Relations With Colleagues & Supervisors

How to Practice The Top 10 Rules of Work Relationships

By Althea DeBrule

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The CBS Late Show with David Letterman is famous for its Top Ten lists. These inventories take current provoking or controversial subjects and treat them with sarcasm, humor or comedy. They can be very entertaining. This article offers its own ... more »

How to Protect Your Career from Recognition Thieves

By Althea DeBrule

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All people want to be recognized and praised for their accomplishments. It makes us feel significant and unique, and motivates us to achieve. However, recognition thieves rob us of the proper credit and worm their way into the spotlight by ... more »

How to Prove Your Boss Wrong and Keep Your Job

By Matt

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Have you ever dealt with a boss who couldn't find his posterior with a map and flashlight but arrogant enough to pretend he knows what he's doing? Read on to learn how to prove your boss wrong--and keep your job... more »

How to Raise Money Within a Nonprofit Organization

By Camille Platt

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Nonprofit organizations often run on a small budget with an even smaller staff. While some funding comes from grants and solicited donations, you can substantially offset your budget with contributions from both employees and members--if you know ... more »

How to Recognize and Stop Gossip

By Lindah

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Have you been the victim of gossip. Have you been one to gossip. Gossip can be very damaging and cause undo stress. This article will show you how to stop the gossip about you or others... more »

How to Send Marketing Material to a Potential Client

By CelesteHarrison

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You might meet someone socially who asks for your company’s Web address to pass along to a colleague. Or say a friend tells you he has an acquaintance that could use someone just like you for a job. When situations like these arise, how do you ... more »

How to Solve a Problem in 3 Easy Steps

By Althea DeBrule

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Throughout your lifetime, you will experience a problem or two. Here is a helpful three-step process you can use to tackle problems which might otherwise seem huge, overwhelming and excessively complex... more »

How to spot a Gold or SJ personality type

By BarryWaite

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The Gold or SJ personality is the most prevalent of all types with about 46% of the adult population professing to be this type. This article will give you tips on how to uncover these golden personalities at work, home and play... more »

How to Successfully Facilitate a Conference Call

By Althea DeBrule

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The new wave for group communications is the conference call. This type of meeting allows all participants to interact from the comfort of their own surroundings by telephone and or video. But the conference call is still a meeting and thus ... more »

How to Survive a Company Christmas Party

By Ang1216Red

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Does the thought of celebrating the holidays with your co-workers during a planned company event make you want to claw your eyes out? Don’t worry, you can put up with it for a few hours... more »

How to Understand The People You Work With

By Lindah

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There is a myth that circulates in corporate America that seems to cause us to have problems working well together. It is simply stated, "My way or no way". This article is to help you understand those you work with so we can all get ... more »

How to Use Work Experience to Maximize Career Success

By Althea DeBrule

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Research indicates that we retain only 10% of what we hear; 20% of what we see; 65% of what we hear and see; but 90% of what we hear, see, and do. Every day at work we demonstrate what we hear, see and do when we use a combination of our ... more »

How to Win an Argument

By Ruby Bayan

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We get into arguments everyday--with relatives, friends, classmates, coworkers and sometimes even with strangers. Although winning every argument is highly unlikely, you can up your odds of not losing by employing these simple tactics... more »

How to Work Effectively With Men

By Sarah Wilson, CCRP

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Male oriented jobs are not new to women, especially if you are in a corporate leadership role. The problem is women are typically outnumbered and men try to run roughshod over them. In a management training program that focused on the teachings ... more »

How to Work for a Jerk

By Tena Green

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It is an unfortunate fact that all bosses aren’t easy to get along with. There are some real jerks in places of power and some of us must deal with them on a daily basis. If you are one of the poor souls who works for a jerk, here are some steps ... more »

How to Work Successfully with Multiple Bosses

By Althea DeBrule

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One of the most popular organization structures companies use today is matrixed management. This requires that workers have multiple bosses. Although a company may save money from this management approach, worker dissatisfaction and burnout ... more »

How to Write a Letter of Resignation

By Isolde

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The honeymoon is over with that job you had to take, and now you're looking for way to say "adieu." Follow this how-to and draft a professional and appropriate resignation letter for any situation... more »

How to Write an Objective Employee Review

By sdwriter68

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Writing an objective employee review is one way to help avoid a discrimination lawsuit. Here are some tips to writing a fair review that won't get you into trouble later on... more »

How to Act Smart (even if you feel stupid)

By twocents

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Wouldn't it be nice to seem more knowledgeable about any given topic? With a little practice and these five simple rules, you'll gain the wisdom to socially navigate through a room full of pipe-smoking-elbow-patch-wearing professorial types, ... more »

How to Apologize in Business

By eHow Careers & Work Editor

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To err is human. To apologize is divine. It is important to apologize the right way, especially in business matters. A business apology is somewhat different from a personal apology, but some of the same rules apply. No matter what the mistake, a ... more »

How to Appear More Authoritative

By Lilia Scott

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Are people with inferior skills getting promoted faster than you are? There are plenty of potential explanations for this, but one is that you aren’t exuding the same level of authority as your more successful counterparts. Overall, the key is to ... more »

How to Arrange a Company Picnic

By eHow Careers & Work Editor

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Want to feel like "Julie" from The Love Boat? Try arranging a company picnic and you may get a taste of the challenging task involved in coordinating activities for a large group of people... more »

How to Avoid Information Overload

By Meredith Simonds

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You can’t know everything, so why not specialize in your areas of interest? It’s the best way to avoid information overload in a world saturated with more talk than anyone can possibly absorb. Plan your day accordingly--online, in the car, in ... more »

How to be an effective manager or supervisor.

By rjloland

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This article presents common sense principles and steps in effectively managing or supervising people. There is no magic or pure formula that will guarantee one becoming an effective manger/supervisor. Follow some basic rules and they will ... more »

How to Be an Effective Mentor

By Tom Fowler

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There are several different kinds of mentoring. One may mentor by setting an example, being a role model, or simply providing a sympathetic ear to an inexperienced younger person. In this article we will examine true mentoring – that one-on-one ... more »

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