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Management Library: Articles & Resources for Business and Personal Development


 
 Training (USA Today)

Personal Improvement  

       
Firms put more value on finding, training managers
Service training gets emphasis  
Female managers get less respect  
Online courses the rage in corporate training
New bosses should develop management skills
 
The Saboteur Within: Why You Don't Have What You Really Want  
Cider House Writing 
Harness Your Mind to Create Prosperity 
Go Around the Mule
Put Your Hound Dog Out of His Misery! Don't Read This Article
 
Articles by Charlie Cook Articles by Chris Widener

7 Steps to Websites That Sell  

Are You Marketing to your Potential?
10 Ways To Build Trust and Build Your Business
Marketing Smarter To Earn More  
Let Your Mistakes Improve Your Marketing and Your Profits
Overcoming Your Biggest Marketing Obstacle
Got MeMe? How to Attract Your Clients' and Customers' Attention
Are Your Marketing With A Deaf Ear?  
How Important Is Your Marketing Message?

Improving Lead Generating and Conversion Rates.
How To Keep Your Marketing Strategy and Sales On Course
What's The Most Powerful Way To Attract New Clients?
Marketing Tricks Or Treats
Why Don't You Have Ten Times As Many Clients? You Could!

 


Finding Motivation: What To Do When You Don't Feel Like Doing Anything 
Getting Over Fear and On with Your Life 
Seven Character Traits of Successful People
Top Six Ways to Stay Motivated

Seven Deadly Roadblock to Success  
The Formula for Failure and Success  
The Winning Edge  
Business/Change Management    Project Management  

Managing Change
Building A Company Culture that Serves
How Does Singapore Airlines Fly So High
Making Your Suggestion Scheme Make Sense
Partnership Power
What to Do When Your Customer is Ready to EXPLODE
How to Reverse a "Slump" in Business -- FAST!

Change: It's Not What It Used To Be 
 
Five Drivers of Change 
 
Strategies For Leading Through Change
Thrive On Shift & Change

 


Automated Software Testing
Time to Negotiate Task Switching Time
Improve or Reengineer Your Process?
Project Management Glossary 
Steer Your Project to Success
USA Today
Managing a Crisis Situation Takes Advanced Planning
USA Today
 
 Communication Skills           Sales & Marketing      

Secrets of Impromptu Presentations
A Short Guide to Effective Public Speaking
 
5 Ways Leaders Can Communicate Change
Improve Your Results With Active Listening
3 Ways to Create Transformation in Organizations
Effective Communication: Here's How

How to Increase the Response you get
From Your Lead Generating Ads

Complaining Customers are Good for Business
How to Increase your Profits with an "Upselling Offer"
Don't Overlook Your Most Profitable Source of Business
How to Overcome the Four Reasons People Don't Buy From You
Who are You and Why Should I Care?
Are you Using all 7 of these Highly Effective Marketing Techniques?
Customers Are Prospects Too
Target Marketing Strategy
How to Create Successful Advertising Copy
12 Sure-Fire Steps To Improve Your Retail Sales
Creating a Culture of Sales and Relationship Management Leadership

 

 Customer Service      Technology    

Customer Satisfaction Measurement
Help Desk Hiring Tips
In Challenging Times, Service Matters Most!
Internal Partnering in Support of Frontline Customer Contact
Service Encounters of the Third Kind
The Customer Service Manager's Challenge
When Service Goes Wrong Bounce Back
What's Love Got to do With It?
 
5 Commandments of Customer Communication
Get a Head Start on Customer Relationship Management
Get a Head Start on Performance Management System
How to Make Sure Your Customer Never Says No
Seven Principles Guaranteed to Produce Raving Fans
5 Biggest Customer Service Blunders of All Time
When Customer Service Fails

 


Don't Let Your Systems Drive Your Customers Crazy
Nurturing Technology
Glossary of Computerized System and Software Development Terminology 
 Diversity      Time Management

Diversity Means Business
Diversity Definitions Vary by Company
USA Today
Ten Tips for Fostering Diversity in Your Organization USA Today
Lack of Diversity Sometimes Creates Isolating Workplace USA Today

Articles by
Don Clark

Managing Multiple Priorities
More Time
Easing E-Mail
Five Ways Not to Get Promoted
Getting Out of Balance
How to Make a New Years Resolution Stick
The Big Hole in Your Day
The Blocks to Employees' Productivity
Time Management Horse Sense
Control the Free-Fall
"Neat Networking"
Systematize Simplify
Planning Principles
Delegate It!
Work Rules  
Defeating Delays  
Some Time Savers  
Daily Planning  
Just Say "No"  
Stop Wasting Time

 

 E-Learning          

ASTD's Glossary of E-learning Terms
This glossary is updated periodically and reviewed by a panel of e-learning experts.

 

 

Leadership   Training & Development          

Shadow Work

Are Leaders Born or Made?
Extraordinary Leadership
Lessons in Leadership: The Business of Busy-ness
Lessons in Survival: A Critical Leadership Skill

Is it Ok to Learn on the Job
Trends in Training
Structures for Training Departments
10 Great Reasons to Use a Conference Game
10 Innovative Ideas for Successful Team Building Events
10 Keys to a Successful Management Retreat
10 Tips for Training an International Audience
10 Tips to Make Your Corporate Conference More Successful
10 Ways to Leverage your Professional Speaker
10 Ways to Maximize the Impact of Training
Distance Learning Primer
How to Make Active Learning Come Alive!
 

 

Finance & Accounting         Miscellaneous Articles  

Accounting's Role in Business Decisions
Business Finance & Financing Decisions
Is Invoice Factoring Right For Your Business?

 


Authenticity and Originality
Is That Your Final Answer?
The 11th Commandment
Women's New Workplace... 
 Human Resources             Not-For-Profit

Time for a Tune-up? A Human Resources Audit Can Save You Time and Money
Hiring Right
How to Harness the Power of Praise
It Pays to Help New Staff Start Right
Effective Human Resource Outsourcing Solutions
How Employers Lose Their Best PeopleMeasuring the Return on Investment of the Human Resource Function
Success in Deploying Performance Measurement Software
What is People Management

 


Before Your Not-for-Profit Hires a Fund Development Director
Merger: Only one of the Many Partnership Options That Exist for Not-for-Profit Organizations Today
The Keys to Sustainability and Survival of Not-for-Profit Organizations
 Management Skills  Dr. Jill Ammon-Wexler  

Why Does A Coach Need A Heart
A Case Study In Stupidity
How to Cash in on the New International Currency
Line up Your Thoughts, Feelings and Energies in Order to Accomplish Your Goals 
Seeing Problems in a New Way
Taking Care of Yourself
Ten Thousand Failures
The Blessing in Adversity
Are you Ready to be a Manager
USA Today
Negative Employees Costing Companies Money
USA Today

 


The Source of your Mystery Moods
The Unusual Power of Emotions
Double Your Brain Power
The ZEN of Action
Get Lasting Personal Change
Did you have a Tough Childhood?

 

 

 Organizational Development   

Using the Organizational Culture Inventory...
Organization Development Overview
Managing Change
How Will Your Business Respond to the Challenge of Change?
Workplace Intelligence...