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Is Your Body Language Helping Your Executive Presence?

by Lynn Dessert
Forbes Magazine

Reading time: 2 – 2 minutes No matter if you are an employee, up and coming manager, sales person, or the boss, executive presence is often a critical component in being successful. The basic approach deals with dress and personal appearance. Move to a more complex evaluation, you’ll find yourself working on the more subtle [...]

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Boss’s Lack Of Feedback Hurts In Many Ways

by Lynn Dessert

Reading time: 2 – 3 minutes Today's boss has many challenges with their employees, especially given the current shaky economic environment. Let's face it ,they are scared and the employees are on pins and needles. I spoke with Karen yesterday who works in retail. Her company trimmed back the easy fat earlier this year, eliminating [...]

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Difficult Discussion: Body Odor At Work

by Lynn Dessert
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Reading time: 2 – 3 minutes Question: There is a co-worker that just smells. I wonder when the last time they have taken a bath the body odor is so bad. I have told my boss about I do not like to work near her, but he has not done anything about it. We work [...]

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Day Dream Your Way to a Solution

by Lynn Dessert

Reading time: 2 – 3 minutes Challenging the norms of Corporate America can be a daunting task. How often have you been asked by your manager to creatively think about a problem, only to find your hands tied? Sometimes it is the company’s predefined process that gets in the way, or it just might be [...]

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The Eyes Have It!

by Beth Sears

Reading time: 4 – 6 minutes One should never underestimate the importance of nonverbal communication and how it influences how we communicate with others. Non verbal communication is defined as all intentional and non-intentional messages that are exchanged without the use of the spoken word. Of the various types of nonverbal communication, the face is [...]

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Anonymous Calls – Coward’s Way Out or Only Alternative?

by Lynn Dessert
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Reading time: 3 – 4 minutes When times get tough, more dramatic measures might be taken in the workplace. If your company does not have a “ethics” hotline, chances are someone is looking for a way to blow the whistle. Mounting stress sometimes pushes people to skirt the line of what’s right and wrong. It’s [...]

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Is it Time To Break The Rules?

by Lynn Dessert
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Reading time: 2 – 3 minutes Conservatism is getting the upper hand, and to be frank, it scares me. When things get tough, people take less risk. They look for the rules to follow and figure if they keep their head down, the next lay off might just miss them. Companies slash budgets, employee raises [...]

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Is It Time to Tweak Your Boss?

by Lynn Dessert
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Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes It is hard to find a perfect boss. Sit down and make a list with three separate columns. Title the columns: Start – Stop – Continue. Think about how your boss’s actions or behaviors might fit underneath each of these headings. For example, start suggestions are new actions which [...]

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So What…If I Am Late

by Lynn Dessert

Reading time: 2 – 3 minutes “John is always coming to the meeting late”. Sitting, having breakfast in an Indianapolis hotel, I overhear the conversation in the next booth. The tall woman dressed in a red turtle neck and black jacket is sharing her observations with the petite woman in a beige suit sitting across [...]

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Is Boss A Dirty Word?

by Lynn Dessert

Reading time: 2 – 3 minutes In today’s world of leadership books galore, it is realistic for everyone to be come a leader, and more to the point, do we want all those leaders?  If you ask ten people on the street, “what is leadership?” and you will get wide range of answers. Ask the [...]

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Mastering the Art of Self Promotion

by Lynn Dessert
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Reading time: 3 – 5 minutes Do you wonder why some people make it to top of an organization and others who have equal talent reach a plateau? There are a number of factors in determining organization and personal success; this column will focus on the art of internal promotion or selling. Some skeptics may [...]

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It’s the Whole Package!

by Beth Sears

Reading time: 3 – 4 minutes “It Goes Beyond a Degree” brings up a important considerations when we look at an individual to establish whether or not he or she will be an appropriate candidate for a position.Does he or she need a college education or work experience to succeed in the workplace, or is [...]

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Employee Ethics – Does Your Organization Pass the Test?

by Lynn Dessert

Reading time: 4 – 6 minutes Ethical conduct is a topic getting a lot of attention, especially concerning public companies. Some situations involve employees misrepresenting their educational backgrounds and accomplishments or management teams communicating inaccurate financial statements. During an online poll in May 2003, The Business Research Lab asked employees to rate the ethics of [...]

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