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Author :: Kevin Eikenberry  |
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| Article Title :: 9 Tips for Getting the Most From Your Conference Investment |
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| Tips for Getting the Most From Your Conference Investment
All professionals attend conferences, seminars, and trade shows each year. Through my observation and person experience here are my top tips for maximizing your time and monetary investment in these events.
1. Set goals for the event. Think about what you hope to gain from your attendance. Be specific and write them down! Consider your goals for specific content areas, specific questions you hope to have answered, number and kinds of people you want to meet and/or amount of new business you hope to gain. Goal setting here is like in anything else. Be specific, write the (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Kevin Eikenberry |
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| Article Title :: 6 Ways to Keep Things Simple |
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| Six Ways to Keep Things Simple
We can have greater success with our Clients when we make our work processes and agreements simpler and more elegant. This article will give you ideas for making your contracts and commitments, projects and plans, reports and relationships with Clients simpler. Here then, are six suggested ways to make your products and services more elegant.
1. Ask why. When we understand the root cause of the client request we are better able to sort out and find simple elegant solutions. Often complex solutions come from unfocused efforts and expectations. Asking why can help you make your client contracts much (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Margaret Conklin |
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| Article Title :: Operating on Perpetual Overload? |
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| Check Out Your E-HabitsAnother week has ended. And, despite moving at the speed of light, you’ve once again barely made a dent in your more important goals or projects. Just about everyone wishes they had more time to focus on the really important things: Activities directly tied to job or key business objectives. Spending time with key people – at work and at home. Exercise. Fun.(Remember “fun”?)Intellectually anyway, we do understand the need to differentiate “forest from the trees” priority-wise. But with more “trees” to manage than ever, it can be tough even locating the forest, never mind spending any meaningful time there. By far, the biggest sourc (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Margaret Conklin |
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| Article Title :: No Time to Focus on the Big Picture? Try Focus Management |
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| E-mail, voicemail, "got a minute?" interruptions, multiple projects and competing priorities. Whether it is in work or in life, we all understand the importance of "seeing the forest for the trees." But with so many "trees" competing for your attention, it’s tough to find the forest, never mind spend much time there. The challenge today is not so much time management, but focus management. In other words, if you want to focus on the big picture, you need to manage not time, but focus – yours.
Here are seven Focus Management® best practices that you can begin using today:
Plan for success. Do you spend more time preparing for a two-week vacation than (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Margaret Conklin |
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| Article Title :: Is Your Brain Getting the "Memory Full" Message? 5 Ways to Free Up Room on Your Brain's Hard Drive |
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| Lynn was tapped to head up the project team for a major company restructuring. She began her first team meeting by delegating steps and due dates to the various department heads. That's when she noticed that one member, Bob, wasn't writing anything down. Lynn knew Bob was a competent guy. Yet given the importance of this project his casual approach concerned her.So, after the meeting she pulled Bob aside. "I don't want to tell you how to do your job," Lynn began, "but I noticed you're weren't writing down any of your assignments." "Oh, don't worry," Bob replied pointing to his head "it's all right up here." Lynn was hardly reassured. "That's great Bob. But what happens if you lose (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Margaret Conklin |
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| Article Title :: Want to Manage Your Time? Get Real! |
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| You know the drill - the ridiculous deadlines, the relentless barrage of email, voicemail, phone calls, all those "got a minute" interruptions, the constant worrying that one of those many balls you're juggling is going to unexpectedly drop.When you're on total overload, all you want is relief - preferably the fast and easy kind. So you try the latest organizing software or gadget. Or maybe you read another book, take another course on time management or listen to a tape by the latest time management guru. Things might go pretty well for a couple of days. But before long you're right back where you were - snowed under with no realistic way to dig out.WHERE THE RUBBER MEET (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: David Meyer |
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| Article Title :: Leadership in Troubled Times |
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| Leadership in Troubled Times
The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive. - Joe Batten
Leading an organization can be challenging, even wh (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: David Meyer |
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| Article Title :: Are you NICE or do you CARE? |
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| Are you NICE or do you CARE?
Most people and most managers want to be nice. After all, it's easier to be nice than to not be nice. But when we talk about being a manager, there is a difference between being nice and being NICE. A NICE manager can be pleasant to be around. They're friendly and helpful and avoid even the most r (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: David Meyer |
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| Article Title :: Don't Let Your Measurements Mislead You |
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| Don't Let Your Measurements Mislead You
There aren't too many words that can strike as much fear and loathing into the hearts of your internal customers, and sometimes your own employees as the words "Operational Measurements". Operational Measurements often get a bad rap because of their misuse by well intended, but misinfor (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: David Meyer |
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| Article Title :: One Bad Apple |
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| One Bad Apple
I know what you are thinking but no, I am not doing a
tribute to Michael Jackson and the Jackson 5. Although I will a (read full article) |
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