Build Strong and Unbreakable Network List!

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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 »


4 Simple Tricks to Keep a Conversation Going!

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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 »


How to Get People Talking?

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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 »


4 More Reasons You Should Be Delegating Your Tasks!

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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 »


Achieve Personal Productivity Through Delegation!

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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 »


Get People to Absorb Information the Way You Want It!

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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 »


Absorb Information Effectively – Improve Familiarity!

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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 »


7 Steps to Resolve Customer Complaints!

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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 »


What Customers Really Want!

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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 »


6 Mistakes to Avoid in Emailing

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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 »