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Building Confidence In Employees Is A Key Management Role
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| As a manager, you need people around you who are able, focused and above all have the confidence to be amazing. The challenge is, just how can you go about building confidence in your employees... |
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Leaving Your Legacy
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| The death of someone close to us (or sometimes someone we don’t even know personally) can affect us deeply and leave us thinking about our own lives and our importance to others. Find out in this article how you can change and celebrate your life starting today. |
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Smart Women Love To Party
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| This article is about women becoming creative in their marketing strategies to build their business. Women are natural connectors and relationship marketing such as networking and hosting parties, gatherings come very easily to them. The “old-school” way of cold-calling and solicitation for business is not nearly as effective anymore. This article offers some creative ways to think about marketing your service or business. |
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How guerrilla advertising can build business without breaking the bank.
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| If you're like most small businesses, you know you need to advertise to build business, but it's hard to advertise when money is tight. That's where guerrilla advertising comes in. Guerrilla advertising (sometimes known as "guerrilla marketing") is about using the resources you have at your disposal to build business. This article gives you some great ideas on how to utilize what you have on hand to help grow your sales.
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Why invest in conventions?
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| Why should you invest your hard earned cash in staff attendance at Conventions? Because it pays amazing dividends |
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Kenya’s Second BarCamp
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| I’ve been impressed to see the developers and bloggers from Kenya and South Africa taking the time to create gatherings where they can pass on knowledge - everyone ends up profiting from the experience. The techies in Nairobi have just concluded their 2nd BarCamp this year (the first was in March). |
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10 Steps to Successful Networking
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| This old saying rings true in everything we do, especially in business. Finding contacts is key to the success of your business, and a great place to meet these contacts is at networking meetings or events. It is not enough just to attend networking gatherings, you need to know how to network. There are many sources of networking tips and information, but the following are ten tips that I find most useful. |
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Networking Tips for Introverts or How to Break The Ice Without Fear of Falling Through
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| Do you “freeze up” when you are in a room full of people with some great networking opportunities? Are you timid, shy, and bashful around people at business and social gatherings? If you admitted that this description fits you, please understand that you are not alone. Introverts are one group of people that are really affected by this freeze up. Mention “networking” to introverts and the introverts may freeze up and become the “ice” they need to “break” in networking.
What can be done to address this situation? I thought about this and developed some tips I would give to introverts on networking. Here are my six tips on networking for introverts to prevent “freeze-up”: |
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The Last Resort: The Corporate Retreat Meets the Real World
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| Why do our social gatherings and corporate retreats rarely bring sustainable results? Check this article out for radical ways to "get real" around your next offsite with your team. Ignoring this could be a recipe for disaster. |
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Kenya’s Second BarCamp
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| I’ve been impressed to see the developers and bloggers from Kenya and South Africa taking the time to create gatherings where they can pass on knowledge - everyone ends up profiting from the experience. The techies in Nairobi have just concluded their 2nd BarCamp this year (the first was in March). |
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What Are The Results of A Recent Poll?
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| In a recent poll eighty-eight percent of the people surveyed reported that they would rather win a travel incentive then a cash incentive. One possible reason for this is that once money is spent (normally it is used to pay outstanding bills) it’s gone. A trip is something that the whole family can enjoy. The stories of a memorable trip are stories that get told years later at family gatherings.
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Smart Women Love To Party
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| This article is about women becoming creative in their marketing strategies to build their business. Women are natural connectors and relationship marketing such as networking and hosting parties, gatherings come very easily to them. The “old-school” way of cold-calling and solicitation for business is not nearly as effective anymore. This article offers some creative ways to think about marketing your service or business. |
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5 Tips to Surviving the Holidays or Anytime Alone
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| Many things cause lonely feelings during the holidays making it such an extremely difficult time for many to get through. You may be too far away to see your relatives; you may be in a nursing home with no one to care about you; you may be dead broke during this “happy” time; many grieve the loss of a loved one, accentuated by their disappearance during a time when others are preparing for big family gatherings, although those events can even make you feel lonely. When so many of our people are deployed and families are separated, unless the one left behind has family to shelter them from the throes of loneliness, it can be depressing.
Just as there are many ways for someone to feel alone during the holiday season, there are many activities that need you and will help you feel better as you brighten the day for someone less fortunate |
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Exterminate Boring Meetings by Using Team Building Exercises and Meeting Icebreakers
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| How many meetings have you been to that are just the same old thing -- boring gatherings you cannot wait to leave. Most meetings are poorly managed and non-productive. |
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Massage Therapy: A Perfect Gift...An Ideal Industry
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| It's the most wonderful time of the year...or is it?
With high expectations for creating lasting memories, compounded by shopping for gifts, decorating, traveling, attending holiday events and hosting gatherings, the holiday season can be a joyous, yet, stressful time of the year for many people.
Stress takes a tremendous toll on the body and can contribute to the development of a host of health conditions. Growing acceptance of the power of the mind-body connection has led to increased focus on the importance of employing stress-reduction techniques.
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Peer Groups: A Networking Goldmine
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| Methods to Transition and Grow
Many people tend to think of networking in terms of attending events with a large number of people or building relationships on an individual basis. In fact, some of the most powerful networking happens while participating in small gatherings such as peer groups. |
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