Framing Your Message

In a difficult conversation, frame your message so that it is more likely to be heard.

Smart Communication

Communication is very important in business environment. It's always important to convey the right message at the right time with proper understanding. Positive communication is facilitated if person A or person B or both are willing to express and accept differences. It facilitates a win-win situation.

It's Human to Expect Perfection

How many times have you been criticized for making an honest mistake? Perhaps you left laundry in the dryer, forgot to put the milk away, or neglected to set your alarm for work? Hey - these things happen. After all, we’re only human right? Then why, at times, do we forget this universal truth and excessively criticize others for their mistakes?

Organizational Culture and Its Importance

Organizational culture comprises the attitudes, experiences, beliefs and values. Work-groups or teams within -organizations have their own behavioral quirks and interactions, which, to an extent, affect the whole system. These behavioral quirks are termed Organizational Culture.

Keep Meetings Focused

All of us go to meetings regularly and have experienced long, drawn out meetings where issues are discussed inefficiently at best. Meetings do not have to be like that. Here are some of tips to make meetings more proactive, productive, and efficient.

Mastering Singaporean Business Etiquette: 7 Tips

To the first-time International Assignee to Singapore – or Asia for that matter – the mere thought of experiencing a wholly different culture is daunting enough. In addition to putting in his best work performance so as to make his expatriation experience worthwhile. Hence, this article to enlighten Expatriates heading to Singapore.

IM - Saving You Time

The size of a person's email inbox can often times cause your IT manager to go into cardiac arrest. Emails are on the rise for basic communication, but is email always the appropriate method of communication? See how Instant Messaging can save you time and money in the work place.

5 Tips for Drop Dead Praise

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

Creative Ideas for Improving Personal Communication

Personal communication is one of the most fundamental of human activities. It is of vital importance in our personal life, as well as in nearly all the organizational and business settings. Improving the way we communicate with our spouses, children, colleagues, customers and suppliers may often lead to better results, an empowering sense of cooperation, and a general good atmosphere. This article offers some unconventional - yet extremely powerful - ideas for making the most out of your daily interactions with other people.

8 Ways to Cope in a Hostile Work Place

Do you get stressed out at the thought of going to work every morning? Do you constantly find yourself wishing that Monday mornings were Friday evenings? Does the mere thought of interacting with your boss or co-workers leave you feeling wound up, sweaty and emotionally drained?

Humor Sizzles the Workplace

It's the the final solution to all of life's toughest problems. Guess what?

Case Study: Don't Judge a Human Service Agency by its Cover

Clearbrook has tripled its revenues over the last decade and served a needy population – people with developmental disabilities – by hiring and developing the right people and paying attention to their needs.

Tips For Putting Together a Computerized Training Manual

Putting together a computerized training manual for your workplace can be a wonderful step towards a paperless office. It can also be a tricky proposition. Here are a few helpful hints for putting together computerized training materials for your place of business: