Leadership in business– Growth and Profitability in Tough Economic Times
There is a very beautiful saying, “When the going gets tough, the tough get going!” This is actually what should sum up your attitude during any type of difficulty you are facing. Proving that the right leadership will ensure you stay alive and ahead. When …
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Sales Skills Everyone Needs, Even If You Aren’t In Sales
If you think that sales skills are exclusively the prerequisites of sales people, you could not be more wrong. Why? Because each one of us, whatever field we are working in, is selling something sometime. In order to be successful, you have to sell your …
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How Leaders Respond When a Company Is Not Doing Well – Good Leadership Skills to the Rescue
When a company is failing, it’s just like a sick body, symptoms begin to appear. Often treatment is aimed at treating symptoms of the disease, while the disease itself is ignored. In due course, if the disease is not treated it will cause death. Good …
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Confusing the Speaking of Words with the Art of Communicating
People confuse the speaking of words with the art of communicating, and then are dismayed with the outcome. The space between listening and speaking is where communication takes place. Assuming I am correct, how did we ever get the idea that when we speak words …
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Think Like a Musician to Improve Your Business Communication
How does thinking like a musician relate to improving your business communication? I’m not a musician so I am not speaking from experience, but I believe there is a parallel we can draw between the two. Musicians practice their craft. They spend hours and hours …
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Business Communication, Just Call
This post is all about business communication and the importance of using an old technology, the telephone. Many of you know that in January of this year my book Finding the Fork in the Road was released. Before the launch I reached out to literally …
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Using Technology to Avoid Conversations Is Not a Business Communication Style
Is using technology a business communication style, or a way to avoid the difficult or unpleasant? Technology is indeed wonderful, isn’t it? We are able to obtain information in seconds on the Internet, communicate with others in a blink of the eye, and have access …
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The Consequences of No Agreement in Business Communication
One of the biggest challenges in business communication is obtaining agreement. I’m not referring to everyone agreeing to a decision, with marching orders that move them forward. What I’m referring to is agreement on terms, agreement on conditions of satisfaction, and agreement on time frames. …
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Employee Accountability: Is It Possible?
One question I am often asked is how to get employees to be accountable. In fact, many employers don’t believe employee accountability is even possible. Their solution is to just give up. Now, that doesn’t prevent them from getting frustrated and downright ballistic at times, …
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You Can’t Grow Your Business Without The Right Team
Earlier this month I wrote a post titled Grow Your Business: Subliminal Mistakes Leaders Make. One of the mistakes I mentioned was undervaluing the importance of having the right team. Companies place a lot of emphasis on driving sales, having the right marketing materials and …
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