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Nonprofit Vision Statements, Core Values & Mission Statements
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| In the nonprofit field, reference is often made to an organization's core values, mission statement, and vision statement. I have found that there is some confusion regarding the difference between a mission and vision statement, and that some organizations have never identified their core values. This article will help you to understand these three items, and how important they are to your organization's overall operation, funding, and future.
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Is Your Company Committed to Their Long Standing Traditions?
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| Are you a second or even third generation business owner? The generations before you made the sacrifices and did whatever was necessary to build the fundamentals of the business you are running today. Have the traditions, ideals, and values your business was built on survived the passing of the baton? Many companies have discarded these fundamentals as a cost cutting measure or because they seem antiquated. These traditions were the basis for the growth and survival of the “family business” yet they wind up on the committee “cutting room floor”. Nothing is more apparent than changes made to the core values of employee and customer satisfaction.
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Team Interdependence When We Win I Win
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| Team Interdependence is the second of six collaborate core values that build highly effective teams. The other five are trust, genuineness, empathy, risk and success. The six collaborative values form the acronym, TIGERS.
Team Interdependence is based on the concept: If we win - I win. This article delves into behaviors that build team interdependence and discusess behaviors that predictably disrupt interdependence in any group of two or more people who have come together to achieve something of value. |
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Leading Like TIGERS: A Successful Team Building Model
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| Teamwork thrives in a collaborative culture and tends to have problems in individualistic and internally competitive cultures. This article discusses a collaborative value system that supports an organizations vision, mission and core values through teamwork and the concept, "If we in, I win." |
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It’s not only what you say that counts, it’s what you do.
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| Your business core values announce to the world what you stand for and what is important to your daily operations. They form the soul of your team and by inclusion or omission are seen daily in how your employees treat one another and your customers. This article is the first in a series to explore six collaborative core values and gives you three ways to start benefiting from your values today. |
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Genuineness: Can You Bring Problems To Light?
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| Genuineness as a cultural core value allows you to know when something is not right.
Genuineness is required in critical thinking and the process of evaluation in order to make improvements.
This article explores behaviors that build genuineness in the work place and the cultural behaviors needed to bring problems to light. In most competitive cultures, when there is a problem – the person who recognizes it is often exploited and through competition is made the loser.
Genuineness is the third of six collaborative core values that build highly effective teams. The other values are trust, interdependence, empathy, risk and success – TIGERS.
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Five Tips For Building A Wildly Successful Team Based Business
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| Learn about five simple steps entrepreneurs and small business owners can take to increase their business volume and employee satisfaction. |
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Have you become a commodity?
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| A society that accepts "head hunters", "down-sizing" and encourages people to sell themselves to the highest bidder in the market reduces its citizens to commodities. This has its ramifications in work/life balance or general life harmony. |
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Worklife harmony are you on the treadmill
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| Measure, harmony balance.. Simple to say but what does it mean? To achieve and maintain it is difficult today. How will lack of it affect you? |
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NOW IS THE TIME TAKE YOUR TEAM TO THE NEXT LEVEL
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| For those businesses clearly intending to survive the weak economy now is the time to prepare for the better times ahead. This article discusses how to build and improve your work teams so the company is ready for business expansion when the economy inevitably makes the turn upward. |
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Aligning Behaviors with Core Values
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| This leadership tool shows how to articulate a set of behaviors that reinforce the core values. |
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Significance
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| As you go forward, especially in situations where you feel your energies being drained or challenged, take the time to apply the tools of emotional intelligence and ask your heart for a balanced look and evaluate how significant the situation/event really is. When you can keep unnecessary importance to a minimum, you don't get drained and you have the energy reserves to adapt, flex, and innovate. |
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Your Core Values may be a waste of time
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| Core Values can be a waste of time if they are not completely integrated into an organisations Performance Management system, the Leadership Framework and the culture. This article provides concrete actions that must be taken to embed core values. |
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18 Career Enhancement Caveats
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| 18 caveats on how to invest your core values in your career |
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Howard Schultz Quotes
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Lesson #4: “Treat People Like You Want to Be Treated”
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| With little fanfare and almost no advertising budget to help spin and sell the service, Craigslist has become a global force online due in large part to one factor: the website actually helps people. |
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Create a Genius Factory
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| A recent New Yorker article about the wild success of Nathan Myhrvold's company Intellectual Ventures got me thinking on the blog about group problem solving -- an incredible tool for innovation and rapid progress. Group problem solving can help out in the workplace or in those great peer-to-peer networks that I believe are instrumental to success. |
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Sales and Marketing is 24/7
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| Last week there was an article on Forbes.com titled Genuine Business Lessons from Donald Trump by Shaun Rein, who is the founder and managing director of the China Market Research Group. He writes for Forbes on strategy, leadership and marketing, and I found his insights to be right on. |
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7 Steps for Defining Your Organization's Core Values
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| Here are seven specific steps for defining your organization’s core values . |
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Avoid Hollow Core Values
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| When you’re defining an organization’s core values, it’s critical to avoid making them sound hollow by inserting, for example, your own personal values for those of the organization, or making the exercise too cute. |
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The Role of Core Values in Business Strategy, Leadership and Success
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| In a Tale of Two Brands, we explore the written core value statements of two famous companies. In the end, the fate of each company was decided the actions that either supported or violated their written words. |
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Your Success Requires the Rights Who\'s
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| How do I know I have the right people? I get this question from clients, alliances, and many of my relationships. “People” is a key decision area you and your company must get right to succeed and grow. Jim Collins states adamantly “who first;” you must make sure you have the right people in your organization before you focus on the “what, where and how” of growth. Here are five keys to knowing you have the right people … |
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Qualities of Leadership Part 5 Effective Communicator and Core Values
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| This is the fifth article in a six part series which discusses the Qualities of Leadership. It builds on what was covered previously so if you haven’t read the previous articles, be forewarned.
In this article we will discuss in greater detail the next two of the qualities of leadership: Effective Communicator and Core Values
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Cornerstone of Business Growth
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| Running a business is a challenge, but this is what so many miss and creates just that many more challenges, is this missing in your business? |
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To Create A Personal Development Plan?
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| The process of creating a personal development plan can affect all aspects in your life. The career path that you have chosen and the personal goals are founded on your core values. From these, you create a certain plan which serves as your map to self-growth. |
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Honoring our Country's Wingmen on Veteran's Day
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| The best way we can thank our veterans is to make them proud of us through our own personal commitment, courage, and compassion. We need to be warriors for freedom and do the right thing by living with honor. |
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The Basic Elements of an Empowering and Enduring Life Purpose
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| Many elements could contribute to the creation of a powerful, long lasting, and flexible life purpose. In my work with hundreds of individuals and thousands of people in groups, I have found the following three elements to be most effective:
• Vision: What is the vision or possibility you see for the world?
• Values: What are the core values you stand for and are willing to give your life for?
• Being: Who are you? What can people count on from you? Life purpose is more about who you are than what you do. Remember, we’re called human beings, not human doings. |
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Is your website offering a wet and limp handshake?
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| Don't make the mistake of creating a website that is purely designed to lead people through a preconceived process. Having a process is essential, but not before your customers have 'buy-in'. To extract customer information before there is an established relationships or some form of emotive connection is only going to put people off. Sure, the internet is vast source of information and contains unlimited realms off opportunity. But don't abuse it simply because can or just because others are - you're better than that! |
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Digging Yourself Out Of A Deep Hole Of Fear, Lack and Struggle
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| Purposeful Point: No matter how deep a hole of fear, lack and struggle
we find ourselves in; it is possible to return to our true purpose.
Here are a few ways to bring our lives back on purpose.
It can happen to the best of us. We're cruising along in our lives
having a merry old time of living true to our life purpose where our
thoughts, decisions and actions are consistent with our vision for
what's possible, our core values, and even with the essence of our
very soul, when suddenly we hit a bump in the road. Some of those
bumps can be huge and can send us into a deep hole of fear, lack and
struggle.
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Another spin on Value Propositions
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| Quite often the inspiration for a great sales idea comes from a source way outside our industry or normal frame of reference. What follows is a story about a really creative value proposition. How can you use its message for your own business? |
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Does Your Title Box You In?
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| Too many people, when introducing themselves to new contacts, are allowing potential prospects to box them into a preconceived belief about what they do based on their title. Learn how to use a vague title to solicit deeper interest and a highjacking of your brand. |
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10 Summer or Anytime Quick Sales Coaching Tips
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| With spring just passing and summer now here, the cold winter months are now a distant memory for some and there is new energy. These 10 summer sales coaching tips may help you secure your goal to increase sales.
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Is there a place for Multi-Rater Feedback in the Selection Process?
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| Also known as 360 degree feedback…most people would automatically say ‘no’ – but let’s think about that for a few minutes. |
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Business Ethics and Values Are Not Here One Day and Gone the Next
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| Do you ever feel that ethical behaviors in business are here today and gone tomorrow? Read how you can truly be ethical and thereby stand out, not in, the crowded marketplace. |
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Business Ethics Cannot Ignore the 800# Gorilla
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| Pick up any newspaper, watch any television network, listen to any radio station or scan the Internet and you can learn a myriad of reasons about why the U.S. is in its current economic crisis. After hearing or reading hundreds of economists to political pundits, I have yet to hear the real problem why our economy is in its current fix. |
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Kovacevich, 167,500 others guide Wells Fargo through the crisis
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| Why is it the only major bank that's thriving through the chaos? Employees and their relationships with customers. |
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There is No Such Thing as Work Life Balance…
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| People often complain that their balance is out of whack. When asked to paint a picture of what balance actually looks like, they're often stumped. |
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5 Keys to Your Personal Mission Statement
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| When asked directly, most cannot define their professional and personal mission. "Making money" is not a mission statement. It is an objective. This article defines how to create your own mission statement and core values that will define your character and leadership for a lifetime. |
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The Three Most Important Leadership Qualities in Small Business.
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If your goal is to grow your small business, these three leadership qualities are essential for any battle plan. This article shows you how adopting vision, courage, and integrity can help you leap forward to growth and success.
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Underperforming Corporations
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| Companies, (most of them) freeze up (become strategically rigid), get on the wrong track and underperform. |
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Strategic Planning – Planning for Success using your Strategic Roadmap.
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| So what is a business strategic plan? Basically it is a combination of what you want your business to be and a roadmap to get. Here’s how to get your company focused, stable and profitable. |
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Increase Sales By Staying True to Your Core Business
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| During swings in economy, many businesses leave their core businesses to increase sales because they must survive or thrive. Taking this action spells disaster for any business.
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Work Life Balance: C.P.R. for a Balanced Life
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| Do you feel over-worked and under-appreciated? Are you struggling to balance work & family? Are you too busy taking care of everyone but never have time for yourself? Whether you want to have more balance, more inner peace, or more time for yourself, I offer these tips in my signature workshop "C.P.R. for a Balanced Life". |
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It Takes G.R.I.T. to Win More Sales
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| Remember the movie, True Grit? John Wayne played an over the hill U.S. Marshal who in spite of some character flaws displayed “grit.” Many professional sales people sometimes feel over the hill especially during difficult economic times. What would happen if you had some of that grit of U.S. Marshall Rooster Cogburn? |
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How to Write a Pre Approach Sales Letter that Delivers More Conversions
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| With email marketing campaigns to Internet landing pages now comprising a significant amount of the marketing budgets, some people have abandon the traditional, word processed pre-approach sales letter. Yet, taking this marketing and sales strategy may be somewhat short sighted.
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Business Coach, You Can Increase Sales through Strategic Partnerships and Masterminding
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| Do you have strategic partnerships as a business coach in your efforts to increase sales? Considering partnering those business alliances with masterminding for incredible results. |
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YOUR EMPLOYEES ARE REALLY VOLUNTEERS
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| At a recent leadership breakfast held through Lehigh University's Iacocca Institute, the speaker made mention that employees are really just volunteers. And it made me think…..if employees are volunteers at our organization, meaning they volunteer to accept employment with us…that means they can volunteer to work and they can volunteer to leave. |
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Leadership 101: Integrity by Example
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| True leaders demonstrate Integrity by Example. |
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Storytelling— The Great Motivator of People
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| Change your company, your sales and your life with the greatest motivator of people—storytelling! |
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Leadership in small to mid size companies: its important to do it consciously!
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| Every one of us uses leadership skills every day, whether at home, in the community or at work. Somewhere, someone is watching you, emulating you, learning from you or working for you. Born leaders are actually rare, for everyone else, it is hard work but well worth it. If you are a leader in your own company or managing a team, you are missing a golden opportunity if you don’t lead consciously! |
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I'll Take the High Road — Will You?
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| Midlife presents each man with a clear fork in his road: one leads forward to an authentic life; the other backward to childishness. Your choice? |
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When Making the Right Choice Goes Wrong
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| When was the last time you examined your core values? Do you even know what they are? Are you aware of the extreme influence they have over your daily decision-making processes? |
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Small Business Tips: Think Your Business To Success
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| Before any action happens in the world, first there is a thought ... an idea ... a stroke of genius. This thought triggers the response into the physical world. So say for example you want to pick up your coffee cup – your brain thinks the thought and then sends electrical impulses and chemicals to your arm muscles which in turn extend and contract to pick up your cup. But your eyes first assess how far away the cup is and how potentially heavy the cup is before you lift it – otherwise you would knock it over or spill the contents.
What happens in many businesses is they miss the thought stage – leaping into action before fully have completed the thought action. As a result, mistakes and errors are made which mean re-work and wasted effort.
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A Message from Your Empty Nest
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| An empty nest exposes the cracks and wrinkles in a relationship like nothing else. Midlife presents an opportunity to move your primary relationship into a whole new dimension. |
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Coaching Tip: Identify Your Core Values
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| Your values are the principles, beliefs and attitudes that guide your decisions, actions and behaviors. Your core values reflect who you are and represent your heart. They define and distinguish who you are as a person – what matters most to you, what you stand for (and stand on) as your inner foundation. When you act in a way that is in conflict with your heart, your life feels more like a struggle, unhappiness grows, you can feel disconnected from your SELF. When you make choices and take actions that line up with your values, you will experience greater peace and abundance. |
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Focus On Talent Management… It’s Your Future!
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| The future of your company depends on your ability to develop talent! The question is... are companies headed in that direction? I was recently in deep conversation with one of my mentors. He said, "Employees these days have no loyalty to the companies they work for. This new generation of employees doesn’t think about that stuff. For this reason, many companies today are less focused on developing their people. Many of these companies expect employees to invest in developing themselves." |
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Whats Youre True Career Calling
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| We all have core values which guide how we live our lives. To complement our values we have personal skills and strengths, which we don’t always know we possess. When you enjoy certain activities, the skills you use are not always recognisable, because they come naturally to you. |
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How to Demonstrate Commitment to Others
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| Commitment is a core value that is endearing and enduring to others. It reflects other values like trust, honesty and integrity. To do as you say you would, is a demonstration of commitment. |
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Success Really Isn’t About Money…
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| This morning I had a meeting with several professional Scouts. These people make their livings serving the Boy Scouts of America. They are not likely to become wealthy in the conventional sense. Their jobs involve long hours and they all serve well above and beyond the normal parameters of their job descriptions... |
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Is it Mandatory for a Project Manager to be Technical?
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| Member Question:
There are mixed opinions, some believe that a Project Manager needs to be very strong Technically (e.g. Java, Mainframe, DW) others believe that a Project Manager needs to be strong in Management skills like Planning, Organizing, Directing, Contolling etc. and it is good to have a Technical background.
Question Submitted By:
Abhijit Ganguly, PMP, MPM, MBA
Project Manager
United Health Group
Gurgaon
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How to give your family a wellness makeover
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| In this day of cell phones, pagers, blackberry’s and emails you think it wouldn’t be hard to reach someone in your family but the truth is it is more challenging than ever… to reach them in a way that keeps you connected. So, how do you stay connected? How can you turn the abundance of quantity in to quality time? How can you give your family a ‘makeover’ in a meaningful way as if you just showed up to your favorite spa for a few hours of a meditative makeover? |
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Back down to Earth after the boss returns
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| The scenario: Your immediate supervisor is returning to the job after an extended leave. It means you will no longer be the acting department head and will have to revert to your former second-in-command status. How do you make the adjustment in terms of your ego and desire for responsibilities?
Instead of viewing this situation as a step back, view it as a step aside, with potential for two steps forward from there. Keep your professional future in mind by concentrating on the few areas outlined below.
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Walking Your Talk & Running Away With Your Ideas
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| Eric Clapton sang the definitive song ‘Change The World’. It is about making way for your dreams and aspirations. The Buddha taught: ‘Do good. Be good.’ How do express your ideas and business intent? |
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Enhancing Your Value: Staying Employable in the 2010’s
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| A look at job advertisements may be a startling revelation: How is this New Economy everyone is talking about going to impact us? Armed with an arsenal of digital equipment, how will we brave the new world order that is driven by compression technology and information overload, and assured by a false sense of virtual communication? |
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Dangerous Supply Chain Myths (Part 5)
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| Segment 5 – Talent Attraction & Retention: An Exercise in Platitudes?
Talent Attraction & Retention
A supply chain is not an abstract network driven by processes and machines, but a real network driven by people. Good supply chains run on good people. Supply Chain Success will be impossible without the right talent, which is becoming rarer every day thanks to the global talent war. Any organization that does not have a good process in place to identify necessary skills, evaluate organizational gaps, and identify, recruit, develop, and maintain talent is doomed to become a second class citizen in the emerging international marketplace.
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10 Strategic Steps To Take To Achieve Your Business Vision, According To Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach
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| Highly successful businesses today have developed visions for their organizations and have the vision integrated throughout the company. However, far too many businesses, even some that may be considered successful, have no clear vision and no real plan for the future of the company. There are some people that have a great fear of strategic planning and of developing a clearly defined vision. And sometimes the fear stems from the lack of knowledge of strategic planning and/or confidence that the people and the organization can actually succeed in developing and implementing a sound strategic plan. This fear and the lack of confidence can be minimized by following strategic steps I have used and that my clients have used through strategic thinking business coaching. Here are 10 recommended strategic steps to follow. |
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Discovering and Living by Your Core Values
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| Core values are essential to keeping your life on track. Do you know yours? Most don't! Would you like to know yours? Here are a couple of quick ways to help you get started in discovering your core values and help you hammer them into a values statement:
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Are You In Or Out Of Integrity?
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| Learn the value and conditions of living in or out of integrity. |
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Masterminding and Strategic Partnership Can Increase Sales for Business Coaches
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| Do you have strategic partnerships as a business coach in your efforts to increase sales? Considering partnering those business alliances with masterminding for incredible results. |
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A Prescription From The PR Doctor For a Healthy and Effective Media Kit
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| Media kits are an essential part of any public relations program and it is essential that certain items are included in your media kit. The PR Doctor has developed a prescription for a healthy and effective media kit. The top ten (10) prescribed items for a healthy and effective media kit include: |
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Who Is In Your Circle of Influence What Does That Say About You
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| We have heard that old saying, “You are judged by the company you keep.” That saying is important in our business life and our personal life. Who you associate with will say as much about you, your ethics, your integrity, your honesty, your core values, your beliefs, your passion and your future intentions as your actual personal behavior does. And as a business owner or business leader, you are being observed every minute of every day. Colleagues, clients, vendors, suppliers, et al are all scrutinizing, watching, listening to those people you influence. Therefore, this is a serious matter for consideration when you decide who will be in your circle of influence. Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach challenges you to stop and look around you. Who do you see? Who is there? Who is in your circle of influence? |
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Integrity-It\'s What You Do When No One\'s Looking
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| Integrity- it's easy to say you have it, harder to prove you do. We can have integrity when we are being evaluated and public. But it's what you do when you're alone and nobody is looking that is really the true measure of your values. |
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COACHING SKILLS
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| Coaching is a valuable concept and skill that can be the key to distancing yourself from your competitors. Learn what coaching is and what it can mean to an organization. Also become introduced to practical, uncomplicated solutions that leaders can apply immediately. |
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Breaking the Rules
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| Rules are part of life, from an early age onwards our lives are shaped by rules at home, at nursery, at school and eventually at work. There are rules in our society, rules of the road, social etiquette and so on. Importantly there is also another kind of rule that effects our lives and these are the ones we create ourselves which can therefore be considered as self-imposed. |
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Brand Matters
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| How is your company different from your competition? Why should anyone choose to do business with you rather than any of your competitors? |
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