Personal Effectiveness
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. 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 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 [...]
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…
