Productivity Facts Every Employee Should KnowRobert Half
Tuesday is consistently found to be the most productive day of the week for employees according to multiple surveys of HR managers and executives over several decades. Employees are generally least productive between 4-6pm and the week before a major holiday. Taking vacations can boost productivity as employees tend to be more productive after a vacation when returning well-rested and recharged.
Do You Struggle With Employee Recognition?Elodie A.
Recognizing employees is one of the most overlooked facets of managements that even great leaders sometimes forget about. Without a good employee recognition strategy, people will feel unappreciated and build up stress.
In fact, the number 1 reason why most Americans leave their jobs is that they don’t feel appreciated . The last thing you want is to have high employee turnover because of poor employee recognition.
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10 Insightful Quotes On Designing A Better Customer ExperienceYuan Wang
In an ever-changing landscape of one digital disruption after another, companies and organisations are looking for new ways to understand their target markets and engage them better. Increasingly they invest in user experience (UX) and customer experience design (CX) capabilities by working with a specialist UX agency or developing their own UX lab. Some UX practitioners are touting leaner and faster ways of developing customer-centric products and services, via methodologies such as guerilla research, rapid prototyping and Agile UX. Others seek innovation and fulfilment by spending more time in research, being more inclusive, and designing for social goods.
Experience is more than just an interface. It is a relationship, as well as a series of touch points between your brand and your customer. Here are our top 10 highlights and takeaways from the recent UX Australia conference to help you transform your customer experience design.
For full article, continue reading at https://yump.com.au/10-ways-supercharge-customer-experience-design/
As a leader, you spend a lot of your time making sure that your team is working well together. Here are the secrets that every manager should know to make your team successful.
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10 Ways Your Boss Kills Employee MotivationOfficevibe
This document outlines 10 ways that bosses can kill employee motivation, including micromanaging employees, focusing only on mistakes, dismissing new ideas, holding useless meetings, making empty promises, telling inappropriate jokes, not keeping their word, measuring employee success in the wrong way, setting unrealistic deadlines, and playing favorites. The document encourages bosses to listen to employee concerns to better motivate them.
This document discusses better collaboration between agencies and clients. It notes that historically, agencies did not provide clients with a full understanding of the creative process or ideas, and clients did not know how to properly evaluate work. It advocates that agencies start presentations with the agreed upon creative brief to provide necessary context before presenting ideas. Agencies should tell a story that bridges the brief to the final idea, giving clients a complete understanding. The document also provides models for properly evaluating ideas and ensuring collaborative discussions between agencies and clients.
7 Ways Soft-Skills Power Organizational PerformanceBambooHR
Succeeding in today's increasingly competitive global landscape calls for our organizations to leverage everything they can, and increasingly, that leverage is coming down to your employees' soft skills.
But while it's easy (well, easier) to measure and hire for hard-skills competency, it's very difficult to recognize and hire for soft skills. And once hired, it becomes even more of a task to build these soft skills in our employees.
In this slideshare we'll take a hard look at the soft skills that really enable organizations to succeed. From recruiting to learning and development and performance management to the exit interview, we'll show how soft-skills focus can dramatically impact your company's bottom line.
In this slideshare, you will learn:
• Soft skills: What are they anyway?
• Soft skills and recruiting: The secret to successful hires
• What the bottomline results are for soft skills
• How to teach, measure, and mentor soft skills
Habits at Work - Merci Victoria Grace, Growth, Slack - 2016 Habit SummitHabit Summit
Presented at the 2016 Habit Summit at Stanford (see: www.HabitSummit.com)
Merci Victoria Grace leads the Growth team at Slack.
Prior to joining Slack, she started a venture-backed game company, designed The Sims Social at Electronic Arts, and worked at a range of consumer, mobile and enterprise startups.
Here she shares insights on putting "Habits to Work at Work".
10 Steps great leaders take when things go wrongGetSmarter
The document outlines 10 steps that great leaders take when things go wrong: 1) Accept that failure is inevitable. 2) Confront failure by reflecting on mistakes. 3) Be vulnerable by openly admitting mistakes. 4) Fail forward by changing perspectives and learning from failures. 5) Recover fast by helping people understand problems and providing solutions. 6) Fight back by rising above failure and looking for opportunities. 7) Make tough choices by deciding whether to abandon or continue with mistakes. 8) Realize their responsibility to influence others positively. 9) Take one for the team by supporting risky decisions. 10) Know when to take a step back to reflect on lessons learned.
11 Stats You Didn’t Know About Employee RecognitionOfficevibe
Recognizing employees is one of the most overlooked facets of managements that even great leaders sometimes forget about. Without a good employee recognition strategy, people will feel unappreciated and build up stress.
In fact, the number 1 reason why most Americans leave their jobs is that they don’t feel appreciated . The last thing you want is to have high employee turnover because of poor employee recognition.
Officevibe put together some incredible statistics about employee recognition.
Read more on Officevibe blog:
https://www.officevibe.com/blog/employee-recognition-infographic
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Discover The Top 10 Types Of Colleagues Around YouAnkur Tandon
The best part being with different colleagues is we learn a lot from them. Good or bad, sooner or later, better or best, we learn something unique from the different personalities working with and around us at our workplace. Read more interesting content, at www.thecareermuse.co.in - We intend to inform and inspire recruiters, job seekers and anyone with an interest in the workplace and HR technology.
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Giving a presentation? It’s your job to keep people’s attention, but in our world of consistent sensory input, that’s becoming increasingly difficult to do. Winning over the hearts and minds of a distracted audience requires a killer presentation that makes both eyes and ears perk. Incorporate these elements in every PowerPoint presentation you create to make people forget about their email inbox and incoming texts for five minutes.
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Do you struggle to finish your daily tasks, juggle your work load and keep organised at work? If so, read our top tips to help work a little smarter everyday!
This short PowerPoint presentation shows five great ways to get the attention of your audience during your speech or sales pitch.
Try them out in your next speech and you will see how you can engage your audience with these simple tips.
This presentation was created 100% in PowerPoint by my presentation design agency Slides. We are based in Spain (Europe) but have clients worldwide.
Drop me an email and we will discuss your project.
Karlyn Borysenko and I discuss the elements of putting together an impactful presentation and how to submit them to conferences.
Originally presented at Penn State Web - updated and reshared at HighEdWeb 2016 in Memphis Tennessee.
Top Productivity Working Hacks by Jan RezabJan Rezab
This document provides productivity tips from Jan Rezab, a serial entrepreneur. Some key points include:
- Manage time by thinking in "blocks" of one hour and maximizing productivity in each block.
- Use tools like Wunderlist, Podio and Slack for communication and organization in addition to email.
- Design meetings purposefully with clear agendas and action items. Follow up immediately.
- Find ways to be productive during activities like driving or flights by taking calls or responding to emails.
- Hiring an excellent assistant can help optimize schedules and respond to urgent requests so the entrepreneur's time is freed up.
This is a minimal concept you should consider for your PowerPoint slides in order to make them more engaging and exciting.
I work as a presentation designer and help speakers and marketers with their pitches. If you need help with any of these concepts, drop me an email and I will be happy to help.
The Productivity Secret Of The Best LeadersOfficevibe
Content by Jacob Shriar & Kevin Kruse.
In this Officeviibe presentation, you'll see:
- 3 biggest problems leaders face and what you can do to fix them
- The secret to time management
- Examples from great leaders
- You'll find bonus content
3 Storytelling Tips - From Acclaimed Writer Burt HelmEthos3
Visit the Ethos3 blog (http://buff.ly/1B8ehRa) to get the full scoop on these tips. By reading the Ethos3 blog post, you will learn how to tell stories that will captivate even the most challenging audiences.
If you need help creating professional presentations, email us at: info@ethos3.com
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15 Quotes To Nurture Your Creative Soul!DesignMantic
Every now and then, we all crave inspiration to get started. but often times, inspiration is hardest is to find when it is needed the most. but powerful words almost always do the trick. They have power that is undeniable. So for all the creative souls out there, here we share some remarkable sayings from legends to feed your mind and strengthen your design game ...
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When you are creating a visuals and want them to look as snazzy as possible, there is a lot you can do to make your images shine with the brightness and glory of a thousand suns. You can add beautiful background textures, have perfectly complimentary fonts, or play with the orientation of your text in different ways. Even so, if you are not careful your text can look boring. Another way to make your presentation slides look spiffy (and certainly not boring) is to change up the way you display your text. Here are ten clever and easy to implement design tips for mixing up your text display and maximizing your design potential.
At Officevibe, we end our daily standup meetings with an inspirational quote to start the day on a positive note.
Whoever’s turn it is to speak holds a basketball, and the last one to speak has to come up with a quote of the day.
Everyone puts their finger on the ball, and when the quote is said, the ball gets thrown up in the air and we all say “think about it”, as a reminder to really let the hidden meaning of the quote sink in.
read the full article on Officevibe blog:
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Tired of losing sales pitches? Look no further, get some timeless advice from high-stakes presentation consultant: Cliff Atkinson on how to throw out your old sales pitch and make your next one count.
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The X factor: The Secret to Better Content Marketing Mathew Sweezey
Content Marketing is something we all must do, but we do not all do it well. The X Factor which separates the two is Agile Marketing. In this presentation I'll teach you what Agile Content Marketing is, the data to prove why Agile is better, and how to execute agile content marketing with agile lead nurturing, agile social advertising, and agile content creation.
“An apple a day keeps the doctor away.” Many of us are familiar with this saying and it is certainly a good thing to do! However, it’s not the only thing that you need to do to maintain a healthy life and lifestyle! The ABC’s of Living a Healthy Lifestyle is a fun way to help you focus on obtaining a good health.
This document provides a summary of common mistakes in PowerPoint presentation design and tips to avoid them. It identifies the top 5 mistakes as including putting too much information on slides, not using enough visuals, using poor quality visuals, having a disorganized "visual vomit" style, and lack of preparation. The document emphasizes telling a story over slide design, using whitespace on slides, consistent formatting, and spending significant time preparing presentations.
Today we all live and work in the Internet Century, where technology is roiling the business landscape, and the pace of change is only accelerating.
In their new book How Google Works, Google Executive Chairman and ex-CEO Eric Schmidt and former SVP of Products Jonathan Rosenberg share the lessons they learned over the course of a decade running Google.
Covering topics including corporate culture, strategy, talent, decision-making, communication, innovation, and dealing with disruption, the authors illustrate management maxims with numerous insider anecdotes from Google’s history.
In an era when everything is speeding up, the best way for businesses to succeed is to attract smart-creative people and give them an environment where they can thrive at scale. How Google Works is a new book that explains how to do just that.
This is a visual preview of How Google Works. You can pick up a copy of the book at www.howgoogleworks.net
Rand Fishkin discusses why content marketing often fails and provides 5 key reasons: 1) Unrealistic expectations of how content marketing works, 2) Creating content without a community to amplify it, 3) Focusing on content creation but not amplification, 4) Ignoring search engine optimization, and 5) Giving up too soon and not allowing time for content to gain traction. He emphasizes that content marketing is a long-term process of building relationships and that most successful content took years of iteration before gaining significant reach.
How to Craft Your Company's Storytelling Voice by Ann Handley of MarketingProfsMarketingProfs
You know your company's story, but what's the right voice to use in telling it? Find out how to craft your company's storytelling voice. Ann Handley, chief content officer of MarketingProfs and author of "Content Rules" shares tips and ideas for crafting your brand's storytelling voice.
You’re not the expert. Your customers are, and who your customer is, is changing rapidly. Learn more about the digital consumer, how to bring new life to your customer experience, and inspire your team with workshop activities. Take a deeper look into the key drivers of your business, reinvigorate your customer experience, and gain insight from one of the newest inspiring entrepreneurs, who built his business around an out-of-the-ordinary customer experience. Why not create an experience that will leave your customers talking and sharing your brand with everyone? These musings were gathered after attending the Next Generation Customer Experience Conference in San Diego, March 2015.
What REALLY Differentiates The Best Content Marketers From The RestRoss Simmonds
I’ve been privileged to work with brands from all over the world in the last few years. Through this work, I’ve also had a chance to meet, become friends with, work with and collaborate with some of the best content marketers in the world. Some of these marketers have their faces plastered in magazines while others keep it low key and aren’t anything close to household names.
When I first started my career, I made it my mission to learn from the best. I studied and read books from the advertising greats and consumed every blog post I could fine from the top modern day marketers I could fine. Through discussions, research and studying the craft, I’ve been able to identify and uncover a few common traits that are found in the best content marketers today. If you want to be a great content marketer, you need to know what it takes to be considered such. Here’s a few traits that differentiate the best content marketers from the rest.
This document provides 20 quotes from historical figures to inspire creative genius. The quotes encourage thinking outside the box, taking risks, being curious, breaking rules, and gaining an unfair advantage through creativity. They emphasize trusting instincts, changing the world through committed groups, and navigating without a map in creative pursuits. The document aims to banish creative roadblocks by sharing inspirational thoughts on creativity.
Major hotel chains will focus less on amenities like TVs and phones in 2015, instead prioritizing free high-speed WiFi. Hotel occupancy is reaching new heights, causing room rates to rise, so hotels will emphasize savings opportunities. Travelers can expect to see more bundled packages that combine flights, rooms, and car rentals to provide affordable options. Emerging technologies like smartphone room keys and wearable devices will continue changing the travel experience.
40 Tools in 20 Minutes: Hacking your Marketing CareerEric Leist
Marketing today requires doing a little bit of everything from creative writing to HTML to light Photoshopping. There are a ton of free tools to make those tasks easier and scalable.
Originally presented at Suffolk University's Bridging the Gap Conference--April 18th, 2014.
WEB APPS
http://zapier.com
https://ifttt.com/
http://twitterfeed.com/
http://gaggleamp.com
http://landerapp.com/
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1033867?hl=en
http://99designs.com/
http://visual.ly
http://www.alexa.com/
http://www.hubspot.com/blog-topic-generator
http://www.wordle.net/
www.inboundwriter.com
http://litmus.com/
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https://www.optimizely.com/
http://thenounproject.com/
http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/
https://www.facebook.com/help/459892990722543/
http://ads.twitter.com
https://plzadvize.com/
DESKTOP APPS
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/caffeine/id411246225?mt=12
http://jumpcut.sourceforge.net/
http://www.gifgrabber.com/
http://www.gimp.org/
EMAIL TOOLS
http://getsignals.com
http://www.yesware.com/
http://www.boomeranggmail.com/
http://rapportive.com/
http://www.wisestamp.com/
http://verify-email.org
MOBILE APPS
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xuchdeid.clear
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cardmunch-business-card-reader/id478351777?mt=8
BROWSER PLUGINS
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/omnidrive/gpnikbcifngfgfcgcgfahidojdpklfia?hl=en-US
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/klout/
LEARNING PLATFORMS
http://www.google.com/analytics/learn/
http://www.codecademy.com/
http://teamtreehouse.com/
https://generalassemb.ly/
http://www.intelligent.ly/
http://smarterer.com/
12 way to increase your influence at workChien Do Van
The document provides 12 ways to increase influence at work. It suggests determining goals and desired career outcomes. It also recommends knowing your strengths and value, cultivating trust through honesty, consistency, and integrity. Additionally, it advises learning from top influencers, showing appreciation, building relationships, taking initiative, focusing on solutions, owning mistakes, understanding different influencing styles, and inspiring others through leadership.
Excellent insight into using dynamic questions to move along meetings, projects and generally communicate more effectively worth saving and sharing if you have the time..
How do the people you admire the most choose to communicate? Words are powerful. Learn how to use them wisely with our latest SlideShare.
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A presentation made to the participants of a onw-week programme at Vivekananda Inst. of Human Excellence, Ramakrishna Math, Hyderabad, with an intention to motivate them to pursue excellence, in whatever endeavour they are interested.
The document provides tips for improving effectiveness and success in various areas of life. It emphasizes developing the right attitude, continuously improving skills like communication and self-management, helping and learning from others, setting priorities and plans, and maintaining motivation and positivity. Achieving excellence requires ongoing effort, discipline and learning.
1. The document provides 11 ways for someone to be seen as a leader at work even without a formal leadership title. This includes earning respect early on by addressing an important problem, associating with influential colleagues, and using psychological priming to make others feel positive emotions.
2. Other tips include making tough decisions and sticking to them, transforming processes, verbally recognizing others' work, sharing information openly, fostering collaboration, balancing work and learning, and embodying shared values daily.
3. The document emphasizes that leadership is defined by inspiring behaviors and actions, not a job title, and that a lifelong commitment to learning allows one's leadership capacity to expand.
11 Ways to be Seen as a Leader at Work (Even if it's not in Your Title)GetSmarter
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Forget your job title for a moment: effective leadership is not about position - it's about perception.
Here are 11 ways to build your reputation as the kind of leader others want to follow.
This document provides an alphabetic framework for understanding and changing one's life by learning the "alphabets" or rules that govern living successfully. It discusses each letter from A to G, with each letter representing a key concept. A is for action - one must take action to achieve goals. B is for belief - having unwavering faith that one will succeed. C is for courage - overcoming fear to push forward. D is for desire - being passionate about one's work. E is for efficiency - achieving maximum results with minimum wasted effort. F is for flexibility - being able to adapt to changes. G is for goal - having single-minded focus on one's objectives. The document advocates learning and applying these "alph
Bringing Out the Best in People discusses 10 ways to bring out the best in others. These include growing one's emotional intelligence, giving and earning trust and respect through sincerity and competence, having positive expectations of others, understanding others' needs, establishing high standards, creating a safe environment for failures, recognizing achievements, allowing for personal problems, and keeping one's own motivation high. The document provides explanations and examples for each strategy to effectively motivate teams and individuals.
A lot of what we believe about greatness just isn’t so. Hundreds of scientific studies uncover a new, more accurate view of exceptional performance and underlying drivers.
Greatness isn’t born, it’s grown. The problem is that most of us haven’t caught up yet with this knowledge and still operate from wrong assumptions. This e-book hopes to change that. Enjoy!
This document discusses key qualities of effective leadership. It begins by exploring the origins of the word "leadership" and then poses questions about what makes people follow certain leaders. It distinguishes between leadership and dominance, and leadership and management. The document emphasizes that successful leaders develop qualities like passion, character, communication skills, and the ability to listen. It provides insights into maintaining self-control, cultivating positive attitudes, solving problems effectively, building good relationships, embracing responsibility, practicing self-discipline, serving others, and having vision. Overall, the document argues that effective leadership stems from developing strong personal qualities and character traits.
This document discusses the power of positive intentions and the law of attraction. It explains that positive thoughts and actions attract positive responses from others, while negative thoughts and actions attract negativity. When people are treated in a kind, pleasant manner it releases endorphins and creates a positive environment where people listen and become inspired. The law of attraction also applies to how we think of ourselves - positive self-affirmations can boost self-esteem and attract recognition from others for our strengths and talents. Reciprocity is the expectation that positive actions will be returned in a way that has equal perceived emotional value.
The document discusses strategies for excelling at work. It emphasizes the importance of motivation, developing strengths and skills, continuous self-improvement, effective communication, and adopting a positive mindset. Some key recommendations include setting goals, pushing outside comfort zones, learning from both successes and failures, strengthening areas of weakness, and maintaining a growth mindset of constantly striving to do better. The overall message is that dedication to lifelong learning and self-development are necessary to achieve excellence.
This document provides guidance on developing a positive mindset and outlook toward life and the future. It discusses the power of optimism, hope, and future-mindedness. Specific tools for success mentioned include positive self-talk, affirmations, visualizing success, and practicing gratitude. Happiness is presented as stemming from internal beliefs, values, and voluntary actions like expressing optimism, kindness, and accomplishing goals rather than external factors. The document encourages developing life priorities and habits for continuous self-improvement.
This document discusses the importance of developing a positive attitude and life skills. It provides examples of different types of participants in training programs, such as prisoners and explorers. Effective training programs require an open mindset and focus on interaction, learning, and personal growth. Developing a positive attitude means reflecting optimism outwardly through your behaviors and inwardly through your thoughts, beliefs and motivations. Maintaining a positive attitude can help you overcome challenges and achieve your goals. The document provides tips on cultivating a positive attitude, such as spending time with positive people, exercising, and ignoring negative thoughts.
This document discusses the importance of developing a positive attitude and life skills. It provides examples of different types of participants in training programs, such as prisoners and explorers. Effective training programs require an open mindset and focus on interaction, learning, and personal growth. Developing a positive attitude means reflecting optimism outwardly through your behaviors and inwardly through your thoughts, beliefs and motivations. Maintaining a positive attitude can help you overcome challenges and achieve your goals. The document provides tips on cultivating a positive attitude, such as spending time with positive people, exercising, and ignoring negative thoughts.
What are the 5 core principles of successful leadership? @nordicvibenordicvibe
Taking the Leadership roles has been one of my most rewarding parts of my career. It has also been the most challenging part - daunting even. Over the years I have learnt from my own experiences but also collected advice from inspirational leaders who I have had close contact with. I have boiled these down into the absolute most key principles that guide me - Core principles. When in a tough situation or dealing with a new challenge these pointers have helped me to lead successfully. Acting like a compass or guide. The purpose of my workshop for AMCHAM will be to share my Core principles with you and inspire you to start your own list. A list that will guide you through your Leadership journey. A journey I highly recommend that you take!
We're creating an actionable narrative, a manifesto. For the people, by the people. Here's what it is, some examples for inspiration and how you can get involved!
This presentation was used at a programme organized for the benefit of Non-agricultural Executives, held at Hyderabad. The presentation aims at motivating the participants to aim at excellence, in all their endeavours, whether personal or professional, as it would benefit one and all.
The document discusses developing self-confidence, which is key to success. It provides tips for improving self-confidence including reading motivational books, spending time with positive people, having a positive attitude, being proactive, setting goals, and learning from both successes and failures. Regular exercise, meditation, and self-reflection can help build self-confidence over time.
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How to Manage the Multigenerational WorkforceGetSmarter
The document discusses managing a multigenerational workforce, as this decade will see 5 generations working together for the first time in history. It provides tips for managing each generation - Traditionalists, Baby Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, and Gen 2020. Each generation is characterized and their values discussed. Recommendations are provided for how to lead each generation effectively through dos and don'ts. The challenges of a multigenerational workforce are also briefly touched on.
8 steps to overcome your fear of public speakingGetSmarter
The document provides 8 steps to overcome the fear of public speaking: 1) Find a topic that interests the audience; 2) Tell a story with an introduction, body, and conclusion; 3) Practice your speech through repetition to improve delivery; 4) Calm your nerves before speaking; 5) Start your speech strongly to engage the audience; 6) Use eye contact to connect with the audience; 7) End your speech powerfully to leave an impression; 8) Review your performance and continue practicing public speaking to fully overcome your fear.
How to Use Colour to Influence Productivity and PerceptionGetSmarter
Angela Wright, a renowned colour psychologist, proposed that colour’s effect on us goes beyond sight alone, and reaches to the intricacies of our psychology.
It’s the first thing humanity instinctively looks to for the information we need, to know how to respond to anything that confronts us.
Think about a stop sign, for example, or a set of traffic lights. What colour comes to mind? What action does it drive you to do?
Between the science of photons and wavelengths, electrical impulses and the hypothalamus, lies a common bottom line: colour profoundly affects your behaviour.
How are you using colour to influence behaviour?
4 ways to watch what you say as a leaderGetSmarter
Have you ever walked away from talking to a colleague with the feeling that what you had to say was valued?
Here are a 4 simple yet effective habits you can implement into your daily conversations, to have a positive impact on those around you.
4 ways to watch what you say as a leader new animated_slideshareGetSmarter
Have you ever walked away from talking to a colleague with the feeling that what you had to say was valued?
Here are a number of simple yet effective habits you can implement into your daily conversations, to have a positive impact on those around you.
Is it time to transform your career? Successfully navigating a career change requires preparation and planning. We've put together 10 steps to help you give your career a much-needed makeover. View this slideshare for advice on how to get started and, when you're ready, visit www.getsmarter.co.za.
2014 Career & Workplace Trend: How To Stay CompetitiveGetSmarter
The document discusses predicted career and workplace trends for 2014 and what individuals can do to stay competitive. Some of the key trends include companies hiring based more on personal branding and using social media to recruit. Permanent employment is no longer guaranteed as companies hire freelancers and contractors as needed. With many baby boomers retiring, companies will focus on succession planning and training. New job titles in areas like social media, sustainability and content marketing will also emerge. To be successful, individuals need to actively manage their career through skills development, personal branding, and digital footprint management.
How to Plan and Scope Facility Management Projects?.PREVIEW.pdfGAFM ACADEMY
The Project Charter has been approved and the project sponsor has instructed you to proceed with planning and scoping work. This is the most challenging task in managing a project. You need to do this complex and daunting exercise that involves several people in your project team. How do you plan to achieve this? You will probably consult the Project Management Body of Knowledge PMBOK® which is a guidebook that discusses a list of project management processes associated with managing a project. A lot of processes, which ones shall I use? I want to look at those relevant to Facilities Management (FM) only.
"How to Plan and Scope Facility Management Projects?" is the solution to your problem. Get this book to master the sequence of project activities required to plan and scope facilities management projects. Content is represented in a structured tutorial and illustrations that will assist you to conduct planning activities with confidence and command respect from your team.
The primary output of this phase is the Project Management Plan which is discussed at the end of this book.
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You're entitled to enroll into the Chartered Facilities Manager certification course when you purchased this book.
To apply: https://gafm.com.my/digital-certification/application-for-certification/
Comparing ChatGPT 3.5 vs 4 vs 4o_ What's New and Improved-ashokveda.comdf2608021
Language Understanding: Demonstrates strong capabilities in understanding and generating natural language.
Context Handling: Manages context effectively for shorter dialogues, though it may struggle with maintaining context in longer conversations.
Versatility: Suitable for a wide range of applications, including answering questions, content creation, and text summarization.
Certified Quality Engineer.PREVIEW .pdfGAFM ACADEMY
The Certified Quality Engineer (CQE) is a gold-standard certification for an experienced individual who has earned the accredited credential from The Global Academy of Finance and Management ®. Earning the CQE designation demonstrates that you have experience in quality engineering that includes monitoring and testing the quality of manufacturing products, ensuring compliance with quality standards, identifying quality issues, recommending solutions, and creating quality documentations.
It forms the basis of the assessment that candidates must pass to gain the Certified Quality Engineer status and inclusion in the Directory of Certified Professionals of The Global Academy of Finance and Management ®.
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“the capacity to have an effect on the character, development,
or behavior of someone or something, or the effect itself”
4. in·flu·ence
noun
“the capacity to have an effect on the character, development,
or behavior of someone or something, or the effect itself”
In business today, influence is power. But increasing your level of influence in
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INFLUENCE THAT
COMES WITH YOUR
ROLE OR JOB TITLE...
But instead of seeing this as your
influence boundary, see it as your
influence starting point.
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11. THERE IS AN
INHERENT LEVEL OF
INFLUENCE THAT
COMES WITH YOUR
ROLE OR JOB TITLE...
But instead of seeing this as your
influence boundary, see it as your
influence starting point.
BE CONFIDENT IN WHAT YOU HAVE TO OFFER
Your knowledge, experience & passion can
(and should) be used to your advantage.
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14. INFLUENCE AND
TRUST GO HAND
IN HAND.
If people do not trust your word or
your abilities, you’ll be hard pressed
to gain any influence over them.
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15. INFLUENCE AND
TRUST GO HAND
IN HAND.
If people do not trust your word or
your abilities, you’ll be hard pressed
to gain any influence over them.
HOW DO YOU CULTIVATE TRUST?
By being open & honest at all times.
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18. 4
IF YOU EXECUTE TASKS
ACCURATELY, ON TIME,
EVERY TIME...
People will see you as someone they can rely on.
19. 4
IF YOU EXECUTE TASKS
ACCURATELY, ON TIME,
EVERY TIME...
People will see you as someone they can rely on.
The same goes for how you interact with
people. If you consistently display good
leadership qualities, your influence will increase.
20. 4
IF YOU EXECUTE TASKS
ACCURATELY, ON TIME,
EVERY TIME...
People will see you as someone they can rely on.
The same goes for how you interact with
people. If you consistently display good
leadership qualities, your influence will increase.
ALWAYS REMEMBER:
Actions speak louder than words. So if you say you’re
going to do something, be sure to deliver.
23. HAVING INTEGRITY AND
STICKING TO YOUR MORAL
VALUES WILL SPEAK TO YOUR
STRENGTH OF CHARACTER.
INFLUENCERS DON’T BUCKLE UNDER PRESSURE.
They do the right thing – always.
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26. 6
IDENTIFY & OBSERVE
the top influencers in your organisation.
EVEN BETTER:
Build relationships with these influencers & use them as your mentors.
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29. 7
NOBODY EVER
GOT TO THE TOP
WITHOUT A LITTLE
HELP ALONG
THE WAY.
SHOW GRATITUDE AND APPRECIATION.
Especially to those who have supported you.
Because being a credit “hog” is the quickest
way to lose that support again.
40. YOU CAN’T JUST
WAIT AROUND,
expecting your influence to be acknowledged
through some form of cosmic or karmic power.
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41. YOU CAN’T JUST
WAIT AROUND,
expecting your influence to be acknowledged
through some form of cosmic or karmic power.
You have to be proactive about it.
9
42. YOU CAN’T JUST
WAIT AROUND,
expecting your influence to be acknowledged
through some form of cosmic or karmic power.
You have to be proactive about it.
MEET NEW PEOPLE
9
43. YOU CAN’T JUST
WAIT AROUND,
expecting your influence to be acknowledged
through some form of cosmic or karmic power.
You have to be proactive about it.
MEET NEW PEOPLE TRY NEW THINGS
9
44. YOU CAN’T JUST
WAIT AROUND,
expecting your influence to be acknowledged
through some form of cosmic or karmic power.
You have to be proactive about it.
MEET NEW PEOPLE TRY NEW THINGS
NEVER STOP LEARNING
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46. IF THERE’S A
PROBLEM TO BE
SOLVED, DON’T WASTE
ANY ENERGY TRYING
TO PLACE BLAME...
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47. IF THERE’S A
PROBLEM TO BE
SOLVED, DON’T WASTE
ANY ENERGY TRYING
TO PLACE BLAME...
Your focus should be on one thing,
and one thing only:
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48. IF THERE’S A
PROBLEM TO BE
SOLVED, DON’T WASTE
ANY ENERGY TRYING
TO PLACE BLAME...
Your focus should be on one thing,
and one thing only:
A SOLUTION
You want to be seen as someone who
can help the group move forward, not
someone who holds the group back.
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50. 8
ONE OF THE GREATEST TRAITS OF ANY
INFLUENCER IS THE ABILITY TO TAKE
RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEIR ACTIONS.
51. 8
ONE OF THE GREATEST TRAITS OF ANY
INFLUENCER IS THE ABILITY TO TAKE
RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEIR ACTIONS.
INFLUENCERS ARE ABLE TO LEARN FROM THEIR MISTAKES
They don’t wallow in self-pity, they come back fighting. Being able
to motivate yourself in this way, also motivates those around you.
54. 9
DO YOU RATIONALISE,
ASSERT, NEGOTIATE,
INSPIRE OR BRIDGE?
Research has shown that there are 5 major
influencing styles:
55. 9
DO YOU RATIONALISE,
ASSERT, NEGOTIATE,
INSPIRE OR BRIDGE?
Research has shown that there are 5 major
influencing styles:
RATIONALISING: Using logic, facts & reasoning.
56. 9
DO YOU RATIONALISE,
ASSERT, NEGOTIATE,
INSPIRE OR BRIDGE?
Research has shown that there are 5 major
influencing styles:
RATIONALISING: Using logic, facts & reasoning.
ASSERTING: Relying on laws, rules & authority.
57. 9
DO YOU RATIONALISE,
ASSERT, NEGOTIATE,
INSPIRE OR BRIDGE?
Research has shown that there are 5 major
influencing styles:
RATIONALISING: Using logic, facts & reasoning.
ASSERTING: Relying on laws, rules & authority.
NEGOTIATING: Looking for compromise.
58. 9
DO YOU RATIONALISE,
ASSERT, NEGOTIATE,
INSPIRE OR BRIDGE?
Research has shown that there are 5 major
influencing styles:
RATIONALISING: Using logic, facts & reasoning.
ASSERTING: Relying on laws, rules & authority.
NEGOTIATING: Looking for compromise.
INSPIRING: Providing encouragement.
59. 9
DO YOU RATIONALISE,
ASSERT, NEGOTIATE,
INSPIRE OR BRIDGE?
Research has shown that there are 5 major
influencing styles:
RATIONALISING: Using logic, facts & reasoning.
ASSERTING: Relying on laws, rules & authority.
NEGOTIATING: Looking for compromise.
INSPIRING: Providing encouragement.
BRIDGING: Attempting to unite people.
60. 9
DO YOU RATIONALISE,
ASSERT, NEGOTIATE,
INSPIRE OR BRIDGE?
Research has shown that there are 5 major
influencing styles:
RATIONALISING: Using logic, facts & reasoning.
ASSERTING: Relying on laws, rules & authority.
NEGOTIATING: Looking for compromise.
INSPIRING: Providing encouragement.
BRIDGING: Attempting to unite people.
Understanding your own style, as well as that of those around
you, will help you identify which actions will be most effective.
62. AS A FINAL
THOUGHT...
Leadership is not about a title or a
designation. It’s about impact, influence
and inspiration. Impact involves getting
results, influence is about spreading the
passion you have for your work, and you
have to inspire teammates and customers.
– Robin S. Sharma
writer, speaker and leadership expert
63. Empower yourself with a world-class education
from the University of Cape Town and GetSmarter:
getsmarter.co.za