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Colleen Kettenhofen's Articles in General Business

  • High Performance Teams: 9 Essential Ingredients for Team Building
    High performance teams and team building article. Discover 9 things you can do to energize and motivate your employees to extraordinary performance! Especially beneficial for team leaders, managers, supervisors, directors, executives and business owners.
  • 10 Tips for Dealing With Difficult People
    How do you move from conflict to cooperation? In this short new article, discover 10 easy tips for dealing with difficult people that you can apply immediately. Guaranteed!
  • Managing Negativity In The Workplace: Negativists, Whiners and Complainers
    Managing negativity in the workplace is a learned skill. Do you work with, or manage and supervise negativists, whiners and complainers? How do you deal and communicate effectly with these difficult people? Discover some proven techniques that are easy to incorporate, and will improve morale.
  • 7 Mistakes Managers Make
    Management skills article. Many managers, supervisors, and team leaders are promoted to leadership positions based on their "hard skills" or technical skills. Yet, as new managers, most of them have never had any formal training in people-skills, and how to communicate effectively. And now, they're managing people! What are seven common mistakes managers make? Read on to find out.
  • Thoughts on Dealing with Difficult Employees
    Do you manage or supervise difficult employees? Ever think you're alone? You're not. Most likely your difficult employee is someone you've inherited. Not someone you would've hired. Yet somehow they fell through the cracks and got hired anyway. Discover proven strategies for dealing with difficult employees.
  • Power Up Your Performance! 6 Sure-fire Strategies
    Success seems to be connected with action. Learn how to get rid of clutter, work faster, avoid procrastination and become more self-disciplined. Reprogram your mind from negative self-talk and self-limiting beliefs. After all, how many times in a day do we "should" all over ourselves with everything we should be doing?!
  • Difficult People: 3 Things You Must Know!
    Do you know any difficult people? Have you ever lived or worked with a difficult person? Might YOU be a difficult person? In conducting leadership training around the world, many people confide to me they think THEY might be a difficult person. If you're a manager, supervisor, or in any position of leadership, good people skills will help guarantee your success.
  • Why Teams Won't Take Responsibility
    Do you have problems with your employees in terms of accountability, trust and communication? Discover secrets your team members aren't telling you about why they're not more productive. In my leadership trainings and team building seminars, when upper management ISN'T in the room, employees confide in me their stumbling blocks to success. Find out how to improve your employees' performance and your organization's bottom-line.