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Tools for effective networking
Ever wondered how to keep alive the connection made when you first met the contacts behind all those names in your Rolodex or cell phone? Adding the human touch and satisfying the human need to feel connected is often an impossible-seeming task in this

Managing work and personal life
Regardless of what your personal life entails, you need to know how to balance your work and life demands. Everyone who works is subject to pressure from the workplace that can impinge on personal time.

Challenges of the new ‘Millennials’
As companies are expanding their portfolio and moving beyond shores, numerous opportunities are emerging for incumbents. But at the same time throwing challenges for the human resource professional to find the right mix of people to fit into an organisati

Trust in the workplace
While surfing the Internet recently, I pulled up Yahoo.com to check my e-mail. But before I could click sign in, a headline on the homepage jumped out at me. “How to spot a liar in the workplace” it read, and immediately it got me thinking...

Get Web 2.0 ready, CARIMAC organising one day workshop on Web 2.0
“The young and the wired know the value of Web 2.0, but corporate executives will need to get a quick education...Web 2.0 will change how you do business.” – Business Week Magazine. Learn about Web 2.0, RSS, Screencasts and Mashups and discover how they c

The young future business leader: an endangered species? - Part 2
Jamaican companies want leaders, but they are not cultivating them. I will soon have an MBA, beyond the required BS/BA degree for most jobs, but the ads will usually indicate needing 5 to 10 years experience for things the U.S. requires maybe 1 to 3 year

Managing employee behaviour
It is as important that employees behave in a manner whcihe is consistent with the organisation's strategy, as it is important that the work processes, the structures and the management hierarchies support the strategy. It thus becomes important for the

Surviving office politics: observe and listen
The most important tools for negotiating workplace politics are your own skills of observation. “Watch who gets promoted, ignored, patted on the back." “Who holds the power? Who do people listen to and not listen to?”

The young future business leader: an endangered species?
This discussion was triggered by the following Facebook.com group forum question: “What do you think of the 80% of the UWI graduates that leave Jamaica???” I think after receiving an email from an executive on the island in response to my search for a po

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