First Step Marketing

Workplace listening skills can be important in many different ways. For example, listening and understanding your initial instructions about how to do your job is critical. Good listeners work actively at the listening process. Their eyes and ears are attending and receiving information and their minds are working at understanding what is being communicated. Questions such as, Is this important? If so, how? should be continually considered during important meetings and conferences. Workplace messages could be straightforward instructions, or they could be more complicated types of communication, such as an obtuse interaction between several people. No matter what the content, if you want to communicate well, you must master the listening process. Here are a few pointers about how to listen better. Read the rest of this entry »

Come up against a door of opportunity that remains stubbornly stuck? Enlist help to help you tug, pull or push it open. Don’t make the mistake of becoming a lone crusader intent only on your own success. Successful people virtually always have a close team behind them backing their efforts.

I will look at the relationships that career-conscious women need to form with those above them — their superiors, those around them — their co-workers and those below them — their subordinates. In addition the helping hand that can be provided by sponsors, mentors and networks is examined. Finally, working together can be hazardous at times. I conclude by looking at ways to minimise the possibility of becoming a victim of sexism and sexual harassment in the workplace.

I’m OK, are you?

In which category do your workplace relationships fall? Excellent, average or could-be-better? In order to analyse what makes your workplace relationships tick, take an objective look at those you have at present. Read the rest of this entry »