Time to start a new career?Written by Ingela Berger
Your career choices might need reconsideration when your career offers few opportunities to personal development and you find it hard to get out of bed in morning. Then it might be right time to consider new career choices, working at home, starting your own business or a new education. What we do in our daily life is very important. If we are to spend more than 60% of our waking time at work or travelling to or home from work, it better be a job we like. If it isn't, we are better off making new plans and new career choices for a different future, a different career. And all good changes start with planning. Do you want to work at home ? Would you like to work from your own living room, decide your own working hours, maybe work by computer? Are you looking for a way to start your own home based business?
| | 5 "Musts" For Successful Business RelationshipsWritten by Jonathan R Taylor
Whether we own our own business or work in a "sea" of other employees, we all have to deal with and relate to other people - people who often get on our nerves, don't think like us, or just aren't interesting. Theodore Roosevelt once said, "The most important single ingredient in formula of success is knowing how to get along with people." So what does this "getting along" look like? Here are 5 time-tested skills that you can cultivate to improve your relationships with customers and co-workers. 1. Listen - It is so easy, in conversation, to think about what you are going to say next or to let your mind drift to what you are going to do later in day. If you actually listen to other person with sincere interest, you will stand out as someone that is good to "do business with" because you care and are interested in solving problems of others. Above all, don't interrupt. There is nothing that says "I don't care!" more than interrupting person you are talking to. 2. See The Other Person's Perspective - "If there is any one secret of success," said Henry Ford, "it lies in ability to get other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own." Imagine what a boring world you would live in if everyone thought just like you. This doesn't mean that some ideas are not superior to others, but in dealing with other people, you must remember to take every idea into consideration and make other person feel validated. 3. Remember Names - Who doesn't like to hear sound or their own name or see their name in print? Think about that next time you visit Washington Monument or see an advertisement for a business named after founder. Dale Carnegie stated it this way, "We should be aware of magic contained in a name and realize that this single item is wholly and completely owned by person with whom we are dealing...and nobody else. The name sets individual apart; it makes him or her unique among all others. The information we are imparting or request we are making takes on a special importance when we approach situation with name of individual. From waitress to senior executive, name will work magic as we deal with others."
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