No matter what your goals are at work, it’s hard to move forward if you’re unaware of the concepts that can help you get there. Here’s a list of terms you need to know to bring your best self to work (along with advice on how to use them):

1. Cultural competence: The ability to understand, appreciate, and interact with people from cultures or belief systems different from your own.
2. Emotional fitness: A skill that helps you create a more supportive relationship with yourself, your thoughts and feelings, and other people.
3. Reverse engineering: Looking beyond what is evident on the surface and finding a hidden structure — one that reveals both how an object or idea was designed and how it can be re-created.
4. Planning fallacy: Underestimating the time limits and obstacles you will face when completing a task, even when it contradicts your past experience.
5. Reverse mentoring: A situation in which a younger or early career professional mentors a senior colleague.