Tips on How to Handle Conflict in the Workplace

Conflict in the workplace is inevitable. When you throw a group of people together, in close quarters, differences are bound to surface. Here are some tips on how to handle conflict in the workplace.

More on Difficult Discussions at Work: Planning Your Approach

There's a lot to think about when you need to initiate a difficult interaction -- the kind of discussion that is required when a colleague is taking credit for your ideas, is not delivering on their part or is just plain making you look bad.

Put An Executive Summary to Work - and Make Sure it Gets Read!

Time, time, time. Consider these numbers: the average executive spends 22 percent writing and reading memos, reports, letters. That equals eleven workweeks. And they are spending over 50 percent of their time either reading your communication or responding to it! So if you want the big cheese to read your report, make certain that your executive summary—written for that decision maker—sings. Here are the details.

Attending a Conference or Seminar? Be Prepared

Going to a day-long seminar or even a week-long conference?

The Area Where To Look For When There is a Problem

There is a problem. Somewhere. Nothing unusual but these things happen in every organization... Where would you look first? There are four areas to explore.

Email Hot-Seat: Windows Live Mail Beta Review

Microsoft is in the midst of building a new Web 2.0 property branded as Windows Live (currently in beta). Windows Live is part of Microsoft’s strategy to directly compete with Google in their core areas such as search, mapping, and email. This is a preview of the Windows Live beta product.

Selecting a Mediator: How to Find the Right Professional for a Workplace Dispute

As the use of outsourced dispute resolution grows, it's more critical than ever that organizations know how to select the right mediator for the job. This article provides you with key questions to ask and the kind of information you want to get out of the prospective mediator's answers.

Business Gifts

The increased competition in the market has made corporate gifts more commonplace. Businesses use gifts to appease, motivate and retain employees, and also cement relationships with clients and encourage new ones.

Workplace Harassment

At a recent American Psychological Association conference, psychologist Paula Grubb from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health reported a very disturbing finding—nine out of ten workplaces in the United States experience some level of uncivil behavior, verbal abuse, and bullying.

Formal Versus Informal Behavior? Which One When?

How do you appear at work? As an incredibly competent leader or as a likeable and folksy friend? Which is better for your image? Did you know that you have a choice? Find out what others are doing and saying about this issue!

How To Make The Translation Process Less Labour Intensive

Although in fact it ended only two decades ago, the era of handwritten or typewriter translations is one that most of us are not nostalgic about – if they remember it at all. To any modern-day translator, versed in – and addicted to – the cut-and-paste functionality of the latest word processing software, it is almost unimaginable there was ever a time in which translations were produced with a pencil and an eraser, or with a typewriter and correcting fluid. Having said that, there is no denying that the translation process has remained extremely labour intensive.

Donald Trump Apprentice TV Series Teaches a Bad Lesson in Office Communication

Donald Trump Apprentice TV Series is in fact a view of what is wrong with corporate America and it functions much like a dysfunctional family. This sends the wrong message to up-and-coming business professionals.

Work Place Communication for Air Traffic Controllers

Believe it or not many business executives do not feel that workplace communication is an important thing to consider or concentrate on in their businesses. However, for these executives who do not believe that workplace communication adds the incredible synergy

Work Place Communication and Failures in Natural Disasters

During natural disasters of Mother Nature, often work place communication can be the key between life and death. Workplace communication and failures are nothing new to natural disasters and often those who study man-made accidents