Posts Tagged ‘people’

How to Improve Your Rapport Development

There are plenty of great people in the world—honest, reliable, and considerate—who frequently fail in developing friendships and relationships with the people around them. If you haven’t got good social skills and body language or confidence around others, you may fall into this category.

If that’s the case, then what you could be missing is the ability to develop rapport. If you don’t know what that is, rapport is:
a close… » Continue

March 17 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: Friends, people, rapport, social | 12 comments»

How to Lead People for Results

In a recent conversation I was told, “Leadership is about managing time and getting things done.” I couldn’t disagree more.

In my role at the Free Articulator, I manage and lead writers and editors every day. It has been said in the past that trying to manage artists (and all of our writers are) is a very difficult task. I can’t honestly disagree with that. The following is a recount… » Continue

February 27 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: leadership, people, relationship, team | 15 comments»

T.H.U.M.P. - 5 Ways to Deal with Irresponsible People

Yep, we’ve all been there. Whether it’s a co-worker, a family member, or even a close friend, we’ve all had to deal with people whose stark irresponsibility causes anger, annoyance, and even chaos everywhere they go.

These individuals are constantly late, they don’t follow instructions, they miss appointments, they forget to call, they make drastically uninformed decisions, and they just generally create negativity and angst for the rest of us.

Here… » Continue

February 11 2008 | By Aaron | Tagged: chaos, Communication, irresponsibility, people, planning, relationship | 20 comments»

How Do You Stop Comparing Yourself With Others?

Competition is a big part of human nature. For some more than others. It’s in our nature to compare and judge.

Everyone has their own gauge for success that has usually been conditioned by various factors; school, work, TV etc. However, it doesn’t have to be this way and Brian Kim understands this when he writes, “Don’t think hierarchy, Think journey”.

If you keep focusing on everyone else’s journey, you’re… » Continue

October 24 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: people, success | 1 comment»

5 Ways To Better Manage Your Virtual Team

At times managing a team project via the internet can be difficult. What kinds of things do you focus on and what do you sacrifice?

These five tips to managing a group of people working on a project could put you on the right path.

Personalize your creative brief. I’ll be honest, I don’t know what the common industry practice is around the use of creative briefs. But in my… » Continue

August 31 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: people, team | 2 comments»

How To Apologize Sincerely

If you live in Australia, the term “Sorry” has some special meaning, politically. However, everyone could stand to take a step back and look at the way they treat the people they know. It has to do with compassion, and so does this nice ‘how-to’ for apologizing when you should.

Focus on the things you can control. Apologies should never, ever take the form of “I’m sorry you aren’t happy… » Continue

August 1 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: people | 2 comments»

How To Detect BS

I’m not really sure if ‘BS’ is considered bad language on the web, but I like to keep things a little clean over here. BS stands for bullshit, and it’s a good idea to work on detecting when you’re around it.

Everyone lies: it’s just a question of how, when and why. From the relationship saving “yes, you do look thin in those pants” to the improbable “your table will… » Continue

August 1 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: people | 4 comments»

The Two F-Words You Should Love

Make Failure and Frustration Your Friends: A History Lesson

We all experience failure and the subsequent frustration. But how you handle those tormentors makes all the difference in your final outcomes. Oftentimes the peak of frustration comes right before a major breakthrough. That’s if you don’t quit. So don’t quit! Instead use the energy behind that frustration to break through to a new level of strategy. Make failure the friend… » Continue

June 27 2007 | By K. | Tagged: failure, famous, frustration, people | 22 comments»

How to Deal with a Nightmare Boss

The Nightmare Boss

“Nightmare bosses” can take on many forms, but 6 major categories come to mind: the Demanding Boss, the Bully Boss, and the Disorganized Boss, the Clueless Boss, the Know-It-All Boss, and the Poor-Communicator Boss. I’m sure there are others and often several of these traits can be found in your boss. A bad boss can have advantages if you use the situation as an opportunity rather… » Continue

June 5 2007 | By K. | Tagged: boss, career, difficult, goals, people, success | 2 comments»

Dealing With Negative People

Draining, anti-productive negative people. It may be someone who is always complaining about something, or attacking you personally; there is much to gain by correctly handling these people.

Catherine Pratt has written about 9 ways to deal with a negative person. The key, in my opinion, is becoming detached emotionally and looking at things objectively. Is this worth my time or energy? Can I make something positive out of… » Continue

May 22 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: people, personaldevelopment, personality, social, socializing | 2 comments»

Read People! A How To

LifeTrainingOnline put together a rather comprehensive document on reading people and their body language. It’s a three parter that first introduces the principles to being able to be aware what people are saying without words, then through techniques of people-reading and then finally detecting deception.
Preparing Yourself to Read People

The key to effectively reading people is by being completely objective - having an empty cup so to speak. Overcoming our… » Continue

March 1 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: eye, lie, people, perception | no comments»

Helping People Who Can’t Be Helped

Have a friend who is always complaining about something but can never seem to make any positive changes? We’ve all been in positions with the kind of person, whether it be a friend or co-worker, that needs help but won’t let anything get through.

Alvin Soon knows how you feel and gives a few pointers on how to single out these people and step them in the right direction of… » Continue

February 5 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: help, helpfulness, people | 1 comment»

The Role of the Manager

I have long considered management to be a calling. In my view, to call management a job, position, or title is completely missing the mark.

I believe that the truly great managers of the world have answered their calling to bring the very best out in people, maximizing their potential. They count their successes in counting the people who thrive working with them —not for them, but with them in the… » Continue

November 9 2006 | By Rosa | Tagged: managers, mission, people, place, role, strengths, vision | 10 comments»

Opening Your Mind

There’s a common saying that human beings were given two ears (and two eyes), but only one mouth to show that they should listen (and look) at least twice as much as they speak. I think that for managers and leaders that ratio is far too low. Looking and listening should happen maybe ten or more times for every time you open your mouth to make some pronouncement or decision… » Continue

August 21 2006 | By Adrian | Tagged: achievement, attention, attitude, habit, information, knowledge, leadership, listening, looking, Management, office-politics, organization, people, performance, questions, slow-leadership, success, work, work-life, working, worklife | 2 comments»

POP² Management

Remember “management by objective?”

In the early years of my own management career, management by objective was the single-minded battle cry for business. It was a time when we took certain things for granted, like the hard work ethic of our staff; with few exceptions, dependability and reliability was pretty much a workplace-entry given.

Little wonder that most of our efforts were directed toward process improvement, with the Total Quality Management movement… » Continue

August 10 2006 | By Rosa | Tagged: acronyms, focus, objective, people, POP², process, purpose, strategy | 8 comments»