Blog entries tagged 'training'

Creating a Team

DrErica

y types and styles. Some are outgoing, friendly and express their desires openly. Others are shy, quiet, indirect, unassertive, and maybe even unaware of what they really want. Then there are those who manipulate others, create dissention, crave attention, divert others from the task at hand, or attempt to sabatoge the work of certain individuals or the entire group.

How does a group become a team, given that people join a group for different reasons, with different perso [...]

Generation Text

drsdisheroon

orary communication. 18.5 billion text messages are sent each month, and the number of text messages sent annually has exploded, growing by 250% in each of the past two years1. Experts expect the number of texts sent each month to reach 80 billion in 2008. With text messaging growing at this exponential rate, it cannot help but exert an influence on our communication strategies in the corporate and educational sectors. Generation Text is alive, well, and communicating constantl [...]

Privacy: Blogging and Online Communities

iamplatinum

hat they are posting on blogs and social networking sites, or what they are writing in email (take former Governor Spitzer as a current example).

How serious is this? It is a major concern among forward looking privacy advocates and legal professionals. Several people who have posted inappropriate materials on social networking sites have been arrested; terminated from employment; disciplined by employers, and in many more undocumented incidents people have been discriminated [...]

All I needed to know about Leadership, I learned from my Cat

SpeakerAB

e struggle of wills between the two-legged and four-legged animals, it occurred to me how often Sundae's persistence prevailed. She is laser-sharp about her goal, even relentless, in pursuing it.

The same is true in effective leadership. As the leader, your team looks to you for guidance and direction of the goal - you must be single-focused and laser-sharp clear about where and how to complete the task or mission. And, you need to be able to communicate it in a way that pe [...]

Scaring People into taking Action

iamplatinum

r any other critical socioeconomic issue. They are all scary. They all require immediate action by ALL people. Sharing the facts of global warming, child prostitution, drug and substance abuse, terrorism, disease, or identity theft is going to scare some people. Obscuring the statistics and indisputable facts, serves no one.

A couple of years ago, the Wall Street Journal devoted an entire technology section of the paper to identity theft. In the related edito [...]