Category Archives: Quality

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Comments an links

My mate Owen, over at the only network, Has a post about Analyze Backlinks

There is website that will tell you all the sites that are linking to you. It is well worth a visit as it will allow you to understand how effective your commenting is on other users blog. Key to gaining a good page rank is insuring that authority bloggers link back to. So commenting really is important for your blog. The rule of thumb here is the more links the higher the page rank. So get reading and positively participating.

Quality, work

Working with others

Business relationships are just like any other sort of relationships. I have heard it said many times that that people do not mix business with  pleasure or say may I introduce a colleague. We may think that we have to work less hard on our realtionships with colleagues because we are being paid to do a job. Nothing could be further from the truth. If one wants to be successful at work then they are going to have to develop relationships. What kind of relationship you choose to develop will give a fair idea of how you feel about your work. From a purely mathematical point of view. A person will probably spend more of their time with their colleagues than anybody else. What kind of relationship would you like? Would you mix business with pleasure?

Quality, work

Back to work with a smile

By engaged learning, we mean that all student activities involve active cognitive processes such as creating, problem-solving, reasoning, decision-making, and evaluation

When it comes around to the beginning of the week after the break, it always reminds me of a qoute from Simon Cowell who said that whatever he was doing whether he was washing cars or doing the more successful x factor he would go to work with a smile. I wonder how many of us can say the same. Of course these days there is very little excuse for not doing something that you like. As the opportunities to find the work you want are so great. It is still very much an employee market. Most firms consider that they cannot find the right staff according to Rec. The big question is do companies have an unreal perspective for employees or are employees looking for something more to engage them. 

Basic Principles

By engaged learning, we mean that all student activities involve active cognitive processes such as creating, problem-solving, reasoning, decision-making, and evaluation. In addition, students are intrinsically motivated to learn due to the meaningful nature of the learning environment and activities… thoughts…..

Quality

Internet TV Now this is Choice

It does not surprise me that ITunes is becoming so popular, but not for music instead it is being used by high school students in America for TV:  article here.

I must admit that if I think about I get almost all my TV media from the internet.

The BBC provides an excellent service as does channel four. Then there all the RSS feeds that provide enough content in reading, video, and sound. In fact the audio feeds from Mike Southon are very interesting for sales training.

Nearer to home we have a our own Local Long Tale TV who are really showing us the future http://www.longtaletv.com along with several American startups.

Personal, Quality, sales

The Family Business, Learning from Family

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The skills one learns in family are directly transferable to a lot of situations in life.

In family general speaking we will go the extra mile.

Sometimes we are not exactly sure why we do this. For example we will make unsecured loans, give advice, arrange any number of things. The basis for this is that we have known our family members for a long period time.

While we may trust them or not. We know what to expect. This is built on trust over a long period time and many different situations. If one was to put it simply we know our family better then any one.

What has this do with business? Getting to know your employees, how important is this? Some might say that it is just a Job. X amount of hours per a day, does corretly describe a job. For a successful company they can not offer just jobs.

They have to offer more. Ideally a career or at best a vocation. If one is to do this they will have to understand there employees.

This is a great skill. Understanding your resources, It is management but not in a traditional sense. It is more listen and and then pairing the right work with the right employee. All these skills can be learnt in the standard family model which is way running a department is so much more then just allocating work or pieces of paper.

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Gossip and Chatter Not Just in The Office

We cannot help but speculate what the next mobile phone does, or if Britney will ever make music again. Every day thousands of thoughts will cross our mind from seeing an attractive girl to wondering what will happen in the book we are currently reading. Lots of us share these thoughts with other people. When we are out and about, in a restaurant or just down the pub. For a large percentage of us we are able to leave it at that….Just speculation. What happens though when people start speculating on line , in forums, on blogs, and wikis?

Well a couple of things can happen depending who does what, where and when. If the speculation is in a enclosed network such as Face book, or a closed biz forum, unless you are a member of that particular group, it is very unlikely that you will see it on the internet. The other option is that someone blogs, or posts something in a forum. Here there are a number of things you can do. If you disagree with a post or information that has been written about you on the internet you can contact the administrator of the website and ask him/her to remove the post and in most cases you will find that they will oblige. That should be the end of the matter….. but If Google or any other search engine picks up on the url post/topic, then you will have a secondary problem. Although you will not be able to access the page, it will appear on search engine results for a possible period of up to 6 to 12 months. To solve this you have will have to contact the search engine and ask for the page to be removed. Usually if you are successful the offending page will be removed within 24 – 48 hours after this request.

A preventive measure to protect your online reputation is to create your own profile. This can be done simply by joining a online community. If your are purely concerned about your professional reputation then I recommend these site for professional profiles Work Connexions , Linkedin . Effectively, by creating your profile you are then in control of what is written about you. For example some minor comments that somebody might make in a blog or a forum would be unlikely to appear higher then your long standing profile with a high ranking community transparent page. Try it, search for your self on the internet now.