Whether you want to negotiate with your boss for flexible work hours or resolve a conflict with a colleague, mastering negotiation skills is necessary to accomplish your goals. Strengthening your negotiation skill set gives you the ability to effectively communicate your concerns with your team members, clearly define your objectives, and reach a favorable solution …
Trust forms the primary foundation of all relationships and has significant consequences on every aspect of our personal and professional lives. Extensive research has demonstrated that building trust in your business team is vital to establishing a positive work culture, ensuring your team can effectively collaborate to accomplish shared business objectives, and encouraging them to …
It is important for everyone in your company to hone their negotiation skills, not just for sales and client negotiations but to effectively communicate with each other and resolve issues that hold up productivity. If you are trying to develop a strategy to negotiate with coworkers, keep these methods in mind. Prepare Well in Advance …
Conflicts are inevitable in virtually every workplace. These incidents present as much risk as they do opportunities for growth. Approached correctly, conflicts can be learning opportunities. Approached incorrectly, conflicts will erode team cohesion and cultivate resentment and tension in the workplace. If you have experienced workplace conflict in the past, it’s easy to see how …
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Companies seek to hire top employees for their companies. Top employees can come in a number of packages that make them the best. One of these packages is hard-working. Having a hard-working employee, or multiple, can move the company into the future on great terms and bring the workforce to a higher level. What …
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Big businesses have seen their fair share of flops in PR, sales, and marketing. Some businesses are even forced to fold because of their embarrassing mistakes. Here are some of the most famous business fails throughout history and the lessons we can learn from them. The Hamburger Mistake – Not Knowing Your Buyer In 1996, …
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Workplace conflicts arise often. It’s important to know how to handle them and to recognize the opportunities within them. It’s easy to work past a conflict and then pretend nothing ever happened, but you may be missing valuable opportunities to fine tune your employees’ communication skills and grow your business. Identify the Conflict First, you …
Workplace culture is a crucial element of any industry. Most modern employees don’t just show up to work for a paycheck – they want to be valued and see the effects of their work as part of a bigger picture. As a leader, you need to foster a positive workplace culture that resonates with your …
Many organizations (particularly smaller ones) may shy away from all-company meetings. They can be rather costly—not to mention time-consuming. You must have the space to gather your employees and the resources to ensure that they all can hear and/or see your content. Larger firms tend to have conferences that are days long, necessitating refreshments too. …
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