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1). 7 Common-Sense Tips for Managing People
Copyright 2006 Colleen Kettenhofen
“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.” Albert Schweitzer
1.You set the standard: Work as hard, or harder, than your employees. Be a role model when managing people. Strive to know more than your best employee (or best sales rep) about your product line, industry, and their jobs.
2). 7 Strategies I Learned from Self-Made Millionaires: About Achieving Personal & Professional Success
Copyright 2006 Colleen Kettenhofen
“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.” Albert Einstein
After attending a seminar in Las Vegas this past weekend on achieving personal and professional success, I walked away with a plethora of time-tested tools that can be applied immediately. Many of the presenters were "self-made" millionaires, as I'm not talking about someone who inherited it or married into it.
3). 7 Timeless Secrets for Success
Copyright 2006 Colleen Kettenhofen
“If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, then you are an excellent leader.” Dolly Parton
1. When you love what you do, it’s not work, it energizes you. Whether you want to start a business, or achieve overall greater business success, you must start with a burning desire.
4). Dealing with Difficult Employees: 9 Facts You Must Document And Why
Copyright 2006 Colleen Kettenhofen
“As far as the courts are concerned, if it isn’t written down it’s as if it didn’t happen.” Colleen Kettenhofen
Many managers and supervisors in my leadership training workshops come up to me privately regretting that they did not document a particular incident with an employee. A lot of times they report to me that as time went on, the difficult employee only got worse.
5). Dealing with Difficult People: 27 Secrets & Strategies You Can Apply Today
Copyright 2006 Colleen Kettenhofen
“No one can get your goat if they don’t know where it’s tied up.” Zig Ziglar
1. Listen more effectively. Listening is the number one tool in communication, especially when dealing with difficult people.
2. Step back and analyze the situation from an outside perspective. When we are less emotionally involved and “cool our jets,” the answers come for how to effectively deal with them.
6). Difficult People: Dealing with Difficult People 101
Copyright 2006 Colleen Kettenhofen
”An overburdened overstretched executive is the best executive, because he or she doesn’t have the time to meddle, to deal in trivia, to bother people.” Jack Welch
Dealing with difficult people can make your life and your job miserable. Beyond a point, you cannot control difficult people. You can only control how you react to them.
7). Effective Leadership: A 22 Question Leadership Test
Copyright 2006 Colleen Kettenhofen
“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” John Wooden
There’s a big difference between just being a team leader, and leading so that people will willingly want to follow you. The real leadership test is influence. For example, what if you were employed with a volunteer organization, and your.
8). How Cancer Changed My Life and How It Can Change Yours
Copyright 2006 Colleen Kettenhofen
“Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.” Rabbi Harold Kushner
As a cancer survivor, and in speaking to audiences worldwide, people often ask me, “How did you get into the speaking business? And, “Tell me about your cancer.” The answer is simple. On May 2, 1991, I experienced a wake-up call that would forever change my life.
9). Making Meetings Work: 9 Tips
Copyright 2006 Colleen Kettenhofen
“I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.” E.V. Lucas
1. Have an agenda. Start out with an agenda handed out to the appropriate people at least 72 hours in advance, listing time, date, and place of meeting.
2. Set ground rules. Let everyone know at the beginning of the meeting that you specifically plan to stick with the allotted time frames and topics in the agenda.
10). Miracles Happen: A Miracle Story about Adversity, Fate and Joy
Copyright 2006 Colleen Kettenhofen
Miracles happen. This is a miracle story about what happens when we look for the lesson in every situation. After all, business and personal success is about attitude, overcoming adversity, and successfully managing change as well.
It was Easter, March 31, 2002 and I was on a hiking vacation with my husband in a California desert near where we lived.
11). Presentation Skills: Knowing Your Audience
Copyright 2006 Colleen Kettenhofen
“With presentation skills, the work is in the preparation, the fun is in the presentation.” Colleen Kettenhofen
To improve presentation skills, allow plenty of time, if at all possible, to find out exactly who will be in your audience. Consider obtaining some of their names, phone numbers and email addresses so you can do a “survey” or interview to find out more about their needs, challenges and expectations before the day you present.
12). Public Speaking: 10 Tips to Improve Public Speaking Skills
Copyright 2006 Colleen Kettenhofen
When I ask my audiences their number one challenge with public speaking, they overwhelmingly say, “to overcome the fear of public speaking.” It's okay to have "butterflies.” The key is how to get them organized, focused and flying in formation. Here are 10 tips for delivering a more powerful, persuasive presentation.
13). Public Speaking: 3 Rules for PowerPoint Slides
Copyright 2006 Colleen Kettenhofen
1. Bullets and phrases: When I conduct public speaking training, I always remind my audience to keep their PowerPoint slides easy to read. Pretend you're on the interstate where someone could read the information driving 55 miles per hour. Bullets work best as they are easier to read than sentences. Also, you are less likely to read the slides this way.
14). When Teams Don't Work: 10 Major Reasons
Copyright 2006 Colleen Kettenhofen
"Ability is what you are capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it." Lou Holtz
There are a number of reasons why teams fail, and why there is a lack of productivity or accountability within various teams in the workplace. In conducting leadership and team building programs worldwide over the last ten years, I hear almost day in and day out the main reasons why teams aren't more productive.
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