1: Are You Assertive or Aggressive? | Human Resources
Skilful assertiveness goes hand in hand with a person's confidence, good judgment, decision making, performance, health, and overall effectiveness.
Department: PEOPLE
Publish Date: Monday, 16 August 2010
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2: 10 Tips to Cope with Negative Emotions at Work | Human Resources
It's a fact of life - if you want to succeed in business, you need to know how to interact and communicate effectively with your employees, business partners, vendors, prospects, and customers. As a small business owner, this might involve rapid shifting from one type of language to another. For example, how you'd explain your expectations to your employees might be different than how you'd convey these to your business partner or potential client.
Department: PEOPLE
Publish Date: Monday, 16 August 2010
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3: Ageing Workforce Crisis | Human Resources
Baby boomers are seen as expensive, difficult to manage and a liability to an organisation's future, according to startling research by Adage that reveals how hidden myths and stereotypes of older workers are impacting critical business decisions in Australian companies.
Department: PEOPLE
Publish Date: Monday, 16 August 2010
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4: Are you a New Leader? | Human Resources
Insights into authentic leadership with Dan Millman, former world champion athlete, coach professor and best selling author. As a small business owner, entrepreneur, coach or any other kind of leader, you'll be aware that to succeed in today's changing and challenging business environment requires a new approach to leadership - a values-based and authentic one.
Department: PEOPLE
Publish Date: Monday, 16 August 2010
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5: Building a Management Team | Human Resources
Entrepreneurship is about going for the things that are much bigger than what you could do alone. Your job isn't to reach the goal; it's to build a team that will reach the goal. If you really want to reach your goals, you'll need to bring on others to help, and creating a good executive team means knowing what you need them to do, finding good candidates, and giving them what they need to do their jobs. If you choose well, they'll be successful and make you successful as well.
Department: PEOPLE
Publish Date: Monday, 16 August 2010
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6: Bullying Tactics Unacceptable | Human Resources
These days, where corporate culture is so important, you may be surprised to learn that a large number of employers still believe that aggression and bullying are the way to manage employees.
Department: PEOPLE
Publish Date: Monday, 16 August 2010
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7: Conflict Resolution | Human Resources
Human disagreement remains inevitable. When conflict is not addressed, each side becomes defensive, and a person who is defensive will rarely see the logic of the other's position. These four steps will help you end conflict more quickly.
Department: PEOPLE
Publish Date: Monday, 16 August 2010
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8: Control: A Big hurdle to Small Business Work Place Flexibility | Human Resources
Meet Jack. He’s an over-worked underpaid small business owner. But he’s happy. After all he’s a man on a mission to make his business a success. It’s fair to say that the pressure of making the business a success has made Jack a little single minded, possibly even something of a control- freak. Jack is no different to most small business owners. They like to be in control.
Department: PEOPLE
Publish Date: Monday, 16 August 2010
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9: Coping With Change | Human Resources
Change has become a constant for all of us, and nowhere more than in the workplace. Technology is moving forward at an incredible rate, and the result is a constant need to update skills and knowledge and make frequent changes in how we do our job.
Department: PEOPLE
Publish Date: Monday, 16 August 2010
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10: Create a Fun Workplace to Encourage Employee Loyalty | Human Resources
Developing a workplace where people enjoy spending time starts with developing your company's funny bone. Everyone-from the small business owner/operator to part-time employees-benefits from a positive and fun workplace. People like to go to work when they can expect to have a good time while doing a good job.
Department: PEOPLE
Publish Date: Monday, 16 August 2010
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