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A Duck Walked in to a Staff Meeting: Comedy Techniques to Lighten Up Business (Popularity:  )
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Used effectively and positively, humor can improve the workplace in many ways. Employees who laugh regularly are physically and emotionally healthier, not to mention more productive and creative. And let’s face it – it’s more fun to work with people who bring joy and laughter to work than those who suck the life out of everyone around them.
As a comedian and corporate stress management expert, I’ve been teaching organizations how ...
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Base Jumping For Beginners: Principles of Successful Remote Team Leadership (Popularity: )
Introduction This article looks at the basic considerations for any team leader/manager implementing the switch to flexible/remote working teams.
Staff Suitability Teams which tend to fit easily into the remote worker/team mould have the following common characteristics - They are either knowledge workers or back office admin staff - They approach their work in a mature, disciplined and self motivated way. - Their work is task/project focused in nature. This is ...
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Teambuilding Events Don't Work (Popularity: )
Have you ever attended a teambuilding event only to return to work and encounter the same team issues that existed prior to the event? So, why didn’t the experience and bonding from the event stick? Why did it have an impact while you were there but little or no residual effect?
Were the participants not committed? Were the event activities lackluster? Was it just "too little, too late" for your team? ...
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Essentials For Building a High Performance Team (Popularity: )
Teams represent a very powerful mechanism for getting significant results in organizations today. Much has been learned about the development and implementation of teams over the past few years. We have seen what works, what doesn’t and the best approach for developing and nurturing teams. A new class of teams are evolving that have the potential of replacing traditional hierarchical organization structures with a flat, self directed, cross functional, process ...
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Activate to Motivate Your Staff (Popularity: )
There are strategies that employers can create to foster an enjoyable workplace. Happy, motivated staff are more inclined to stay with the company. Most organizations spend big dollars to recruit their employees and training them. So what can you do to make sure your employees are happy and motivated to want to stay and grow with the company?
For example, the receptionist has one of the most important roles in the ...
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What Makes a Winning Team? (Popularity: )
The people answering the phones ringing into a multi-billon dollar corporation would be sorely missed if they went on strike. Customers would learn almost immediately of the chaos their absence caused. If the janitorial staff decided to join the phone operators, even more chaos. Customers ring into multi-billion dollar corporations daily and are never aware of the CEO or COO's absence.
Each link within the company's infrastructure is an important link ...
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Leadership - A Vision (Popularity: )
Does your company have a leadership problem?
Most people would answer “yes”, no matter how successful their company may be. In fact, this challenge is so huge that a quick search on the word “Leadership” (Amazon.com) returns more than 115,000 entries!
In case you don’t have the time to read 115,000 books, I have developed a list of the 13 key characteristics of all great leaders. I will address a new characteristic ...
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Top Ten Tips For Hiring A Senior Executive (Popularity: )
There is no more important decision than choosing the people at the top or your organization. After all, they will hire or approve everyone else in the company, set the tome for values and make virtually all key decisions that will mean success or failure every business day.
A structured approach to hiring that includes all of the following items must ALWAYS be followed for any senior level hire (VP and ...
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Employee Team Project Incentives for Internet Companies (Popularity: )
There are many ways to give much needed incentives to employees such as stock options, Christmas Bonuses and profit sharing. However, consider a start up entrepreneurial company, which is web based. What can you do to give a little back to your employees and generate some real productivity and tap into some of the creative genius of your work force? Well there are many things you can do and innovative ...
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Leadership - Consistency (Popularity: )
I have worked with many leaders who failed to recognize this truth. In fact, I am sure that there have been times throughout my career where I haven’t provided the leadership that my team required.
The truth is that it’s easy to be a great leader when things are going well.
When sales are up, profits are growing and customers are happy it seems that you have all the right answers. You ...
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