So your personal effectiveness needs tweaking. Your professionalism in the workplace needs some work. Your career development seems to be on the slow track. Where can you turn? You don’t need to read stacks of books. Let the experts do the research for you to keep you updated on the latest ideas in business. Consider… Read more »

Now is a great time to figure out a career development strategy that will make you shine. With so many people looking for work these days, it could be easy for your resume to get lost in a towering stack of papers from other potential employees. If you work at a big corporation, it could… Read more »

If you don’t yet take advantage of the myriad of free management development materials online, then you are missing out on a lot of great information that your competition may be benefiting from. There is more out information there than you could keep up with and also keep your job, but that doesn’t mean that… Read more »

When the economy is bad and your business is in a slump, sometimes the last thing you feel ready to think about is investing money from your diminishing training budget in professional development programs for your employees, even if that would use time wisely and improve everyone’s personal effectiveness in order to gear up for a… Read more »

Times of trouble, such as recessions, are a good time for introspection, both in business and in life. Even if your business is still experiencing a slump after the recession, you could come out ahead of the competition in the long run if you use this time wisely to encourage employee introspection and career development through… Read more »

It is often a significant challenge to lead and communicate with a diverse group of employees. If you are like many managers, it might feel natural to try to relate to everyone in the same way. You use your personal gauge of what is respectful, logical and constructive to determine how to manage your employees…. Read more »