Our guidance on what to do if you think you’re underpaid.

This cast came out of an email we were sent by a listener. He had recently transferred to a new position and received a standard merit increase. When the company advertised a similar role in a different department, the role was advertised with an additional $5000 in salary. In addition, the listener had spoken to someone who was leaving the company who had been in a similar role and he was making an additional 15%. Our listener was beginning to feel that he’d got a rough deal. The question was, what to do next?

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How to use movement in presentations.

Presentations regularly come in the top 10 lists about what people are most afraid of. And, we regularly sit through terrible presentations at client sites. Presentation fall into both the Christmas rule: if you do it rarely, and it’s important, you’re likely to underperform. But luckily for us, with presentations, in the land of the blind, the one eyed person rules. You just have to be a little better than everyone else, and you’ll look good.

We’ve covered voice and gestures and now we’re going to talk about movement.

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Our guidance on how to create a 90 day new job plan.

‘What will you do in your first 90 days’ is a common interview question – especially at mid and more senior levels. Whilst we can console ourselves that the Manager Tools guidance ‘fit in, fit in, fit in’ is right, interviewers tend to want to hear about action. Many of you want to take action too. So, okay, we give in. In this series, we’re giving you the areas where you can take action. In this cast: your role.

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Our guidance on how to deal with conflict with a High C.

Conflict is a subject we get asked about relatively often. As Mark’s Dad says, the definition of conflict is two human beings in the same county. With 5, 10, 100, 1000 human beings in an organization, there’s bound to be some conflict. Each of the DiSC styles handles conflict differently. You’ll be more effective if you understand the conflict from the other person’s point of view – you might even get to the holy grail of a win win situation.

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Our resume guidance update for 2012.

Our resume guidance never changes. One page, focused on responsibilities and accomplishments. What you’ve done and how well you’ve done it. That said, each year, we produce an update which addresses more timely issues in resumes. This year, it’s all about your accomplishments.

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The conclusion of our discussion on how to use your gestures in presentations.

Presentations regularly come in the top 10 lists about what people are most afraid of. And, we regularly sit through terrible presentations at client sites. Presentation fall into both the Christmas rule: you do it rarely, it’s important, it’s bound to go poorly, AND the one-eyed man is king rule: you just have to be a little bit better and you’ll knock your audience’s socks off.

We’ve covered voice and now we’re going to talk about gestures.

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How to use your gesture in presentations.

Presentations regularly come in the top 10 lists about what people are most afraid of. And, we regularly sit through terrible presentations at client sites. Presentation fall into both the Christmas rule: you do it rarely, it’s important, it’s bound to go poorly, AND the one-eyed man is king rule: you just have to be a little bit better and you’ll knock your audience’s socks off.

We’ve covered voice and now we’re going to talk about gestures.

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Our guidance on how to deal with conflict with a High S.

Conflict is a subject we get asked about relatively often. As Mark’s Dad says, the definition of conflict is two human beings in the same county. With 5, 10, 100, 1000 human beings in an organization, there’s bound to be some conflict. Each of the DiSC styles handles conflict differently. You’ll be more effective if you understand the conflict from the other person’s point of view – you might even get to the holy grail of a win win situation.

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The third part of our guidance on working with HR – involve HR early.

Mark used to say he hated HR. Now he says, he hates bad HR. Many companies are too small to have HR. Managers in companies which are big enough to have an HR department, sometimes wish they didn’t. When you want help, they won’t give it, and when you don’t want help, they want to tell you about a bunch of rules that make your life harder.

HR does have an important role to play in organizations – a company doesn’t get very big before someone decides someone needs to handle all that ‘HR stuff’. How do you work with them effectively?

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The second part of our guidance on working with HR – involve HR early.

Mark used to say he hated HR. Now he says, he hates bad HR. Many companies are too small to have HR. Managers in companies which are big enough to have an HR department, sometimes wish they didn’t. When you want help, they won’t give it, and when you don’t want help, they want to tell you about a bunch of rules that make your life harder.

HR does have an important role to play in organizations – a company doesn’t get very big before someone decides someone needs to handle all that ‘HR stuff’. How do you work with them effectively?

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