How to Say No Rejection hurts. No one likes to give it or to receive it. We all wish we could live in a world where everyone said "yes." And yet sometimes you have to say "no."
Listening Strategically Listen strategically, by gathering and processing information that helps you stay on top of issues that affect your organization.
Organisational Culture for Continuous Improvement The UK's leading Business Organisational & Culutral Change and Continuous Improvement Consultants, Tim Franklin, and I have been working on his new book. But, do businesses undertand the journey to Continuous Improvement?
Personnel Access Poses a Continued Risk A thoughtful attempt at drawing a correlation between an adequate personnel security program and due diligence in illustrating how vulnerable any business, organization or system actually is. It further illustrates how personnel with access pose the greatest risk by virtue of their knowledge and freedom of movement. Taken for granted is that group of personnel that fall in the category of service providers.
Managing People - Why Is It So Difficult? When managers face a problem with one of their team they try to solve it logically and then they wonder why it all goes wrong.
Managing People - No One Shows You What To Do It's often just taken for granted by senior managers in an organisation that managers will have the "natural" skills to motivate, coach, give feedback and get the best out of their people. Tiger Woods has the natural skill to play golf but he's been listening to trainers and coaches for years and he still does.
Managing People - No More Mr Tough Guy Managers are misreading the signs sent by the media and our culture and it's creating difficulty for them. Some managers can adopt the tough guy approach very easily but most feel uneasy with it. The ones, who're uneasy, in an attempt not to be seen as weak, then manage their people in a way that
makes them as a manager feel uncomfortable. This ultimately causes problems with their teams.
Motivation - It Starts with Acknowledgement The people you manage need acknowledgement and spending quality time with them is the way to do it. Just to be clear - acknowledgement isn't just about praising people; it's about spending time, listening and speaking with them.
Difficult Staff - It Pays To Get To Know Them Better We're not just talking about difficult members of your team; we're talking about all of them and how important it is to understand them as individuals.
It's important because it's important to them.
How to Deal With Salespeople If you are an executive, you may sometimes feel like a open jelly sandwich at a picnic. Every crazy critter in the world wants to bite into your budget. Here's how to protect your time and preserve your sanity.
Business Innovation – Organizational Structure Reality tells us that there are many reasons why an organisation's structure has its shape (logistics, organic growth, history, size, market share, future strategy) and is, like organisational culture, not easily changed or restructured. Often, there are valid reasons not to make structural adjustments at all.
Business Innovation – Core Competency and Competitive Advantage A core competence is one which critically underpins the organisation's competitive advantage. Companies can differentiate themselves from their competitors with specific core competencies, but often not for long. The differentiation is difficult to sustain and can often be imitated by competitors.
Innovation Management – Eliciting Dominant Ideas One of the most useful methods of generating ideas is to elicit the dominant ideas or assumptions of an endeavour. Each dominant idea in turn then acts as the root to a pathway from which other ideas can be elicited. This is akin to creating a custom framework for the task.
Business Innovation – Ignoring Content A useful approach when generating ideas is simply to ignore content. Evaluating content is a hindrance rather than an enhancer. If the people who wrote Red Riding Hood had realised the number of interpretations and analysis it was going to receive, they may have given up on the project.
Business Innovation – Improvisation One of the most valuable fields of experience and one that creativity and innovation leaders should engage in - especially business leaders - is improvisation. Many of the skills of improvisation apply directly to idea generation:
Strange Facts About Babies And Parenting Some strange and amusing facts about babies and parenthood: men are quicker than women at changing baby; will your baby be left or right-handed?; experts say th...
Cosmetics – The Practical Way To Beauty! Want that healthy, tanned look without that elusive Spanish holiday? Use cosmetics! For cosmetics is the easiest way to enhance your image. Image is what the co...
What to Expect After Gastric Bypass Surgery Most patients recover after gastric bypass surgery without complications. Typically, those who undergo the Roux-en-Y gastric bypass procedure, which involves s...
Finding Your WHY! So many peple get ino Network Marketing without any focus. They haven't a clue as to what there 'Why' is. But, with the proper coaching and the willingness to...
The Thief of Fulfillment One of the biggest problems we can encounter when we consider making changes to our life is fear. Even though the changes we want to make will bring more happin...
The Diet Debate Ended Which diet is the best? ALL of them and NONE of them.
There is no one diet for everyone. We are all different. Learn how to easily know what is right for you.
Blogging Your Way To Success Part 2 By now, you have already configured your blog name, description, personal profile, and the page template. As soon as you set up your blogging account with Blogg...
After Suicide: Returning to Life, Thanks to an Owl Have you ever lost the ability to laugh? I did. When Arlyn died, I knew I would never laugh again. How could I really laugh, when I felt so empty? How could I l...
How To Find Your Lost Dog Tips for finding your lost dog. Discover the steps to ensuring your dog's safe return. Don't let your dog become someone's new pet.
Child Education The initial state of happiness about an own child is often overcome with annoyance after even a short period of time. Children quickly grow an own personality, ...
An Effective Golf Swing Exercise There are many types of effective golf swing exercises. Golf swing exercise is very important because the golf swing is at the very heart of the golf game. It i...
So What is Organic? We scan the supermarket and health food store shelves and find there is a huge range of products on our shelves that claim to be "all natural" and "organic", b...
Writing and Walking – Beating Writers Block Writing and walking are a seemingly odd mix of topics for an article, but they go well together. Particularly if you write during breaks in your walk.
The Perfect Porch Swing There is a magical quality to porch swings. In his summertime classic Dandelion Wine, Ray Bradbury describes the "ritual of the front-porch swing." "In the gar...
Enlightenment, Moving to a New Level of Awareness This channelled message from Joseth was personal, and I am reluctant to publish these types of articles. However there was a purpose and that purpose was reveal...
Romancing The Senses Romance can be experienced in numerous ways, but it is best enjoyed when you get all your senses in on the action. The following are suggestions for getting the...
What is a Secured Loan? We certainly don't live in a world that waits for us to save up our money before we can pay for something.
