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 | RECESSION: Chaos or Opportunity? The Chinese symbol for CHAOS is the same as the Chinese symbol for OPPORTUNITY. There is no doubt that we are currently living in a world of economic chaos and it is likely to continue for some time. However within Chaos lies the greatest of More » |
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 | Growing Trend To Shift Vocations Is a Result of Volatile Markets There are mainstream stable occupational roles that have been threatened by redundancy that include real estate, finance and banking and specialist functions such as purchasing and marketing. People who face these uncertainties need to specialize in More » |
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 | When Soft is More Essential In this day and age a university degree and professional ‘hard skills’ training are basic requirements. But does a university degree or even specific technical certificate mean that you have all the essential skills needed to get ahead in the More » |
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 | Building Engagement in This Economic Crisis: How managers can maintain morale and profitability in their increasingly anxious workgroups How managers can maintain morale and profitability in their increasingly anxious workgroupsThe global economy is floundering. All over the world, companies are struggling, from global corporations with worldwide market share to mom-and-pop shops that More » |
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 | How do companies quantify their investment in training and development in uncertain times? It’s well known that businesses that don’t train and invest in their employees are 2.5 times more likely to fail than those that do, but how do companies quantify their investment in training and development during uncertain times? For an industry More » |
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 | Diversified Skills During Times of Recession Recession has an overwhelming affect not just on the economy but on the daily lives of people. It brings about uncertainty and concern on what the future holds. A recession phase lasts generally for 2 to 3 years before an economy recovers. However, More » |
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 | Leading in a Recession What would you say about a person that works hard all year round, achieves all the goals and objectives that they have been set, makes personal sacrifices to do so and then when they get their bonus for an outstanding job, rushes down to the local More » |
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 | Total Quality Sales Management Applying TQM Techniques to Sales Produces Dramatic Results Putting the right people in the right jobs using measurable, predictable, and actionable assessmentsSix Sigma, the data-driven methodology for eliminating defects in organizations based on More » |
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 | Leadership and Motivation Reversal Competence In our previous DKV Experts Channel article, we discussed the merits for a more formal approach to Competency and Human Capital Management. We now move a stage further and take a look at the impact of the latest thinking in Leadership and More » |
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 | When recession becomes a learning opportunity for new generations Through newspaper ads, articles and voices, I have noticed there is a market perception on the HR business and the employment in general which I believe to be quite deceptive. The current global recession is a live example of what the market is in More » |
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 | The Quest for Home Grown Skills in the Gulf A youthful population and a dynamic economy are signs of a vibrant future for any country; to fully optimize the benefits of such economic potentials, home grown skills must be developed to minimize overdependence on skills import. Building local More » |
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 | Cisco and Microsoft Collaboration in Unified Communications Unified Communications – An Innovative Business SolutionUnified CommunicationsUnified communications is a comprehensive IP communications system that facilitates more effective, more secure, and more personal communications. It connects users in the More » |
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 | How Innovative and Collaborative Leadership can help us through the Economic Crisis WHY DO WE NEED TO INNOVATE?Innovation is the act of introducing something new. Innovation is the one and most important factor for driving and creating wealth. This is especially the case in times of a global financial crisis, when an organisation More » |
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 | A Great Way to Develop Busy Leaders Do you have a Manager in your business who has…………….how shall we say it, room for improvement in their people skills? Can you imagine how much easier it would be if the managers actually asked for suggestions on how they could get better? And More » |
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 | Leading Human capital in the Brave New World In the medium-term some larger organizations will introduce internal markets and formal networks in place of old style hierarchies to create structures where agility, speed and flexibility are the key to success.Less than two years ago, More » |
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 | Inspirational Oratory Barack Obama has it but Mr. Brown doesn’t. Tony Blair does, George Dubya doesn’t. It’s inspirational charisma and it’s perhaps best seen in speech making. Why are so many of our politicians ex-lawyers or school-teachers? Why was our last Deputy Prime More » |
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 | Neuroscience Enlightens Leadership As research into the mind develops, we will see neuroscience being applied to more and more areas of human behaviour. Most recently, international business consultant David Rock applied it to the art of leadership and coined the term neuroleadership. More » |
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 | The good news for Small and Medium Businesses Is this article for you?Are you the owner or manager of an SMB? Are you in some way doing or wanting to do business with SMBs like providing training or consultancy services, loans, or other products or services? Are you in a government department, More » |
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 | Optimizing construction project performance using the New Engineering Contract Third Edition (NEC3) Part 1Executive summaryIntroductionAbout partnering contractsFramework contractingPart 2NEC characteristics:- An integrative, pro-active management tool- Clarity, simplicity, flexibilityPart 1: Partnering in construction contracting is More » |
