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How to Set More Achievable Sales Goals

LSA Global

4 Tips that Work for Achieving Sales Goals While most consultative selling training programs teach meaningful skills to help achieve sales quota, they rarely touch upon the actual process of setting achievable sales goals. Goal Setting Let’s assume that overall sales goals are set by your sales manager.

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Urgent vs. Important – How to Sort Through the Noise

Women in Consulting

In our brave new world of email, instant messaging, social media, twitter plus the occasional phone call it can be hard to sort through the list of possible tasks and decide what to do next. This concept was actually introduced by then-President Eisenhower, but it shows up as part of many time management systems.)

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Hiring an NSF Research Project Manager to Start Immediately

NeoAcademic

The position principally requires responsibilities in the management and administration of project personnel and secondarily in the completion of scientific research tasks, such as assigned literature review or data analysis. Specific job tasks vary over the phases of the project, and training on all such tasks will be provided as required.

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In a Distracted World, Solitude Is a Competitive Advantage

Harvard Business

Your Team’s Time Management Problem Might Be a Focus Problem. Most of us have meetings that we can afford to miss, and most of us underutilize our energy because we have not allocated time to reflect and be rigorous about our priorities. You and Your Team Series. Staying Focused. Your Brain Can Only Take So Much Focus.

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I Ran 4 Experiments to Break My Social Media Addiction. Here’s What Worked.

Harvard Business

Social media can connect us to new ideas, help us share our work, and allow previously unheard voices to influence culture. Yet it can also be a highly addictive time-sink if we’re not careful about our goals , purpose , and usage. Further, it was very clearly time-based. Experiment #2: Carving Out Daily Time Blockers.

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Great Leaders Embrace Office Politics

Harvard Business

“I was heads down on delivering results, shared my inner self and built trust…everything I was trained and even coached to do.” Jill should have spent much more time managing up. She should have better managed decision makers, her boss, her image, and her own career.

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How Your Phone Can Help You Set Better Habits

Harvard Business

Channing Rodman, a social media consultant, developed her writing practice by posting daily essays to Facebook. By building an association between doing something and getting some kind of immediate payoff, we train our brains to crave that habit loop. The reward is what turns a repeated action into a habit.