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Business Blogs

22/05/2013 /

In the early days, the blogs (WEB LOG) were nothing but a form of a personal diary or journal available on the web. As the Internet evolved, so did the blog; making it a very powerful medium through which you could get your voice heard.

The book, Business Blog, freely downloadable at Bookboon.com, describes why blogs are an important business tool and how blogs can add value to any business in terms of branding, credibility, achieving goals for the company, driving targeted traffic to generate inbound leads and getting conversions in a very cheap and effective manner.business-blogs

   Bookboon provides a collection of valuable free ebooks for professionals

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How to be Happy

14/05/2013 /

In this TED talk, statistician Nic Marks, founder of the Centre for Well-Being at the UK think tank New Economics Foundation, paints a positive picture of the future where it could be possible to lead happier lives while preserving our planet, introducing the Happy Planet Index.

He also suggests five remarkable actions that each of us can do to improve wellbeing, based on research and studies:

–          Connect
–          Be Active
–          Take Notice
–          Keep Learning
–          Give

Could this be the recipe for happier (and more productive) nations without costing the Earth?

Long Emails Don’t Get Read

30/04/2013 /

According to Craig Jarrow, the author of Time Management Ninja web site, effective email communication is as much a skill as anything else. The shorter and tighter your email messages, the better chance that they will be read, understood and acted upon.

Here are 10 Reasons That Your Emails Are Too Long:

  1. You don’t know what you are trying to say Long Emails
  2. You don’t know what you are talking about
  3. Your signature is unnecessary
  4. You are writing a book
  5. You are spamming
  6. You are rambling
  7. You are forwarding a mess
  8. It shouldn’t be an email
  9. It should be multiple emails
  10. You don’t edit your emails

In today’s high-speed communication, no one wants to read overly long email messages.

So, get to the point!

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Problem solving

02/04/2013 /

Being a confident problem solver is really important to your success.

There are four basic steps in problem solving:

  • Defining the problem
  • Generating alternatives
  • Evaluating and selecting alternatives
  • implementing solutions

The Problem Solving menu, available at Mindtools.com, will help you to improve your approach to solving the problems that you and your team have to face.Image source http://goo.gl/xLdDX

3 Ways to Actually Help Your Team (and Yourself!)

07/03/2013 /

David M. Dye is President of Trailblaze, Inc and shares twenty years experience teaching, coaching, leading, and managing.

In his article he explains how a leader can be helpful to his team without solving problems for them. He provides 3 important steps:

1) Remove obstacles
2) Get them the resources they need
3) Help them think

The team members will come up with their own solution.

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The happy secret to better work

05/02/2013 /

A decade of research, proves that happiness raises nearly every business and educational outcome. Raising sales by 37%, productivity by 31%, and accurancy on tasks by 19%, as well as myriad of health and quality of life improvements.

In this fast-moving and entertaining talk, psychologist Shawn Achor, in his Ted Talk, argues that actually happiness inspires productivity.

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