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Supervisor Training
The time has come within your organization to elect a new leader for a project, or to supervise a new expansion. What recognizable marks are there to help identify a potential supervisor amongst the organization? How do you train this new leader to effectively guide in such a way that proves successful? In this issue of Astronology we list some helpful tips in identifying and properly training potential and expectant supervisors.
What do your sales people really need to know and apply?
In today's market selling skills training does not equal product training or pressure tactics. If product training or pressure selling (the hard sell) are on the top of your sales training agenda or the only training you offer your sales people then you may want to rethink your sales training strategy. What is expected of sales people today by way of skillful thought and action goes way beyond the product or the hard sell. Let's first look at what clients want. This will then help us determine what sales people need to be able to do.
5 Principles of Successful Leadership in Small Business
When we think about leadership,especially in regard to building and growing a successful small business, it's easy to envision the traditional top-down leadership that so often goes along with the term. We often think about leadership along the lines of being a major political leader or being the chief executive of a major Wall Street company. And while this certainly is a respectable vision of leadership, when it comes to small business, we've got to see beyond this traditional view. Following are the top 5 principles of successful leadership that I've found make THE difference in whether your business flies or flops.
7 Key Qualities Of Successful Entrepreneurs
Do you have what it takes to become a highly successful entrepreneur? Many folks want to own and build their own business-and it is a great thing for those willing to work at it and make things happen. The thing is, sometimes it's also pretty easy to overlook all of the hard work that goes into earning success. In this article, I reveal what I consider to be the 7 key qualities that a person must possess and demonstrate to become a successful entrepreneur.
Create a Think Tank & Create a Business Revolution
In this article, Rosemary Rein, Ph.D links the pain of the current economic crisis with the potential of major business revolutions occurring during “an economic tsunami”. Rosemary also provides 10 tips for bringing a creative climate of year-round innovation to your organization.
Leadership Qualities
Important qualities you will need to hone for high impact leadership.
TOP TIPS FOR SURVIVING IN BUSINESS
Develop a Creative way to work within your organization. Say Yes And to new ideas, rather than Yes But. How to brainstorm and blue sky ideas in a more creative supportive way. Especially in this time of economic uncertainty businesses need to be more when innovative this improvisational model will build ideas.
Choosing Options
We always have options as to what we will do. Often, we don’t explore those options or even acknowledge that they exist.
Grameen Bank - Alternative Microfinance Approaches
Grameen Bank operates on the premise that the poor remain poor not because they do not have the skills or do not work hard, but because the institutions created around them keep them poor.
Increasing Microfinance’s Reach with Integrated Services
The destitute—individuals at the very bottom of the socioeconomic scale—are still outside the current scope of most microfinance institutions.

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Creativity and leadership
By being creative, you can become a stronger leader. This article shows how to develop your creative side - pointing out that we can all be creative in our leadership.
Making Time for Your Creative Self
"I'm not creative." "I don't have a creative bone in my body." "As creative as you are, that's how uncreative I am." These are all real comments from real people who don't believe they're creative.
Creativity is a Powerful Way of Thinking and Being
I often hear people say, "I’m not a creative person!" In truth, as humans each of us is inherently creative by virtue of being part of Nature - the essence of creativity itself. I believe to be creative means to use what comes naturally to you with the responsibility to share that gift with the world. Uncovering your unique gift and learning how to tap into your creative energy are defining steps that allow for the release of ideas and desires that further enhance your ability to create, resulting in the potential of living a fulfilling and meaningful life. Understanding the potential of your unique creativity, and then actively and consciously creating leads to greater success in manifesting the results you want for your life. If we are all naturally creative as human beings, what holds us back?

Tips and Techniques for Finding the Right Ad Agency
Creative agencies, whether they specialize in graphic design, advertising or web, are just what you would want them to be – creative. And that includes snappy presentations that can wow you with lots of bells and whistles. But a creative presentation won’t necessarily get you the partner who is best for your project. Selecting the wrong creative partner is a waste of money and time that can turn an exciting project into an exercise in frustration. Sure, you want a firm with outstanding creative skills. But you need an agency that bases their top-notch creative work on a solid foundation of strategy, knowledge and understanding of where your organization is trying to go.

Need to be more creative? Give yourself a “Whack on The Side of the Head”
Can you train yourself to be a better creative thinker? Answer: Yes! Everyone can be more creative, so says Roger von Oech, author of a great little book called “A Whack on the Side of the Head - How You Can Be More Creative”.
Clear Creative Blocks Forever
Is there such a thing as a creative block? This article teaches writers, designers, developers, and other creative entrepreneurs and professionals 10 simple and proven tips for clearing their “illusive” creative blocks forever.
Become Your Problem
Mahatma Gandhi once said "You must become the change you seek in the world." I believe the same logic can be applied to solving problems. If you become your problem, you actually stand a better chance of solving it. As I watch the drama of the oil spill and clean up unfold, I am reminded that some problems are particularly nasty to resolve. One technique that often leads to helpful and creative insights is to personify the problem and try to analyze it as if you were the object. This is particularly helpful in team environments. This technique was useful in the remarkable rescue of the Apollo 13 Astronauts. Once you attempt to act and feel like a stuck valve or an overheated radiator, you can elicit some highly creative solutions to challenging problems. The attached story is a cute reminder of this principle.

Trainers Can Use Creativity Skills Training Materials to Help Others Become More Creative
It is well known that we are extremely creative when we are children, but only a few people manage to remain creative when they reach adulthood. What goes wrong? This article explores the root of creativity and provides guidelines on how to become more creative. Our relative lack of creativity is perhaps best explained by the way we are brought up and also it is to do with our education system. The education system is geared towards guiding us to provide a perfect answer for every question. We are precisely measured and learn how to rigidly follow a set plan. Of course this leads to becoming qualified employees who can get a specific job done, but unfortunately does little to help us remain create let alone make us more creative than we were when we were a child.
Thinking In and Out of the Box
The current buzz phrase among business and creative types is, "Thinking out of the box." This means that you think in non-orthodox, non-traditional ways that lead you to new and creative conclusions. This is a powerful tool, as far as it goes, because it allows you to use your entire creative mind without limiting yourself to the way things have always been done. However, while you're thinking in the new "out of the box" way, don't forget that there are some pretty great concepts in that old box. Traditional thinking at one time was someone's creative "out of the box" thinking. Because it was successful, that thought became traditional or "in the box."

How to Be Successful as a Creative Entrepreneur
Highly creative entrepreneurs are crucial in developing solutions to our social, environmental and economic challenges.  Yet they are a special breed who warrant special structures to run a successful business.

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