ALL OF US have attended team meetings that turn out to be a waste of time and money. This often happens even when considerable effort has been made to organise things and fix an agenda.
Developing Team Unity
NO ONE SHOULD underestimate the challenges involved in leading a team. In today’s global business environment, it usually means bringing together and getting the best out of people from different cultures, of different ages and with diverse academic backgrounds, aspirations, experience and financial expectations.
Persuasion and Assertion
WHY DO WE sometimes fail in our efforts to influence another person? It may be because we are not focusing our attention on the right thing. The natural tendency is to look at every situation from our own point of view. We consider first the ways we need help, believe our own recommendations are best and set agendas that cater to our personal priorities.
Handling Client Resistance
Building a Good Rapport
WE ALL KNOW the importance of building relationships with our clients as a prelude to winning business and seeing it grow. We attend seminars, read extensively and even participate in day-long training programmes on the subject. Management teams hold lengthy strategy sessions to devise better ways of ensuring long-term relationships exist, and that sales personnel develop them proactively.
Handling a Media Interview
A Checklist for Emergencies
Explain and Seek
Understanding Guiding Values
Influencing Without Authority
IN YEARS PAST, a few senior executives would make all the major business decisions and it was the responsibility of people further down the hierarchy to carry them out. Legions of corporate foot-soldiers were hired, not to think and definitely not to decide, but rather to do what they were told. It was management by decree, and such methods were used to make many a fortune and to build empires.