Employee Communication Surveys: Seven Tips For Successful Design and Implementation

Surveying employees is an effective first step in fixing communication problems in an organization. Even if there are no obvious problems, surveys can help get an organization to the next level of performance. Here are seven useful tips for getting the most impact from your next communication survey.

The Language of Success - A New Way to Talk About Your Business

What if there's a language of success and you're not using it? Just knowing that such a language exists sets you apart from most other business people. Image being able to say the right thing, and ask the right question at the right time - all the time. The possibilities would be endless.

The 7 Barriers To Great Communications

The art of communicating is to understand that at a deep level we are all really one. There is no separation. When we know this, we immediately overcome the barriers that we build to keep ourselves separate. This article shows you how.

What is Body Language

Humans have the tendencey to communicate with each other. This can happen in obvious and in not so obvious ways. We speak, we write. However, we can also communicate without even using words at all. If words are used to communicate content, this nonverbal communication speaks about our relatishonsips.

Oh, By The Way, FYI, and Other Messages of Great Importance

Sometimes information doesn't get passed along. Sometimes it's tacked on as an afterthought. Sometimes it's as though the information doesn't really matter at all. And, sometimes it's a gender problem.

Bridge Over Troubled Waters: 3 Questions for Group Problem Solving

We have all had the experience of sitting in a staff meeting discussing some important issue to be solved or challenge to be overcome. Everyone is throwing out there thoughts and suggestions with one idea being trumped or dismissed by the next. The knowledge and ability to solve whatever problem you're facing is sitting around the table. The challenge is learning to access it in a way that leads to collaborative problem solving.

People Skills - The Enlightened Monkey

This article talks about people skills in the workplace. It explains how to maintain good relationhips that professional in nature.

Listening is Priceless: 5 Goals for Effective Listening

Think of how many times you have misinterpreted instructions, heard a problem incorrectly, or missed out on business opportunities. Poor listening can lead to challenges in relationships, lack of credibility, lost contacts, inaccurate reporting, rework, dissatisfied customers and lowered productivity.

Thinking Through Problem Solving

Problems lurk everywhere: under that stack of papers on your desk, in the unreturned phone call, within the carelessly worded email zipped off before its writer begins a long afternoon commute. Valarie Washington will teach you to diffuse potential problem bombs by thinking differently about problem solving.

Motivation Equation and Orientation

When we break motivation down to its most fundamental level, it’s either inspiration-oriented or desperation-oriented. Whatever action we take, we are moving either toward something we favor or away from something we disfavor. The majority of the world uses desperation as a motivator. Desperation is like a cattle prod forcing you to move forward and take action. You can motivate anyone on your team with desperation. The problem is that motivation spurred by desperation does not last. When desperation is the motivator, sales reps are in an “away from” mentality. This kind of motivation is fleeting, arising only when threat, fear or discomfort is present. If you want motivation to last, you need to rely on inspiration. When your team is motivated by inspiration, they’re moving of their own initiative because they want to and are excited to, rather than because they are being forced to. Motivation becomes long term when it taps into a person’s inner recesses.

How to Effectively Review Other People's Work

Eventually it will happen. You will have to review somebody's work at your job. This may seem like a daunting task, but it doesn't have to be that way. By following a few simple guidelines you can make this process not only painless on yourself, but also produce a well-done review.

10 Steps Towards Coping with Office Conflicts

Our professional life and personal life are interlinked and have their overwhelming effects on each other. But life is like that and we are human beingsbecause we have reason and emotions. We cannot defy the fact, so let’s accept it, when we are frustrated and depressed in our personal life and relationships, our professional life is affected indirectly. If our professional life is driving us nuts, our personal life can be a living hell as well.

Five Hidden Traps in Meetings

People who take meetings for granted risk being a victim of a trap. Here they are and how to avoid them.