How to Be a Good Salesperson: The Key Steps to Take
Good sales reps will effectively earn the respect and the ongoing trust of their prospects. Great ones earn their loyalty, admiration, and new referrals. Good reps handle objections skillfully; great ones preemptively surface the concerns and eliminate them.
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Showing Appreciation at Work
When talking about showing appreciation at work, it is assumed that we must be talking about the employer, or the manager praising or acknowledging the employee. Though appreciation and acknowledgement is an essential aspect of management feedback and helps in maintaining a [...]
7 Tips to help you Work effectively from Home
If you are telecommuting often or have a home-based business here are some great tips that will help you remain focused and organized. Have a dedicated space to work. If you have children at home, make sure they are being taken care [...]
Feeling Stuck – Are you in a Job you would rather not be in?
Any of these statements resonates with your thoughts? Ah Monday morning, another day, another start to a week, the 9-5 that I would rather not be in! I am just not performing to the best of my abilities at work? I could [...]
Résumé Tips – for Women Re-entering Work
First thing you must know when writing your resume - It is alright if you have a conspicuous employment gap in your resume. Your resume must focus on how best you would serve the requirements for the job you aspire for. Your [...]
Healthy Lunch for a Working Mother
The family and the world needs a healthy mother. With the working mother already stressed out with taking care of the family and work, she must do her best to find time to care for herself and maintaining a healthy diet all [...]
Gen Y, Gen X and the Baby Boomers – @ Work Together
With the Millennial generation being the newcomers to the workplace, the 21st century is witnessing the coming together of these three generation at workplace. How different would it be working with different generations? Should the new Generation @ Work be treated differently [...]
What does a Working Mother want?
What does mom want on Mother’s Day? As we approach the mother’s day, you could be wondering what your mother wants or how you can make her day by gifting her what she will truly cherish. Material gifts apart, I am thinking [...]
5 Tips to help you beat the Fear of Interviews
“Thinking of the interview or the forthcoming presentations makes my hands and legs tremble, I feel nervous and cannot breathe easily.” It is not uncommon to experience fear or anxiety before an interview, but since the interview process is your gateway to [...]
Bringing Negative Emotions to Work
How do you behave at work when you bring in a bad mood from home? How do negative emotions affect your performance at work? How do you manage unfavorable feedback from your manager? Do you tend to neutralize the negative affects by [...]
Traits of Good Employers for Working Mothers
A working mother would be happier and favor an employer who offers: Paid maternity leave Part-time work options Child care options Provides networking and growth opportunities for female employees Helps with mentoring within the organization to help women up the corporate ladder [...]
The Traits of a Good Employer
According to the States Services Commission of New Zealand, a good employer is defined in the State Sector Act as 'an employer who operates a personnel policy containing provisions generally accepted as necessary for the fair and proper treatment of employees in [...]
How to act in an Emergency – Important Tips a Working Mother must know!
The recent despicable act of crime at Virginia Tech has left us all benumbed and at loss of words. Much has been said and more will said around in the columns for months and years to come, but what I want to [...]
Career Directions for the Generation Y – the Newcomers to the Workplace
Career Changes for a Millennial At present, an average American is changing jobs around 8-12 times in his/her lifetime, and 3-4 career changes to say the least. I foresee a more volatile and fluid career path for the generation millennial. If a [...]
10 Reasons why you are not in your Dream Job
"This is not what I should be doing, but there's not much I can do about it." You have not found time to give it a thought. Or you have had it in your mind but never had the courage to talk [...]
Essential Tips you must know when Negotiating Going on Part-Time Work Schedule
Many working women think about going part-time due to work-life balance issues, dependent care responsibilities or due to personal problems or preferences. Part-time work or flexible working hours possibility also offers the working mother a much-desired choice of not to opt-out of the workforce after having [...]
Generation Millennial Female @ Work
Generation Millennial (those born in the period 1976-2000, also often cited in other studies as those born between 1980-2002) females are stronger and more confident than the generation X working females as they step into the workforce this century. As would be [...]
Healthy Neighborhood Connection Helps a Working Mother
In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors. Christianity teaches us [...]
Top 5 Reasons why you want to Work Part-Time
As a working mother, what would you prefer when considering getting back in the job market -- full-time employment or working part-time? It is no dispute that working part-time brings many advantages to a working mother’s life -work balance act. Here are [...]
What do the Bosses Hate most about Employees
Now since we have classified the boss in the previous post and talking about our boss-woes is in routine, let’s see what goes on the other side of the fence. Why are you not making MY job easier? Your boss wants to [...]
Why do we Love to Hate our Bosses?
In my previous post (titled: The Female Boss – Is she Different from her Male Counterpart?) I talked about not judging a boss at all, but of course we do deal with one day in and day out, so addressing ‘boss classification’ is justifiable. [...]
The Female Boss – Is she Different from her Male Counterpart?
On Communication Men talk to give information or report. Women talk to collect information or gain rapport. Men focus on facts, reason and logic. Women focus on feelings, senses and meaning. Men thrive on competing and achieving. Women thrive on harmony and [...]
In the Quest of a Satisfying Life and Career
The quest for a satisfying life and career is universal, for all age groups and people in different cultures, almost all of us go through this important questioning stage. What could make our life more satisfying? What would make our personal life [...]
Networking Helps Women Re-entering Workforce
Some tips on effective networking: Let your friends / family / ex-coworkers know that you are active in job search Join online social networking groups as LinkedIn, Ryze Participate in job search and advice forums as Career Women's Forum which offers global [...]
Not a Smooth Road for Women Re-entering Work
UBS and Wharton have designed a program to support women who are planning on re-entering the work force, being held from Mar. 3 to Mar. 5 in Philadelphia this could be your opportunity to learn from the leaders and counselors if you [...]