11,381 articles related to "business and finance"

Turn Your Difficult Business Conversations into Productive Problem-Solving

How many times do you walk away from aconversation wondering whether you’ve gotten yourpoint across, been understood, resolved the issueor reached an agreement that will result in theoutcomes you want and. through the conversation,enriched the rela...

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How Effectively Do You Influence

Are you aware of your influence effectiveness? Do you knowif you are using the most appropriate influence strategiesfor your role, for your audience, and for the situation? Are you able to use the appropriate influence strategieseffectively? These ar...

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CONQUERING PAPER MOUNTAIN. Six Steps To Freedom From Paper Clutter

CONQUERING PAPER MOUNTAINSix Steps To Freedom from Paper Clutter Information is power. But unless you can find the information you need, at the moment you need it, you're powerless. Consider all the books, magazines and articles you save. You ma...

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Professional Intervention in the Family Business

Professional Intervention in theFamily-Owned BusinessRunning a successful family business is substantially more difficult than running a non-family business. There are many contributing factors. Conflict between generations as to the strategic requir...

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How to Avoid Nasty Business Surprises

Conducting business in the 21st century often requires quick decisions. This often leads to sound data being replaced by perception as the basis for making important resolutions. The risks in this approach are clear: business decisions made without a...

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Expectations At Work Can Destroy You if Don’t Communicate Them!

by Carole Nicolaides © 2002http://www.progressiveleadership.comExpectations have a powerful impact on our emotions, behaviors, and most importantly, in our performances. Have you noticed what happens when you expect no raise or promotion at work...

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Can Your Prospects Feel The Benefit

I met Rod at a Chamber of Commerce function in 1998. While everyone else took turns introducing themselves to the other business owners at the table telling them about their business, Rod was massaging my neck and shoulders. By the end of the morning...

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Simply Awful Training Tips

It's been reported that the most common human fear involvespublic speaking. In the business world, the day will comewhen most of us will be called upon to give a trainingpresentation. The result is a flock butterflies the size ofpigeons in the p...

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Can I Get A Witness

"Can I Get a Witness?"Recently, via email, I was chased, shoved to the ground, then handcuffed (at least, it felt that way) in an effort to "entice" me to join a mass associate hird party mail-out. The "mail-out," was supposedly "piggy-backing" onto ...

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Public Relations Going O.K.

Yes? Good! Still, if you’re not getting the behavior changes you paid for, you’re wasting your money.Here’s why I say that. People act on their perception of thefacts, and those perceptions lead to certain behaviors. Butsomething can be done ab...

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