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• 5 Things I Hate About Presentations

  

  I am surely not the only one in the world that gets irritated by some of the things that people do when giving presentations. Some of these things that some, OK... Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2011 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Dealing with Difficult People at Work – 10 Tips

  

  Conflict caused by the inability to manage difficult people at work can waste huge amounts of time, energy and productivity and can lead to long-term effects... Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2011 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Company Team-Building

  

  The thing with team-building is that it is one of those subjects that is so ambiguous, meaning so many different things to so many different people that it is... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2011 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS

• Should Follow Fridays Be Banned on Twitter?

  

  To #FF or not to #FF, that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the Tweets and Retweets of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a... Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2011 BUSINESS, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Ten Reasons Why E Learning Doesn’t Work in Organisations

  

  Reading the title you may have been put off to read this post, especially if you are in any way involved in E Learning, so I’ll just iron things out here. Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2011 BUSINESS, TECH

• Ten Reasons Why E-Learning Doesn’t Work

  

  Reading the title you may have been put off to read this post, especially if you are in any way involved in E Learning, so I’ll just iron things out here.... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2011 BUSINESS, TECH

• Lifelong Learning – Lessons from a Seagull

  

  I guess most have heard of the seminal books by Richard Bach, notably a story of a gull, called Jonathan Livingstone Seagull. If you haven’t, then there is stil... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2011 BUSINESS, CAREER, LIFE COACH

• Social Media Can’t Kill Email … Can It?

  

  As a glib response, Email is already slowly killing off email! “People are spending more time on social networking sites and less time on email sites and there’... Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2011 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Knowledge is No Longer Power

  

  The expression was supposedly keyed by Francis Bacon in the 16th century, so it is strange that something that probably held credence about 500 years ago... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2011 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Death by Powerpoint – How to Kill off a Presentation

  

  You’ve all heard of the expression, “Death by Powerpoint” – a bit of a hackneyed phrase, but nevertheless true, and death by Powerpoint is always fatal –... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2011 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Dealing with Aggressive Customer Complaints – Using The DESCRI Model

  

  Working in a service industry or in a customer-facing role can be quite stressful, especially when problems arrive with a client. Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2011 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Communication Problems and Best Practices in Outsourcing

  

  Effective communication plays a big part in the world of outsourcing where people with different nationalities, culture, and interests work in cooperation to... Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2011 BUSINESS

• How Do You Know If You Are Getting Coaching?

  

  Coaching - the word that either leaves us with very positive or very negative feelings, due in part to the pseudo-psychological techniques that are sometimes... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2011 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Want to Be More Effective? 20 Tips to Create a ‘Not-To-Do’ List

  

  The great thing about process time is that it lets us do just that – take a step back from the breakneck speed of life at work and concentrate more on the How... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2011 BUSINESS, LIFE COACH, LIFESTYLE

• Social Media and Business – The Customer is King Again!

  

  Giving good customer service ought to be one of the first objectives and priorities of any business that provides goods or services, in order to sell more... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2011 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS, SOCIAL MEDIA, TECH

• Leveraging Learning from Annual Appraisals

  

  It’s that time of year again – the swallows are arriving, birds are building their nests, the days are getting longer and warmer, and, oh, yeah, it’s time for... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2011 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS

• Coaching the Alpha Male

  

  Highly intelligent, confident, and successful, alpha males represent about 70% of all senior executives.As the label implies, they’re the people who aren’t happ... Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2011 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS, LIFE COACH

• Tips for Confident and Effective Presentations

  

  Roscoe Tanner famously said, « The human brain is a wonderful thing. It starts working even before the moment that we are born and only stops functioning the... Read more

  Posted on 21 April 2011 BUSINESS, CAREER

• Coaching Tools – The Johari Window

  

  The Johari window was invented by two Americans in the 1950′s, Joseph Luff and Harry to explore relationships and interpersonal skills as part as an... Read more

  Posted on 21 April 2011 BUSINESS, COMPUTING, TECH

• Why Bother Writing Learning Objectives?

  

  Why bother writing Learning Objectives? Why go to the bother of writing learning objectives for your training program? Our business sees many programs that... Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2011 BUSINESS, CAREER, ECONOMICS