Bossology: The Eight Techniques You Need to Manage Your Boss

Like most people, you have probably worked for a memorably bad boss. Whether you've been blessed with effective managers or cursed with ineffective managers, there are useful techniques for making the boss relationship work.

Three Categories of Communication

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

Workplace Stress - Could Identifying Body Language Help Reduce It?

If it is true that a picture is worth a thousand words, then our body language speaks volumes, especially in the workplace. It is what managers of large corporations and owners of small businesses fail to hear and see that often kills a business a little at a time.

What is the 80/20 Principle

The 80/20 Principle asserts that when two sets of data, relating to causes and results, can be examined and analyzed, the most likely result is that there will be a pattern of imbalance. Whether you realize it or not, the 80/20 Principle applies to your life, your social world and to your work. Understanding it will give you great insight into what is really happening around you.

An Overview of Emergency Notification Systems

Every company needs Emergency Notification Systems to ensure that in times of crisis every individual is notified successfully. Here's an overview of how emergency notification systems can benefit your business.

Powerful Communication Tips For Managers & Supervisors

Recently I read about a study conducted in 2001, which included approximately 20,000 exit interviews. A major finding in the study was that poor communications skills of supervisors were a leading factor in poor supervisory behavior, which caused people to leave their jobs.

Communication At Work- Six Tips

Men are acculturated from a young age to relate to one another vis-a-vis sports, thus they prefer structure in their communication style. They want to hear bottom line solutions and how to get from point A to point B without any machinations.

Getting the Most From Your Meetings

How many times have you been to a business meeting and wondered just what it was all about or why they had bothered calling it in the first place? Unproductive and unnecessary meetings can be aggravating for everyone involved. Take some basic advice on how to make your meetings more productive.

Six Strategic Steps To Improve Your Emails

The number of business emails we send and receive continues to grow at an amazing pace. And from my personal experience, more and more of my clients that prefer email communications as a preferred communications mode. Email can be a very effective and efficient means of communicating. However, how many of the emails we send and receive can we honestly say are effective and efficient? And what can we do to improve our email communication?

Tips For Dealing With Difficult People - Part 1

Unfortunately, the world is not filled with great communicators and is more dominated by difficult people. Dealing with difficult people is a must to be happy, successful, and develop fulfilling relationships. Here are list of tips for dealing with difficult people to transform their attitude and keep your relationship from declining.

Fall Protection and Safety

Many accidental injuries and even deaths on construction sites are related to falls from high places as well as other trips and slips.

Effective Business Communication Tips

Do you consider yourself to be an effective business communicator? Have you honed your skills when communicating via E-mail and voice-mail messaging, in addition to the more traditional formal business writings? Could you use a little help improving the effectiveness of your business communications in each of these forms? Regardless of how you responded to my questions, I am going to say that I believe each of us can always use some help in improving the effectiveness of our business communications. And I want to assist you and guide you in finding ways to do just that. And I will start with the more formal or traditional written business communications form. Tina Miller is a freelance writer who’s been published in Corporate & Incentive Travel and the Milwaukee Business Journal and she offers the following tips:

Email Liability - Is Your Company Protected?

With so many emails being used as evidence against companies in legal cases, companies must now look closely at their email and internet policies. This article provides advice on protecting your company from emails that could damage you in court.

Useful Tips to Appraise Staff - The Silent Worker

In this article, we shall look at useful tips to improve communication between an employer and an employee who is more reserved than others and how to improve this during appraisals. While the tips may be followed closely, it is imperative that managers should provide constant feedback to the staff and engage the staff actively in discussions from time to time for maximum effect.

The Alphabet of Email Etiquette

A memorable way to discover the do's and don'ts of today's most popular means of business communication – email. Learn how proper email etiquette will not only keep you out of hot water, but also help you project an outstanding impression of yourself and your organization.