Decision Making and Problem Solving
Executive MBA – Are You Thinking About It?
Here are some potential areas of benefit of pursuing an Executive MBA for working professionals. Not all may be applicable in each case but quite a few will be directly relevant to you:
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 [...]
Effective Interviewing – 5 Steps
Most managers conduct job interviews without any structure or strategy or method. Without a strategy and methodology, you end up selecting a person based on an overall impression and intuition rather than a scrutiny of the applicant’s abilities and potential.
The Top Three Objections
Whether you are selling an idea to your manager or a product or service to your prospective client,some common objections are likely to be raised. You will need to deal with these or risk losing the initiative. There are about 7-8 common, typical categories of objections but here are the top three…
Do You Have Executive Balance?
It started with grey cells and IQ , then there was talk about EQ – the measure of emotional intelligence. Emotional balance does play a key role it seems in building relationships, managing conflict situations and maintaining composure in stressful situations. But is this enough and is it the whole story? Is there another way [...]
The Third Door
This is one of those articles you simply have to read. Arthur Rosenfeld, a Tai Chi Master, provides an amazing insight on how sometime it might be better not to rely on our instinctive and primitive emotions. Based on his article in the Huffington Post Blog Just before Christmas of 2007, almost exactly a year [...]
I’m Mad as Hell, and I’m Gonna Deploy the Slide!
Based on an article from About.com If you were in hibernation during the last 24-hour news cycle, you may have missed the story about Jet Blue flight attendant Steven Slater, who was mad as hell and wasn’t gonna take it anymore…
