When you meet someone for the first time, handshakes will play a crucial role in your introduction. It will affect the first impression you give others, and as you know, you only get ONE chance to make a good FIRST impression. Ask Men has a list of handshake styles to stay away from. The Wet [...]

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As business today becomes more mobile, text messaging will play a larger role in the way we communicate. Tom from OpenLoops has some great tips about how best to go about Text Messaging. Here are 5 of my favourites: Don’t replace all communication with texts – Know when to communicate in person, by phone, or [...]

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Leaving an effective voice message is an important part of conducting business. Failing to do so may result in your call not being returned, or even worse, annoying the other party. Here’s a step by step walkthrough on how to give an effective voicemail: Say your name when you pick it up. Don’t assume the [...]

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Sometimes you need to take two minutes to get mentally set before starting a writing task. Here are a few useful questions to ask yourself to help you keep on topic, and get the tone just right. Who is your audience? Who are your readers? Why will they be reading what you write? What will [...]

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The word ‘but’ is more damaging than it looks when used in a discussion. Agreeing with someone and then saying ‘but’, may completely undermine your efforts to be understanding and agreeable. Those three letters somehow have an ability to kill everything good that you said before it. Instead try the following example: “I agree with [...]

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Some of us may be unfortunate enough to have to get harrasing or obscene phonecalls. They can be annoying, or in extreme cases even traumatic, so it is crucial to deal with them in the proper manner. The Harvard University Police Department some good advice on the matter at hand. If you receive a call [...]

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Meetings inescapable in a corporate environment. They can either be long boring nightmares, or they can be very productive groups. Not surprisingly, a lot of it depends on how the meeting is run. Take a look at Businessweek’s interesting article on how Google’s Marissa Mayer, Google’s vice-president of search products, runs her meetings. Set a [...]

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Your CV is often the first sight an employer gets of you. Here are ten tips to improve the impression recruiters get of you: Whatever the layout, a CV should look well designed. Print it with a laser-printed on fresh, good quality paper. Keep your CV to 2 sides in length, with each side on [...]

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While the benefits of RSS become immediately obvious to some of us, the general internet population, don’t use it. In many cases, it’s not so much that they haven’t heard about it, it’s that they just don’t really see the point of it all. The Moleskin has a good set of tips aimed at teaching [...]

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Readers on the internet tend to have a short attention span. How many times have we ourselves just skimmed through a webpage, only to move on to the next one in a blink of an eye? Writers take note, CopyBlogger has a 5 great points to help you craft that all important first paragraph. Ask [...]

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Professional bloggers like Darren Rowse reflects here on a few security tips he has for keeping your blog safe from hackers, after his friend just recently got hacked. Update your Blog Software Keep an Eye on Dead Blogs Backup your Blog Protect Your Passwords Choose Your Host Carefully Especially for bloggers like him who write [...]

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Kathy Sierra of ‘Creating Passionate Users’ has put together this set of tips about how to cut through the noise, and get someone’s attention. Everything revolves around this golden rule: “The secret is to be more provocative and interesting than anything else in their environment.” To pull this off, she gives the following tips: Be [...]

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If you have to put together an effective and communicative Keynote or PowerPoint presentation for the first time, don’t panic. Follow these simple steps and you’ll wow them in the back rows. Remember: content is king Research your topic thoroughly. Make sure any images you use to illustrate your presentation are appropriate to the point(s) [...]

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Quick Online Tips has a timely reminder: make sure you update your domain contact address in time before someone else grabs it. I have to admit that I managed to lose a website I’d been running for three years because of this. Events conspired but it was basically my own fault: I happened to be [...]

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I was recently talking to some senior high school students about how you e-mail people in the business community, prospective employers, college professors, etc. The majority of them had no idea how to approach the matter, and those that turned in example e-mails misjudged the tone you should take when writing a formal e-mail. Things [...]

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