Windows To The Soul

Be aware of attire, hand movements and other non-verbal cues from both sides of the table during negotiations, interviews and meetings.  They are frequently a deciding factor with the person across the table as you discuss new positions, promotions and contracts.

For All The Gouda

There are 2.5 entry-level job postings for each new 4-year graduate in STEM fields compared to 1.1 postings for each new BA graduate in non-STEM fields.  STEM jobs offer a 26% salary premium of approximately $14,000 compared to non-STEM careers.  Find out more at http://www.burning-glass.com/research/stem/

Life Matters

Add value to your team from a place of strength, honor and power as you operate in your professional and personal life with a deep inner knowing of your intrinsic value fused with an awareness of the inherent value of others.

Perfecting Performance

Performing artists are athletes. Like athletes, performing artists practice and/or perform most days with little off season, play through pain, "compete" in challenging environments, and risk career-threatening injury.  There are several organizations, institutions and universities who have engaged in collaborative exchange and application of wellness, training and performance research and initiatives to integrate the science of sport and the performing arts for the mutual benefit of both.  (Photo: University of Northern Iowa)
 

Immersive Entertainment

Game changers define the strategies in the arts for 2014 such as immersive museum large-scale entertainment-art, new tech millionaire art investors, over-professionalization” of art, recession proof investment art, and emerging art economies in Brazil, Russia, India, China Indonesia, South Africa, Turkey (photo: The Museum of Modern Art)

 

 

 

You Think You're So Smart

Brace yourselves for the unprecedented growth and maturation expected in 2014 of anytime, anywhere, on-demand information, interaction and entertainment in areas such as space tourism, wearable technology, physical world networking, robotics, 3D printer, unmanned aerial vehicles, intelligent personal assistants, social gaming consoles, smart-televisions, smart watches and smart glasses. 
 

Working In Harmony

Musical training might guard against mental decline and result in more efficient information processing (Neuropsychologia, Dr. Ines Jentzsch and colleagues)