Your Organization Needs a Social Media Policy
Many, many issues should be carefully considered when exploring the best social media policies for your unique organization, its culture and goals.
Month: August 2011
Dealing with Difficult Co-Workers
Often our most challenging times at work are dealing with people who push our hot buttons in some way. Perhaps we experience them as being uncooperative, unsupportive, intimidating, or outright vindictive. While I can understand you would want to run from these people as fast as you can, I encourage you to stop in your …
Employee Turnover: Why People Quit Their Jobs
There are many reasons why good employees quit and go to another company, perhaps even your competitor. Good people don’t leave good companies, they leave poor managers. Here are seven managerial practices that drive good people away. Are they prevalent in your organization? Managers demand that one person do the jobs of two or more …
Twitter No-No’s
Don’t make these common mistakes Many companies, having delayed their entry into the Twitterverse, are rushing to join the party. The problem here is the old adage “haste makes waste.” To help prevent your feed from becoming a no-fly zone, check out these tips on how not to use Twitter from the B2C blog of …
Training for Survival: How to be the Fittest in Today’s Economy
With the title of this article, there should be no surprise that I have been reading a book or two that echo the words of Charles Darwin. I have, but not a scholarly book. Still a significant book when we consider the topic of man and survival. Yes, I have been reading Tarzan of the …
Gain Insight – Get a Board
Business owners often find it a challenge to lift their heads and view the long term. The day-to-day can be all-consuming. Regular quarterly board meetings can encourage a long term view. In addition, it is extremely powerful to entertain different perspectives. This results in a stronger strategy for growth. Quarterly board meetings provide an opportunity …
Fear of Failure: Do You Have It?
What do these people all have in common? Babe Ruth struck out 1,330 times Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team. Abraham Lincoln lost six elections before being elected to office. Walt Disney was fired by a newspaper editor because, he was told, he lacked creativity. Steven Spielberg applied to USC Cinema …
Online Giving: Audit Your Own Website (Part 2)
Hints On How To Make Giving To You A Lot Easier a: Always have a prominent “Where the need is greatest” choice – many people will trust you to allocate their gift as you need to, and unrestricted gifts are the primary goal of every client we’ve ever had. b: Give people the chance to …
Building a Requirements Document
What is going to happen after all meetings have been completed for a project proposal? How will it all be documented? One of the most important documents that a Technical Writer will create at the onset of a project is the Requirements document. It is basically an agreement which ensures that the client and the …
Character Training
One thing that I’ve noticed is, that no matter how hard we try as trainers, the results are limited to the character of our trainers, trainees and managers. What if we could depend on character to make our training a success. The only character we can depend on is our own, and if we are …