Description: Leadership Inspiration contest entry that focuses on how life events and our reaction to them teach and motivate us all to be better leaders.

Description: The reports you draft, presentations you make, emails you write, posts you put up and texts you send all contribute to your professional image, so make sure that everything you write (and do, wear, or say) sends a consistent, professional image.

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Description: Humor in the workplace can improve productivity. This article describes a typical office relationship problem and how humor helped disparate teams work together.

Description: The aphorism, “You never get a second chance to make a first impression,” applies to business communications as well as wardrobe and handshakes. Your image is polished — or tarnished — with everything you write and distribute. From The Stepping Stone, April 2005, Issue No. 18.

Description: This article stresses the importance of developing good written communication skills to maximize your effectiveness as an actuary.

Description: In this article the author asserts that if you approach a cover letter as a marketing letter, it can be a powerful weapon in your arsenal.

Description: Summarized description of four books on data visualization and their common themes

Description: This article goes through effective ways to give, and ask for, feedback in real time

Description: Business leadership lessons from non-business leaders: interpersonal skills and people management