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Stepladder Technique: Making Better Group Decisions
Making decisions within a group can often be challenging. When things go well, they can go very well. However, when things go wrong, you can end up mired in conflict. Some people may fight for recognition and position, others may be over-critical or disruptive, while others may sit quietly and...
Tags: Decision, Mind Tools
White papers 2008-01-01
To-Do Lists: Remembering to Do All Essential Jobs, in the Right Order
A 'To-Do List' is a list of all the tasks that one needs to carry out. It consolidates all the jobs that one has to do into one place. One can then prioritize these tasks into order of importance. This allows a person to tackle the most important ones first....
Tags: Task, Job, Mind Tools, To-Do List, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management
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Effective Scheduling - Planning to Make the Best Use of Your Time
There are many good scheduling tools available, including diaries, calendars, paper-based organizers, PDAs and integrated software suites like MS Outlook or GoalPro 6. The scheduling tool that is best for each individual depends on his situation, the current structure of his job, his taste and his budget: The key things...
Tags: Tool, Mind Tools, PDAs, Productivity, Microsoft Outlook, Tools & Techniques, Handhelds, Hardware, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Management
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Personal Goal Setting
Goal setting is a powerful process for personal planning. The process of setting goals helps each individual choose where he wants to go in life. By knowing precisely what he wants to achieve, he knows where he has to concentrate his efforts. He will also quickly spot the distractions that...
Tags: Goal, Goal-setting, Mind Tools, Operational Planning, Business Operations
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Writing Skills - Before You Write It Down, Know This
Many people are intimidated by writing. Even so, there are times when writing is the best way to communicate, and oftentimes the only way to get the message across. Thankfully nowadays technology makes memo, letter and proposal writing much easier by providing reliable tools that check and even correct misspelled...
Tags: Tool, Mind Tools, Productivity
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Effective Email - How to Communicate Powerfully by Email
As with all written communications, emails should be clear and concise. Sentences should be kept short and to the point. This starts with the email's subject line. Use the subject line to inform the receiver of exactly what the email is about. Keep in mind, the subject line should offer...
Tags: Mind Tools, Subject Line, E-mail, Online Communications
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Running Effective Meetings
While meetings are wonderful tools for generating ideas, expanding on thoughts and managing group activity, this face-to-face contact with team members and colleagues can easily fail without adequate preparation and leadership. It is always impressive if the leader of a meeting issues minutes within 24 hours of the end of...
Tags: Effective Meeting, Mind Tools, Leadership, Team Management, Management
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Conflict Resolution: Resolving Conflict Rationally and Effectively
In many cases, conflict in the workplace just seems to be a fact of life. Everyone has seen situations where different people with different goals and needs have come into conflict. And everyone has seen the often-intense personal animosity that can result. The fact that conflict exists, however, is not...
Tags: Conflict Resolution, Fact, Mind Tools, Communication Skills, Recruitment & Selection, Career, Human Resources, Workforce Management
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Cross-Cultural Leadership
Few successful businesses now work with people from only one culture. At the shallowest level, most Western businesses even those based in one location employ people from many cultural backgrounds. At a deeper level, the impact of globalization and cost differences between regions means that many companies either outsource parts...
Tags: Outsource, Business, Mind Tools, Outsourcing, Globalization, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Strategy, Management
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The Balanced Scorecard: Motivating Employees to Deliver Your Strategy
The Balance Scorecard helps to set goals that give appropriate weight to financial and non-financial measures. It does this by starting with the vision and strategy that drives the business. From this, it identifies the drivers of success for that vision, and then develops targets that measure progress towards that...
Tags: Vision, Target, Mind Tools, Strategy, Balanced Scorecard, Management, Marketing, Marketing Research
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Pygmalion Motivation: Motivating High Performance With High Expectations
The Pygmalion Effect explains how your expectations of other people can influence or motivate their performance. By setting and communicating high performance expectations, you can motivate better performance from the people that you lead and manage. The effect was originally studied in context of teachers' expectations of their students: Students...
Tags: Expectation, High-performance, Mind Tools, Pygmalion Effect, Leadership, Management
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SWOT Analysis: Discover New Opportunities, Manage and Eliminate Threats
SWOT Analysis also known as TOWS analysis is a powerful technique for understanding one's Strengths and Weaknesses, and for looking at the Opportunities and Threats that he or she faces. Used in a business context, it helps one to carve a sustainable niche in his or her market. Used in...
Tags: Mind Tools, Swot analysis, Marketing Research, Marketing
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SWOT Analysis: Understanding Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities And Threats
This is an analytical article on the SWOT analysis stating briefly on the purpose of this tool and the possible impact on an organization. It also suggests a few essential points to any organization while using the SWOT analysis. SWOT analysis is a framework for analyzing the strengths and weaknesses,...
Tags: Mind Tools, Swot analysis, Marketing Research, Marketing
White papers 2003-01-01
Techniques for Effective Decision Making
The techniques in this section help us to make the best decisions possible with the information available. With these tools you will be able to map out the likely consequences of decisions, work out the importance of individual factors and choose the best course of action to take. The section...
Tags: Technique, Decision-making, Mind Tools, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Management
White papers 2003-01-01
Decision Tree Analysis- Choosing Between Options by Projecting Likely Outcomes
Decision Trees are excellent tools for helping one to choose between several courses of action. They provide a highly effective structure within which we can lay out options and investigate the possible outcomes of choosing those options. They also help us to form a balanced picture of the risks and...
Tags: Decision Tree, Mind Tools
White papers 2003-01-01
Leadership Styles Using The Right One For Your Situation
Whether a person is managing a team at work, captaining your sports team or leading a major corporation, your leadership style is crucial to your success. Consciously, or subconsciously, you will no doubt use some of the leadership styles featured, at least some of the time. By understanding these leadership...
Tags: Leadership Style, Mind Tools, Leadership, Management
White papers 2008-01-01
Action Plans - Small Scale Planning
An Action Plan is a list of tasks that a person has to carry out to achieve an objective. It differs from a To Do List in that it focuses on the achievement of a single goal. Wherever one wants to achieve something, he should draw up an action plan....
Tags: Action Plan, Mind Tools
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Activity Logs: Finding Out How You Really Spend Your Time
Activity logs help a person to analyze how he actually spends his time. The first time the person uses an activity log he may be shocked to see the amount of time that he wastes! Memory is a very poor guide when it comes to this, as it can be...
Tags: Activity, Mind Tools, Flash Memory
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Beating Procrastination
If a person has found himself putting off important tasks over and over again, he is not alone. In fact, most people procrastinate to some degree - but some are so chronically affected by procrastination that it disrupts their careers and thwarts even their best efforts. The key to controlling...
Tags: Mind Tools, Professional Development, Career
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Decision Tree Analysis: Choosing Between Options
Decision Trees are useful tools for helping you to choose between several courses of action. They provide a highly effective structure within which you can explore options, and investigate the possible outcomes of choosing those options. They also help you to form a balanced picture of the risks and rewards...
Tags: Decision Tree, Option, Mind Tools
White papers 2008-01-01
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