Steps to the best gifts for your boss’ birthday

Given the current economic situation at the time of this writing your boss can be considered your lifeline right now. On his or her birthday, give a gift that shows how much you value your working relationship while maintaining your professional decorum. Here’s how…

Steps to Hiring a Talented General Counsel

The economy, the legal system, acquisitions, mergers, development and booming economies have all affected the way the general counsel works and what assigned duties must be in modern law and business. Here’s how to hire a talented general counsel for your company.

Steps to Management Success – Step 120: Learn How to Get Past the Gatekeeper

STEP ONE HUNDRED TWENTY

Learn How to Get Past the Gatekeeper

Whether you’re pitching yourself in an interview or your service or product in a sales presentation, you need to be speaking to the person who can say yes. That person will inevitably have someone guarding her door and phone line. Your mission, if you choose to be successful, is to circumvent that gatekeeper.

Steps to Management Success – Step 32: There is No Such Thing as a Secret

STEP THIRTY-TWO

There is No Such Thing as a Secret

Keeping information confidential is one of your many professional responsibilities.

If you need to know why you can’t make exceptions to disclosing secrets, just look in the mirror. Admit it—you yourself know how hard it is to keep secrets, so you have more than an inkling of how difficult it is for others to do so.

Steps to Management Success – Step 15: Presentations as Performances—Time to Practice

STEP FIFTEEN

Presentations as Performances—Time to Practice

To sell your ideas, products, and services in business, you need to make effective presentations—to management, to your team, to clients, and even over the phone.

Steps to Management Success – Step 10: Without Communication, You’re Destined to Fail

STEP TEN

Without Communication, You’re Destined to Fail

I’ve heard that at least half of all management problems occur as a result of poor communication—and I believe it.

Steps to Management Success – Step 9: Work on Your Business, Not Just for Your Business

STEP NINE

Work on Your Business, Not Just for Your Business

There are many tasks that never “need to be done tomorrow.” But they do, in fact, need to be done. Unless you regularly schedule time to work on growing your business and to answer critical questions, you may find yourself too busy to get to the issues you really need to focus on.