Color Your World to Productivity

The color of your surroundings can effect your productivity at work.

The Latest News on Today’s Most Efficient Means of Global Communication

Perhaps the most effective way to communicate globally is also the most affordable. Web conferencing may be the solution you are looking for to economically run your business and keep in touch with your family. Your kids probably know how to manage a web conference, isn't it time you learned as well.

Managing Strategies For Telework - The Virtual Workforce

The freedom and independence of working from home for professionals can be the Christmas Wish that finally came to be. This absolute desire to Telework requires managing strategies that adapt for the virtual workforce.

Working with Foreign Cultures

Cultures differ in how they communicate, how they use their time, and how they view themselves in terms of empowerment and decision making. These differences are likely to become apparent in business sessions with people from other countries.

Workplace Communication – how to motivate all the members of your team

Have you ever wanted to gain your group’s attention but found that no-one was listening? Are some of your team less willing to follow directions than others? Perhaps they are motivated by different things. By identifying this and adjusting your language you can begin to motivate all of your team.

Audio Conferencing Technology 101

Teleconferencing is a communications service which is now being used extensively in the business world. Here's a brief explanation of how this technology works.

Communication - The Lifeblood of a Project

The communication plan-like the project plan-is a necessary part of the project. However, when thinking of the project manager's role in communication planning, organizations and project teams too often think solely of the documents that establish the frequency, roles, responsibilities, recipients, and channel for which communication will be dispersed during a project. If you don't look beyond the written word and the outline prepared in the early phases of a project, you are setting yourself up for project losses.

Say Goodbye to Why and Try

The words we use make a huge difference in manner we communicate. Why and Try are useless words. Strike them from you vocabulary and improve your relationships.

Changing Conflict To Dialogue

It is easier to create an argument than it is to create a dialogue. Dialogue is a different kind of conversation. It's a way of exploring and understanding information and ideas. When practiced, it draws on and uses the wisdom of everyone involved.

Air Conditioning, Is It Really Necessary?

No modern office building in most major cities of the world can afford to exclude summer air conditioning from their premises. Air conditioning provides the necessary environment that is conducive to good working conditions.

When Accents Attack - Overcoming Communication Problems

Working with someone who you have a hard time understanding can be a daunting task, however it is not impossible. In fact, you can be just as productive as if you were working with someone with whom you had no trouble understanding. All it takes is a little work and common sense.

Barriers to Intercultural Communication

Today's competitive global economy results in frequent cross-border movements of staff that results in a growing diversity at the workplace. As the inevitable happens between cultures, breakdowns in communication are a common occurrence. That is certainly costly to the multinational enterprise in terms of workplace relations, returns and revenues, and customer relationship. Not to mention, the firm’s competitive advantage.

Employee Performance Appraisal — An Ideal System

Creating a Link Between Company Success and Employee Accountability