Triple Your Ability to Make Friends and Influence People

Have you ever experienced being able to relate easily and comfortable with certain people yet other people are difficult to talk to? This article explains how this happens and how to solve this important problem.

Lessons from Sports Commentators: Give Credit to Co-Workers

Do the departments in your company bicker, complain and criticize each other? If so, there's a lot that your people can learn from sports commentators. This article outlines this message.

Corporate Gift Ideas

Traditional greetings such as cards and bunches of flowers are no longer customary in the corporate world, which persistently demands creative and innovative trends. Specially, business gifts require a thoughtful approach and must make lasting impressions over the clients or gift recipients. It has been a practice to present corporate gifts to customers, partners, associates and employees in the form of incentives, family travel or holiday packages, bonus or loyalties, medals, tabletop display items, gold or silver coins with company emblems, and so on.

Business Communication Etiquette

How is your business protocol and etiquette knowledge? Don't miss out on creating solid and profitable business relationships because you don't know and are not practicing proper relationship building etiquette practices. Read on to see how to become effective and influential in all your relationships with the use of proper etiquette.

No One is Exempt from Workplace Communication Responsibilities

Communication is one of the keys to running a successful business. And no one in a business should be exempt from workplace communication responsibilities. All employees and management of all companies no matter what size must learn proper business communications to insure excellence and productivity in the workplace.

Forget Donald Trump! It's Personal And It's Still Business!

Relationships and not just profits are a vital ingredient in every venture. Every manager or leader of a group should endeavor to build positive relationships among his or her team if they are to get optimal performance from them. People need to feel that you care about them enough to give them another chance when things occasionally go awry.

Personal Education and Communication Pathways and Pitfalls

There is no one best communication style or magical speak-by-the-numbers formula that will make you a compelling verbal communicator. However, if you master the following steps, you'll become an above average communicator and leader

Want Your Boss To Listen To An Idea?

You have an Idea to help improve things at work. How do you get your boss to listen to you?

Work Place Communication and Confronting Abuse at the Office

When people talk about abuse in Work Place Communication circles many people assume right away they are talking about sexual abuse; either a woman boss against a man, a Gay man taunting a straight man or a Man making sexual remarks to a woman.

Conflict in Workplace Teams: 5 Ways to Capitalize on Healthy Conflict and Make Better Decisions

In workplace teams, individual IQs might average 140, yet the collective IQ might be closer to 85. So said neuroscientist and clinical psychologist Richard Ross when commenting about unproductive conflict at work. It doesn't have to be that way! Here are five key strategies for any organization that wants to capitalize on the upside of conflict.

Email Etiquette 101 - Or What You Shouldn't Do To Annoy the Pants Off Your Recipients!

Email is for communication but some people do annoy the pants off others by not following certain rules when they email. Here are 9 ways to stop being a rude emailer!

Employee Partnership Through Delegation

If you want to develop high performance employee partnerships, you must do so by example. One way to lead by example is to exhibit self-confidence. You can show that you are a confident leader. A leader has personal power. A boss gets his or her power from the title on a business card. Show your confidence by delegating tasks and responsibilities to your team members. Delegate in a way that builds alliance relationships so team members become interdependent with one another rather than dependent or independent.

Instant Messaging at the Office Can Brew a Long Term Headache

As convenient as instant messaging is - and in the corporate world, Lotus Sametime is the standard - using it has been the downfall of many office workers. Within the same company, policies regarding the use of instant messaging differ from one department to another. If you transfer within the company, you may discover the pitfalls the hard way, so for your own sake, be wary.

Conflict at Work May Be the Snake Under the Rug (Part 1 of 2)

Failure to address important conflicts at work doesn't make the conflict go away and can often intensify it or breed distrust in the work environment. This article uses a parable by Peter Senge to consider what happens when conflict goes underground.