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Identifying and Marketing Your Transferable Skills
The ongoing globalization of the world economy means that market demands are changing monthly, weekly, and sometimes even daily. People who invested years of time and tens of thousands of dollars training for "hot" careers are discovering that their skills are no longer in strong demand.Today it's not enough to...
Tags: business skills, transferable skills, professional development
Articles 2007-05-08
Utilizing Active Listening
Few people are naturally gifted with the ability to be an active listener, but it's a skill that can make or break a leader. In fact, most people are not quite sure what active listening is, and therefore do it very badly. It's particularly difficult for those who are narrowly...
Tags: communication, business skills
Articles 2007-04-20
Writing Good Reports
Writing good business reports doesn't come easily to everyone. Many people consider the task boring and difficult. Inexperienced writers often feel they have to produce great tomes that include everything they know, resulting in long documents that are a nightmare both to write and read. Writing reports can be a...
Tags: writing, reports, business skills
Articles 2007-03-27
Five Myths of Managing Up
Do the traditional rules still apply when it comes to keeping your boss happy? Myth #1: Always be in the office before your boss arrives. Conventional wisdom: If you're even five minutes late, the boss will think you're a slacker. Why it's...
Tags: ONLINE COMMUNICATIONS, INTERNET, Instant messaging, BNET Feature, myth, boss, CEO, management, business skills, team, Geoffrey James, Human Resources, Sales, Telecommuting, Sales Force Management, Workforce Management, Sales Strategy, E-mail, Team Management
Articles 2007-03-12
Rethinking Trust
Trust is essential for business and economic success. But recent financial scandals suggest that people aren't always very smart about whom they trust. Bernard Madoff took in some of the world's cleverest people. ...
Tags: Cue, Trust, Relationship Builder, Financial Accounting, Finance, Harvard Business Review, In Brief, Roderick M. Kramer, Work Life, Business Skills
Articles 2009-09-07

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SPRING: IT professionals need softer business skills fofor success.
M2 PRESSWIRE-27 October 1999-SPRING: IT professionals need softer business skills for success C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:261099 * Springdex reveals current skills requirements for the IT market In a quarterly skills ranking provided by Spring, the market leader in...
Tags: Spring Group Plc.
Research articles 1999-10-27
McGraw-Hill Lifetime Learning Launches Pilot Program for Intranet Versions of Popular Xebec Interactive Business Skills Courses
WORTHINGTON, Ohio--BUSINESS WIRE--Oct. 1, 1998--McGraw-Hill Lifetime Learning (http://www.mhlifetimelearning.com) is launching its Intranet Pilot Program consisting of ten new intranet delivered business skills training modules from its Xebec Interactive Business Skills courses. The pilot program allows organizations to test all ten intranet delivered modules for ninety days.
Tags: Intranet, McGraw-Hill Companies, pilot program
Research articles 1998-10-01
European business skills training defies slowdown to reach USD13bn by 2006; eLearning gains share, says IDC.
M2 PRESSWIRE-21 January 2002-IDC: European business skills training defies slowdown to reach USD13bn by 2006; eLearning gains share, says IDC C1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:21012002 AMSTERDAM -- Despite the temporary economic slowdown, the European business skills training market...
Tags: E-learning, International Data Corp., SOFTWARE, training
Research articles 2002-01-21
Pilkington signs deal with SkillSoft to help develop business skills worldwide.
M2 PRESSWIRE-15 May 2006-SKILLSOFT: Pilkington signs deal with SkillSoft to help develop business skills worldwideC1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:15052006 Pilkington, the global manufacturer of glass and glazing products, has awarded online learning provider, SkillSoft, a three-year contract worth nearly GBP380,000...
Tags: Pilkington Plc., SkillSoft
Research articles 2006-05-15
Company Profile for Internet Business Skills
Located in the Colorado Springs Technology Incubator, Internet Business Skills, Inc. provides optimization technology, business analytics and niche consulting expertise to both new and high volume eBay sellers to give them a competitive advantage on eBay and other Internet channels. IBS is an eBay Certified Service and Solution Provider.
Tags: eBay Inc., Internet
Research articles 2006-06-02
Business Skills Are Essential In Offshore Software Outsourcing
The outsourcing business has spread far and wide in India and other countries such as Germany, Australia, Japan and China. Still there is an unfulfilled demand that exists in many parts of the world. Some research studies have established the need for a combination of technical and business skills for...
Tags: Offshore, Software, Business Skill, Streetdirectory, Outsourcing Business, Managed Hosting, Outsourcing, Leadership, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Management
White papers 2009-01-01
Sharpen Your Business Skills for Free @ MIT
Sharpen Your Business Skills for Free @ MITExcellent siteThis is a terrific site. Thanks for the link.
Tags: business skill, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sharpen
Discussion threads 2008-02-11
In precedent-setting move, MIT Sloan School will launch new Minor in Management; Program will add business skills to the technical expertise of MIT graduates
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- In a major new initiative to enable MIT students to add basic business skills to their powerful science and engineering arsenal, MIT Sloan School of Management will this fall begin to offer an undergraduate Minor in Management. The minor, which will initially be limited to 100 undergraduates...
Tags: business skill, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research articles 2005-02-28
Internet Business Skills Executives to Speak on Three Panels at eBay Live; Two of Three Panels Are Currently Sold Out
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Internet Business Skills is pleased to announce Jim Wilson, CTO, and Mike Siffin, VP Sales, will be speaking on three panels at eBay Live (http://pages.ebay.com/ebaylive/), eBay's annual user conference which begins June 13 in Las Vegas, Nev.
Tags: eBay Inc., Internet
Research articles 2006-05-31
'Virginia Air University' helps dealers improve business skills. (York International Corp.'s Dealer Development Program)
York International Corp's Dealer Development Program offers heating, ventilating and air conditioning hvac contractors important business skills such as marketing, finance and employee relations. Such training is not usually available for most hvac contractors, and when it is the training may be more difficult to apply to the problems facing...
Tags: Virginia Air University, York International Corp.
Research articles 1996-04-15
Weighing the Pros and Cons of Starting a New Business
Creating and launching your own business venture can be incredibly satisfying and rewarding, but every entrepreneur faces countless pressures and surprises. Launching a business is risky: As a rule, eight or nine of every 10 new ventures fail within a year. You need to be aware of the problems you...
Tags: entrepreneur, risk, workplace, survey, knowledge, supplier, BNET Editorial, Marketing, Management, Channel Management, Leadership, Productivity, Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Time Management, Business, Skill
Articles 2007-10-03
How Balanced are Your Sales Skills?
Everybody in sales wants to have great sales skills, but not everybody realizes that sales skills come in three varieties. Psychological skills. These are what most people think of as sales skills. They include the ability to complete a successful cold...
Tags: Geoffrey James, Skill, Sales Skill, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales
Blog posts 2008-05-08
Dartmouth Helps Military Personnel Hone Business Skills
Shifting from the military to the business world isn't as drastic a move as you might think. In December we profiled the free, 14-month Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities, first introduced by the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University in 2007 and now offered by a consortium of...
Tags: Business Skill, Leader, Military Personnel, Leadership, Management, Stacy Blackman
Blog posts 2009-02-12
Starting A Business?: Inventory Your Entrepreneurial Skills Portfolio
Almost every start-up checklist that aspiring entrepreneurs will read, refers to "Must know" start-up information about legal issues, money management, sales, marketing and operations. In fact, success as an entrepreneur not only relies on your knowledge and effective execution of these fundamentals, but also requires a constant commitment to keep...
Tags: Entrepreneurial, Knowledge, Entrepreneur, Associated Content, Entrepreneurship, Strategy, Management
White papers 2007-03-28
Kellogg Teaches Management Skills for Rabbis
With today’s shifting economic landscape, rabbis across the country have come under increasing pressure to raise funds to keep their synagogues healthy and oversee budgets that are being squeezed as members lose their jobs, the Jewish Daily Forward reports. Trouble is, many rabbis lack crucial business skills to run their...
Tags: Synagogue, Kellogg, Efrem Goldberg, Leadership, Communication Skills, Crisis Management, Management, Career, Stacy Blackman
Blog posts 2008-12-22
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