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Risk Impact, Probability Chart
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Learning to prioritize risks - All Readers - 9th May 2008 - To implement a project successfully, you need to manage risks well. This tool gives you a framework for prioritizing risks quickly and effectively. |
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I'm Back!
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Returning to Work after an Extended Absence - Premium Members
- 7th May 2008 - Returning to work after a long absence can be challenging. Fnd out how to get back into your routine without being overwhelmed. |
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Emotional Intelligence
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Developing strong "people skills" - All Readers - 2nd May 2008 - Empathy and motivation are increasingly important in today's business world. Learn what emotional intelligence is, so you can improve, both as a leader and an individual. |
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FIRO-B
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Understanding your interpersonal needs - Premium Members
- 30th Apr 2008 - Do you have trouble getting along with someone at work? Learn about FIRO-B... and discover three key elements of good interpersonal relationships. |
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Mind Tools Newsletter 99
- Think Positively, And a Big Thank You! - All Readers - 29th Apr 2008
- In it, you can take our quiz to find out whether you're a positive or negative thinker, and we announce the winners of the prize draw for participants in our recent survey. |
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Are You a Positive or Negative Thinker?
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Learn about, and change, how you think - All Readers - 25th Apr 2008 - Positive thoughts can lead to positive outcomes and the opposite is also true. This short quiz will reveal how you think and, if you need to, help you change this. |
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Business Process Reengineering
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Using radical change to improve organizational performance - Premium Members
- 23rd Apr 2008 - When you hear "business process reengineering," do you think of 1990s downsizing? There's more to BPR than that. Learn about it, and how it's used. |
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Your Reflected Best Self
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Getting a Deeper Understanding of Your Strengths - All Readers - 18th Apr 2008 - What are you best at? Find out how to identify your strengths, and how you should make the most of them. |
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The Peter Principle
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Avoiding Promoting People to a Level of Incompetence - Premium Members
- 16th Apr 2008 - In traditional hierarchical organizations, success in one role is often rewarded with promotion to another. This approach contains a huge flaw. Find out how to avoid it. |
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Mind Tools Newsletter 98
- Make Your Ideas Count! - All Readers - 15th Apr 2008
- In it we launch the Mind Tools Survey 2008 where participants can win a $100 Amazon.com voucher, and we also look at some techniques you can use to generate new ideas. |
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Words used in Project and Program Management
- Understanding the terminology - Premium Members
- 14th Apr 2008 - Project management jargon can really be baffling! Read our helpful glossary of terms to find clear definitions. |
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Storyboarding
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Planning and checking a process as a team - All Readers
- 11th Apr 2008 - Find out how this tool from the film industry can help you think about business processes. |
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Quantitative Strategic Planning Matrix (QSPM)
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Choosing the best strategic way forward - Premium Members
- 9th Apr 2008 - Learn how to use this tool for choosing between different strategies. |
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Generating New Ideas
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Think differently and spark creativity - All Readers
- 4th Apr 2008 - Learn how to spark creativity, think differently, and generate new ideas. |
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Deming's 14-Point Philosophy
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A Recipe for Total Quality - Premium Members
- 2nd Apr 2008 - "Quality management" is a term that most of us know. Find out where the idea originated, and learn the key points. |
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Mind Tools Newsletter 97
- Pep Up Your Motivation Skills! - All Readers - 1st Apr 2008
- In it, you can take our interactive quiz to find out how good your motivation skills are, and also how to improve any weaknesses you have in this area. |
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Request for Proposal Documents
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Getting better terms with a competitive bidding process - All Readers
- 28th Mar 2008 - A well-constructed RFP helps you procure the best products or services at the lowest prices. Find out how to draft RFPs that will bring in the supply relationships you need. |
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Leavitt's Diamond
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An integrated approach to change - Premium Members
- 26th Mar 2008 - Learn about some of the things that you need to consider when you implement change. |
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How Good are Your Motivation Skills?
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Discover key factors for building a motivated team - All Readers
- 21st Mar 2008 - Motivation is not something you can just expect from your team: You have to develop it and nurture it. Take our motivation skills quiz, and identify your motivating strengths, and places that could use some improvement. |
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Promotion Selection Panels
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Creating a great impression for everyone - Premium Members
- 19th Mar 2008 - If the thought of facing a panel of interviewers sets your heart racing, relax! Learn what to expect, and how to impress many people at once. |
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Mind Tools Newsletter 96
- Get It Done: Just Two Days To Go! - All Readers - 18th Mar 2008
- In it we look at how you an learn to get done the things you need to achieve; why it makes sense to have a network of "allies" at work, and how to go about building one. |
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Finding Your Allies
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Building strong and supportive relationships at work - All Readers
- 14th Mar 2008 - Things are so much easier when people help and support one another at work. Find out how to build your own support network. |
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Why Change Can Fail
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Knowing what not to do - Premium Members
- 12th Mar 2008 - Change is complex, and knowing what NOT to do is just as important as knowing what TO do! Find out more in this article! |
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Why the Rules Are There
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Helping people understand and enforce rules - All Readers
- 7th Mar 2008 - Do you react negatively to workplace rules? Learn why you need SOME rules, and make sure the ones you have serve their purpose. |
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Surviving a Downturn
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Managing your career in an unstable economy - Premium Members
- 5th Mar 2008 - No one wants to think about a downturn. But ignoring reality won't help if things go wrong. Learn what to do now to prepare for this possibility. |
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Mind Tools Newsletter 95
- Get the Recognition You Deserve - All Readers - 4th Mar 2008
- In it, we cover some practical suggestions for encouraging your boss and your peers to give you kind of recognition you want. |
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Business Story-Telling
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Using stories to inspire - All Readers
- 29th Feb 2008 - As a leader, it's your job to motivate and inspire your team. One good way of doing this is with stories. But how do you know which stories to tell? |
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Eldred's Power Strategies
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Avoiding "tall poppy syndrome" - Premium Members
- 27th Feb 2008 - Learn how to manage or avoid the "tall poppy syndrome" that can cut promising careers short. |
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Get the Recognition You Deserve
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Learning how to get praise - All Readers
- 22nd Feb 2008 - It can be hard to work day after day, and never get a "thank you" from your boss. Learn some positive ways to get your boss's attention. |
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Building Tomorrow's Leaders
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Identifying and developing leaders in your organization - Premium Members
- 20th Feb 2008 - Learn how to spot leadership potential in the people around you, so that you can develop their skills and improve your company's performance. |
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Mind Tools Newsletter 94
- Are You Accountable to Yourself? - All Readers - 19th Feb 2008
- In it, we look at how leaders need to hold
themselves, as well as their team, accountable for their actions if they're to have
integrity and set the right example. |
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Writing a Procedure
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Making sure things are done without mistakes and omissions - All Readers
- 15th Feb 2008 - Find out how to minimize errors and reduce training time by learning to write simple and understandable procedures. |
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Toffler's Stability Zones
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Finding peace amid chaos - Premium Members
- 13th Feb 2008 - If you're stressed at work, it can help to have somewhere peaceful to rest and re-energize. Find out how to use "Stability Zones" to do this. |
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"I Swear by Apollo"
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Being accountable to yourself in leadership - All Readers
- 8th Feb 2008 - As a leader, you hold others accountable for fulfilling their responsibilities. But to what extent do you hold yourself accountable? |
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Succession Planning
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Seamlessly Transferring Key Knowledge, Skills and Abilities - Premium Members
- 6th Feb 2008 - What if one of your key people left? Find out how to avoid having a major problem. |
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Mind Tools Newsletter 93
- Are You Ready for Your Next Promotion? - All Readers - 5th Feb 2008
- In it we look at the things you need to do
to get ready for your next promotion, even if that is some years off, to make sure the right people
KNOW how good you are. |
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Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)
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Choosing by weighing up many subjective factors - All Readers - 1st Feb 2008 - Do you want be more objective
in your decisions? Discover an admittedly complex way of weighing many options and factors. |
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Keep It Simple
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Avoiding Confusion and Complexity - Premium Members
- 30th Jan 2008 - Simple is memorable. Simple is understandable. Simple gets results. Meet the challenge of making something complex into something simple. |
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Get Ready for Promotion
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Showing What You Can Do - All Readers
- 25th Jan 2008 - Do you want that
promotion? It may not be enough to simply BE the best at what you do... you need to
SHOW what you can do in the new role. |
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Benchmarking
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Comparing Your Performance with the Best - Premium Members
- 23rd Jan 2008 - How does your performance really measure up? Find out, and discover a continuous source of best practice information. |
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Mind Tools Newsletter 92
- Bring Out The Best In People! - All Readers - 22nd Jan 2008
- In it we look at how drawing up a formal performance agreement can help when one of your team persistently makes no improvement in their performance, despite your best efforts. |
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Heuristic Methods
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Using Rules of Thumb - All Readers
- 18th Jan 2008 - Quickly-available, rough
approximations have their place in problem solving and decision making. Find out when and
how to use them. |
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Hoshin Planning System
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Steering Everyone in the Right Direction - Premium Members
- 16th Jan 2008 - How can you get everyone moving towards the right destination? Hoshin Planning helps you turn strategy into reality. |
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Performance Agreements
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Increasing Personal Accountability - All Readers
- 11th Jan 2008 - Many approaches to performance
management lack follow-through and personal accountability. Find out how to bridge this gap and
improve performance. |
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Practical Innovation
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Managing Ideas Effectively - Premium Members
- 9th Jan 2008 - How do you capture
innovation? Can it be created and controlled, or does it just happen? Find
out here! |
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Mind Tools Newsletter 91
- Life Plan: One Day To Go! And Leading Equals - All Readers - 8th Jan 2008
- In it, we are discussing the article Leading Equals,
find out how do you motivate people and get the most
from the team without authority of being the boss. |
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Backward Goal-Setting
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Using Backward Planning to Set Goals - All Readers
- 4th Jan 2008 - Goal planning typically
goes from point A to B to C. But what if you start at C, and then work back toward A? Find out
why this can have a different outcome! |
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Leading Equals
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Motivating People Effectively, Without Authority - Premium Members
- 2nd Jan 2008 - If you're leading a group of your
peers and you don't have much authority, how do you motivate them? Learn some
useful strategies. |
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Mind Tools Newsletter
90 - Goal Setting: The Root Cause of Success! - All Readers - 28th Dec 2007
- In it, we published the article Root Cause Analysis,
find out how get to root of every problem. Set your
Goals for the year 2008 with the help of new a Mind Tools
product, the Life Plan Workbook. |
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Top Tools
of 2007
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Members' most popular tools of the year - Premium Members
- 28th Dec 2007 - Curious what these are? Find out here! |
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Stepladder
Technique
- Making Better Group Decisions - All Readers
- 26th Dec 2007 - You know how hard it can be for everyone
to participate and be heard in a group. Learn a simple
technique to manage people to make better decisions. |
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Root Cause Analysis
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Tracing a Problem to Its Origins -
All Readers - 21st Dec 2007 - Learn how to investigate and
solve your problems, so that you leave them behind... for
good. |
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Managing Your
Boss
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Developing an effective working relationship - Premium Members - 19th Dec 2007 -
Find out how to take the lead in building a great working
relationship with your boss. |
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Just In Time (JIT)
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Reducing Inventory, Minimizing Waste, and Responding to Your
Customers - All Readers
- 14th Dec 2007 - What if you could have what you need without
having to hold a huge inventory of parts and finished stock?
Find out about "Just In Time" manufacturing. |
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Working with Purpose
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Bringing more meaning to your career -
Premium Members - 12th Dec 2007 - If you feel that changing
jobs is the only way to bring purpose to your work, think
again. Find out how you can bring new meaning to your current
job. |
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Mind Tools Newsletter
89 - Breaking Your Glass Ceiling! - All Readers - 11th Dec 2007 - In it, we look at some practical
ways to address the issue of "glass ceilings" that
block your career. |
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The Green-Eyed
Monster
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Keeping Envy Out of the Workplace -
All Readers - 7th Dec 2007 - Envy is one of the great, silent
disruptors of good teamwork Find out what you can do to stop
it taking hold. |
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Blindspot Analysis
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Decision Making Techniques from Mind Tools - Premium Members - 5th Dec 2007 -
All of us can be susceptible to "blindspots" when
it comes to making decisions. Find out about the six most
common types of blindspots, and how to avoid them. |
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Mentoring: An
Essential Leadership Skill
- Mentoring from a Mentor's Perspective - All Readers - 5th
Dec 2007 - As a leader, you need to be able to nurture and
develop your staff. This is why mentoring is a key part of
leadership. Find out what's involved so that you can decide
whether you should embark on it. |
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Breaking the Glass
Ceiling
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Reaching for the Top with Everyday Tools -
All Readers - 30th Nov 2007 - Many of us can hit "invisible"
barriers that seem to keep us from career success. You don't
have to accept this fate. Learn how to smash through that
glass ceiling! |
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Mentoring
- A Mutually
Beneficial Partnership -
Premium Members - 28th Nov 2007 - How can a mentor help you
develop your career? And why would anyone want to be a mentor?
Find out in this article. |
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Mind Tools Newsletter
88 - Use Your Influence! - All Readers - 27th Nov 2007 - In today's newsletter we focus
on how to influence other people by better understanding where
power lies. Once you know, you'll find it easier to get your
ideas heard, and to get things done in your project or organization! |
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Kotter's 8-Step
Change Model
- Implementing change powerfully and
successfully - All Readers
- 23rd Nov 2007 - Impatience can often undermine the change
process. Learn how to prepare for change thoroughly, and implement
change powerfully and successfully. |
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Management By
Wandering Around (MBWA)
- Staying in Touch with Your Team - Premium Members - 21th Nov 2007 -
Find out what's really going in your organization. Learn MBWA,
and watch openness, trust, and creativity flourish with
your team. |
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Influence Maps
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Uncovering Where the Power Lies in Your Projects - All Readers - 16th Nov 2007 - Who
has the real power and control over your project's success?
Learn how to map relationships between key stakeholders to
find out how they affect you... so that you can accomplish
more. |
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The Triple Bottom
Line
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Measuring Your Organization's Wider Impact - Premium Members - 14th Nov 2007 -
Companies driven by profit alone can be cold, hard, unsatisfying
places to work. Find out about one approach they can use to
change this. |
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Mind Tools Newsletter
87 - Powerful Communication! - All Readers - 13th Nov 2007 - In it, we focus on communication.
Our main article, Powers of Persuasion, looks at how you can
communicate vividly, and with real impact. And we launch our
new "Communicate at Your Best" communication skills
workbook, which helps you tune up your communication skills
and communicate powerfully and effectively. |
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Product Life Cycle
- Managing Your Product to Maximize Success
- All Readers - 9th Nov 2007 - It may seem intuitive that products go through a lifecycle
from launch to withdrawal, but how should you manage the
product along the way to get the greatest return from it? |
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Making the Right
Career Move
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Choosing the Role that's Best for You -
Premium Members - 7th Nov 2007 - When you're facing a fork
in your career path, it's tough to know what to do. This article
helps you make the right choice. |
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Egos at Work
- Managing
a Co-worker's Superiority Complex -
All Readers - 2nd Nov 2007 - Do you work with people who have
big egos? Learn how to manage egotists' behavior without sinking
to their level. |
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