• Lost In Translation - The Telephone Game In International Business Communications

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    International business is increasingly becoming borderless. An American executive in New York may frequently need to communicate with a Japanese manager of a company division in Tokyo, just as a seller in Toronto may frequently need to communicate with a buyer in Berlin.Is your business international?Read more…
  • Custom Date Stamps

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    Custom date stamps are customizable stamping packs comprised of stamp mount, black inkpad, type/character and tweezers. The set usually contains rubber stamps month tiles January to December, abbreviated month titles from JAN to DEC, years, numbers 1 through 31, and st, nd, rd, and th. Stamps' text can be changed at anytime using the ribbed rubber characters that are supplied with each set.Read more…
  • Date Stamp Kits

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    Date stamp kits are customizable stamping packs comprised of stamp mount, black inkpad, type/character and tweezers. The kit usually contains rubber stamps month tiles January to December, abbreviated month titles from JAN to DEC, years, numbers 1 through 31, and st, nd, rd, and th. Text can be changed using the ribbed rubber characters that come with the stamp kit.Read more…
  • Rubber Date Stamps

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    Date stamps are mechanical devices used to imprint date on large bunches of documents, like notices calling meetings, stock certificates dispatch, or acknowledgement of receipt of tax filings. The dates relevant to such activities are very important as there are legal stipulations relating to them. Accordingly, the inwards and outwards departments of all companies and government agencies have an inbuilt procedure for affixing date on the documents being received or dispatched by them.Read more…
  • Choose Your Favorite (Model): 1,2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 or 9

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    Counting starts at one. It is a perfect starting position to start the most popular game on the internet; dating, you need as much as yourself. That is, if you are a single and looking for a date.Read more…
  • Cheap Computer Chairs

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    Cheap computer chairs are low-priced computer chairs that are designed to provide comfortable sitting position when using a computer.The climbing popularity of the Internet increases the scope for supplying cheap computer chairs. People sit before computers for Internet surfing and playing games for long hours.Read more…
  • How to Jerk-Proof Your Emails

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    Maybe you are in a hurry.Perhaps you are trying to tell a joke.Is it possible that you are having a bad day?Read more…
  • Toll Fraud Security and DISA

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    Most businesses Telephone Systems have a feature called Direct Inward System Access or DISA for short. This feature allows authorized users to dial a special number into your telephone system and then either dial extension numbers directly or outside numbers utilizing your company’s less expensive long distance trunks and services.A word of advice: If you are using DISA – Stop it!Read more…
  • Trouble in the Workplace

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    More and more I am hearing about problems in the office revolving around people issues. We are all familiar with sexual harassment and discrimination of various types. But what if you are experiencing feelings of discomfort due to actions that fall within the cracks.Read more…
  • Sitting Comfortably! – Is an Ergonomic Chair Right for You?

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    As you know a vast amount of your time when at work is spent sitting at your desk and this results in a large amount of stress being placed on your spine. One way of avoiding the development of any sort of back problems is that you or your employer should look at purchasing a good quality ergonomic office chair. These types of chairs help to improve your posture whilst sat at your desk which should help to prevent any stress to your lower back.Read more…
  • How About a Heads Up?

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    It didn't take long while on safari in Botswana, to begin to recognize the animal calls heralding a predator roaming in the area. What intrigued me was the pass-along path those calls took, from animal group to animal group. The shrieks of baboons, the trumpeting of elephants, the screams of francolins, the cries of impalas were picked up by adjacent animals and sent out for as long as the threat remained.Read more…
  • Designing Office Space – For Comfort

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    In recent articles that I have written I spent a large amount of time discussing how to search for the perfect office chair. However, in this article I will be looking at how to decide on how your office workspace should be laid out so that this will help to promote a more ergonomic and comfortable position for you to work in. Remember a large part of your day in the office is spent sat at your desk.Read more…
  • Feedback – What's In It For Me?

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    Whether it is your opponent, your friend, your buddy, your teacher, your boss, your partner, your child, someone you meet, or even some invisible webmaster behind the screen, an internet site that is inviting you to comment; giving feedback is of key importance. In fact, giving feedback will become more and more important in the growing internet (information) business.From a technical viewpoint, feedback is about directing a conversation or communication.Read more…
  • Everything Counts

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    I interrupt your life to bring you this important message—everything counts!Everything Counts! offers a philosophy for running a great business and for enjoying a great quality of life.Read more…
  • Avoiding A "Failure to Communicate"

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    It's in every classified ad and most job descriptions: must have excellent communication skills. Worse yet, once hired, it reappears annually at review time: Improve communication skills. What's a worker to do?Read more…
  • Use Your (Six) Hats to Give Feedback

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    “Feedback – What’s in it For Me?” was about the motivation to give feedback. But where should you start?Read more…
  • Getting Promoted In The Workplace - A 3 Steps Guide

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    We all want to be promoted, get higher salaries, and become more valued at the workplace. But what steps are you taking towards attracting a promotion? Do you have a plan?Read more…
  • Are Your Employees Sitting Comfortably?

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    When an employer is first setting up a new office or even deciding to refurbish the old one, one of the biggest decisions that they will have to make is the sort of office chairs that their employees will be using.Any employer should remember that whilst their employees are at work a vast amount of their day will be spent sat at their desks, so the chair that they are sitting on needs to be comfortable in order for them to carry out the duties effectively.One of ways that you may be able to decide which chairs are best for your staff is try to arrange to test drive some.Read more…
  • Teleconferencing Services For Business: Your Most Burning Questions

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    So let's say that you've been doing a lot of research and heard a lot of good things from your colleagues and industry professionals and now you're sold on the fact that you need to make teleconferencing systems work for you. Well congratulations you for cause you made a tremendous first big step progressing into the innermost sanctum of 21st-century.So now you are probably bewildered by all the different potential alternatives out there.Read more…
  • Effective Teleconferencing For Effective People

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    Teleconferencing is, perhaps, the most effective communication breakthrough of the 20th century. The idea is to enable a group (three or more people) interactive communication through an electronic medium between people at different locations!Teleconferencing is being used in the following forms today:- Audio conferencing, using telephones- Video conferencing, using interactive televisions with sound,- Computer conferencing, using printed communication through computers and keyboards.Read more…

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    I once applied for a job as a Training Manager in a dynamic and rapidly developing organisation. My application was successful and I was delighted to find out that one of my colleagues whom I got on with very well from my previous organisation (we occasionally had barbecues at one another's homes) had also applied for a job with the new organisation and would be working alongside me. Apparently and unbeknown to one another, we had both applied for the same role as Training Manager.