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- Holiday Dining Tips That Could Hamper Your Career
By: Marsha Egan | - Business dining over the holidays? The way you mind your manners could be a career builder or career buster. Never underestimate the impression you leave with proper etiquette. Or... More importantly, the misimpression you leave with improper etiquette.
This time of year, a few useful etiquette pointers might save the day. Or your career, Or at least the dinner. You may even impress your family and friends with these Seven Career Saving Business Dining Tips for the Holidays.
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Tags: Business Etiquette, Holiday Party, Office Party, Career
- Social Etiqutte Rules To Follow At An Office Party
By: Marsha Egan | - Sure, everyone loves a party. But in the business world, these seemingly innocent gatherings can be a recipe for disaster. It's critical to know the proper business etiquette during a work or business-related party.
Here are seven important areas to keep in mind:
1) Parties are a good time for distributing office gifts. If you are the boss or upper management, the office holiday party is a good time to give holiday gifts to employees. Just remember: If you want to recog ...
Tags: holiday, holiday etiquette, business parties, party, office party, Christmas gathering, work party
- Is Working Through Lunch Getting You That Promotion?
By: Marsha Egan | - I can't tell you how many coaching conversations I have had with super-achievers who think that working through their lunches and eating at their desks, routinely, is the way they will get ahead. I challenge them to "think again."
While getting the work done, accomplishing the task, achieving the goal is critical to a person's success, building relationships that will enable that success are just as, and perhaps significantly more important.
Unless you work totally alo ...
Tags: workplace etiquette, managers, leaders, workplace, career strategy, lunchbreaks
- The Value Of A Handwritten Note
By: Marsha Egan | - Do you remember the last handwritten note you received? Even more, do you remember the last handwritten note you sent?
With our technologically enhanced communications—email and voicemail, it is just so convenient to email people, or to leave one way voice messages for them, isn't it?
After all, sending a handwritten note is SO difficult... * It takes a a bit more time to write. * It costs more than email - a $.44 cent stamp. * It means a trip to the post office, ...
Tags: etiquette, business manners, appreciation
- Five Tips To Overcome The "overwhelm"
By: Marsha Egan | - "I am so overwhelmed!" "I have so much to do, I don't know where to begin!" "How am I going to get it all done?!"
These are not uncommon comments or pleas that we hear it these days. It seems that everyone's plates are full or are becoming fuller. The pressures created by these recessionary times are only adding to our frustrations. Here are some strategies to deal with these feelings of being overwhelmed:
Accept that you will never get it all done. For people of ...
Tags: overwhelmed, positive attitude, priority, acceptance, organization
- Meetings Can Make Or Break Your Career
By: Marsha Egan | - Oh, how much time do we all spend in meetings???! Some are effective; some aren't. They take time away from our abilities to do other things. Some times they're boring and wasteful. Sometimes they're not.
But one thing they all have: opportunities for you to showcase your abilities.
With all the time I've spent in meetings over the years, I've wondered how many people have considered this side of their participation in meetings. Some people sure haven't acted that ...
Tags: meetings, marsha egan, attitude, leadership, opportunities, positive attitude, motivation
- How To Get It All Done...
By: Marsha Egan | - So much to do -- so little time to do it all. I can't tell you how many times I have heard exasperated people lament that they just don't know how they will get it all done.
That's part of the problem -- if our expectation is that we are supposed to get everything done that is on our to do list, our expectations are just plain unrealistic. We have essentially failed before we have even begun.
Quite simply, we can't get it all done.
The sooner we make peac ...
Tags: time management, organization, leadership, marsha egan, priorities, overwhelm, priority setting
- How Strong Is Your Leadership Bench?
By: Marsha Egan | - Many times the coaches with the stronger benches are more successful. And with more and more talk about the need for the leaders of organizations to also be great coaches, it is interesting to consider the sports analogy of building a bench with that of planning for future leaders of your organization.
So many organizations are very sophisticated in how they control their financials and their processes. Yet the same organizations may fall down in developing one of their most import ...
Tags: leadership, leadership development, team building, organization
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