7 Ways to Harness the Power of Questions »
We all ask questions every part of every day from "Did you sleep well?" to "How can we come in under budget?" to "What was the best part of your day?". Simply asking questions isn't enough - you already do that - asking better questions is the key to more success and greater achievements. This article offers 10 ideas separated into three categories designed to help you ask great questions.
Feedback Isn't Enough »
Benchmarking current performance and evaluating past experiences is important. However, there is another piece element to improving performance and productivity - feedforward.
Getting Greater Creativity by Getting Past the Fear of Failure »
Creativity often is hindered by the fear of failure. Leaders can help reduce that fear and therefore generate much higher levels of creativity within their teams and organizations. These seven suggestions can help move people from fearful to fearless.
Am I on Track Towards My Goals? »
For climbers, reaching the peak of the tallest, most challenging, mountains usually means taking many, many switchbacks along the way. It's rarely a straight line from the bottom of the mountain to the peak. The same can be said for achieving the most challenging, boundary-stretching goals. The path from setting the goal to achieving the goal typically doesn't move directly from beginning to end. Here are five lessons to learn from the switchbacks.
How to Delegate Successfully »
You are a hard working team leader, you average 12 - 14 hours a day. Everyone can see you are a great leader, you are the first to arrive and the last to leave. Frankly if you weren't around the whole department would fall apart. You have your finger on the pulse of everything and I mean everything - so why do you feel so out of control.
8 Strategies For Effective Business Communication »
When in business, one of the main goals is to achieve reoccurring sales and referrals. In order for this goal to be achieved, the business owner needs to ensure the customer is happy with the service or product being offered. A customer’s happiness can be from effective communication on the part of the business owners and associates. At least 65 percent of each and every day, humans spend communicating, either verbally or in writing. When you really think about that statistic, the importance of how we communicate with each other becomes obvious.
Good Translation: Voice of the Business »
I think, on this point, you also agree with me. Every growing business needs to present their existence in the market. For this, they require a mean by which they can reach directly to their prospective customers.
How to Speak Fluent Body Language »
Body language is the unspoken communication we all use in every face-to-face encounter with other human beings. You could say it's more powerful than anything said aloud.
How To Make “The Ask!” - Tips for Effectively Recruiting Your Team »
Many times you make requests of others: to join a group, committee or team, to perform a task or to assist with a project. How do you make the ask is often the key to getting “Yes” as an answer. Tips to hear those magic words: "YES, I'd be glad to!"
Mehrabian's Rule and Giving Feedback »
In my last article I talked about the way communication is split into three sections, the words, the way they're said, and body language, and quoted Professor Albert Mehrabian's figures and findings.
Phone Phobia- 5 Steps to Overcome Call Reluctancy »
You just started your first network marketing business. You love the company and the products. You know early on that you want to build a team, but where do you start?
Information Management »
Information management is the handling of information acquired by one or many disparate sources in a way that optimizes access by all who have a share in that information or a right to that information. Through the 1970's this was largely limited to files, file maintenance, and life cycle management of paper and a small number of other media.
Communication - Body Language - 5 Top Tips »
You'd think that talking to people face to face would be by far the easiest way to communicate, wouldn't you, and that can be true. But did you know that according to Professor Albert Mehrabian only 7% of the actual words we speak make up the communication, with 38% being the way we say what we say, and a massive 55% body language.
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