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Want to make HR dazzle? Great presenters are not born — they are prepared. Here are some tips on how to give a great presentation from the masters.
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Strip away the logos, offices, and ad campaigns: an organization is nothing more than a tapestry of interwoven commitments. Great organizations are those where promises mean something; where people can rely on one another, where trust isn’t an amorphous, remote ideal but the very fabric binding all disparate members of the organization no matter how [...]

Do your co-workers find the rumor du jour hard to resist? Is your office laced with backbiting and backstabbing? April Callis of Springboard Consulting says she has the cure: Gossip Stoppers. The East Lansing, Mich., trainer has given this half-day workshop 30 times this year at infected workplaces like hospitals and universities and is now [...]

LONDON (AFP) – A company has defended its decision to sack one of its staff by text message, claiming it was keeping in touch with youth culture.ADVERTISEMENT
Katy Tanner, a 21-year-old sales assistant, received the message while she was off work with a migraine, the South Wales Echo newspaper said Friday.
The text message said: “We will [...]

Here are ten principles every great leader should know:

Everything communicates.
The Golden Rule works.
Stand for something.
Everyone wants to be heard.
One size does not fit all.
They both end in “tion” but there’s a big difference between “information” and “communication.”
Communicate courageously.
Remember the competition.
If it looks important, it must be important.
Good communication is a good investment.

If you do just [...]

I’m a bit of a coffee nut: home roasting, blending and more coffee-making equipment than you can shake a stick at. By my standards, I wouldn’t classify Starbucks’ coffee as outstanding. Decent and fresh, but not the best available in this community.
In spite of this, I am a Starbucks’ regular. Why? For the most part, because of [...]

Bennet Simonton addresses what he calls the most important leadership skill —listening. The most common complaint I hear from employees is the perception that they are not being heard. The source of that perception runs the gamut from management not listening to managers not closing the communication loop. If managers want employee commitment, they have [...]