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140 Ways to Increase Your Personal Significance in the World

140 Ways to Increase Your Personal Significance in the World

How to Bullet-Proof Your Business and Laugh at Volcanoes, Tornadoes, Locust Plagues, and Hard Drive Crashes.

A solid contingency planning program has become a necessity, rather than a nicety, in today’s business world. Although there are several very good professional resources available for professional planners, most don’t teach you the “tricks” of the trade. This book does.

The Easy Way to Keep the Cyber Wolves at Bay

The converse of the dirty dozen are 12 best practices for project management that have been proven to help leaders steer their teams clear of avoidable disaster and as much as double the chances of project success.

Living Proof that Bending the Rules Isn’t Breaking the Law

Practical Insights for Technology Marketers
by Rick Jamison and Kathy Schmidt Jamison

Social Media Success! will be your guide to getting started in many of the top networks and building a cohesive plan to be as efficient as possible with your valuable time and resources.

Anyone can say that they’re good at what they do, but sometimes that’s not always the case. It’s easy for any person to say, “Hey, I’m the best person for the job,” especially on social media, where they can just easily type those words in their post even when it’s not true. People want to work with those they know, like, and trust, those who are authentic and fulfill their promises. So, if you really are good at what you do, how can you prove that to other people? What do you do to make people know, like, and trust you? Is your proof consistent and congruent in your campaigns?

Executives buy results, not coaching. The problem is that most leadership and executive coaches do not measure the impact of their coaching engagements. They can’t prove that their coaching is actually making a difference. They rely too heavily on coach satisfaction surveys and other methods that simply measure reaction and not change.

A Compelling Guide to Discovering Your Story

Until very recently, virtually all corporate trainers and instructional designers followed the traditional route to training–they identified their organizations’ needs and then prepared and delivered formal event-based programs that were primarily classroom or e-learning based. Several learning professionals still take this way, even though they probably realize it cannot survive much longer.

The speed of data collection, an increase in the volume and complexity of data, the pressure to be innovative and adaptable, and the need to learn and share across geographic and corporate boundaries are just a few of the factors that make managing knowledge central to any organization’s success today. Knowledge creates the capacity for effective action, and making that knowledge flow in a way that supports organizational learning is a key component, perhaps the most vital asset, for a learning organization.

The phrase communities of practice is relatively new; the concept and its utility is not. Simply put, a community of practice is a learning community. When people realize that they can benefit from sharing their knowledge, experience and insights with like-minded and similarly-motivated people, the seed for a community of practice gets planted.

Networking, Like Life, is a Process not an Event