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- When a Positive No is OK
- 2009-10-23 “I am utterly over-worked but cannot possibly mention it to my boss! I have so many things on my plate but still cannot get myself to say no to my colleagues! My to-do list for this week has exceeded all expectations, and is still getting longer by the minute! So many things to do, so few resources and so little time! I am stressed out but I just cannot get myself to say NO! What if I lose my job? What if my boss gets infuriated with me? My colleagues will never ask for my help again!”
Comments: 0 - Top Tips to Stay Healthy at the Workplace
- 2009-07-08 Maintaining a healthy lifestyle at the workplace represents one of the biggest dilemmas that working professionals are faced with around the globe today. Clinging to a computer screen 8 to 10 hours a day, 5 to 6 days a week naturally drains one’s energy levels and affects one’s health over time.
Comments: 2 - Ten Reasons it May Be Time to Quit
- 2009-04-06 Has your work routine become a permanent nightmare and your weekend become a lengthy game of worrying about the advent of a new work week? Are you consistently overlooked for a well-deserved raise or promotion? Bayt.com looks at ten reasons that indicate it may be time to quit.
Comments: 8 - Seven Ways to Stay Motivated at Work
- 2009-03-27 Even the most motivated of employees occasionally experience a slump and need a boost to regain their normal motivation levels. This article presents seven methods to stay motivated at work and enhance performance when you are going through a period of low motivation.
Comments: 11 - Putting Leaders on the Couch
- 2009-02-23 When INSEAD Professor Manfred Kets de Vries coaches leadership teams, he effectively puts them on the couch – treating them not so much as rational actors but as emotional ones.
A clinical professor of leadership development, Kets de Vries says “the autocratic leadership style doesn’t work so well any more in a knowledge society.” Organisations are made up of people, he says, and he believes there’s a great deal of truth in the saying, “Fish start to smell from the head.”
Comments: 2 - Women and the Corporate Ladder
- 2009-02-09 Traditionally, women have faced more obstacles than men when it comes to climbing the corporate ladder.
Comments: 5 - The Leadership Circle
- 2009-01-08 “Leaders get the best out of followers and followers get the best out of leaders,” says Manfred Kets De Vries, Clinical Professor of Leadership Development at INSEAD. The connection between leaders and their staff is only one of many circular connections he sees.
Comments: 0 - How to Optimize Your Relationship with Your Boss
- 2008-12-22 Make your relationship with your manager a winning one!
Comments: 6 - The New Deal at the Top
- 2008-12-18 Most companies have managers reporting directly to the CEO on a one-to-one basis, with responsibility for their units or regions,” says Yves Doz, who holds the Timken chair in Global Technology and Innovation at INSEAD. The Professor of Business Policy says the result is that “the businesses or regions tend to behave in an autonomous fashion similar to the way a baron would manage his fiefdom.”
Comments: 0 - The Experience Trap
- 2008-12-18 When companies look for a manager, they should look for experience, right?
Well, maybe not. INSEAD professors Kishore Sengupta and Luk Van Wassenhove say their research has revealed what they call the ‘experience trap.’
“Conventional wisdom holds that as we do more things more often, we learn from experience and get better and better, and what we found in our research was that actually some of it may not be the case,” Sengupta says.
Comments: 0 - Cross-cultural Negotiations: Avoiding the Pitfalls
- 2008-12-18 When entering into negotiations, we should always take into account cultural factors such as the educational or religious background of the person sitting across the table, but, says INSEAD professor Horacio Falcao, many people both underestimate and overestimate the cross-cultural aspects.
Comments: 0 - How To Adapt To Change At The workplace
- 2008-11-30 In today’s fast-paced and highly competitive marketplace, it is crucial for organizations to be flexible enough to change, in order to remain profitable and up-to-speed.
Change management has always been an issue of debate amongst scholars: how can employers create suitable conditions for a successful change process? And what can employees do to get through it?
Comments: 0 - Boost Your Creativity at the Workplace
- 2008-11-17 Are you often stuck in a rut when trying to be creative? Do you always find yourself looking for that idea that will grant you the long awaited promotion at work? Employees, more often than not, are struggling with creativity. Is this key trait innate? Or is it developed?
Comments: 2 - Top Tips To Control Your Work E-mails
- 2008-11-16 key guidelines to stay on top of your e-mails at work and get the best results out of them.
Comments: 0 - The employee value proposition: How to be an employer of choice
- 2008-11-03 A lot of companies talk about being an employer of choice, but as competition for talent heats to a boil, Stewart Black, INSEAD Affiliate Professor of Organisational Behaviour, says executives have to do more than give the concept lip service.
Comments: 0 - It starts with one: changing individuals changes organisations
- 2008-11-03 Small and large businesses have been searching for decades for the holy grail of organisational change: the perfect way to motivate employees to change their old ways for what management (or consultants!) deem to be better, new ones.
Comments: 0 - Absenteeism in the Workplace
- 2008-10-20 Controlling absenteeism has become a big concern for companies all over the globe today. Its causes are many but corrective measures can be implemented.
Comments: 3 - How to Delegate Properly
- 2008-09-28 Delegation skills are essential to effective management. Bayt.com offers tips on how to delegate effectively.
Comments: 1 - Developing Teamwork in the Workplace
- 2008-09-24 Effective teamwork can take an organization a long way towards meeting its objectives. In this article, the Career Experts at Bayt.com explore the building blocks of effective teams.
Comments: 3 - Transferable Skills in the Workplace
- 2008-09-15 Do you have the transferable skills that ensure your employment resilience?
Comments: 1 - Writing Effective Job Descriptions
- 2008-09-15 Detailed job descriptions are more helpful than you think. Here, Bayt.com outlines the essentials of writing effective job descriptions.
Comments: 1 - Effective Time Management Skills
- 2008-09-08 Why is it that some people continuously succeed at managing their time in an efficient and streamlined fashion while others barely prod by and struggle frantically to stay on top of projects and deadlines?
Comments: 1 - The Drivers of Employee Loyalty in Today’s Workplace
- 2008-08-19 What is it exactly that makes job loyalty such a powerful and critical topic in today’s ever-changing business environment?
Comments: 2 - Ten Signs You May Be Damaging Your Career
- 2007-11-01 Ten career-damaging behaviours to avoid.
Comments: 30 - How to Maximize Employee Engagement
- 2007-10-28 Is your workforce impassioned, enthusiastic, committed and inspired? Is their morale and level of corporate citizenship high? Employee engagement is the most challenging topic in HR circles today.
Comments: 1 - Twelve Traits of a Successful Leader
- 2007-10-22 The 12 traits of a successful leader from the career experts at bayt.com
Comments: 9 - The Advantages and Disadvantages of Working from Home
- 2007-10-21 Working from home is a dream for many but it has its pitfalls. Bayt.com highlights the advantages and disadvantages of working from home.
Comments: 5 - Key Tips for Motivating Staff
- 2007-10-04 The key question is how to transform a lukewarm workforce into an impassioned motivated one and truly reap the rewards of a successful selection process
Comments: 4 - Ten Steps to Professional Fulfillment
- 2007-09-25 Some key tips to help you along the road to achieving your career ambitions
Comments: 6 - How to Resign Gracefully
- 2007-05-01 Time to quit? Make sure you resign gracefully and professionally with these top ten tips from Bayt.com.
Comments: 13 - Twenty Tips to Career Success
- 2007-04-26 Optimize your career with these twenty sure-fire career boosters.
Comments: 8 - How to Deliver Great Client Servicing
- 2007-04-16 Your ultimate success in business will be determined by the extent to which you are able to keep your customers happy, satisfied and coming back for more. Read Bayt.com's top ten tips for effective client servicing.
Comments: 5 - How to Maximize Your Employee Loyalty
- 2007-04-12 What do you do when your most important assets walk out the door at 6 pm every day? Make sure they come back! Bayt.com looks at ways leading employers seek to win their employees' loyalty and maximize their on-the-job satisfaction.
Comments: 1 - Working from Home
- 2007-04-02 Working from home can be a treat or trap depending on the discipline, dedication and self-control you exercise and your commitment to making the arrangement work. Read Bayt.com's tips on how to make working from home work for you.
Comments: 4 - To Network or Not to Work
- 2007-01-21 Networking is a skill well worth learning to advance your job search as well as to succeed in your chosen career. Avoid the main networking blunders and you will find that most people are only too willing to help.
Comments: 2 - Performance Appraisals - Make Yours Glow
- 2006-12-20 Does the prospect of receiving formal feedback from your boss, peers and subordinates in the form of a professional performance appraisal have your petrified to the core? Here are some tips from bayt.com on how to make the most of your performance appraisal and turn it to your advantage.
Comments: 1 - How to Negotiate a Salary Raise
- 2006-10-15 Does your salary accurately reflect your responsibilities, experience level and recent performance? If it doesn’t here are some key tips on how to negotiate the raise you deserve.
Comments: 6 - Salary Negotiations: Avoid the Common Pitfalls
- 2006-10-15 Don’t jeopardize your salary negotiations with an unnecessary bluff, an ultimatum, poor preparation or any of the following common negotiating missteps.
Comments: 2 - How to Deal with Difficult Coworkers
- 2006-09-21 Difficult coworkers interfering with your ability to perform? Some tips to cope.
Comments: 0 - Cutting into the Company Culture
- 2006-09-17 Beyond the salary and the perks, how can you determine if a company will be a mismatch or a perfect fit?
Comments: 2 - Twelve Steps to a Better Life
- 2006-09-06 There are a multitude of ways to succeed in your personal and professional life. The following is the Bayt.com 12-step guide.
Comments: 13 - Tips to Succeeding as a Team Player
- 2006-07-04 Bayt.com identifies thirteen key attributes that help single out effective team players.
Comments: 2 - Display the Winner's Traits
- 2006-07-04 Bayt.com defines fifteen character traits that the pros agree are your tickets to long-term career success.
Comments: 4 - Be the Employee Everyone Wants on Their Team
- 2006-06-22 Bayt.com's tips on becoming the employee everyone wants on their team.
Comments: 5 - Management Traps and How to Avoid Them
- 2006-06-18 Don't fall prey to the following management traps.
Comments: 5 - Ask to Win
- 2006-05-29 The thin divide between good and great business performance is often traversed with no more than a simple, logical and pertinent line of questioning asked in the right manner at the right time.
Comments: 1 - Six Steps to a Successful Hire
- 2006-05-16 Here are six steps to help streamline the recruiting process and avoid common pitfalls.
Comments: 0 - Engage and Win
- 2006-05-16 Having employees who are thoroughly motivated and truly engaged with what they are doing is the most powerful competitive weapon and organization can enjoy. Dr. Charles Woodruffe explains why
Comments: 0 - On Sale Now with a Lemon-Fresh Scent
- 2004-09-02 Are you underappreciated at work, while some of your coworkers seem to reap the glory, promotions, and praise from the boss? Learn how advertising and self-promotion can be smart strategies to use on the job in order to get the cool project or deserved raise
Comments: 1 - Down with Networking!
- 2004-09-02 Networking is probably one of the toughest and most important aspects of the job search. Unfortunately, it's also one of the most hated, misunderstood and, consequently, poorly practiced areas of the job search. Still, like it or not, we simply must do it. These days, it's too important to overlook.
Comments: 0 - How to improve your memory: 5 simple tips
- 2004-03-11 Scott Bornstein, founder of Bornstein Knowledge Management Systems and a leading international lecturer in the field of memory training, highlights 5 simple memory enhancement tips.
Comments: 7 - Five Effective Powers of Success
- 2004-02-28 Robert Benninga, Founder of Mind Power International, highlights 5 powers
that will help you achieve true success.
Comments: 4 - Career Resources
- 2003-12-22 Recommended reading for different stages of your job-hunt/career provided by the Middle East's #1 job site www.bayt.com.
Comments: 0 - Maximize your Marketability
- 2003-12-22 Maximize your growth and earning potential by using these effective career management tactics.
Comments: 3 - Motherhood to Workforce
- 2003-12-22 Planning to restart your career after taking time-off to have children? Bayt.com has some pointers.
Comments: 0 - Stress and the Workplace
- 2003-12-22 Long hours, tough deadlines and difficult peers getting you down? Here are some tips on how to cope with stress in the workplace.
Comments: 5 - Starting a New Job
- 2003-12-22 Your first weeks on the job are your time to really establish who you are and set your career off on the right trajectory. Aim to shine and set off on the right foot.
Comments: 3 - Mid-Career Transition
- 2003-12-22 Planning to switch from one career to another? Don't be discouraged - people do it every day. Bayt.com has a few tips for you.
Comments: 2 - Recharge Your Career
- 2003-12-22 Six surefire ways to inject some momentum into your career and get back on the right track from the Middle East's #1 job site bayt.com.
Comments: 1 - Job Stressbusters
- 2003-12-22 Winning techniques to alleviate stress on and off the job.
Comments: 0 - Six Steps To Getting Ahead in Your Career
- 2003-12-22 Bayt's guide to vaulting up the career ladder.
Comments: 5 - Promotion to Management
- 2003-12-22 So now you're the boss? Here are some tactics to start off on the right foot.
Comments: 1 - Ten Secrets of Effective Management
- 2003-06-12 Ten secrets of effective management from the pros.
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