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Your network is your net worth! One of the key to success is your network. The network of friends, relatives and peers you are interacting, working or befriending in. Whether you are a sales person, businessman or someone that is holding a nine-to-five job, it is very important to have a strong network to support whatever decisions you make. Strong networks not only produce good leads and increase sales volume, it also helps provide leverage or support for major tasks at work. How do you build a strong network that can support you and goals then? Read the rest of this entry »
Author: admin | Filed under: Communication | Tags: Communication, conversation, Influence, Sales | No Comments »
Striking a conversation can be difficult for some people when they are not “trained” to do so. Most of us believed that it is the personality or a gift given during birth! Personally, I feel that the belief holds certain truth. Of course, learning some conversational skills can also assist an individual lacking in conversational skill improve his ability in keeping the conversation going. At times, we run out of things to say and there is an empty silence that follows when topic runs dry. So, how do we cope with running out of topic and keeping the conversation going? Read the rest of this entry »
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Do you find yourself accepting the idea of attending networking sessions or social gatherings (or any other types of gatherings)? Why is that so? The problem lies in the necessity to talk to people. Striking conversation can be difficult to them. Not to mention the need to maintain the conversation. Most feel there will be a problem when topics run dry, the conversation becomes difficult to follow through and the silence will make them feel uncomfortable. It is definitely a problem but how do we overcome this problem? Today, we will share with you five conversational tips to get your partner and you feeling happy and interested throughout the entire conversation! Read the rest of this entry »
Author: admin | Filed under: Career Advice, Personal Productivity | Tags: Communication, delegation, Personal Productivity, Success | 1 Comment »
Behind the success of personal productivity is your ability to delegate tasks out. They can be anyone, such as your colleagues, customer or even your bosses (surprised?). Delegation allows you to focus on your strengths. When you are not delegating, you may be doing work that may be counter-productive as you step into a steep learning curve or your resistance to start making progress in the task. When you feel unhappy working on the tasks, you become unwilling to pick up new things and this becomes the real show-stopper for any progression! Read the rest of this entry »
Author: admin | Filed under: Career Advice, Personal Productivity | Tags: delegation, Personal Productivity, Success | 1 Comment »
Personal productivity focuses on the awareness of our personal capabilities and choosing work that we can perform well. That is one part of the equation. Personal productivity can also be achieved by someone else, not just you alone. And the way to achieve productivity through someone else is delegation. Delegation of tasks has a whole lot of benefits and it will be a mistake if you are not performing any form of delegation. What are the benefits of delegation? Read the rest of this entry »
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How do you get people to absorb information in a discussion? How do you drive your message across (that is easy) and register them in their heads (this is hard)? How do you get them to do what they are supposed to do (as intended and planned) after the meeting? The problem is people have different agenda, different ways of thinking and different understanding. At the end of the meeting, they may not digest what you had intended to delivered. They may have a misinterpretation of what you intended to say. All these can be attributed to various reasons, such as poor presentation, poor delivery, poor speech, etc. One of them is prevalent in all human presentations is not absorbing information fully in the discussion Read the rest of this entry »
Author: admin | Filed under: Personal Productivity | Tags: absorb information, Personal Awareness, Personal Productivity | No Comments »
Have you ever wonder after reading a material, listening to a presentation or attended a meeting and discovered that at the end of it, you could hardly remember anything relating to what you had been doing, seeing or hearing? When you need to furnish a report for the material you had read or write the minutes of the meeting you’ve attended, you were not able to bring out relevant points and get down writing it. Sounds familiar? Read the rest of this entry »
Author: admin | Filed under: Sales | Tags: customer, Negotiation, Sales, unhappy | 1 Comment »
Unhappy customers are trouble for any company. It only takes one of them to spoil the entire mood and momentum for everyone. What is worst, is having one that spread negative information and present negative images to prospective customers of the company. They have reasons to be unhappy. Some don’t feel well that day. Some may have unrealistic expectations while others are just bad character. Read the rest of this entry »
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Customers, either you really love them or you really hate them! They are your salary, your organisation’s profit. You need them to survive! Yet customers are the people that give you the pain in the neck most of the time. After meetings and meetings but they just give you new requirements, new ideas and what do you know, new troubles for you to solve! It does not apply only to the buy-and-sell relationship. Anyone can be customers to you. What do your customers really want? Are they always giving you problems? How do we address their problems and deliver what they really want? Read the rest of this entry »
Author: admin | Filed under: Communication | Tags: Communication, Email, Technqiues | No Comments »
Often, we see people make mistakes during emailing. You would have definitely seen some of them during your course of work. These mistakes although they look small but can have a detrimental effect of your image when it is being committed over and over again. Generally, the recipient will think that the sender is careless, never reviews his email content or plain rushing for time… Today we are sharing with you mistakes you should avoid and not end up in your organisation list of careless email senders! Read the rest of this entry »