All Entries Tagged With: "Workplace skills"

I was on leave last week and spent a morning in the Festival City. While there I wandered into Shoe Citi. The salesman walked up and told me that if I purchased anything for Dhs 300, I would get a discount of Dhs 100.

Are public relations a big mystery to you? Have you avoided creating your PR plan because you just don’t know where to start? Well the good news is most PR is free and I’m going to show you how to begin. Here are 3 more success tips (see Part 1 of this series for the [...]

Are public relations a big mystery to you? Have you avoided creating your PR plan because you just don’t know where to start? Well the good news is most PR is free and I’m going to show you how to begin. Here are 3 success tips that you can implement RIGHT now to get the [...]

I do not claim to have been born with a halo, chanting hymns or solutions to life. After a lot of trial and error I did manage to stumble into a formula that worked for me and keeps me going. Along the path, several well wishers and mentors have given me interesting directions and inputs. [...]

I am sure the sentiment is shared by many who have a rather…er… chequered career. And questions abound. What gets one closer to the seat of power? And the fruits it has to offer? To begin with the answer is darn simple. It’s only made complex by know-alls or know-nothings or know-half or know-half-but-don’t-know-which-halves. That [...]

I was privy to many an enlightening conversation in my lifetime; not by invitation but by virtue of being a very ordinary and colourless individual who can blend in the background and can be easily ignored. I am like your ubiquitous taxi/auto driver, housekeeping staff, waiter in a bar or a fly-on-the-wall. It has its [...]

You will have the best results in business if you create your vision first.  Then you can take “inspired action” consistently and persistently.  Without vision you may find yourself in the same boat as many unsuccessful business owners who dash madly from one marketing effort to another – never giving any of their strategies time [...]

One of the really hard but powerfully effective skills of communications is to speak with good purpose. Speaking with good purpose means conversing with others in a way that is honest, straightforward, and with the aim of building better relationships. Take for example the following phrase: “You’re so sloppy. Your work area is such a [...]

I’m often asked by would-be trainers how they can connect better with their audiences, particularly those who are not too keen on being on the training

How many times have you laughed today? If research is anything to go by, the answer will be, not as much as you should have done.

Engaging for Success is a wonderfully promising report. It was commissioned by the then UK Secretary of State for Business in the autumn of 2008 to take an in-depth look at employee engagement. The report, in its introduction, sets itself out to report on the potential benefits of engagement for companies, organisations and individual employees, [...]

Think about this… how much have you wanted to achieve, or have achieved, and how much of the same language does the brand you speak? If the answer if not as much as what is reality, then, there is lot of work to do on your ME brand-speak! What’s the ME brand? Each of our [...]

Should your employer pay for your training?

Before we dwell on the subject of handling lateral hires, here is a layman’s definition of lateral hires. A lateral hire is one who joins a company as a fresher after having work experience in various fields and companies. The new hire maybe a fresher to the current company but may be an expert or [...]