Work Relationships

Getting along well with your coworkers is crucial to your success and your team’s success. So, when a coworker is unprofessional and unpleasant to work with, it’s important to understand how to deal with them.

Many factors play crucial roles in making a business successful, and among the most important but often overlooked is the ability to build long-term business relationships. These relationships are critical because they often lead to increased sales, improved customer satisfaction, more referrals, better terms and pricing from vendors, and access to previously unavailable resources.

Performance reviews might not be your favorite part of work, but they’re necessary for boosting your standing within your organization, as well as your compensation. Performance reviews are also important for organizations, as they are a part of every organization’s employee retention strategy.

Law firm mentorship programs benefit everyone involved—the mentor, the mentee, the firm, and the profession. While it may seem like a lot of work, the outcomes of having a mentorship program outweigh any perceived downside.

Great leaders aren’t born. Leading well requires a certain set of skills.

When you come back to work after maternity leave (or are a mom starting a new job), there are certain things you need your manager to know. The following six points are extremely important for all managers of working moms to know.

As a leader, you have an invaluable role of providing strategic direction and motivating your team to achieve certain goals and objectives. And what motivates your team today might be different tomorrow—like, say, during a global pandemic.

“Quiet quitting” is the latest buzzword, so of course we would be remiss if we didn’t address the concept in a blog post. After all, Vault Law is nothing if not trendy.

Today, 70 percent of Fortune 500 firms have internal mentoring programs. These programs focus on employee development while also boosting employee loyalty and productivity.

Many companies now operate with fully remote or hybrid teams. The good news is remote and hybrid teams have been proven to be just as or even more efficient than in-office teams.

Last time, we provided you with an overview of protected activities and workplace retaliation. If you haven’t read that entry yet, you can view it here.

We recently spoke about a variety of situations in which you might want to seek the assistance of the Human Resources department. In nearly any case, Human Resources representatives are there to help you and to foster a working environment that is both amicable and free of interpersonal conflict; however, there is a dark side to all of this.

The Human Resources department at your job doesn’t just have a somewhat ominous name, it’s also there to help you with certain workplace issues. It can be difficult to tell whether you should get Human Resources involved in any number of workplace incidents, so today we will be talking about how to tell the difference.

The alarm goes off at 7:50am and you roll out of bed. You take your new thirty second commute to the desk nearby and turn on your computer.

With Saint Patrick’s Day right around the corner, some of us might be preparing for a night of celebration with friends or with family, or perhaps with a group of coworkers who are planning to dip out at 5 and hit the nearest watering hole. Whichever the case may be, being responsible and staying safe always apply when going out for a night on the town.

You have a great educational background, significant work experience, and impressive extracurriculars. But you’re still having a hard time taking the next step in your career.

If you are attempting to do some last minute shopping for your legal assistant, secretary, or paralegal, we have some good news for you-the shopping on this front is going to be pretty easy. Unless you have a close enough relationship with this person that something more, well, personalized, is appropriate, a survey of folks in that profession suggests that the answer is very simple: straight cash money.

When you don’t like your job, dramatically marching into your boss's office and screaming, “I quit! ” can be tempting.

GoodHire, a leader in background check technology, recently released a new report on the meaning of work. GoodHire surveyed 4,000 full-time workers—an equal number of Boomers, Gen-Xers, Millennials, and Gen-Zers—to better understand the differences in the workplace by generation, the impact age has on workplace happiness, and feelings about a potential four-day workweek, among other things.

Giving constructive feedback isn’t easy. It takes skill, practice, and sensitivity.

Last summer, Firsthand surveyed more than 11,400 interns from 140 internship programs. The survey, from which we derived our 100 Best Internships ranking, asked interns to rate their internship experiences in a variety of areas, including career development, compensation, full-time employment prospects, interview process, quality of life, quality of assignments, and diversity.

Professional growth is an ongoing process. It includes not just learning and advancing within your current job but also looking ahead to future opportunities.

Making the decision to quit your job isn't easy. After all, leaving the comfort of an already established routine, especially in times as uncertain as these, is a challenge only the bravest can take on.

Working remotely offers many rewards, but it also comes with challenges. One challenge is remaining visible to your colleagues and managers when you’re a remote worker.