Co-workers are like family. Most of the time, you don’t get to choose them and there will inevitably be people around with whom you naturally clash. However, at work, how well you relate with others and whether your co-workers like …
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As virtual work becomes more common, as we rely more and more on email to communicate with our team (and often via mobile devices!), and as we expand our use of new technologies promising increased productivity, new challenges emerge for …
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Change is essential and inevitable for all organizations, but some people are better at coping with it than others. Dana Brownlee is the founder of Professionalism Matters, a national corporate consulting company that trains groups to boost team productivity in …
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Not too long ago, I wrote a post Five Steps to Leading Effective Meetings, which is a good starting point when you are preparing to lead a meeting. But the reality is, you can prepare all you want, but many …
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Every day, I get at least three requests from people who want to write guest posts on my personal blog. I have given up responding to these people. Why? Because looking at my blog for 30 seconds will tell you …
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It’s one of the great injustices of Corporate America. Complex processes spring up around everything, and only some of them make sense. As someone with an eye toward improving productivity and adding to the bottom line at your organization, inefficient, …
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My colleagues Bruce Tulgan and Jeff Coombs at Rainmaker Thinking have trained thousands of managers in their 20+ year careers as generational management experts. In that time, they’ve identified five problems with the typical classroom-model of training. Training is short-lived …
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