Executive MBA – Are You Thinking About It?
You may be someone who completed your Bachelor degree sometime ago, have a few years of experience under your belt and you pride yourself on your practical knowledge of your industry/sector. You might be a senior corporate manager, an experienced executive, an entrepreneur or a development sector professional. Perhaps you have thought about doing an Executive MBA but haven’t been able to articulate clearly to yourself how this can help you in your career.
Here are some potential areas of benefit of pursuing an Executive MBA degree for working professionals. Not all may be applicable in each case but quite a few will be directly relevant to you:
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Enhancing Your Influence – 3 Steps
Much of what we use consciously or sub-consciously to influence or persuade people around us doesn’t actually work. This is because more often than not influencing turns out to be some form of coercion. In some cases, it is winning the argument without winning over the person. Here are 3 things you can do in practical terms to become an effective influencer…
The Ultimate 5 P’s of Success
Do a Google search on “5 P’s of Success” and you will get hundreds of results. It seems there are many versions of the 5 P’s of Success. Some are quite good, some rather lame and some are repetitions of common themes like Passion and Perspiration. But I believe one of the best 5 P’s of Success was originally articulated by a guy called Kurt Mortensen who writes articles and books on Persuasion. I like this particular 5 P’s because it hits bulls eye for so many ordinary people all around the world, people like you and me…
Motivation by Vroom
An explanation of the Expectancy Theory of motivation from the 1970s as proposed by Victor Vroom, a business school professor at the Yale School of Management. This is still very relevant and an accurate depiction of what motivates individuals in organizations…
Business Quotes to Remember
Here are some selected business quotes that can help us to stop, think, reflect and who knows, maybe even modify how we behave:
1. The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same – Carlos Castaneda
Effective Interviewing – 5 Steps
Most managers conduct job interviews without any structure or strategy or method. I am also guilty of this on many occasions because I felt it was going to be quite easy to assess the job applicants. Now I know that I was wrong. Without a strategy and methodology for effective interviewing, you end up selecting a person based on an overall impression and intuition rather than a diligent scrutiny of the applicant’s abilities and potential. This can often lead to the wrong person in the job. So how does one ensure better selection?
Well, there are no guarantees of course but here are 5 things that lead to effective interviewing, ensuring the odds are tilted in your favor. …
The 5 Stages of Employee Value
Employees of any kind of organization have to progress through various stages of providing value to their employer. These stages or steps are not always expressed formally by the employer nor are these always properly understood or appreciated by the employee. But these are nonetheless always there and it will be useful for you to know what these are …
