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Building a Cross-functional Team
Most projects require a wide variety of skills to complete the work involved, so if you're managing a project of any type, it's likely that you'll have to work with a group of people from different backgrounds.
Tags: Skills, Teams, Cross-functional, Project Management, Goals
Articles 2007-02-01
How to Get Promoted |Dodging Landmines
If you keep getting passed up for promotions no matter how hard you work, take a look at your managerial skills. Are they nonexistent? Starla Sireno, executive coach at Fearlessness Inc., urges you to sit down with your manager and really listen—don't get defensive! Ask what you can do, what...
Tags: Skill, Promotion, career, training, skills, manager, Dodging Landmines
Videos 2009-05-18
How to stand out amongst smart coworkers| Dodging Landmines
Remember why you were hired — for your abilities and skills. Starla Sireno, executive coach at Fearlessness Inc., suggests you find your USP, your Unique Selling Point, and find a project that highlights it. If you can't find one—create it!
Tags: Landmine, Coworker, Stand Out, coworkers, office, career, skills, project, Dodging Landmines
Videos 2008-12-04
Reevaluating Your Career |Leila's House of Corrections
If your current job title doesn't match your passions, it's time to re-think your career — regardless of the economy. Write down your strengths, go on informational interviews, see whether you can alter your current job to create a better fit, and if not, consider moving on. If you...
Tags: Video, Professional Development, Corporate Communications, Recruitment & Selection, Marketing, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Leila's House of Corrections, career, downturn, job, employment, layoff, skills, interview, strengths
Videos 2008-12-11

Additional Resources

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
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
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: workplace, motivation, environment, vision, team, acquisition, knowledge, job, BNET Editorial, Leader, Truth, Management, Leadership
Articles 2007-10-04
For People Skills, Go Back to School
John is a very successful CEO of a leading international payments business. He was reflecting on his hiring successes and failures. Quietly, he said "I find I hire most people for their technical skills and fire most for their lack of people skills". In one quick aside,...
Tags: Career, Jo Owen, People Skill, Professional Development
Blog posts 2008-09-02
Skills in England 2001
Two recent reports summarise the available evidence on the demand for, and supply of, skills in England. Key points * Industrial and occupational changes in the UK are leading to a growth in jobs requiring higher level skills and a decline in jobs requiring lower level skills. * In addition...
Tags: job, occupation, OECD, training, workforce
Research articles 2002-01-01
Ford drives against Teen Car Accidents with Driving Skills for Life
At the Ford Driving Skills for Life DSFL event in Romeo, students will receive hands-on advanced driver's training by some of the nation's top professional driving instructors. Participants will learn techniques in four key skill areas: speed management, space management, vehicle handling and hazard recognition. Experts have identified the lack...
Tags: student, program, teen, Ford Motor Co.
News items 2009-08-19
Building Interactive Skills
"This article explains that the strategies required for developing interactive skills are different, and considerably more complex, than those required for the development of non-interactive skills. Most of the meager attention which has been given to the theory of skilled performance has concentrated on noninteractive skills. It's our contention that...
Tags: Skill, Huthwaite, Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment, Finance
White papers 2003-01-01
Career And Employability Skills
This is a template for career and employability skills which gives information in applied academic skills; career planning; problem solving; personal management; organizing skills; teamwork; negotiation skills; understanding systems and using technology; employability skills; and technology skills.
Tags: Skill, Employability Skill, Professional Development, Free Trade, Career, Finance
Tools & templates 2007-11-05
Top Ten Sales Skills
Top Ten Sales SkillsRE: Top Ten Sales SkillsI would add Appreciate your Customer. Don't forget to thank your customer. You can do this in a number of ways from a simple "Thank you" to a gift, a discount on future business, etc...RE: Top Ten Sales SkillsAll relationships are founded on...
Tags: Top-Ten Sales Skills
Discussion threads 2008-06-26
Matching Your Skills To Find Appropriate Jobs
Skills refer to the things you do well. The key to finding the most appropriate jobs in the industry is recognizing your own skills and communicating the significance written and verbally to a probable employer. Majority of skills, including knowledge-based and transferable, could be absorbed and developed as a volunteer,...
Tags: Job, Skill, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management
White papers 2008-01-01
Are You Hiring Skills, Values or Bank Robbers
I hire most people for their technical skills. Over the years, I have come to realise that this is a big mistake. It was our book keeper who alerted me to the limitations of technical skills. She was good technically, but we should have read the warning...
Tags: Bank, Hiring, Skill, Value, Financial Services, Jo Owen
Blog posts 2009-10-27
Skills-Based Recruiting: Not
Skills-based recruiting is the term given to the recruiter-driven process of matching skills to a perceived hiring need. The emphasis is on the recruiter driving the process, actively pursuing the information he or she needs to assess a match between the candidate's skills and the requirements of the job position....
Tags: Skill, Recruiting, Recruiters Network, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management
White papers 2003-01-05
Leveraging Your Team's Interpersonal Skills
Observations suggest that every person in an organization possesses some amount of interpersonal skills. It is the onus of the managers to boost the organization's productivity by judiciously utilizing the skills of the employees. The interpersonal skills help in undertaking personnel choices, project assignments, and career development. The manager must...
Tags: Team, Skill, Harvard Knowledgebase, Professional Development, Training And Certification, Team Management, Career, Management
White papers 2004-06-14
Finding Skills Through Ranked Semantic Match of Descriptions
This paper proposes a formal approach to Ontology-Based Semantic Matchmaking between Skills request and offer, devised as a virtual marketplace of knowledge. In such a knowledge market metaphor, skills are a peculiar kind of goods that have distinguishing characteristics with respect to traditional assets. Buyers are entities that need the...
Tags: Skill, Strategy, Asset Management, Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations
White papers 2003-07-02
Management Skills for Small Business
This paper addresses several issues relating to management skills for small business in Canada. Is there evidence of deficiencies in management skills in the small firm population? Is it possible to identify key management skills for small firms? What are the barriers to the acquisition of the critical skills and,...
Tags: Small Business, Industry Canada, Management Skill, Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment, Finance
White papers 2001-03-30
Gearing Up For Professional Practice: Enhancing Soft Skills For IS Project Students
Industry project students often find the interview/initial contact with their project sponsor daunting, as for many students this is their first encounter with a potential IS/ IT employer. The final choice as to who completes a project is with the sponsor, and if students fail to impress, they can find...
Tags: Student, Soft Skill, Training And Certification
White papers 2004-04-05
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