Story Ideas for Reporters

• What do employers mean when they tell you to “take initiative”?
• Is email a boon or bane to productivity?
• Communication mishaps that can make you meatloaf
• Grammar goofs that “downgrade” your career
• Presentation visuals that support rather than sabotage
• Creating executive presence
• What makes meetings matter?
• Making impact in a meeting
• Coming to consensus—what helps and what hinders?
• Why we don’t listen to each other—and the payoff if we did!
• Resolving conflict without punching someone out
• What happens when you whine at work?
• How to change things at work without whining
• What traits make a star employee?
• Six test questions to find your calling in life
• How do you know if you’ve found the ideal job?
• What basketball says about success strategies on the job
• Selling across gender lines
• Saving time when you write at work
• What life balance is—and is not
• Is life balance a bigger struggle for women than men?
• Why customer service has gone south
• Service reps who sell as well as they serve