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10 Essential Leadership Skills For The Modern Workplace

Allwork

How can you fairly manage a team when four of them are next to you in the office and seven others are scattered across time zones? These are tough questions for any manager, and they require modern leadership strategies that move beyond traditional training. Negotiation skills are another important component of this.

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Instilling company culture across geographic divides

Workplace Insight

Due to the wide breadth of employees in large global companies, everything from time zones and language barriers to country culture and local business norms can create sticking points. Of course, there are non-negotiables of culture that also require nuanced understanding. Highlight unique employee stories and global speakers!

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Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Today's.

Laughing all the Way to Work

I knew we were going to go back to that city the next year so negotiated with the hotel that if I booked the next event at their venue would they waive the cancellation fee. Negotiation As you saw above, negotiation is possible. Fortunately, they were able to waive it and we only lost our $500 deposit. It is always worth asking.

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What to Do When Your Client is Boring | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

See a flash of something interesting in an email and by the time they get your reply, they’ve forgotten their train of thought. Sometimes I think people are afraid to be loose even in a business phone conversation because we’ve been taught to “negotiate,&# "keep up your guard,&# don’t show your hand.&#

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An iPhone App In 30 Days – The Challenge

Brilliantly Better

Frustration Level (0 – 1oo): 45 – UIDatePicker is still a nasty thing, not to mention that working with time in Objective C is a pain in the arse. You have to subclass Calendars, Time Zones and Time Components if you want to do some fine grained date comparisons. Complicated.

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