"Are you a perfectionist?

"Do your brainstorming sessions create a drizzle or a flood of ideas?

"One of the keys to sounding more natural in your spoken English is mastering the rhythm of the language.

These 21 tips can help any virtual team overcome the inherent limitations of long-distance collaboration.

The potential benefits of team-based collaboration are undeniable, but some experts worry that companies are going overboard and overloading the employees they need the most.

Follow these examples of using active listening during a job interview.

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"For many people, the bulk of their LinkedIn activity is the digital equivalent of collecting a pile of business cards.

"For many people, the bulk of their LinkedIn activity is the digital equivalent of collecting a pile of business cards.

"The need for respect is intertwined with many basic human needs, but doesn’t receive…well, the respect that it deserves when it comes to workplace performance.

According to Seth Godin (photo, left), "We skew our thinking based on the first feedback we get.

"Like most employers, Chieh Huang [photo, left] isn’t interested in hiring people who are overly rigid or who know it all.

"Like most employers, Chieh Huang [photo, left] isn’t interested in hiring people who are overly rigid or who know it all.

"Hit refresh to lock eyes with another imaginary stranger.

"Hit refresh to lock eyes with another imaginary stranger.

"With 90 percent of executives already researching their company purchases on mobile devices, it won’t be long before voice search becomes common in business circles.

"We’ve collected real stories about candidates who were well on their way to snagging a new role, but didn’t, all or at least in part because of a social media post (or posts) someone on the hiring side found during the vetting process.

"With 90 percent of executives already researching their company purchases on mobile devices, it won’t be long before voice search becomes common in business circles.

"Being overwhelmed is no excuse.

"Want to communicate more effectively?

"Challenging management and performance conversations regularly run off the rails.

"Bezos is Amazon's chief writing evangelist, and his advocacy for the art of long-form writing as a motivational tool and idea-generation technique has been ordering how people think and work at Amazon for the last two decades—most importantly, in how the company creates new ideas, how it shares them, and how it gets support for them from the wider world.

"Hiring managers will expect you to demonstrate that you are an effective salesperson during the interview.

"There are certain parts of the interview process that people overly obsess over and spend an inordinate amount of time focusing on.

Conversational skills, active listening, negotiation, conflict resolution, nonverbal communication, collaboration, and productive meetings---prepare students for the demands of workplace communication with Excellence in Business Communication's expanded coverage of interpersonal communication.