What sets you apart from your peers? Can you speak a second language? In a room full of professionals in your field, how many are great at public speaking or understand how to work across word ...

A personal business plan, sometimes called a personal development plan, is guided by the same principles as a corporate business plan. You write a personal business plan to review your personal goals ...

This month's column will bring my writing about the concepts of self-assessment and personal planning full circle. In my previous two columns, I discussed the ways in which you need to lay the ...

Entrepreneurs tend to focus the bulk of their energy on developing and tracking a business plan. This is essential to success for any startup. But when you focus on long term goals for the business, ...

I am obsessed with personal development because it's helped me completely change my life. Only 10 years ago, I had no connections, no money, and worked a minimum wage retail job. Now, I have a Ph.D.

In many small businesses, just one person handles the human resources function, and sometimes it is the owner of the company. Empowering employees to take responsibility for their own professional ...