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Choosing The Best Negotiation Tactics

3 Tactics to make your supply negotiations more strategic.

The art of negotiating is a complex topic discussed by many, yet mastered by few. However, start your education with a focus on being prepared and choosing the best tactics, and you will mostly likely be miles ahead of your opposing party in the negotiation room. Start here to Choose The Best Negotiation Tactics

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The Single Most Important Management Tool to Grow Your Business

Is your organization ready to succeed?

Business leaders & managers forget that their organization is a living, breathing group of people, systems, processes and structures that may or may not be ready or able to implement their plans. Focusing internally to understand your organization and set them up to execute effectively is the best way to achieve results...period. This article discusses the single most important management tool to grow your business...the one that gets your business ready to succeed-Organizational Discovery, setting the baseline to benchmark your business for growth. http://ow.ly/oGmXM

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Create A Platform For Success In Your First Job

7 Keys to Building a Good Relationship With Your First Manager

Are you a recent grad starting a new job, maybe even your first? Here are 7 Keys To Building A Good Relationship With Your Boss-advice that will help throughout your career. This is also a great tool for any manager to use when on-boarding a new hire....or improving relationships with current employees.

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The Power of Radical Ownership

3 Steps To Overcoming Powerlessness & Overwhelm At Work

Powerlessness and frustration do not come from individual situations, instead they develop from a pattern of behaviors, repeated over time. This article describes how to master your destiny by taking ownership of these patterns, teaching you how to focus on problem solving rather than blaming. It is The Power of Radical Ownership. Please check it out:

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Leading Through Crisis: Are You Coping Or Leading With Courage?

5 “Pause Practices” To Help Ensure Decisions & Values Align

It’s a falsity to think that making quick decisions under pressure is the sign of a great leader. On the contrary, decisions we make while in crisis mode are often triggered by fear instead of sound strategy. So how do you pause when pressure is pushing you to make decisions now? Here is a real case study to put it all into perspective. Please check today's article:

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What Is World Class Customer Service?

10 “Must Haves” That Buyer’s Expect From Your Sales Force

What does World Class Customer Service mean to you? More importantly, what does it mean to your customers? Today's article defines 10 Must Haves from your Buyer's Perspective to ensure customers are not only happy, but that they come back. How does your sales team rate on these 10 points? Check it out

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Productivity At Work - Are You A Fast Hamster?

7 Things Very Effective People STOP Doing

When no matter how much you do still feels like you haven’t done enough, it can become overwhelming and sometimes physically exhausting, a little like a hamster on a wheel. Well, we know there is much more to you than that, however this is a common feeling shared by many business leaders.Today's article provides 7 Things Very Effective People STOP Doing. These tips apply to everyone, no matter what your job and will help to improve personal productivity. Please check it out

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Preventing Cultural Conflict in International Teams

3 Mechanisms International Managers Can Use To Strengthen Their Teams

Conflict and difference can separate or strengthen corporate teams, depending on how they are handled. How does your organization deal with cultural differences? This article describes 3 Mechanisms International Managers Can Use to Prevent Cultural Conflict & Strengthen Their Teams:

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This video clip from the U.K. also reinforces the fundamental premise of this article- we hire, manage, and work with people; not human capital!

Organizations with clearly defined employment brands and high levels of employee engagement always outperform the competition. Why give up a competitive advantage? Here are 5 Elements of an Engaged Culture & Integrated Human Resource Strategy. Integrate them into your organization today

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5 Elements of an Engaged Culture & Integrated Human Resource Strategy

The Importance of People, How Does Your Company Compare?

Organizations with clearly defined employment brands and high levels of employee engagement always outperform the competition. Why give up a competitive advantage? Here are 5 Elements of an Engaged Culture & Integrated Human Resource Strategy. Integrate them into your organization today

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Leadership Presence: 3 Behaviors People Gravitate Toward

Do You Show Up As a Leader?

Today's article encourages anyone to develop the behaviors people gravitate to. Give your team the leadership they are looking for. Don't do it because you want to be followed, do it because they want to be led. Here are 3 Behaviors People Gravitate Toward

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  How True Leaders Demonstrate Unwavering Integrity

Checklist & Action Plan for Making Decisions With Integrity

True Leaders Demonstrate Unwavering Integrity despite the fact that in most business dealings we are faced with temptations that test our commitment to the principles of integrity. Here is A Leader's Checklist & Action Plan for Making Decisions With Integrity. Please take a look and let us know what you think:

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The Web Changes Everything – Or Does It?

4 Things You Need To Know About Your Web Presence!

The Internet has changed our lives in more ways than we can imagine – and some we’re not aware of! Every business owner or principal understands that they need to have a presence on the web - But there are 4 Things You Need To Know if you want your web presence to be successful. Check it out!

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Strategic Leadership-How Strategic Are You?

Three Key Components To Transform Strategy Into Results

How Strategic Are You? When we talk about being strategic we focus more on thinking and planning, than on leading and achieving. The reality is that “being strategic” requires both; it’s the full transformation from dream to result. It’s not that we forget to transform our vision, but often our approach to leading that change is not effective enough to generate our desired results. Here is a model for strategic transformation-how to make your vision real. Check it Out!

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User Stories – Simple, But Not Easy

Define your needs so that Agile Software Developers will act.

Organizations with clearly defined employment brands and high levels of employee engagement always outperform the competition. Why give up a competitive advantage? Here are 5 Elements of an Engaged Culture & Integrated Human Resource Strategy. Integrate them into your organization today.

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Market Share: Getting (and Keeping) Your Piece of the Pie

What will you do when faced with new competition?

What will you do when faced with new competition? Or with the same old competition who is trying to take advantage of the growing pie? How will you respond so that you remain competitive without compromising your brand or image? Here are some tips you should always keep in mind:

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The Art of “Managing Up”

4 Things You Can Do To Ensure Your Own Success

Today's article is a guide to creating constructive dialog between yourself and your boss to ensure success before you commit to new challenges. A failed project or job is NOT normally a positive career move. Do your best to ensure your own success through the art of "Managing Up". Read this to learn how: