How to Jerk-Proof Your Emails

Communicating via email can cause tons of unnecessary damage to your personal and professional life. Here are 4 tips to help you not be perceived as a jerk.

Everything Counts

Everything you say; every thought you entertain; and everything you do has a direction, which serves as an advance or a retreat in respect to your pursuit of excellence. Everything, regardless of size or intent, has bottom-line consequences; therefore, everything counts — this is the golden rule of excellence.

Choose Your Favorite (Model): 1,2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 or 9

There are various models to find (on the internet) and they all want to communicate something to us. The question raised in this article is: what model would you choose, if there is only one criteria: the number (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9) of outcomes.

Power Questions that Turn Trouble Makers into Problem Solvers

One of the biggest stresses on management is the squeeky wheel that always needs more grease. Some complaints are valid and others are annoying. The gut reaction is to discount, ignore or confront. Instead, try the four power questions turn chronic complainers to empowered problem solvers.

Employee Feedback - Building a Positive Workplace Culture

Managers spend around 14% of their time redoing or correcting the mistakes of employees. Could constructive feedback help in improving employee productivity and working relationships? This article draws on some of the research that highlights what’s really happening in our workplaces, offers some strategies that have worked for other businesses and leaves you to draw you own conclusions. Employee feedback just might be worth trying.

Policies and Procedures are Important

Having clear concise detailed policies and procedures is a key factor in a successful business. Having these written down and accessible is workplace communication.

Effectively Using Email in Not-For-Profit Organizations

In the age of the electronic message, many not-for-profit organizations are missing out on vital communication opportunities by doing things the way they’ve always been done. Organizations who successfully leverage email as an instant communication tool can reap the benefits every day.

The Corporate Gift Challenge

Do you like to feel appreciated for your hard work? Do you feel that you should reward others for their hard work and dedication? Are you in support of corporate gift giving? If you are undecided, try taking the Corporate Gift Challenge.

Partnership Conflict - Creating Professional Relationships That Flourish

Is it a vital ingredient for the partners of a successful law firm to get on and relate well to each other? You may be surprised by the answer to this.

The Conference Call - A Great Way To Communicate

To participate in a conference call, you will have to be invited or be hosting it. Usually an invite can be given in person, through the mail, by e-mail, or even by phone. You would dial the number that had been given to you, which will connect you to the host, or the operator who is assisting the call.

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.

Meaning Opportunities

The world wide web is an awesome sea of information on all fields of knowledge and every day living. It is so huge that we need very advanced tools called Search Engines to help us deal with this process of finding knowledge, information and all kind of answers to human curiosity.

Flexibility in the Workplace: Making a Single Mom's Job Easier

More and more women have entered into the workforce than in the past. Furthermore, there has been a large influx of single mothers working to make a living for their children. Several of these women have encountered a situation where they either had to leave work early or could not report to work at all, due to a family emergency. How can corporations make a single mom's job easier?

Business Tsunami Hitting Shores Of Traditional Telecom Industry; (Baby) Bell Tolls For Good Ole’ Mo

Some of the largest, and oldest telecom companies in the US are feeling the initial impact of an enormous wave of technology-driven customer migration to internet based, or Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), telephone service.