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Conflict Resolution

Key Factors In Developing a Successful Partnership with Business Coaching

Kris Koonar asked: In order to be successful, it is extremely important for business managers and owners to work in accordance with others and to form partnerships that are capable of flourishing. In a partnership, business objectives and goals can be achieved through mutual understanding and cooperation. Not only are managers and owners supposed to […]

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Non Standard Leadership Techniques

Encouragement

Ruth Mitchell asked: It’s odd really to think that some people don’t thrive on encouragement. But in my dealings with artists and the rest of the world, I have found that some people appreciate encouragement, some are skeptical of it, and a few are downright intimidated by encouragement as if you are manipulating them. In […]

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Improving Team performance

5 Time-saving Tips to Manage Performance Data

Stacey Barr asked: If you knew in advance how much effort you’d have to put into collecting, collating and managing the data that provides the foundation for your performance measures, you may be put off entirely. Particularly for smaller businesses, departments or teams, you don’t have big corporate business intelligence systems offering you the data […]

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Leadership Mistakes

5 Ships Needed to Take Your Church Into the Future

Bryan Cutshall asked: One of the most common mistakes made by leaders is changing courses to fast. A church is a lot like a ship. If you turn too fast, you will turn the boat over. The sea of life if full of sunken ships that would have survived if the leaders would have transitioned […]

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Managing Performance / Setting Goals

VISIBILITY.net Provide Flexibility to Key Performance Indicators

Thomas Cutler asked: Visibility developed data mart templates in the areas of sales, accounts receivable and accounts payable to assist clients in the measurement of KPIs important for their business; specifically, analyzing cash flow and margin analysis for orders and volume sales. Using the data marts to analyze the data in the ERP system revealed […]

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Young and Minority Leaders

An Inside Look at Romania, Land of Dracula & the Gypsies

Hans Mayfield asked: From the European Heritage Library WWW.EUROHERITAGE.NET This is a rare inside look at the current cultural, ethnic, historical, religious, social, and linguistic dimensions of eastern Romania. It also investigates the issue of Islam in Europe. Click the link at the bottom and top of this article to view the images that go […]

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Non Standard Leadership Techniques

Profiting More from Creative Ways to Use Your Old Products, Even the Duds

Daniel Klatt asked: I read the other day about a European company that created a technology for stores for example in a mall to keep teens from hanging out in front of their businesses or loitering. It’s a device that makes a high-pitched frequency that teens can clearly hear yet which most adults can’t, because […]

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Non Standard Leadership Techniques

Encourage Yourself Towards Success

Kevin Sinclair asked: So often today, we hear of the power of the affirmation as it is spoken about with reverence in hushed tones. Yet to ask someone what an affirmation is we are left with the impression that its power exists for the fact that if we say something often enough we will believe […]

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Non Standard Leadership Techniques

Do You Want to Take Your Creative Writing to the Next Level?

Caterina Christakos asked: Is there any better feeling in the world than the look on someones face when they have just read your latest piece of creative writing? For many, it is the fuel that keeps us going. It is like throwing dried apple wood on the creative fire that burns within a writers spirit. […]

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Problem Solving

People are not Rungs on the Ladder of Success

Wally Adamchik asked: Change and a promotion go together.  When someone gets a promotion, they face new tasks, new peers, new relationships, and new opportunities. Often they become “in charge” of a team or work group. All of this can be heady stuff, and it can change people. Over the years, I have seen people […]