Author: admin | Filed under: Career Advice, Sales | Tags: Career Advice, networking, Sales, Success, Technqiues, trust | No Comments »
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: 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 »
Author: admin | Filed under: Career Advice | Tags: blogging, Career Advice, Job Search & Application, social network | No Comments »
Whatever median you used for blogging and participating in social network sites, it is prevalent that you have these “best practices” at your keep. Do not get yourself into trouble when you are making too much unnecessary comments online. You do not want your future career to be jeopardized as well due to some comments you made about your employer. Be smart in what you say online, they may have some form of implication in future. Here we have a few tips for you to stay on course in making a positive presence in the internet. Read the rest of this entry »
Author: admin | Filed under: Career Advice | Tags: blogging, Career Advice, CV, Job Search & Application, social network | No Comments »
We connect with our friends through social network and it can never be that easy with these online social network sites now! Social networks like Facebook, Friendster, LinkedIn and Plaxo just to name a few, are some of the sites that you have accounts in. Definitely, you must have AT LEAST one account in the mentioned site. Furthermore, you have your personal blogs that you can write about your thoughts, your day, the new cute colleague that you spoke to at the pantry. All these social networks and blogs allows you to write whatever you like, post whatever comments, pictures and videos you want. They allow you to check out what your friends and colleagues (that includes your bosses) are doing too. Read the rest of this entry »
Author: admin | Filed under: Career Advice | Tags: bonus, Employee Satisfaction, employment | 3 Comments »
If you are hit into situations that your company is not making money, and if you are staying on with the company, there is pretty nothing much you can do. Everyone should be in the same shoes when the marker conditions are bad. However, if you are not getting what you should be getting or believed to be getting even when times are good, it may be time to do something about it. But if you choose to stay with the company and targeting for a good next year bonus, it maybe time you do things to keep you in the recommendation list, which result in a higher chance for a better bonus! Read the rest of this entry »
Author: admin | Filed under: Career Advice | Tags: bonus, Employee Satisfaction, employment, fairness, Workplace Survival | No Comments »
It is easy to measure performance and rewards in an organisation that is profit-driven. The more money the company make, the more bonuses the employees get (especially the banks!). The more sales the sales person clocks for the year, the more bonus he gets as commission. Without profit-driven, it can be rather difficult to measure the performance of an individual. That is a common problem in non-profit driven organisations, such as the government sector or those that supports the sales function (e.g. administration, operations, etc). Read the rest of this entry »
Author: admin | Filed under: Career Advice | Tags: Career Advice, modesty, Technqiues, Workplace Survival | No Comments »
Everyone has a fatal flaw of pre-judgement. We always judge too quickly about someone on their social status, achievements and capabilities when we first approach them. This is somewhat unavoidable and ingrain in our mental models. What lies behind their mask may be something totally opposite to what you always believe. He may not be what you think either from a good point or bad point of view. Find out what you maybe thinking of a person here. Read the rest of this entry »
Author: admin | Filed under: Career Advice | Tags: Career Advice, Job Search & Application, Success, Workplace Survival | 1 Comment »
When you do not have a goal, you are easily misled into doing things that is against your principles. You may proceed as normal, receive it and work on it. You question yourself the reason for doing this task at a point of time that you feel lost. Is it valuable to do this task in the first place? Did you question the benefit of performing this task to you? Read the rest of this entry »
Author: admin | Filed under: Career Advice, Workplace Survival | Tags: backstab, Career Advice, Workplace Survival | No Comments »
Backstabbers are always the lurking danger in the workplace. We don’t have all the time to catch all of them else nobody will be doing actual work in the office! Furthermore, anyone can become a back stabber as time passes or a series of events happening to the potential individual. That is why, it is more important to focus our energy to become less likely targets of potential back stabbers or deter their negative emotions against us. Previously, we have mentioned 5 preventive measures against them. In this post, we have an additional six to get you prepared against them. Read the rest of this entry »
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