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- Recent HR issues in Indian companies – Employee Engagement is a major concern - by Submitted on Sep 22, 2017 from Supriya NigamEmployee engagement is becoming an increasingly common subject of debate among Human Resources professionals. The recent HR issues in Indian companies is when talking employee participation are deciding whether or not it is relevant to the business plan, and then determining how to specify it ...
Views: 2315(1 vote) - Recruitment video is an essential part of employer branding strategy - by Submitted on Apr 19, 2017 from Supriya NigamThe video will be the best medium an organization uses to construct its employment brand and is the #1 type of Internet communication. Recruiting videos posted on an organization's livelihood website doled out via podcasts and made available on YouTube and social network sites. They can create ...
Views: 763(1 vote) - Showing Pride In Your Work - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Francis HoseinWhat do employers consider when deciding on your compensation, your promotion or whether or not to keep you when the company is going through tough times? The first things considered are your performance and your attitude towards work. Employers need to see how you are an asset to the company. ...
Views: 6254(1 vote) - Simple Ways to Cut Stress - by Submitted on Oct 16, 2011 from Mari MitchellWe hurry around trying to accomplish everything we’ve committed ourselves to, packing as much as possible into our schedules as we plummet through the day. Pushing ourselves to get from place to place on time while looking professional and in control is exhausting. The stress not only shows on ...
Views: 1105(1 vote) - Subliminal Messages Sales Training Can Make Your Sales Skills More Effective - by Submitted on Sep 05, 2009 from Stephen CraineSubliminal messages are a great sales training resource that can be added to your existing sales skills. Subliminal training can effortlessly stimulate your mind and add a new dimension to the way you use your sales training. All you have to do is put on a set of headphones, listen to a sales ...
Views: 3275(1 vote) - T.O.M.O.R.R.O.W. Is Not Yesterday-Tomorrow is the beginning of a fresh start with a new perspective, meaning, “Don’t allow the attitude and actions of yesterday to dictate your tomorrow.” - by Submitted on Jun 20, 2012 from B.L. BrownCore Values and Standards—Cross-Train Your Team What individual starts a job displaying character traits such as being unmotivated or disengaged? Absolutely none! Most employees are eager and overjoyed when starting a job. However, the truth is that employers (managers) routinely create ...
Views: 1847(1 vote) - Taking a New Approach to Building Your Business - by Submitted on Nov 18, 2011 from Samantha JohnsonAn Army of Entrepreneurs (AOE), in essence, is an internal force of loyal and committed employees. It is also a structure and a mindset that will help a business grow well beyond its founder or CEO. Well-know management expert Jennifer Prosek first implemented an AOE at her communications ...
Views: 1543(1 vote) - Ten Ways to Create an Employee-centered Workplace - by Submitted on Jun 10, 2009 from Pat LynchAn employee-centered workplace is one in which all individuals, programs, processes, and systems are focused on helping employees become fully successful. Individuals who feel valued will provide excellent products and service, which will result in the achievement of organizational goals. In ...
Views: 1182(2 votes) - Tennis...A Lesson in Life - by Submitted on Jun 30, 2010 from Barry RobertsI play tennis about four times a week. One of the guys I play with, always starts the day by tossing the ball to make his serve and announcing, “Enjoy, gentlemen!” I usually reply with, “Thanks Jon. I’m rooting for you to come in second.” (Unless, of course, Jon is my doubles partner.) Our ...
Views: 1538(3 votes) - The Appeal of Work-Life Balance To Potential Employees - by Submitted on Apr 08, 2011 from Robert BoroffAs the economy begins to recover, slowly, but surely hiring rates are picking-up, and companies are beginning to develop new tactics to attract potential employees. Many companies have taken a cue from modern and colorful workplaces, such as Google and Pixar, in order to utilize the work ...
Views: 1375(1 vote) - Top Benefits of Implementing Employee Management System in your Business - by Submitted on Aug 17, 2017 from Supriya NigamAn employee information management is a vital part of a company and also a valuable investment. The daily work and contributions of your group members play a significant role in the success of your organization, and it's crucial that you manage them accordingly. Many companies are currently ...
Views: 1037(1 vote) - Understanding the significance of back-office performance management - by Submitted on Mar 03, 2017 from Supriya NigamPerformance management options offer a framework for aligning the aims of the back office running area with those including balancing customer satisfaction to improve and profits to businesses. Performance management options are accustomed to monitoring all back office tasks when targets ...
Views: 736(1 vote) - ***7 Simple Wealth Secrets to Becoming The Next Millionaire – Next Door - by Submitted on Dec 07, 2012 from Leslie CunninghamThomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko, authors of “The Millionaire Next Door”, studied extensively how millionaires acquired their wealth. They conducted their study over a 20-year period, during which they interviewed over 500 millionaires. In their survey they discovered that most people ...
Views: 2658(3 votes) - ***A New Year’s Cure For Limiting Money Beliefs In Growing Your Business - by Submitted on Nov 19, 2013 from Leslie CunninghamMost women entrepreneurs don’t make money in a powerful way because they’re unable to distinguish their real-life money reality from their misleading thoughts and beliefs. We are mistaken when we assume that that our thoughts accurately describe our financial reality. Most often our thoughts ...
Views: 2243(3 votes) - ***How to Accomplish Your Dreams and Goals With Greater Ease - by Submitted on Mar 02, 2012 from Leslie CunninghamThe image of weaving straw into gold comes to mind when I think of how we can successfully turn dreams into reality. This alchemy is experienced when we take moments of raw inspiration (straw) from the metaphysical ethers and turn them into ideas and action. The result is our own unique ...
Views: 2380(3 votes) - ***How to Take A Fearless Moral Money Inventory - by Submitted on Sep 26, 2012 from Leslie CunninghamSometimes conflict and stress in our relationship and/or finances can be the force that wakes us up to the ways we’re not being honest. Your wake up call might be not having enough money coming in each month and watching the credit card bills add up. It might be getting older and knowing ...
Views: 2246(3 votes) - Don’t Suck Up To Anyone Higher Than You - by Submitted on Aug 26, 2009 from Andrew BaileyAccording to the web site www.idiomeanings.com, the definition of sucking up is: ‘to behave in a very friendly, flattering, or kind manner to someone higher than you in order to get a benefit.’ Usually this is done in a very contrite and deceptive manner. A person says things and does things ...
Views: 4740(6 votes) - Giving Workplace Feedback and Evaluations - by Submitted on May 13, 2010 from Nonviolent Communication Books From PuddleDancer PressWe encounter feedback in a number of ways in the workplace. When working with another person or group of people to deliver goods or services, feedback is a key component to being able to continually correct toward the goal. Feedback is also institutionalized in the annual or semiannual ...
Views: 3802(3 votes) - How To Make Money As a Freelance Writer - by Submitted on May 15, 2011 from Joy LynskeyIf you would like to go from making 50 cent per article to 20 dollars per article regularly first realize that with great English spelling and grammar as well as good research skills you can definitely achieve this goal. So what is the best way to go about this process of taking your freelance ...
Views: 1170(3 votes) - Risk Inclination – How Do You Compare to Others - by Submitted on Jan 06, 2010 from Jim McCormickBased on Proprietary Research ________________________________________ Ever wonder how risk inclined you are? And how you compare to others? As a part of my book, The Power of Risk, I conducted some research on risk inclination. The research involved people self-assessing their ...
Views: 1328(3 votes) - ***3 Tips For How to Get More Free Time - For Busy Women Entrepreneurs - by Submitted on Jan 27, 2012 from Leslie Cunningham“When my husband and I began dating we would often have a ‘veg out’ Saturday. It would involve sleeping in, watching or renting movies, playing games and eating left over's. It was quiet, relaxing and also very fun. Fast-forward 7 years of married life with 3 daughters … it surely has ...
Views: 2916(5 votes) - Tips for Creating an Engaged Workforce - by Submitted on Aug 21, 2009 from Renee CormierAre your employees satisfied or engaged? As a business owner or manager, you had better know the difference between the two. Your employees may be satisfied at work because they are happily doing the bare minimum to keep you off their backs, but that’s not the same as being engaged. Engaged ...
Views: 2396(7 votes) - ***3 Money Beliefs That Hold Women Entrepreneurs Back From Growing Their Business - by Submitted on Feb 10, 2012 from Leslie CunninghamIn coaching women entrepreneurs to transform their relationship with money in their business, marriage and life, I’ve noticed that there are three common money beliefs that consistently come up that contribute to stress, struggle and overwhelm and ultimately cause them to stay stuck at their ...
Views: 2379(6 votes) - ***5 Ways to Avoid Living a Regret-Filled Life as An Entrepreneurial Woman - by Submitted on Sep 06, 2012 from Leslie CunninghamI recently watched a Ted Talk video by Jane McGonigal who shared the top 5 most common regrets of the dying expressed to hospice workers. Her list was fascinating. As women entrepreneurs our lives are often filled with countless tasks and action steps that we must take to market our business ...
Views: 2082(2 votes) - ***A Tale of Two Managers: Command versus Commitment - by Submitted on Jul 19, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com Articles"Organizations should be built and managers should be functioning so people can be naturally empowered. If someone's doing their job...they should know their job better than anybody. They don't need to be 'empowered,' but encouraged and left alone to be able to do what they know best." — Henry ...
Views: 1224(6 votes) - ***An Unusually Simple Tip For Increasing Your Productivity in Your Business - by Submitted on Mar 02, 2012 from Leslie CunninghamOne of the common complaints I hear from women entrepreneurs is that they avoid focusing on the top-income producing tasks in their business. They habitually occupy themselves with busy work that doesn’t result in higher paying clients or more income in the door. Here is a simple tip you can ...
Views: 1957(2 votes) - ***Are You A Control Freak In Your Business? - by Submitted on Dec 31, 1969 from Leslie CunninghamIt seems like most of my life I’ve expended a great deal of energy and attention on trying to control others and everything around me. I kept a diary growing up. One entry read, “My mom got mad at me today. I’m going to promise to be a better person so she won’t get mad at me next time. ...
Views: 2869(2 votes) - ***Are You Holding Your Team Back From Top Performance? - by Submitted on Oct 29, 2013 from Leslie Cunningham* This is a true story and names have been changed Jason was the manager of a multi-million dollar hot tub business. In one of our VIP days we talked about him prioritizing his time in the morning so he could focus on the #1 priority for the business, which involved assembling some ...
Views: 1969(2 votes) - ***Bouncing Back From Fear of Failure In Your Business - by Submitted on Mar 22, 2013 from Leslie CunninghamIt was near the end of my radio interview with John Yokoyama, owner of world famous Pike Place Fish Market, when he made what we call in the coaching and consulting world, a ‘throw away comment’. It was just an off-handed comment spoken quite casually, but it was rich with ...
Views: 1755(2 votes) - ***Create A Vision For Your Business:That Makes a Difference, Makes A Profit And Makes It More Fun! - by Submitted on Mar 29, 2013 from Leslie CunninghamLike most solo entrepreneurs when I first started my business I was hyper-focused on making money. It made sense - I had to make money to pay my bills and meet my monthly expenses. Then there was always the "in-my-face" annual income goal that I held in the forefront of my mind ...
Views: 1617(2 votes) - ***How To Create Playful Financial Success In Your Business - by Submitted on Apr 19, 2013 from Leslie CunninghamI was staring into the faces of the two colleagues who had become dear friends of mine, after spending the last several days together. I was bemoaning to them (through the tears streaming down my face), “I’m so frustrated that parts of my work feel like such ...
Views: 1783(2 votes) - ***How to Manifest In Your Business - by Submitted on Jan 18, 2013 from Leslie CunninghamMany entrepreneurs wonder how to manifest in their business and life. There is a wonderful story that explains this concept so beautifully... An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life. "A fight is going on inside me," he said to the boy. "It is a terrible fight and it is between ...
Views: 1687(2 votes) - ***How to Move Past Emotional Stuckness And Accomplish (Almost) Anything In your Business! - by Submitted on Mar 01, 2013 from Leslie Cunningham* These stories are real life stories about real life people (all names and identifying characteristics have been changed). Many years ago before I became a business consultant I was a piano player and got a call to play at a venue with a musician friend of mine. Short on cash ...
Views: 2421(2 votes) - ***Taking action by itself won’t create financial success - by Submitted on May 17, 2013 from Leslie CunninghamLet’s face it - money is an emotional topic. We like to think that money is a logical, left-brain process. But in truth it isn't. Money issues almost always stem from fear and our desire to be in control. Where do these beliefs come from? In her book, "For ...
Views: 1815(2 votes) - ***The Beauty of Doing Nothing - by Submitted on May 03, 2013 from Leslie CunninghamThe other day I put my son down for his nap. And then I reluctantly forced myself to muster up the energy to turn my attention towards the endless items on my never-ending to-do list. I was fully prepared to take advantage of my time alone to get a jumpstart on everything that “needed” to be ...
Views: 2043(6 votes) - ***The Pointless Business Building Mistake You’re Making - by Submitted on Dec 31, 1969 from Leslie CunninghamOver the last few months I’ve experienced several exciting breakthroughs in my business. Yet some of these breakthroughs were immediately followed by “breakdowns” where I found myself seriously doubting my ability to achieve a particular vision or goal that I had set for myself. Recently I ...
Views: 2577(2 votes) - ***Transforming Your Relationship With Money: Does the Thought of Needing to Make More Money Make You Anxious? - by Submitted on Feb 15, 2012 from Leslie CunninghamListen to the article here Turn up your speakers and click play (If you don't see the audio button, click here to download). Does the thought of needing to make more money leave you filled with anxiety, frustration and overwhelm? Do you find yourself doubting your relationship with ...
Views: 2317(4 votes) - Be a leader not a seagul - by Submitted on Sep 17, 2009 from Frank O'TooleYou do not want to be part of the seagull system. Leadership skills training courses describe the seagull system as the leader that flies in leaves a mess everywhere and flies out again leaving their mess to be cleaned up. Leadership needs an awareness of the various diverse job roles that you ...
Views: 1226(6 votes) - Five Signs It's Time to Look for a New Job - by Submitted on Apr 26, 2010 from Hallie CrawfordWhen working with my career coaching clients about how to know when it's time to look for a new job, I always tell them that whatever they do they should not remain miserable. We all have our ups and downs at work. Some weeks we're super-productive. Other weeks, not so much. But how do you ...
Views: 1394(2 votes) - Resilience Is A Verb! - by Submitted on Jan 12, 2011 from M P FriedmanResiliency has many dimensions. It is a quality, an attitude, an ability. But most importantly, it is a choice and that means it is an action – a verb, albeit a little known one. The action of resiliency is defined by Dictionary.com as “to spring back.” In response to unexpected, adverse ...
Views: 1690(2 votes) - What Extreme Sports Can Teach You About Work - by Submitted on Jan 06, 2010 from Jim McCormickYour idea of extreme sports may be watching three football games at once at the local sports bar or playing more than eighteen holes of golf in a day. You may think there is nothing to learn from people who jump out of planes or hang off the sides of mountains. That would be wrong. While you ...
Views: 2742(6 votes) - ***How to Make a Vision Board - THAT WORKS! - by Submitted on Feb 01, 2013 from Leslie CunninghamI was 23 years old and living at home with my parents in Missouri when I became inspired to create my first vision board. I was in between seasonal work and had a deep burning desire to move out west to Montana. I didn’t have much money and I had no idea how I could afford the move ...
Views: 3122(5 votes) - ***Who You Are Makes A Difference - by Submitted on Mar 29, 2012 from Leslie CunninghamThe email was sitting in my inbox with the subject line, “Who you are makes a difference”. I thought to myself, “Great, another one of those schmaltzy forwards.” However, I felt compelled to click on it and give it a quick read through, since a client had sent it to me. Within the contents ...
Views: 2716(5 votes) - Controlling the High Cost of Turnover - by Submitted on Aug 31, 2009 from Renee CormierAll companies experience turnover to some degree. Many companies refresh their pool of employees by restructuring their organization every three to four years, and even though the change is sometimes good, it is always costly. Other companies just can’t seem to hold onto people. Sometimes this ...
Views: 1548(5 votes) - How to Find the Motivation to Avoid Distractions when Working From Home - by Submitted on Nov 17, 2009 from david chappleWhen starting out in any work from home job or home businesses, you have to ask yourself the question; How can I stay motivated? If you want to work from home successfully you are really going to have to get your act together!! You need to be disciplined in order to achieve success; and ...
Views: 1884(5 votes) - Vision attracts resources and people - by Submitted on Jul 05, 2013 from Clever ZuluVision Attracts Resources and people Circumstances that we go through in life are but a reflection of our own selves. We think in secret but all we think and secretly cherish or fear in our hearts comes to pass and the whole world is made aware as circumstance upon circumstance unfolds. Our ...
Views: 2207(5 votes) - Top Five Tips for Evaluating Employee Performance - by Submitted on Oct 08, 2011 from Barry FarrellInvesting Time in Employees Puts Money in the Bank The following situation represents an age-old challenge facing many managers when it comes to helping employees improve their job performance: "I work in an organization that doesn’t use a standard performance management system. Managers ...
Views: 2871(8 votes) - ***Are You Hiding Out and Playing Small in Your Business? - by Submitted on Aug 30, 2012 from Leslie CunninghamA client was sharing with me how he was afraid to get out and begin doing public presentations to promote his business. While he knew that he needed to make himself more visible he had a long list of concerns about why he wasn’t ready “to go public.” My client was not alone in his ...
Views: 2158(3 votes) - Become the best possible version of yourself. - by Submitted on Feb 13, 2010 from JAMES MAIOHOI was golfing with Tiger Woods the other day…..no I wasn’t…I was golfing on my daughters Wii. It doesn’t matter; my score was just as bad. How many men (and women) wish they could play GOLF like Tiger? No matter how we feel about his newly revealed personal “flaws”, he is still perhaps the ...
Views: 4076(3 votes) - How To Be A Fearless Leader - by Submitted on Sep 01, 2009 from Andrew RondeauTo be a leader means you should be brave and fearless, this however is easier said than done. After all, everyone has their own set of fears and leaders are no different. Despite your existing fears however, there are ways of becoming a fearless leader and a good one at that. The very first ...
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