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Maximise your tele-talk power for daily business
Without a thought, we can yak away on the telephone with a friend for hours. But most of us are just as reluctant when it comes to picking up the phone and making a business call!

Yet, how long can you put off the so-called ...
Do It Right

Match skills, aspirations for a happy career
We spend more waking hours at work than anywhere else. In this context, a right job fit is important in ensuring happiness and satisfaction at work. A right fit is essential because it creates a positive feeling and attitude towards work, and ...
Finger Tips

What’s your brand identity?
Even the best of products need marketing to reach out to potential customers. Reliance, Reebok, Raymond’s are brands even children identify with. Hard work and shrewd marketing strategy went into this brand building exercise. It is not ...
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FOCUS
Provide all means to staff to grow, evolve
Quite often managers moan about under performance of employees. In the absence of systemic thinking in business, employees fail to perform to their full potential. The environment, culture, development opportunities, rewards and recognition are ...


THIS & THAT
Target right customers to build loyal customer base
No matter what industry you work in, the business of your organisation is to provide service to customers. An organisation’s success is closely linked to its customer base. The more loyal the organisation’s customers are, the greater ...
Stop being pushed around by life
A common complaint from executives is that they are stressed and have no time to tackle it.

Most of them land up in a ’Time-Stress’ spiral and moan about having less time and more stress.. Fatigue, lack of sleep, ...


HR HIGHS
Design incentives to enhance intrinsic motivation
We are used to getting incentives to do certain actions right from childhood, remember your parents telling you, “You do your homework and I will let you play (or even better) give you a big chocolate.” And parents among us repeat the ...
VIEWPOINT
Be careful of what you put online, it is there forever
You don’t even know it, but a lot of your unsavoury personal information is floating around in cyberspace. A simple click of the mouse can open up the proverbial can of worms for all to see.

So even as you read this, someone somewhere ...


In communication personal contact has no substitute
Irrespective of whether you are a large conglomerate, a small startup, or even a one-man show, effective communication- with managers, with staff, with customers- is the keystone of business success. Businesses that lack effective workplace ...
Q & A On Career Concerns

Dated September 03, 2008
Please give me the details of institutes offering BE/ B.Tech in Safety Engineering.

Shine Jose

Cochin University College of Engineering, School of Engineering, Kerala offers B.Tech in Safety and Fire Engineering. The ...



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