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| Business Soft Skills |
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 | Are women really the weaker sex in business negotiations? Negotiation success is usually measured by the negotiator who achieves the best personal outcome or the larger piece of the fixed pie. In business negotiations, women are more cooperative bargainers, while men are more competitive bargainers More » |
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| Customer Service |
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 | Creating Your Brand ‘Experience’ – Everything Counts “The only sustainable competitive advantage is the ability of your people to learn and therefore adapt to changing market conditions faster than your competitors.”When you think about this statement you may consider the amount you spend on More » |
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| Education |
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 | In the Pipeline As the oil and gas sector is forced to widen its search for reserves, it also faces a skills crisis, with a core of experienced workers retiring. Find out how City & Guilds is helping to train a new crew. Ask anyone in the oil and gas sector what they consider to be one of the biggest challenges facing the industry today and they’ll probably say the Great Crew Change. This is the term used to describe the exodus of workers who entered the profession More » |
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 | NO EASY WAY TO COLLEGE Introduction:All over the world, schools systems vary a great deal in terms of curriculums, and even syllabi of courses. Furthermore, the examination procedures and the relative strictness of the grading systems vary a great deal too.Thus, it More » |
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 | E-learning in the 2.0 era Within years, e-learning has gained in prestige and evolved to become more than a complementary second choice learning. Nowadays, it is considered a cornerstone in any training program; hence virtual learning has become a standard chapter of any More » |
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 | A Curriculum for Children to Reach Their Full Potential Our society sees a school as a place where teaching and learning happen. But as our societies gets more complex and complicated by a monumental explosion of knowledge, there is a need to reach an understanding as to what it is exactly that schools More » |
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 | College Competition Means New Stress for Today’s Teens The pressure is on. To compete in today’s global economy, which includes international students attending North American colleges in record numbers; teenagers must obtain collegiate degrees now more than ever. According to the latest More » |
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 | Financial literacy or Why you should blame your math teacher Ask anyone how his mortgage payment is calculated or the implication of compound interest and immediately you get a look that is a mix of terror and ignorance. Yet this same chap will leave you goggle eyed as he expounds in great detail More » |
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| Health & Safety |
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 | Distance Learning Just two words but they explain an education system that enables people to learn regardless of where they are or what their time schedule is. Distance learning is a system of providing education to students who are not able to attend regular classes More » |
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| Human Resource Conservation and Sustainability |
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 | The composite of Business is Environment and its sustainability. Everyday we hear and read about a common slogan, “Save Earth, Save Environment”The expectations of this slogan are manifold from Business Organizations because they are the pivot on which rests the health of an environment, the economy of a country More » |
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| Human Resource, Leadership Development, Coaching |
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 | Is HR central to business? There are a lot of ready made statements and assumptions that are made about HR such as:Is HR really necessary?Isn’t HR a purely administration work disguised under the title of “HR”?Isn’t HR a rewording of personnel in a face lifting attempt to give More » |
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 | Change management – be successful in the time of crisis Change managementorganizational and personal change management, process, plans, change management and business development tipsHere are some rules for effective management of change. Managing organizational change will be more successful if you apply More » |
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 | Get on Board the Talent Train So what is talent management and should I be bothering about it right now? It seems like there are many interesting places you may visit on your journey through an organisation, but it isn’t at all clear how you get from one place to the other. More » |
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| Human Resources |
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 | Economic conditions place CFOs in the spotlight Strategic involvement and risk management now a focus, finds new researchThe economic downturn has raised the senior finance executive’s profile in organisations worldwide, with more Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) involved in strategy development More » |
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 | Competent or Incompetent Do you ever wonder why people do what they do?We may think that competence can be measured easily given all that is written and practiced. With good systems and processes on the surface all might seem to be fine. It is only when we get down to More » |
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 | Healthcare: an ever-growing sector and an ever-growing challenge Like most industries in the Middle East over the last five years the Healthcare sector has experienced explosive white knuckle growth. However unlike most industries when the crisis hit the Healthcare industry did not take a dive, it continued More » |
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 | The Importance of Psychology In Our Daily Lives The Interlinked Framework of Body and MindIn our search for success, health, happiness, and well-being, we can use a range of tools and systems to accomplish that mission. When it comes to our body, some important procedures can be incorporated into More » |
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| IT |
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 | AN EMERGING TECHNOLOGY FOR AN EMERGING MARKET A 'Digital Printing Overview' by Chris Lake xlhr Middle East FZ-LLC.Digital printing is the process whereby electronic files are printed directly onto a final substrate via a laser head. Electronically driven, every copy produced can be completely More » |
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 | Exchange Server 2010: What's New and What's Changed? AbstractMicrosoft's Exchange Server 2010 makes substantial strides to provide a robust and reliable approach to the messaging environment. Users will see gains in the speed at which messages flow through the system, as well as substantial improvement More » |
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| Leadership |
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 | Where have all the leaders gone? Makers of horror films have known for some time that the imagination is more powerful than reality. They rely on it. How many times have you been transfixed in the cinema, scared out of your wits by some unseen monster or villain? More » |
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| Marketing |
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 | Restoring B2B Customers’ Confidence: The recession is perhaps hardest on business-to-business companies. Here’s how they can ride it out. A GMJ Q&A with William J. McEwen, author of Married to the Brand (Gallup Press, November 2005)This is a rough time to be a business-to-business company. When a home improvement store has trouble selling new lawn mowers, it can fall back on More » |
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| Project Management |
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 | Professional Development: Part 2: A Project Management Perspective This is Part 2 of a two articles series: the first article was about professional development in general. This second article would focus on options and choices for the project management community.In the first article, we wanted to start a debate More » |
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| Sales |
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 | A NEW KIND OF SELLING FOR A CHANGING WORLD Hands up everyone who remembers the days when Sales was all about Features and Benefits! The salesman would sit with the customer, describe the facets of his product or service, lay out the reasons why the customer should buy and then move on to the More » |
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 | Effective selling (rather than the busy fools approach) I am sure that we have all (on many occasions) found ourselves in a meeting with a salesperson who has been very busy telling us all about the wonderful products and services which they can offer, but for which we perceive absolutely no need, and More » |
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| Self Development |
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 | NLP & Hypnosis for Public Speaking Power I used to suffer from social phobia, inferiority complex, self-limiting beliefs, inhibitions and of course, be totally terrified of public speaking - now it's natural and fun.Dry mouth, fast heart, sweaty palms, blank mind - yeah I've been there! More » |
