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Finding Time for Tomorrow’s Deadline - 5 Last-Minute Solutions for Procrastinators

June 17th, 2008 · No Comments

Did you procrastinate and run out of time? Are you panicking? Relax! These Do’s and Don’ts will get you back on track in no time!

Time management skills can even pull you through crises like that project of yours that is due tomorrow. Yes, the one you learned about two weeks ago and meant to get to. Now that tomorrow is a day away, there’s no time to lose!

5 Things Not to Do:

? DO NOT skip town, hunt for disguises or take a new name.

? DO NOT keep procrastinating.

? DO NOT panic.

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Tags: Self Help

Treat The Ones You Love Lovingly

June 13th, 2008 · No Comments

Why do we, at times, treat strangers nicer than we treat our loved ones?  We tend to find a comfort zone and can occasionally forget to make the extra effort to treat our loved ones as they deserve.

Isn’t it funny how a stranger can bring out the best in us and yet the people we love the most gets stuck with our bad moods and the behavior that follows?

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Tags: Family

Do Your Goals Get Away From You?

May 12th, 2008 · No Comments

Use these three recommendations about performance-related goals to help establish clear expectations and improve employee performance.

 

Effective employee performance management is really all about clear expectations. Many of you use SMAART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Agreed Upon, Realistic, and Time-Oriented) goals to help employees focus on the most important things at work.  But can you have too much of a good thing?  The answer is yes!  and I’ve seen it.Recently I worked with an organization that uses goals to define the entire scope of each employee’s job. As a result, each employee is assigned 25 to 30 goals each year. Many of the goals the employees receive at the beginning of the year are irrelevant by the time the performance evaluation is due because the organization’s priorities have changed. As a result, employees feel overwhelmed by the lengthy list, feel confused about what is most important, and feel defeated when the work they accomplish is not really valued or recognized at the end of the year.

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Tags: Business