May 2008

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How To Create Good Work Habits

In Focus and On the Job
New habits do not have to be cultivated overnight; but they do have to be built up over time and applied successfully to every task. If you study any small productive action that you perform on a daily basis, you will see the positive effects over days, weeks, months and [...]

Get Ahead At Work – E-Brand Yourself

The YOU Brand Equity
This is the only sure-fire way of making any progress in your chosen profession. But how do you get the word around? How do you prepare a strong case? You do it yourself. Yep, no genie will come to your rescue – but there are magic lamps that can market a brand [...]

Understanding The Main Causes Leading To Six Sigma Redundancies

However, businesses still need to use caution, because what is also true is that not all innovative techniques deliver the desired results – and that some may even result in gross failures and redundancies.
This is applicable even to some of the most effective techniques such as Six Sigma that aims at improving quality and reducing [...]

How Software Systems Are Aiding Six Sigma Implementations

These software systems were non-existent at the time when Six Sigma was used for the first time in the late seventies by Motorola Corporation, but now they have become an inseparable part of each and every Six Sigma quality improvement project. This is mainly because business processes have become more complex over the years, generating [...]

Are You Ready For A Promotion?

Even someone who has spent a significant number of years at the junior management level without any hope of securing a promotion on the basis of educational qualifications can rise to a position in middle management through good performance.
Listening Skills
When the opportunity arises to climb the corporate ladder, it is important for you to display [...]