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I always enjoy receiving cards with heartfelt message. Today, I finally managed to take a breather and want to send ecards to my loved ones, to let them know I care.  I love the meaningful messages and often feel uplifted when I see them. If you don't have time for anything, at least make time for this. Drop someone a note, to show you appreciate or care for them.

Words laced with grace and love, is always well-received. It dawned on me that no matter what, it is important for us to speak with gentless and show we care. No one cares how much you know, until he / she knows how much you care.

Connecting people through the words of God through encouragement. How sweet.

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What if you could have a career makeover in just half a day?

How much time are you willing to invest into your career? Chances are, you have already invested a lot into your career. Everyday, you are expending time, energy and effort to make your career work.

What if you could have a career makeover in just half a day? Now you can!

This specially designed half-day seminar to get you started on your career makeover. At this seminar, you will:

• Discover your personalized inventory of career strengths and how you can build upon them

• Gain fresh new perspectives on your career pathways

• Learn new strategies for achieving work-life balance and fulfilling your dreams

Differentiating A Good Coach from a Mediocre One

If you are a female boss, have you throught of ways to coach your staffs? Although the following article is targeted on sales folks, however, therein lies essence of what differentiates a good coach from a leader who simply instructs.

A good sales leader coaches, while a poor sales leader simply directs. Most people who desire success focus almost entirely on themselves, not others. However, this is not the way to be truly successful. As a sales leader, team work is paramount and coaching, becomes a rewarding calling. Certainly, it takes work and may not have immediate returns. Yet in the long run, you get to build up a dream team, exceeding your group target beyond your wildest dreams. How do you develop sales coaching? This article seeks to demystify the area of sales coaching in 3 simple steps.


1. Getting your team members to articulate

A seasoned sales man knows how to ask the right questions to his customers. Similarly, a good sales leader coach must ask his team the right questions and get them to answer. This is truly a powerful tool as the personal articulation creates a self- realization. A good sales coach helps others learn how to analyze their own performance, take responsibility for their own development, find their own answers and gain the team members' commitment to doing it.

2. Focusing only on one priority at a time

Most of us are highly ambitious and seek to accomplish a lot at a time. Perhaps in a bid for time, we often rush through the motion. However, to engage your team and for them to be able to give issues the focus they require to accelerate change, one should not have too much on the agenda. The team member has to learn the ropes and take time to internalise the good habits. Research has shown that simple repetitive tasks require a timeframe of approximately 21 days to condition!

3. Separating evaluation from development

Your team member may feel threaten if they feel that they are being appraised when you are trying to coach them. There is a time and place for everything, thus try to separate the development and evaluation aspect. In fact, some staffs that correctly identify areas to develop may be evaluated more positively. It is good for you to have a list of your team members, with their names, greatest strength, areas to develop and resources to share clearly tabulated in a list. This will allow you to picture your dream team clearly!

When these things are in place, sales coaching become your most powerful tool in achieving results and will far surpass a directive approach. The foundation is then built on trust and strengthening relationship. When coaching your sales staff, you are better able to gain an understanding of the areas where one is stuck and can broaden their perspectives, based on your experience and help to formulate a solution for their obstacles. Sales coaching require affirmation, time and effort. However, this is resources well-invested, and this will help you, as a person to develop lasting qualities for life.

Women Here Doing Better in Workforce

Women Here Doing Better in Workforce

by Pamela Chow(MyPaper March 3,2010)

MANAGING director Joni Ong, 49, is feeling upbeat about her finances, her independence and, indeed, about her place as a woman in Singapore's working world.As a young graduate, she had ambitions of climbing the corporate ladder but, at 27, her plans took a back seat after she and her husband started their family.Eight months after giving birth, she went on to take her master's degree in Education and continued to make progress in the field of human resource.

"Women are very much a presence to be reckoned with... We've always been able to make decisions for ourselves," she said.She continues to feels positive about the economy, even in the wake of the financial crisis, and recently started a training consultancy."This is the year to start... It's time to move forward," she said.Ms Ong is just one example of a Singapore woman who feels she's on solid ground, just a year after the global economic meltdown.The MasterCard Worldwide Index of Women's Advancement 2010, a biannual survey that measures consumer confidence amid prevailing market expectations, studied a total of 3,306 women and 3,316 men in the region.The survey compiles an index to compare whether expectations of economic performance favour men or women.A figure of 100 indicates equality between the sexes.Numbers less than that mean that expectations favour men, while numbers higher than 100 indicate that expectations favour women.

The index, which surveyed 200 women and 200 men in Singapore, shows that:

* Women here form 51.3 per cent of the labour force, up from 51.1 per cent last year.
* Women's regular income has also improved against men's, doubling from 34.9 to 68.9 index points, from the first to second half of last year.
* Singapore women's expectations of future economic performance have also gone up, from 31.4 index points to 86.5 over the same period.
* More women are also taking charge in the household.
* Throughout the region, an estimated 66.5 per cent of women are taking on the role of decision-makers, up from 45.6 per cent last year.

Women continue to make strides in labour-force participation and tertiary- education enrolment, and we are glad to see this translating into a greater sense of self-worth," Ms Georgette Tan, MasterCard's vice-president of communications for the Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa, said in a statement.

The survey also received responses from people in Australia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, India, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.

Be a Star Performer at Work with Minimal Effort

Be a Star Performer at Work with Minimal Effort


"What's the big secret? What really separates star workers from average performers?" you ask. How will you like to be a star performer without much effort? The article below is written with the simple objective of directing you to the blueprint for success in both your work and life, with minimal effort required.

Now start unveiling that star performer within you, as you equip yourself with the strategies for success.

1. Network

Networking is more than a stack of business cards. It involves identifying contacts and relationships with others who have similar interests, ideas and goals. The purpose is to draw benefit from these relationships. It is important not to have a misconception that networking manipulates people. Instead think of it as synergy, because networking benefits are usually of value to all the parties involved.

Be proactive in getting direct and immediate access to coworkers with technical expertise and sharing your own knowledge with those who need it. The goal is to minimize the knowledge deficit that is inherent in every brain powered job.

The first trick to being a star performer is to know where to get help. By knowing where to get help when you need, you are able to do things faster and more easily. Star performers may not know everything. However, they are people who know where to go for the cooperation, support and expertise they need to do their jobs. Furthermore, they are able to recognize the places where their own knowledge and expertise can contribute to team results.

2. Perspective

Getting the big picture and knowing how you fit into the organization is essential for a star performer like you. Having such a perspective allows you to see a project or a problem in a larger context and through the eyes of the other stakeholders.

By putting yourself in other peoples' shoes, you are able to evaluate the relative importance of various viewpoints. Thus, by being a star performer with a perspective, it gives you an edge by allowing you to pre-empt what other stakeholders will require. This minimizes your effort in doing a task repeatedly and reflects positively on you for having taken the initiative.

3. Self-management

To become your best self - a star, a great leader, a fulfilled worker - you need to know yourself and your goals very well. Take some time to think through what you really desire in life.

No one else but yourself is responsible for your career development. If you feel that you require certain courses to improve your expertise and be better able to handle your work scope, highlight this to your Human Resource department. The onus is on you to convince them of the benefits this will bring to them as you are more equipped to handle the job.

By planning ahead and knowing what is required of you and your job, you are able to minimize your effort in redoing things. Do practice to perform a task so well that you would only have to do it once.

"There is no better time than now." - Start being a Star Performer Today

Star performance on a work-place team follows the same principles as star performance on an athletic team. A talented quarterback on a football team will get nowhere without knowing who is good at running for short yardage, who is good at receiving a long pass, and who is good at the sweeping end run. He also needs to know who will protect him against a rushing offense.

The traits that make stars different from everyone else are the strategies they use to do their own work and to work well with other people. By learning what others have done right, the effort that is required of you is also now minimized.

Exercise:

Take some time today to ask yourself, "Are you well- equipped to be a star performer?"

1. Are you able to get help from others when you need them?


2. Do you often get caught up with the minute details instead of the big picture?


3. What are your goals in life? Is your current skillset aligned with them?

Awake the star potential within you, with minimal effort required. Note that this is also applicable to entrepreneurs as you can excel in your own business too!