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Differentiation-based Leadership: Three Questions That Every Leader Must Ask

Michel Neray asked: The more competition you face, the greater the need to highlight the differentiation — the unique advantage of your product or service — in order to succeed in the marketplace. Differentiation-based leadership places the onus of grasping, defining and communicating that differentation on the shoulders of the leader, and extends the concept […]

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Practice Effective Communications Techniques With Your Employees

Lex Antonic asked: So, how do you rate as a manager? Do your employees and coworkers come to you freely for instruction and clarification or even with new ideas? Do you feel that your direction is carried out clearly and efficiently or do you have to bang your head against the wall to get your […]

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Better Communication Skills — Email, Meetings, Phone Calls

Tom O\’Dea asked: Introduction  Better communication skills start with the right choice of communications media.  Good intentions are sometimes lost in misunderstanding that could have been avoided with honest, face to face discussion.  Yet face to face is not always practical.  How do you make the right choice?  A Real Example This is a story […]

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What Are Good Non-Verbal Social Skills?

Laurie Wilhelm asked: Good social skills are key to getting along with others and they help us to connect with the people around us. They’re not about conforming, but having a healthy respect for others. There are many, many different elements to social skills and if you’re looking for an all-in-one, short-and-sweet, how-to lesson on […]

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Diversity: More Than Just Politically Correct

Leaders for Today asked: Because there seems to be a disconnect between what many hospital management teams are saying and what they are doing, I decided to get to the bottom of the very term. Diversity comes from the word diverse, an adjective meaning unlike. Take a look around your own executive team – is […]

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Building an Excellent Rapport with Your Friends through Nlp

Kris Koonar asked: Have you ever met a person you have instantly liked? There are some people you have immediate rapport with and there are some you just cannot talk to inspite of sharing the same interests. You may have had a negative perception of a person before meeting him, but when you meet him, […]

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What's your Communication Quotient? Workplace Communication — your Key to Success!

Craig Harrison asked: Forget GQ! These days it’s your CQ that matters…your Communication Quotient. Degrees and awards are fine, your bilingualism and knowledge of the latest programming languages are nice, but how good a communicator are you? In English? With co-workers and customers? Every job description emphasizes it: must have excellent communication skills. In performance […]

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Reading Body Language For Your Success

Ronald Yip asked: In any face to face communication, the conveyor talks or writes while the recipient listens to or read the message. However, what they didn’t know is that actual verbal communication accounts to only around 10% (or even less) of the overall means of conveying a message. However, there is another form of […]

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Are You A Natural Born Leader

Gav Shannon asked: Have you ever wondered why some people seem to dominate in a particular group, they are the head of the department, captain of their chosen sport, local council or they just have an aura that people seem to want to be around. They are the ones that people would follow into battle […]

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Communism – an Analysis

Drvsrs asked: PREFACE It is a thought provoking and a deep-sea dimensional analysis. Hence, it is bound the boggle the mind of the person who asked the question, and who ventures to answer it !! This should have been analysed and answered in the 17th or 18th century. Then the whole world should have functioned […]