Month: May 2019
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How To Be Compelling On LinkedIn
Bottom line up front: Your presence on LinkedIn is effectively your public resume, so use it to promote yourself as an expert in something. This article explains how to do that. Do: • Post personal updates with targeted guidance, insights, reflections, motivational quotes, and so on. Add a photo or image for extra impact. If you can do…
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Stop Stressing Your Staff Out
“More often than not, workplace feedback only comes from the top-down.” As such, supervisors tend to focus their efforts on gaining and maintaining the confidence of their superiors, and much professional advice is directed toward the challenges associated with “managing up.” But managers tend to neglect the ways they negatively affect employee productivity. To be clear, we are…
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Government Accountability & The Humble SOP
A frequently overlooked tool for ensuring management control is the establishment and maintenance of simple but consistent standard operating procedures (SOPs), in writing. In the rush to get work done, SOPs are easy to overlook. “Everybody knows how we do things around here,” is a common refrain. “This task doesn’t fit into a neat…
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The Unique Value Proposition of Executive Correspondence
This function ensures that the office provides responses to formal inquiries that are coordinated, reviewed, approved, and easily retrievable for future queries. I. Core Values · Accountability · Transparency · Integrity II. Key Skills 1. Ability to learn a range of subject matter quickly 2. Critical thinking to isolate the essence of the inquiry 3. …
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