Office life can have its ups and downs, but having
to endure a jerk can make it miserable. Office jerks
take on many forms, and thus require creative
strategies for dealing with them.
Is your home office design drab and
uninspiring? Do thoughts of going
into your office dampen your
entrepreneurial spirit? It may be
time to consider your office design
and your productivity. You may not
have the time or budget for an
office design makeover, but a few
simple ideas can go far in boosting
your business productivity.
Author: Roger Volkema
Leverage — the real or imagined
advantage one holds — is the most
important tool in a negotiation.
Anyone who wants to consistently win
at the negotiating table needs to
master the art of gaining and
maintaining leverage. This book
helps readers maximize their
negotiation skills by showing them
how to recognize and use these often
hidden trump cards.
Compare your reading
skills
Compare
your skills to others!
This is a fun quick interactive test of your
reading speed
comprehension
vocabulary
It's FREE and only
takes six minutes. Find out how your skills compare.
Your results are reported at the end of the
questions. This test is standardized against against
the results of 30,592 participants. To start, click
on the "Next button".
As for me, well, I'm
still reeling from the in-your-face lessons I learned that day. A
lemonade stand is no Fortune 500 company, but with refreshing
simplicity, it reveals some of the key principles of empowerment.
Online networking is all the rage, as
Internet tools make it easy for us to
reach out to almost anyone who has a
presence online.
Lofty executives, potential clients, and
future employers are within easy reach
to anyone with a browser and an email
account. But it won't do to rush off and
start blasting off email messages to
strangers -- that's a recipe for being
ignored or added to an email blacklist.
Take the time to think through your
online networking approach, and your
results will improve dramatically. Here
are five tips to get you going.
The MIT Media Lab's
John Maeda
lives at the intersection of technology and art -- a place
that can get very complicated. Here, he talks about paring
down to basics, and how he creates clean, elegant art,
websites and web tools. In his book Laws of Simplicity,
he offers 10 rules and 3 keys for simple living and working
-- but in this talk, he boils it down to one simply
delightful way to be.
Conflict resolution is, in theory, quite
simple. Yet who among us hasn’t
experienced times when our common sense
flies out the window and even the most
basic skills desert us. Those times
demonstrate that conflict resolution may
be simple, but is far from easy. Let’s
see why.
In this book, communications consultant Cliff Atkinson shows
that if these new kinds of audience participation are
embraced and the conversations properly handled, the outcome
can be a new, more effective form of communicating. Whether
you’re a host, presenter, or an audience member, Cliff will
help you understand how this convergence of social forces is
upending the presentation norm and how you can effectively
manage the change.
[More on public Speaking]
Power Your Mind With Creative Visualisation
Creative
visualization is the technique of using your
imagination to create pictures of yourself achieving
a desired goal or outcome and focusing on that image
until you achieve your objective.
Use the power of your imagination to create what you
want in your life.
Can you teach music over the
Internet? How? Can you teach with Youtube?
Nirvana? Piczo? Audacity? Billboard? Newsfeeds?
Can you teach in a way that is engaging for the
learner?
Compare
your skills to others!
