No matter when you do an employee review, it gives you a chance to assess your team members on an individual level. While an employee assessment process is often times looked at as an exhaustive process, it does give you a great way to be one-on-one with everyone on your team. To help you conduct…
Author: dcadmin
8 Essential Ingredients for Leadership Success
The essentials of leadership are many. We live in a fast paced and complicated economy where the quickest technology wins. Our leaders in our area need an array of skills to guide teams to both goals and objectives. Dale Carnegie Training assesses eight very important ingredients that make for success: Environmental awareness: The culture and the…
7 Traits Exhibited by a Team Player
The ability to work effectively in a team is essential to your professional growth. If this is a concern for you, then it’s time to examine what type of primary traits you should work on developing in yourself and your employees. If others see yourself as a team player, there is a good chance that…
Following Through with Your Customers
Some companies are having a very difficult time trying to overcome the obstacles presented by the challenging state of the economy. While in the past the main driver of business was through word of mouth, with a declining number in the customer base, companies need to find a new way to promote themselves. A great…
A Sure-Fire Topic to Hold Your Audience’s Attention
Dale Carnegie knew that you may possibly bore people if you talk about things and ideas, but you can hardly fail to hold their attention when you talk about people. Stories about people are what fuel the millions of conversations floating over fences in the backyards of America, and over dinner tables. And the predominating…
How to Turn Worry Into Productivity
In his book How to Stop Worrying and Start Living, Dale Carnegie tells the story of Leon Shimkin, whose business was spinning into a cycle of unproductive time and meetings. In Shimkin’s own words: “For fifteen years I spent almost half of every business day holding conferences, discussing problems. Should we do this or that—or nothing at all?…
How to Stay Flexible During Change
To truly succeed on a day-to-day basis, think of yourself as stretchable, expandable, and able to adapt to anything new. After all, who wants to view themselves as static, inflexible, and unable to adapt? Periods of change are unpredictable, and we may be asked to adapt to changes that we never anticipated. In order to…
4 Tips for Just Being Yourself on Your Next Job Interview
Job interviews can be a stressful ordeal. Before you even walk into the interview room you’ll likely be wondering if the employer will like you, if you’re wearing the right clothing, if you’ll say the right thing, or if you’ll just flub the whole thing. Most interviewees claim they did not get a job they…
6 Components to Creating an Effective Business Team
Have you ever wondered why some teams complete goals efficiently and successfully while others fail? When components are missing, a team can end up elongating a process instead of completing a task. While every team is different, you will increase your chances of building a strong team by incorporating the following 6 tips from your…
Do What’s Right and Let People Say What They Will
Early in his career Dale Carnegie discovered that although he couldn’t keep people from criticizing him unjustly, he could do something infinitely more important: He could determine whether he would let the unjust condemnation disturb him. Eleanor Roosevelt, who probably had more ardent friends and more violent enemies than any other woman who ever lived in the…