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Can A Nose Job Lift Your Leadership Skills?: The newest trend in cosmetic surgery, apparently, is nipping and tucking for your job. Not content to Botox their brows into submission merely for personal primping, workplace go-getters men as well as women are turning to appearance enhancement for career advancement. No lesser an authority than His...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Workforce management, Professional development, CC Holland, workplace, BOTOX, job; Blog posts 2008-06-16
Workplace Conflict Resolution: People Management Tips: Organization leaders are responsible for creating a work environment that enables people to thrive. If turf wars, disagreements and differences of opinion escalate into interpersonal conflict, a person must intervene immediately. Not intervening is not an option if a person values the organization and the positive culture. In conflict-ridden situations,...; Tags: workplace, leader, environment; White papers
Motivation in the Workplace: Regarding motivation in the workplace, countless managers are heard asking the question - "How do I keep my staff motivated?" While the above question may not surprise a person, people's answer to the question just might change the entire outlook on the subject of motivating his team. Motivation of employees...; Tags: Leadership, Recruitment & Selection, motivation, workplace, team; White papers
Studies Show That Business Book Summaries Can Increase Workplace Productivity: Inspection of the various factors that affect a company worker's motivation shows that much of the productivity of an employee can be attributed to the right kind of information being disseminated regularly and in an engaging manner. But how can an organization provide employees with sufficient, relevant, timely information without...; Tags: motivation, workplace; White papers 2008-03-17
Web-Tracking Vs. Privacy: The New York Times ran a front-page story today about how companies are collecting massive amounts of data about what people search for on the Internet, and the pages they visit, so they can target them with specific advertisements. Yahoo alone is collecting data more than 2,500 times per month...; Tags: Channel management, William Baker, Web; Blog posts 2008-03-10

Successful Workplace Communication: View Available Dates and Locations This course features activities and role-playing exercise that will help you improve your oral interpersonal and small group communication skills in a workplace environment. Determine your communication style to help you capitalize on your strengths and improve your weaknesses. Have more...; Tags: Leadership, PRODUCTIVITY, Team management, Global Knowledge Network Inc., emotional intelligence, rapport, technique, workplace, effective leadership, conflict resolution, communication skill, team-building, alliance, team, performance; Training 2008-01-01
Building Your Leadership Skills: There are many myths about leaders, one being that “leaders are born and not made.”The truth is, several factors contribute to the development of a leader. Obviously, the leader’s personal qualities are important, but also critical are the needs of the people being led and the objective they are pursuing....; Tags: BNET Editorial, leadership, leader, environment, motivation, workplace, vision, acquisition, knowledge, team, job; Articles 2007-10-04
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: Entrepreneurship, BNET Editorial, entrepreneur, risk, workplace, supplier, survey, knowledge, strategy; Articles 2007-10-03
The 90% Factor EQ (Emotional Intelligence) And The New Workplace: In this age of the knowledge worker, intellectual capital, connecting learning across the organization, and leveraging human capital, the seemingly simple, yet most profound, act of Emotional Intelligence (or EQ, emotional quotient) - listening - provides us a major clue to competitiveness. Successful organizations in the future will be those...; Tags: Leadership, emotional intelligence, human capital, performance; White papers 2007-01-01
Mitial Workplace Benchmarking: Summary Report 2005: Strategic Management Change SMC - for short has been a reason not to do lots of things. Small improvements, daily improvements all seem to have become too subservient to the inertia's "crown prince" SMC. When an organisation changes structure it is to improve its service to customers, profitability and internal...; Tags: Workplace, Strategic Management, Leadership, Strategy, Management; White papers 2005-11-25
Cognitive Asymmetry in Employee Affective Reactions to Leadership Behaviors: This paper presents the results of a qualitative study of subordinate perceptions of leaders in the workplace, and how they respond emotionally to particular leadership behaviors. The study represents an exploration of a model based on Affective Events Theory AET, which posits that effective leaders are seen to shape the...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, workplace, leadership, leader; White papers 2005-03-24
What Role Does Fairness Play in the Workplace?: Being treated fairly is a concern for each and everyone. An organization can't create a constant state of equality, but leadership has profound control over what and how information is shared. By making conscious steps toward justice, leaders can reduce the possibility that employees will feel that they're not being...; Tags: workplace, leadership, leader, environment; White papers 2004-11-23
Evolving Workplaces Demand Leaders Who Can Adapt: From the executive summary: ‘Sophisticated tools, technology, and keen business thinking are revolutionizing the way organizations work. The systems help executives run tighter, more productive operations. But, they also bring with them more complexity and the need for speed and instant transaction, leaving little time to focus on more strategic...; Tags: American City Business Journals Inc., leadership, leader, tool; White papers 2004-07-16
Creating and Sustaining an Ethical Workplace Culture: Ethics is about behavior. In the face of dilemma, it is about doing the right thing. Ethical managerial leaders and their people take the "Right" and "Good" path when they come to the ethical choice points. The purpose of this paper is to steer one's thinking and action toward creating...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Leadership, Pepperdine University, organizational behavior, workplace, leader, ethics; White papers 2003-12-17
Sound The Retreat: The article states that there is considerable debate about whether organizations can really rev up leadership skills or build a team through games, fire walking, rock-climbing, or whitewater rafting. If a group wants to build a team, it is more important to figure out what is hampering them dealing with...; Tags: Team management, Crain Communications Inc., team, workplace, leadership, game; White papers 2003-09-01
How Workers Fare When Employers Innovate: From the executive summary: 'Complementing existing work on firm organizational structure and productivity, the paper examines the impact of organizational change on workers. The paper examines the evidence that employers do appear to compensate at least some of their workers for engaging in high performance workplace practices. The paper also...; Tags: Leadership, worker, high-performance, organizational structure; White papers 2003-03-01
HR Departments Now Overseeing Workplace Ethics: From the executive summary: ‘The number one cause for employees' unethical conduct is the failure of an organization's leadership in establishing ethical standards and culture. Experts suggest that company leaders must walk the talk, for it is only leading with character that creates a culture of character. Ethical codes can...; Tags: American City Business Journals Inc., workplace, Human Resources, leadership; White papers 2003-01-10
Managing To Improve: 10 Areas Or Emphasis For Workplace Leaders: About 85 percent of all managers in North America became managers without prior education to become one, it can be imagined how well that often goes. Some often use “management” and “leadership” as if they were the same. They are not. For some military veterans, think about the roles of...; Tags: leadership, workplace, payment; White papers 2003-01-01
Employee Motivation in the Workplace: The job of a manager in the workplace is to get things done through employees. To do this the manager should be able to motivate employees. Motivation practice and theory are difficult subjects, touching on several disciplines. In spite of enormous research, basic as well as applied, the subject of...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, motivation, workplace, strategy, theory, leadership, job, performance; White papers 2003-01-01
Building Workplace Confidence: The personality trait most responsible for an individual's ability to deal well with change is confidence. Confident people are self-motivated, have high self-esteem, and are willing to take risks. But even the most confident of employees may suffer a crisis of self-doubt in times of accelerating change, and it is...; Tags: leadership, workplace, talent, strategy; White papers 2003-01-01