Articles Update
Below are summaries for and links to the articles published on Superperformance.com for the first two weeks of October.
For the benefit of those unfamiliar with Superperformance.com, it is the main website hosting this blog. A new article is posted to the site every day. Articles are related to improving and managing performance and productivity in business, career and/or personal aspects.
This blog is to provide information and resources too brief to require an entire article, and updates on new articles and other features of the site for those who don’t wish to visit daily or weekly to see what content is new, as well as for those who prefer to seek information through blogs for brevity’s sake.
The home page of the site (http://superperformance.com) is an extensive directory of all the content of the site, and the articles directory (http://superperformance.com/articles.html) has links to all the currently 1200+ articles on the site. In addition to articles, there are link directories to numerous resources, videos, screen savers for stress reduction and meditation, e-books and audio media. In progress are multiple media tutorials/seminars.
•Management/Small Business Performance:Effective Coaching – A Question of Questioning?
Three questions that form the basis of effective coaching. What they are. How to use them.
•Career Performance:Discover “Guerilla Strategies” to Land Your Dream Job
Here are four effective tactics for finding a new job in a tough economy.
•Management Performance:Building Added Value Professional Support Functions
Do you have charge of a professional support function (like HR or a Law Department or a Financial Services Division) in your organization? Does the rest of Management fully benefit from and understand the benefits of your section? Being fully utilized and appreciated by your organization is essential to maintaining and staffing your department and protecting your job. Here’s how to make sure your department’s value is seen and respected and continues to grow and thrive.
•Career Performance:Dealing with Difficult People
Here are six simple tips that summarize the essential knowledge in the field of literature on dealing with difficult people. Print out the article for a very handy personal reference that can serve you in the workplace or outside.
•Management Performance:Internal Prisons: The Thief of Productivity and Quality in our Workforce
Using real prison as a metaphor, Tony Evans explains how to create an organizational atmosphere that encourages employees to break out of self-limitations and become proactive, motivated workers.
•Management Performance:Ten Tips for Improving Telephone Customer Service
This is better than the usual business article because it gives you a very accurate picture of how your customers feel about bad service on the phone. It’s written by a pro who teaches good customer service seminars but from the point of view of her own recent run-ins with bad service. It’s an enlightening bit of a rave.
•Management Performance:Lunch Time Seminars
Hard to find time to train? Offer lunch time seminars to your employees. Here’s how to do it, why it works and what topics work well.
•Management/Small Business Performance:Creating a Culture of Leadership
In this article, you’ll learn about creating a positive organizational climate, developing leadership styles,understanding and using E.Q., motivating yourself and others — and how that all contributes to creating a culture of leadership.
•Management Performance:Using an Employee’s Input to Write a Performance Evaluation
Improve your performance evaluations and build employee trust — ask employees for input before you write their evaluations.
•Management Performance:Management: 5 Tips for Effective Management of Projects
Become better at managing projects of any size. Only 30% of projects deliver the expected results — make sure yours fall into that percentage.
•Career/Management Performance:Building Trust: Top 10 Dos and Don’ts
If you want to build trust or regain trust in the workplace or marketplace — whether as management, an employee or a small businessperson — there are a number of related behaviors you must demonstrate regularly and consistently. Here are 10 essential ones.
•Career Performance:The Likeability Factor – Do You Have It?
Sure you have great skills. Exceptional experience. Education and certification. You’re perfect for the job. But does the interviewer like you? If not, you probably won’t get in.
•Personal/Career Performance:Build Great Habits
The key to getting things done is to build the habit of getting things done. And to break the bad habits that keep you from getting things done. Here’s how.
•Personal Performance:Anger Management — 6 Tips for Facing Provocation Without Losing Your Cool
There are few people who don’t need some anger management. There are so many provocations at work and elsewhere that anyone can find himself at wit’s end. Here are some wise and practical ways to control your anger before it harms you or your employment.
•Book Review:Growing at the Speed of Change
Want to know how to thrive in changing and turbulent times? How to lead others through change? How to accept and embrace change as no more anxiety-producing than the natural change of seasons? How to seize the co-occurring opportunities of change to grow, expand and succeed? Here’s a book for you.
Below are summaries for and links to the articles published on Superperformance.com for the first two weeks of October.
For the benefit of those unfamiliar with Superperformance.com, it is the main website hosting this blog. A new article is posted to the site every day. Articles are related to improving and managing performance and [...]