Professionalisms
The 10 Best Teams Ever Assembled (And What We Can Learn From Them)
Here's a definitive list of the best teams ever assembled, along with what each of them has to teach us.
Branding The Barefoot Way: How Worthy Cause Marketing Can Help You Grow Your Company
If you have a great product or service, a passion for giving back, and a tiny budget, guess what? You’re the perfect candidate for worthy cause marketing. By partnering with the right nonprofits, small and medium-sized companies can gain instant access to loyal customers, give them a social reason to buy… and have a lot of fun in the process.
Ten Questions To Help You Check The Vital Signs of Your Client Relationships
Many of us use annual checkups to keep tabs on our physical health each year. But Andrew Sobel says checking the vitals of your professional health is just as important. He suggests performing client relationship checkups.
10 Scientific Facts About Successful Teams
Team science encompasses a wide range of disciplines, such as cognitive psychology, business management, education, and sociology, among others, and explores the ins and outs of group dynamics. Here are 10 pointers for those who are involved in planning and managing teams.
8 Unexpected Ways To Promote Your Business
Whether you’re a business owner or a future entrepreneur, perhaps you’ll have some success using one of these eight unexpected ways to promote your business.
Priced To Sell: 10 Tips For Finding The Right Price For Your Goods
If pricing your products for profit were that easy, everyone would be doing it! Chip Averwater shares his advice to help you avoid costly mistakes and get ahead of the competition.
Seven Ways Leaders Can Unearth (And Neutralize) The Fear That Lurks Behind The Blame...
Are fingerpointing and responsibility dodging poisoning your culture? Mike Staver explains that fear-based leadership lurks at the heart of the blame game. He explains what leaders can do to overcome their own fears and find their courage — and help their followers do the same.
A System For Rapid Realignment
Dr. George H. Labovitz and Victor Rosansky, co-authors of "Rapid Realignment: How to Quickly Integrate People, Processes, and Strategy for Unbeatable Performance", believe that assessing and measuring realignment of an organization towards its goals helps to improve operational performance.
Inside Job: Why Dealing with “Difficult” Colleagues Will Lead to Happier Customers
When an organization’s employees aren’t happy, it’s unlikely they’ll be providing the kind of quality service that leads to happy customers. One of the fastest ways to create internal strife is to let “difficult” people go unchecked. Ron Kaufman teaches that the best way to handle these personalities is to help resolve the difficult situations they’re experiencing so that everyone at the organization has the positive energy needed to provide uplifting service to customers.
10 Reasons Your Facebook Ads Aren’t Working
If you’re using Facebook for your business, you may have noticed that your marketing attempts aren’t performing to the level you’d originally hoped. Here are 10 reasons why that might be the case.
8 Things You Should Never Do At The Office
In the workplace, there are many things you will do right. But suck it up and recognize: there are many, many things that you will do wrong. Check out these eight things you should never do at the office.
The ‘Moneyball’ Approach To Business Hiring
J. Allan McCarthy, entrepreneur and author of "Beyond Genius, Innovation & Luck: The "Rocket Science" of Building High-Performance Corporations" offers tips for creating championship teams in the business world.
17 Unspoken Rules Of LinkedIn Etiquette
Things are a little more loose on Facebook and Twitter, but LinkedIn is strictly professional, giving it a different kind of status when it comes to etiquette. Read on to learn about 17 unspoken rules of LinkedIn etiquette.
13 Habits That May Be Sabotaging Your Career
Some of your bad habits may actually be sabotaging your career. Whether it’s office gossip or playing around on Facebook, it’s time to kick these bad habits to the curb. Read on, and discover which bad work habits may be getting in the way of your next promotion.
8 Ways To Deal With A Boss You Don’t Get Along With
Not every boss in your career will see eye to eye with you on work issues, and some might have a management style that clashes with your personality. If you’re stuck in this position, try some of these tips for dealing with a difficult boss.
Accountability, Frugality Driving Pay For Performance Trend In PR
The recession has fueled a growing trend in the public relations industry – and not everyone’s happy about it. Penny Carnathan looks at how businesses try to save by avoiding monthly PR retainer fees.
The Rewired Workplace: Establishing Success Systems Right From The Start
As we navigate more information, more relationships, and more choices we need systems that help us be productive and successful to “rewire” the workplace to stay in control and improve productivity. Camille Preston, author of "Rewired: How to Work Smarter, Live Better, and Be Purposefully Productive in an Overwired World" offers some suggestions to lay the groundwork for success.
Creating Teams
Performance within groups typically does not just happen. Bruce Hodes, author of "Front Line Heroes", shares some basic truths about building teams.
Ten Tips To Keep The Season’s Distractions From Lowering Your Employees’ Productivity
It’s a phenomenon that employers dread: As the temperature rises in the summer, employees’ motivation levels tend to drop. Chip Averwater provides real-world insight on how to keep enthusiasm and productivity high, not only throughout the summer but all year long.
When Your Website Powers Your Business
Do yourself a favor, when you've made the decision to open your business or sell your product online, make sure you have ALL the tools to make it successful. And for Pete's sake, make sure you hire the right developer, says Joe Thomas of Left Brain Digital.
Sixteen Signs You May Be Practicing Cowardly Leadership
You might be shocked to find just how much of a stranglehold the “F” word has on your employees, your organization, and your entire life. Mike Staver, author of "Leadership Isn’t for Cowards", unmasks the many faces of fear… and explains how to drag it into the daylight where you can vanquish it once and for all.
Creating A Sustainable Workplace
You can build a sustainable business that's environmentally sound, argues Peter A. Soyka, author of "Creating a Sustainable Organization: Approaches for Enhancing Corporate Value Through Sustainability". He says companies can create the conditions needed to support meaningful performance improvement over time, without investing significant human or financial capital.
The Secrets Of Creating A Powerful Company Culture
Just about any business advantage that you pride yourself on can be copied by a competitor. Micah Solomon, author of "High-Tech, High-Touch Customer Service", argues that the culture of your company is the exception to this rule.
Seven Ways to Take Advantage of the Social Power of Your Customers
As individuals, consumers frequently use social media to tell their networks of fans, friends, and followers what products they are using, what businesses they like, and so on. Unfortunately, says Ron Kaufman, few companies are successfully capitalizing on this social behavior. He offers tips on how to make it happen.
How Businesses Can Successfully Brand Themselves On Social Media
That profile picture of you on your social media sites say a lot about you, says Serban Enache, CEO of Dreamstime.
How To Ask Your Way Through Ten Of The Toughest Conversations You’ll Ever Have
At work, at home, with friends, and even with perfect strangers, it isn’t uncommon to find yourself suddenly entrenched in a tough, tense conversation. Instead of trying to stutter and mutter your way out of it, and risk permanently damaging an important relationship,
Andrew Sobel suggests you ask your way through it using key Power Questions.
8 Ways To Become A Better Co-worker
You might be the most diligent and hardest working person in the office, but if your co-workers don’t know you or don’t really like you, then you’re going to have problems down the road. Here are eight ways to become a better, more well-rounded co-worker.
Seven Truths About Customers No Retailer Wants To Admit
Every retailer spends a good portion of his day trying to figure out how best to serve his customers. But frankly, customers and their motivations can throw even the best retailers for a loop. Retail expert Chip Averwater lays out a few customer truths that retailers don’t want to admit.
Eight Ways To Be A Better Customer — And Get Better Service In Return
Customers wait on hold for an eternity. Complaints go unanswered. Smiles and a little extra help seem like too much to ask for these days. If you think customer service has taken a nosedive, you’re right, says Ron Kaufman — but there’s a lot you can do to change that. Read on for his tips for being a better customer.
10 Hidden Reasons Why You Might Hate Your Job
There are often more subtle factors at work that make going to work a miserable experience. Here, we share some of the often hidden reasons your job seems like torture even when it shouldn't.