. For middle school girls especially, the so-called "confidence drop" can be precipitous: Research shows girls' confidence levels drop by 30 percent between the ages of 8 and 14. Brown and Grant got out of their respective creativity ruts by using the same tactic, they said: looking for patterns around them.

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