Use Anger Productively: A 5 Step Process

Anger is neither good nor bad! It is simply energy. It is your natural emotional energy that arises when you feel like something (or someone) is blocking you from getting what you need or want. For this purpose, anything on the frustration to rage continuum is considered anger. Without making any judgments about whether you should need or want any particular thing, here is how you can direct your own supercharged energy. 1. Notice that you’re angry. Sometimes it is unmistakable — if... Read more »

The Beauty of Behavior: Know More and Struggle Less

Most of us have heard of these types of instruments before: Myers-Briggs (MBTI), Social Styles, DISC, Colors, etc. There are many of these type tools available. And most of us have taken at least one of these over the years, perhaps as a part of a college course, or in our jobs at work. Usually our response is something like, “yea, that’s pretty much like me” and then we leave the experience thinking that was nice to know, but “so what?” What do I DO with that knowledge? Like... Read more »

The Most Effective Methods For Motivating Employees Are Low Cost

Employees are an important stakeholder of any organization whether it is large or small. However, managers are often too busy with running the day to day operations of the company that little, if any, time is spent on a motivation strategy. This is unfortunate because a high performance work team is actually an easy goal to achieve. Why should you read on? So you can increase the bottom line. If every employee made one minor change, as a result of increased motivation, then the result on the bottom... Read more »

Discussions are Killing your Business?

Have you ever sat in a meeting where everyone is busy giving their point of view and trying to prove why they are right? Where no one is actually listening or trying to understand other individuals points of view. The alternative meeting format is where everyone listens to and agrees with the meeting leader. No one contributes or adds ideas, they are just compliant. In my experience most meeting are either one or the other. But when you think about it, what is the point of most meetings? Meetings... Read more »

How Business Coaches Help In Team Building

A Business Coach helps in the improvement of your business performance and image. The coach develops an agenda that works on improving your business strengths and honing your special skills. Business coaching though an individualized approach requires complete cooperation and transparency between the coach and the businessman, so that it ensures that the targets are achieved. The field was created to assist business owners to solve problems, increase strategic thinking, improve communication skills,... Read more »

The Internet Home Business Winning Power Comes From The Team Spirit

Many internet home business team members want to be known by name and their target is to get the respect inside the team. These are very natural needs and a great source of power for the team leader. For an internet home business newbie a good team spirit can save his whole business, because it is the spirit, which makes newbies to take contacts and make questions. They also want to become experts and successful. In the modern internet home business marketing the sharing is a magical word. As a... Read more »

Mentoring the Difficult Employee

Mentoring is not an easy task. It is made even more challenging when dealing with the “difficult” employee. Here are the top 6 techniques for managing through the “difficult relationships” and coming out a winner when it’s all over. 1. Separate the employee from the situation. First of all, it is not the employee who is difficult, it is the situation. Separate the employee from the situation in your mind and through your actions so that you can build a cohesive relationship... Read more »

Star Gazing

One of my favorite places to shop in town reserves a parking space closest to the door for its employee of the month. That retailer, like many businesses, knows the importance of small, regular gestures that publicly recognize employees. Such kudos build employee loyalty, inspire excellence and motivate workers to perform at a high level month after month. A recent article by Charles Christian entitled “Motivate With An Employee Incentive Program,” summed up the value of such efforts.... Read more »

Pesonal Influence in Business

The influencing is a process, when you convince other person to change their attitudes or / and relations, belief or conduct. There are many methods to make it work, but they usually get in one of six categories, each of which administers by the basic psychological principle. These principles: a succession, interchange, social responsibility, conformity, sympathy and deficiency. The obligations and succession This principle is encompass following: as soon as person makes a decision, he begins to... Read more »

Global Outreach Through Secure Webconferencing

Once upon a time, we used to think of ourselves in terms of what went on in our own country as being very important. What went on in other countries was their own business. With differences in language, customs, and currency, our outlook was very provincial. The computer and the internet has changed all that. Many of us are now multi-lingual, to where it matters not what languages we can read, speak, and write. Currency differences are becoming less formidable. We now have automatic currency... Read more »