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Colleen Kettenhofen's Articles in General Business

  • 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!
  • 5 Ways to Attract More Success
    Take responsibility for the choices you've made in life. No matter where you're at, accept that you are where you are as a result of your choices. Then you can effectively move on to fulfilling your passion and achieving new dreams. Discover 5 quick tips from self-made millionaires on achieving greater personal and professional success.
  • 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.
  • Beat Stress Now! 10 Easy Tips
    Does the thought of the holidays approaching stress you out just to think about it? This new article provides 10 easy tips for managing stress - guaranteed!
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • How Cancer Changed My Life and How It Can Change Yours
    A cancer survivor story. Discover what cancer survivors already know about what's really important in life. In this easy-to-read new article, you'll learn how to change your thinking, change your priorities and change your life!
  • How To Get Motivated and Stay Motivated
    9 keys for how to get motivated and stay motivated! Learn easy ways to motivate yourself to overcome procrastination, practice patience and perseverance. Eat better, exercise, and make a decision to choose to be happy in spite of your circumstances. Here's how...
  • Leadership 101
    Are you a busy manager, supervisor or team leader? Do you want to improve your leadership skills, your team's productivity and results? Would your employees describe you as an excellent role model? Develop your best management style by discovering 10 proven traits that are essential to effective leadership and lasting influence.
  • 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.
  • Miracles Happen: A Miracle Story about Adversity, Fate and Joy
    Miracles happen! Discover how this must-read miracle story can help you with overcoming adversity, following your fate and finding joy. The grief of loss and the healing power of a puppy. The secret: sometimes we get what we need not necessarily what we "think" we want.
  • Overcoming Procrastination: Pressing Past Your Fears
    In this new must-read article, discover nine keys to facing your fears and pushing past procrastination. Worry is interest paid on trouble before it is due. Learn how to turn your failures into stepping stones for personal progress. Overcoming procrastination can dramatically improve your profits, productivity, morale and motivation!
  • 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?!
  • Setting Smart Goals: Get What You Want!
    How to set goals and get what you want. We all know what to do, but don't always "do" with what we know. Article on setting smart goals gives easy tips and techniques you can apply immediately. Beneficial for salespeople, business owners, managers, supervisors, team leaders, entrepreneurs.
  • 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.
  • 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.