Friday, May 3, 2013

Video: Workplace Conflict And Communication

The effects of conflict in the workplace are widespread and costly. Its prevalence, as indicated by three serious studies, shows that between a quarter and sixty percent of management time and energy is spent dealing with anger. This leads to decreased productivity, increased stress among employees, hampered performance, high turnover rate, absenteeism and at its worst, violence and death.

http://www.waynemessick.com/conflict-resolution/how-to-resolve-conflicts-and-create-connection-with-nonviolent-communication

Thursday, May 2, 2013

If You Don't Plan To Own Your Niche, Why Plan At All?

When it comes to succeeding with your business development strategies the only position worth having is at the top. You must own your niche if you expect to realize your true potential. Here's how.

http://www.waynemessick.com/marketing/a-critical-element-of-business-financial-success-focused-niche-marketing

The Marketing Essentials of Business Development Strategies

When it comes to implementing the key ingredients of business development strategies marketing, accuracy is a lot more important than speed. Do marketing research twice, take action once!

http://www.waynemessick.com/marketing/here-are-the-three-keys-to-strategic-business-marketing

Your Best Marketing Tool is Honesty

In marketing, the competition for attention is overwhelming, so we draw upon all of our creativity to make ourselves stand out. That’s fine. Tricking people is not.

http://www.waynemessick.com/marketing/your-best-marketing-tool-is-still-the-most-basic-one

What Makes This Strategic Planning?

Planning for the future of your business beyond your lifetime is the most strategic of all the planning you're ever going to do. Not actively planning for it insures that all your other strategic planning was a waste of time and effort.

http://www.waynemessick.com/succession-planning/family-organizational-transition-planning-is-strategic-planning

Creating Your Small Business Marketing Plan

Many companies focus on doing their thing a little bit faster or better than they did last year and the most successful are those who, as part of their business development strategy, create and implement a small business marketing plan.

http://www.waynemessick.com/strategic-planning/small-business-marketing-101-creating-a-marketing-plan

Business Development Means More Effective Selling

Business development strategies puts a different more subtle angle on selling. In essence it's more like fly fishing than bowling. You whip it out there where the right people are and sooner or later the right one takes the hook.

http://www.waynemessick.com/marketing/effective-fly-fishing-techniques-and-small-business-marketing