The Six Hats of Creative Communication or - Using De Bono's Tools for a Unique Message Effect

The purpose of this article is to discuss and demonstrate the use of De Bono's Six Hats Method as a powerful and creative approach for communication. Design your communication efforts (speeches, meetings, dialogs, posters, ads, etc.) according to this model and get your message through in an original yet clear and effective way. The article itself uses the same approach and is built on the same model of the Six Hats of Communication.

Lingo Franca: Overcoming Language Barriers Within the Same Language

Are you on the same page with your customers? If not, perhaps there's simply a page missing. A page you design to help merchants, customers, clients and even co-workers speak the same language, use the same terms and communicate the same meanings.

5 Tips for Drop Dead Praise

Want to have them melt in your palm? All you need is a sprinkling of praise!

How Will the Next Generation Sustain My Business

The key is to provide opportunities to the younger age group to excel with their abilities. I can tell you brainstorming with adults is a challenge; it’s hard to get them to think freely because of years of constraints to their business thinking. The younger generation is prepared to change that restrictive mentality, when and where corporations will let them.

5 Tips for Constructive Anger Management at The Workplace

Anger can be a lethal force at the workplace, undermining atmosphere, productivity and workplace relaitonships. Based upon her new book, The Anger Diet, Dr. Shoshanna provides five essential steps to take to balance workplace relationships and allow you to easily turn negative feelings into constructive workplace behavior.

Commercial Air Purifiers Are Electrostatic Precipitator Air Cleaners, Not Ozone Generators

ESP commercial air purifiers are not the same as ozone generators. Learn the important difference.

Running Mate Program for Churches

First time visitors or employees can be overwhelmed and discouraged their first day on the job or their first visit to a new church. They should be more than just welcomed when they first arrive. A Running Mate to guide them through the new environment would provide countless benefits later on.

Workplace Safety and The Secret

With all the buzz about the Secret, it is time to see how to apply the law of attraction to workplace safety. Here are five simple steps to creating a safer and more profitable workplace by applying the secret of the law of attraction to workplace safety.

Vision-Mission-Purpose-What Does It All Mean?

We hear the words purpose, vision and mission everyday, but what do they really mean and how are they different from each other? It is easy to puzzle over these questions for hours. As a small business, choosing the right words and applying them to your business can serve the organization by defining leadership roles, unifying efforts, setting departmental and company-wide goals, better serving customers and encouraging and motivating employees. A few well crafted sentences can save a tremendous amount of time in the long run, by becoming crystal clear on the answer to – What are we here for?

Amazing Treasure Buried In Your Own Systems Treasure Chest!

I was talking to my client the other day, the president of a company who has extremely high mobile costs, sound familiar?

The Workplace: Parents vs the Childless

As a working parent to two boys I feel I understand the pressures of trying to juggle work and family life. I have, during my children's lifetime, been in the enviable position of spending their early years at home with them. I did work from home and managed a degree at university but I was still always able to attend my children’s speech days, sports events, assemblies and nativity plays.

Three Categories of Communication

Understanding the three categories of human communcation: passive, aggressive, assertive.

Do You Know What You Say Before You Utter One Word? The Importance of Your Body Language

Think about all the face-to-face encounters you have each day, each week, each month and each year. And then think about how the success of any of these encounters all begins the instant someone sees you. Do you realize that one of the first things people notice about you is your aura or that distinctive atmosphere that surrounds you? You create that aura and you are responsible for what it says about you and whom it attracts. Why is this important? Look at the article title – Do You Know What You Say Before You Utter One Word? Well, let me remind you that 55% of your personal message is conveyed by your body language, 38% by the tone of your voice and 7% by your words. This should tell us that sensitivity to and an understanding of body language are very important to us.