Taking Control of Your Own Development
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Whether you are a CEO, Manager or Administrative Assistant, you are responsible for your own development. During these economically challenging times, one of the first things to be cut in a company's budget is training and development. More than likely the cuts were done at the beginning of 2009. If you are lucky, there is still a training budget but it is much smaller than in 2008. For others there may be no annual training budget.
If you are like me, I always look forward to developing new skills and techniques that I can add to my portfolio. Read more...
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| Multi-Tasking: Is It Worth It? |
You see it at work. You drop by an employee's workspace to discuss a
current project and she continues to work on the computer while you are
having the discussion. How do you feel as the person continues to
"multi-task"?
Alternately, you are at home and your spouse is in
the kitchen preparing dinner or loading the dishwasher. You start a
conversation with him or her and they continue on with their task at
hand while conversing with you. Did they really understand what you
said? Did they really hear you? Read more...
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Effective Feedback: How to Give It So Others Hear, Understand and Act On It
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Remember the manager you once had who said to you, "I need to talk to you" and you got a deep sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach? What was it that made you react to those words?
There are any number of reasons that you reacted that way, many of which were based on the experiences you had following the statement "I need to talk to you."
The first reason was that your manager never gave you any positive feedback. All you heard were the things you weren't doing right. And for those of you who did get positive feedback, the feedback which was focused on changing behavior, wasn't given clearly and you often walked away wondering what exactly you needed to do. Read more...
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