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What to do in your first 90 days as a manager'
The Motivational Manager   |  
What to do in your first 90 days as a manager Here is what you can do to start off on the right track...
 
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You’re talking a lot, but are you communicating?
Mastering Business Language
You’re talking a lot, but are you communicating?

Author and management consultant Peggy Klaus tells the story of a client...

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Simplify your language for better clarity
Mastering Business Language
Simplify your language for better clarity

The use of unfamiliar or complex terms interferes with comprehension and slows readers down...

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Help workers bridge the language gap
Mastering Business Language
Help workers bridge the language gap

Foreign language classes for your workforce can help ease the transition to working in different countries and cultures...

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Change metaphors to mediate conflicts
Mastering Business Language
Change metaphors to mediate conflicts

When you're attempting to mediate a dispute between two employees, reframing their perspectives is essential...

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Break up contrived phrases to help readers
Mastering Business Language
Break up contrived phrases to help readers

In writing about complex topics, it's easy to end up with sentences jammed with abstract nouns--sentences you need to prune...

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Keep readers’ attention by ditching jargon, offering specifics
Mastering Business Language
Keep readers’ attention by ditching jargon, offering specifics

At some point in your career, you’ll have to write a proposal or similar document of influence...

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Don’t let aggressive body language short-circuit dialogues with staffers
Interacting with Employees
Don’t let aggressive body language short-circuit dialogues with staffers

To avoid sending mixed messages, keep these points in mind...

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Bid a gracious farewell to departing staffers
Interacting with Employees
Bid a gracious farewell to departing staffers

Sometimes workers leave for reasons you can't control--to return to school, rear children, accompany relocating spouses, or take other jobs paying double what you can afford...

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Confront excuses ahead of time
Interacting with Employees
Confront excuses ahead of time

Avoid falling into this trap by eliminating the loopholes that shelter excuses...

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Expand the frontiers of knowledge in your workplace
Interacting with Employees
Expand the frontiers of knowledge in your workplace

Employees are usually happy to share work-related knowledge that fellow employees can use...

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Emphasize the need for an introduction
Interacting with Employees
Emphasize the need for an introduction

It's a basic courtesy, and it lets everyone begin a conversation equally...

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Should you 'friend' your co-workers on Facebook?'
Interacting with Employees
Should you 'friend' your co-workers on Facebook? Your employees and bosses may be friendly, but are they Facebook “friend” worthy?