Hiring. Contracting. Team Work. Art of Selling. CV. Office Programmes Hints. Appraisals. Negotiating. Interview. Lingo. Careers. Salary. Job Searching (linkedIN) Tips. Standing out. SEO. What's Your Influencing Style? - Chris Musselwhite and Tammie Plouffe. By Chris Musselwhite and Tammie Plouffe | 2:45 PM January 13, 2012 Effective leadership today relies more than ever on influencing others — impacting their ideas, opinions, and actions.
While influence has always been a valuable managerial skill, today’s highly collaborative organizations make it essential. Dream Job. Be nice but nor agreeable. Performance review. Accurate reviews of your job performance are critical to job promotions, raises, and annual bonuses. Therefore, it is essential that both you and your supervisor get it right. However, many bosses, including some good ones, may be out of touch with your overall performance and forget to acknowledge some of your accomplishments. What should you do if to prevent this from happening to you? Prevention – worth a pound of cure Prepare a list of your annual accomplishments and send them to your supervisor.
How to Negotiate. Fundamentally, there are two ways to have more money.
You can either earn more money or cut costs. So negotiation skills are the most powerful tools in your toolbox, because they help you do both. We’ll start with some easy ways to save money on bank and credit cards fees. All it takes is a phone call. Then I’ll teach you, in detail, how to negotiate on your car insurance, potentially worth thousands of dollars each year. The Tripod of Stability. April 21st, 2009 - 35 Comments Below is a video clip of a webcast I did with Tim Ferriss, who wrote The Four Hour Workweek (read my book review).
The question was, “How many false starts have you had?” But in my response, I mention something I’ve been meaning to write about: The Tripod of Stability. This basically means that I try to keep the big things in my life ultra-stable — car, where I live, relationships — so I can afford to be ultra-aggressive about other things. This alone has had a huge effect on my ability to take on risky and new projects all the time. Check out the clip: Introducing the 3-Week Dream Job Boot Camp. Today, a story about how a salesman sold me thousands of dollars worth of clothes I wasn’t going to buy.
As you read this, try to spot the differences between an average salesman and this top-performing salesman. A couple months ago, I got an email from a sales guy at a clothing store I’ve bought from before. (I don’t buy clothes that often, but once in a while I’ll do a year’s worth of shopping, and I must have filled in my email address while checking out.) He said, “Hey Ramit, it’s ____ from ____.
Are Successful People Nice? - Art Markman. Best work suits under 500 pounds - GQ Dresser. Are We Asking The Right Questions? While announcing the death of e-mail is a bit premature, it’s absolutely a reality that the paradigm of communication has changed.
There has been a flurry of articles lately about giving up email completely, as well as criticisms of such an approach. I think what’s more valuable than claiming the victory of each of the extremes is the discussion of use cases around each medium and improving our collective etiquette around multi-channel conversations. After all, the devil is in the details. As I alluded to in my comment in the following article in ReadWriteWeb, social networks (internal and private external like Yammer or public external like Twitter and Facebook) are in a position to significantly reduce email load.
Capgemini reported a 40% decrease in email volume as a result of Yammer, and there are countless others that have similar results. Is your message task oriented? How to Prioritize When Everything Is Important. You know that sinking feeling you have when there's too much on your plate?
When you try to tackle your tasks by priority, but it feels like everything's important? Don't get overwhelmed—it's a problem that everyone faces at some point or another, and while it's difficult to skillfully juggle multiple priorities and competing responsibilities, it's not impossible. Here's how. P It just so happens that there's a career that focuses specifically on juggling competing tasks and priorities: These people are called project managers. Photo by Josh S.P First, Answer the Question: Is Everything Really Important? 10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job. Just for fun I recently asked Erin, “Now that the kids are in summer school, don’t you think it’s about time you went out and got yourself a job?
I hate seeing you wallow in unemployment for so long.” She smiled and said, “Wow. Www.influencestyleindicator.com. Find a Job with Massive, Structured Networking - Bill Barnett. Www.highfliers.co.uk/download/GMReport11.pdf. Why Top Talent Leaves: Top 10 Reasons Boiled Down to 1. Numerical Reasoning Tests - Practice FREE Aptitude Tests Online.