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Resilience – 10 Tips (From: Big White Wall)
Discover how to bounce back from, and successfully adapt to, life’s setbacks and adversities with tips and suggestions from the American Psychological Association in this article.
Read morePositive Words
Use positive words in your letters, proposals, contracts, e-mail, and when you speak. They plant subliminal messages to the reader or listener that “no” is unacceptable and that you expect results. Positively!
Read morePlay Down Personal Style
One of the first visible images of an organization, however, are the people who represent the organization. Therefore, a well-documented and widely communicated and enforced code is essential to projecting the “right” (as determined by the organization’s leadership) corporate image. Sometimes, however, there are reactions to such documentation.
Read morePhrases That Inhibit Change & Stifle Great Ideas
The following list of phrases that inhibit change came across my desk recently. In a one-week time frame, I heard no fewer than fifteen of these statements directly relating to areas of change being considered, and of those fifteen statements, six of them were made by at least five different people multiple times.
Read morePhrases That Encourage Cooperation
These are phrases that can have a positive impact when persuading and negotiating…which is what we do any time we want someone to “buy in” to ideas and actions.
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