3C's + 3M's = Effective Communication

Effective communication is the single most important skill we can develop. Communication permeates every phase of our lives and business. You CAN become a more effective communicator if you work at it. Use the tenets outlined in this article and you WILL become a more effective communicator.

Date Stamp Kits

Date stamp kits are customizable stamping packs comprised of stamp mount, black inkpad, type/character and tweezers. The kit usually contains rubber stamps month tiles January to December, abbreviated month titles from JAN to DEC, years, numbers 1 through 31, and st, nd, rd, and th. Text can be changed using the ribbed rubber characters that come with the stamp kit. Additional stamp sayings, alphabets, and ornaments or magnet base are also sold separately.

Positioning Yourself for Success through Introductions

Whether you are introducing your guest at a club meeting, presenting the speaker at an awards banquet or meeting forty strangers for the first time, the introduction is the tool that can position you and your guests for success.

How to Recognize and Prevent Sexual Harassment in the Workplace

With hundreds of sex offenders lurking in every corner, it is impossible to always stay protected. Unfortunately, these sexual predators are now showing up in some of our safest places, including the workplace. While these issues can become dangerous and humiliating, it is important to always stay informed on what to do if this happens to you. Below are tips on how to not only recognize sexual harassment, but also how to prevent such occurrences.

Difficult People: Dealing With Difficult People 101

Discover new tips on how to deal with difficult people. Recognize 5 of the most common types of difficult people. Specific, proven strategies for dealing with difficult people at work and at home. The complainer/whiner/negativist, as well as gossips, know-it-alls, snipers, and exploders.

Policies and Procedures are Important

Having clear concise detailed policies and procedures is a key factor in a successful business. Having these written down and accessible is workplace communication.

What Do You Do With Negative Feedback?

It’s natural to want to be liked. Everyone wants to think they are a pleasing, pleasant person to be around. However, we can’t and won’t please everyone all the time and we shouldn’t try to. What then, do we do with negative feedback?

Effectively Using Email in Not-For-Profit Organizations

In the age of the electronic message, many not-for-profit organizations are missing out on vital communication opportunities by doing things the way they’ve always been done. Organizations who successfully leverage email as an instant communication tool can reap the benefits every day.

Six Tips for Trust-Enhancing Communication

In an era where more people trust infomercials than company leaders, trust-enhancing communication skills, at any level, stand out. Below you'll find a few I learned in my twenty years in management. Some I learned the hard way, while others took me nearly a career to recognize. So, in the interest of saving you learning-years, I've put them into six tips:

Useful Information About Conferences

Conferences are basically meetings between a specified group of organizers or members of an organization with the express purpose of achieving some goal. To confer means to meet in order to share or compare views. Similarly conferences are meetings to discuss or consult. In broad terms, a conference can be defined as a meeting of individuals or representatives of various bodies for the purpose of discussing and/or acting on topics of common interest. There are many types of conferences. For example, in academic conferences, researcher present and discuss their papers or research work. In medical conferences, doctors discuss their work or new diseases and in political conferences, leaders discuss political or pressure issues.

Communicate More Effectively by Understanding

Communication is an essential ingredient of life. No matter what you do in life, you have to communicate with others, and how well you do it can make your life go better or make it very difficult indeed. There are many courses, coaches and programs available to teach these skills. But that is just the first step. You need to understand the person or people with whom you are communicating in order to do so effectively. “But how can I do that?” you ask.

Hindi Language Learning - A Key To Global Business

If you see India less as a low cost provider of services and more as a place to build great businesses, then it is recommended to have effective Hindi Language Learning Programs which creates success & confidence by solving the problem of international communication in Hindi language.

Virtual Teams in Education

The future of business is not in brick and mortar institutions as historically viewed. The proliferation and miniaturization of communications mediums, cellular telephone, fax, Internet, personal data devices, and lap top computers, make offices available where people are – not where the office is. What does this mean in terms of education? The United States Department of Education (US-DOE) provides a look into higher education statistics for twelve months 2000 to 2001. US-DOE figures from that period show 56 percent (2320) post-secondary two- and four-year schools had online courses. Another twelve percent desire to go online within the next three years. Finally, 31 percent said they would not go online. Clearly, two-thirds of colleges and universities have or want online educational opportunities for students.