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Developing the Art of Patience

Action Plan

The one I’m taking on is daily exercising. Cheers, Robert The post Developing the Art of Patience first appeared on Action Plan Marketing. The post Developing the Art of Patience appeared first on Action Plan Marketing. And at the end of it, you’ll have developed a valuable skill or habit.

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Managing your Energy, Time, and Tasks to have a Complete Day

Tom Spencer

On every project, you will also have client specific learning which will require you to learn about the client’s business, market, product/service, customers, etc. Ask other people for resources and leverage their knowledge by setting up times to ask specific questions of more senior team members.

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Future-proofing your job against the robots

Comatch

This is especially true in a free market, where you compete against other professionals. And the best part: This is true for soft skills such as communication, resilience, or time management – just like training to be a data analyst or mastering a foreign language. Awesome, isn’t it?

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Your Sales Training Is Probably Lackluster. Here’s How to Fix It

Harvard Business

Then, further training is usually limited to new production introductions or annual “kick-off” meetings to set quotas, where reps are flown in, given information and marching orders, and “fired-up” by a motivational speaker or exercise (more hot coals, anyone?). They don’t need to know how to do those jobs.

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Hold Onto The Bright Bits… the art of Eulogy Writing

Confessions of a Consultant

But just as the newspapers have draft eulogies for high-profile figures – he wanted to be prepared when the time came. Co-ordinating his thoughts in advance – wasn’t just an exercise in time management. There might be a big market for that service. Here’s how it would work. What do you think?

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Before You Agree to Take on New Work, Ask 3 Questions

Harvard Business

During the 2009 recession, I took a high-profile job with a marketing agency. The clients were big, the pay was excellent, and given the economic climate at the time, I considered myself lucky. Try the values exercise, then circle back to a “should” decision you’ve recently made or are considering.

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Help Your Team Achieve Work-Life Balance — Even When You Can’t

Harvard Business

While there will still be high-stakes, time-sensitive issues like beating a competitor to market with a new product, acknowledge that endurance is the goal, and speed is not the best or only metric of long-term success. Communicate that the organization’s success is based on a marathon, not a sprint.