By admin on September 9, 2010
Increasingly, businesses are utilising the possibilities of instant messaging (IM) in the workplace. Offering free, instant communication with anyone at their desk, it’s easy to see why organisations are finding it a useful alternative to other forms of communication.
Initially, businesses were slow to realise the potential of instant messaging, associating it with socialising, chat rooms [...]
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By admin on September 9, 2010
Since the ability to speak Spanish enables more effective communication between employees, co-workers, clients and customers, speaking Spanish is becoming more important in business and career development. Bilingual speakers of English and Spanish are finding an increasing demand for their skills.
Speaking Spanish is also becoming more important in business and career matters. People who are [...]
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By admin on September 9, 2010
Since the ability to speak Spanish enables more effective communication between employees, co-workers, clients and customers, speaking Spanish is becoming more important in business and career development. Bilingual speakers of English and Spanish are finding an increasing demand for their skills.
Speaking Spanish is also becoming more important in business and career matters. People who are [...]
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By admin on September 8, 2010
Almost everybody in the western world owns a mobile phone – from school children to old age pensioners, it seems for some time now the mobile phone has become essential – a global phenomenon. Could you return to life without it? OK, many people get sick and tired of their mobile constantly ringing/vibrating/belting out your [...]
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By admin on September 7, 2010
The new electronic interdependence recreates the world
in the image of a global village.
–Marshall McLuhan
When I started the 400 Year Project in 1995, I sensed that electronic communications about the project’s goals would be important. But I was clueless about what to do.
The youngest people at Mitchell and Company assured me that we had to have [...]
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By admin on September 7, 2010
Over the years Human Resource Departments have become more and more sophisticated in designing performance appraisal processes and documentation. We have goals, objectives, targets, outputs and key performance areas. We achieve them, using inputs, competencies, and behaviours. We add in measures, standards, criteria, and key performance indicators, then roll it all up in a performance [...]
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By admin on September 6, 2010
We are all familiar with difficult conversations. We encounter them with colleagues at work, with friends and in our families. Often, we try to avoid them altogether.
How many times do you bite your tongue rather than speak up to someone in authority? How many people are driving you crazy, in large ways or small, and [...]
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By admin on September 5, 2010
By its very nature, direct mail promotions are designed to be one-to-one communication vehicles. As marketers, we are all aware of this in the back of our minds, but in practice, sometimes the “direct” portion drops off the map, and we end up producing unplaced promotional brand ads in an envelope. If you want o [...]
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By admin on September 5, 2010
By its very nature, direct mail promotions are designed to be one-to-one communication vehicles. As marketers, we are all aware of this in the back of our minds, but in practice, sometimes the “direct” portion drops off the map, and we end up producing unplaced promotional brand ads in an envelope. If you want o [...]
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By admin on September 5, 2010
We face difficult conversations every day. They can be with our children, our parents, family members and spouses; with colleagues, employees and with the boss; with friends and neighbors; with tenants, landlords, business partners, and in the sports team.
Sometimes these conversations are about the big issues of race, religion, gender and politics. More often than [...]
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By admin on September 5, 2010
We face difficult conversations every day. They can be with our children, our parents, family members and spouses; with colleagues, employees and with the boss; with friends and neighbors; with tenants, landlords, business partners, and in the sports team.
Sometimes these conversations are about the big issues of race, religion, gender and politics. More often than [...]
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By admin on September 4, 2010
There is a popular opinion that is the great minds of businessmen that make or break a company. There is a philosophy that suggests that these great thinkers and great problem solvers are the answer to a successful career, that they carry ideas forward and project them into the minds of followers and bring about [...]
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