Workplace Fitness: Tongue-In-Cheek

The tongue is the main vessel used to speak. It accomplishes this by spewing out sounds and words. Although a small part of the body, it controls and affects the direction of our lives. Most of the time it does a lot of good; but sometimes it gets us into huge trouble, and controlling it is a lifelong process. This article will give you 10 proven ways to prevent you from getting foot-in-mouth disease.

Dealing with Difficult People - Ten Ways to Improve Your Communications Success

Have you noticed that some people are impossible to talk to? Do you dread approaching them to give or share information? Have your efforts to initiate friendly dialog fallen on deaf ears and stony faces? Here are ten things you can do to improve your chance for communications success.

You, Your Team, and Your Coach

The grand purpose of coaching is to help your managers, the people they manage, and your organization make the transition from where you are to where you want to be.

How Does Personal Development Help in Business?

Business is all about work and making money, so why develop the individual who does the work and creates the money?

Constructive Group Dynamics: How to Go from the S.N.I.P.P.Y. Syndrome to a C.L.E.A.R. V.I.E.W.

If asked to look at your work calendar for the week, the odds are pretty good that you have a few if not several meetings already scheduled. Now, if asked how you feel about attending some of those meetings, the odds are even better that you may either roll your eyes, groan or mutter something under your

Not Another Ice Breaker! Team Building with a Purpose

Offsites are a very effective means to getting the team focused on solving a business problem, defining a strategy, or creating a revolutionary way of doing things. Done well, an offsite not only puts great minds together to address a business issue but it also builds better teams that work more effectively together and get more things done. Done poorly, an offsite will be viewed as a huge waste of time and will poorly reflect on you as a leader. Get seven tips for holding great team-building offsites..

Top Nine Tips for Better Teamwork and Team Building

Team building and teamwork skills are critical for your effectiveness as a manager or entrepreneur. Use these tips to make sure you are not missing the essential elements of effective team building.

Surviving a Business Project

In a perfect world, any business team assembled to take on a project would be a competent group of professionals who seamlessly act as one entity. In the real world, it’s a bit different. People tend to act in their own best interests and play the blame game regardless of the outcome. Here are some ideas that will help you and your team keep their eyes on the prize.

Six Indispensable Benefits of In - Service Training for Your Business

In growing your business you may be looking in many directions for stimulus, ideas and pathways for development. But have you considered looking inward? If you have a small (SBE) to medium-sized company (SME), INSET or In-Service Training can provide for both immediate and long-term benefits for your company or business. Here are six indispensable benefits of in-service training you can start reaping now:

Hiring the Right People for a Luxury Pet Boutique

People will always be the number one reason that sales continue to grow. Therefore, hiring the right people will be critical to the growth and profitability of any business. But where do you find them?

Slap in the Face Recognition

You can'be build an effective workforce by insulting your employees, and yet it goes on. It’s amazing what stress and pain can be inflicted by managers who are ill-equipped, ill-advised and ill-prepared to deal with social interactions and situations in the workplace

Everything Your Parents Did Not Tell You About Strengths and Weaknesses

The difference between a Peak Performance Team and an average group of people trying to create results together is very often found in how the Strengths and Weaknesses of each individual are managed. There is enormous potential if you are skilled at this type of management and many painful, expensive and boring consequences if you are not.

Building A Practice On Purpose Series Part #5-2 Develop a Championship Team by Creating a Coaching

Turn low-performance players around.