Volume 16                                                                 

Do You Believe in You?

by Ali Brown              

 We all have days when we feel less than on top of our game, shrinking and self-doubting, but are you spending too much time on the bottom?

Take this quiz to find out how confident you really are.

1. You’re face to face with a potential client who loves your product or service, but they want you to reduce your quote by 20%. You’ve been chasing this client for months. What do you do?

Seven Ways to Be a New Leader To Your Employees

by Mary C. Schaefer

1.     Make decisions as if people matter. Business doesn’t exist in a vacuum. How do you think all this stuff happens? Your computers or lab equipment don’t care if you hit quarterly goals. You might as well leverage your resources you have who might give a darn (i.e. humans). BTW, you do that by meeting basic human needs at work. Ignore – at your own peril – the fact that you have human beings as your employees.

Reader Pick!

It's Always Personal - Emotion In The New Workplace

by Anne Kreamer

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME you cried at work? Or didn’t know how to respond when one of your colleagues broke down? Did someone at work blow up at you – or did you yell at a co-worker? Do you wish people where you work laughed on the job more — or less? Or didn’t exasperate you constantly? Or showed a little tact and sensitivity? Or didn’t go to such ridiculous lengths to avoid telling it like it is? Guess what? You are not alone.

It's Always Personal will inspire you to bring your authentic self to work to be happier and more effective. 

 TFW Toolbox

5 Tips to Plan and Run a Great Meeting
by Kay Hunter

  

Your Professional Presence is comprised of how you look and how you act. I often address topics about how you should dress for a meeting, so this month I thought it would be beneficial to address the other side of the coin - how you act and run your meetings. Let’s face it - meetings are the bane of the corporate world and small companies alike.   You can set yourself apart from your colleagues and competitors by running your meetings without wasting time or money!

TFW Summer Reading Survey Results

Summer is the season to refresh, regroup and re-energize and how better to do that than with a fabulous book. Whether your reading for entertainment, escape or to expand your knowledge a great book is essential.

TFW surveyed their readers to develop a summer must read list.
Survey results

  

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