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Beth Armknecht Miller, CMC, of Atlanta, Georgia, is Founder and President of Executive Velocity, a leadership development and coaching firm accelerating the leadership success of CEOs and business leaders from emerging to midsize companies. With over 2000

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Health & Fitness > Emotional Health & Wellbeing Singular focus in a multi-task world: 1 of 7

Multi-Tasking: Is It Worth It? You see it at work. You drop by an employee's workspace to discuss a current project and she continues to work on the computer while you are having the discussion. How do you feel as the person continues to multi-task? Alternately, you are at home and your spouse is in the kitchen preparing din...
Business > Human Resources Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator in the workplace: 1 of 3

Myers Briggs- Identifying Type through Emails and Voice Mails In our high tech world, often we never meet the people we work with face to face. The majority of our interaction is over the internet or phone line. Without the ability to see a person's body language and facial expressions we loose up to 60% of the meaning of a ...
Business > Leadership Strategies Tips for efficient leadership: 10 of 28

Tough times call for strong leaders When working with business owners and leaders, I am constantly being reminded of the stress they are currently enduring in this difficult economy. Most have had to make difficult decisions for the long term health of their company and more importantly the employees of the company. More oft...
Jobs & Careers > Office Politics Communicating with difficult people in the workplace: 2 of 5

Managing and Working with Negative People We've all been there. You find yourself working on an important project and one of your team members, co-workers, or even the manager is an eternal pessimist. I like to call people like this, Eeyore. You remember Eeyore, the gloomy donkey from Winnie the Pooh. The words and phrases y...
Business > Human Resources Tips for providing effective feedback in the workplace: 11 of 21

Remember the manager you once had who said to you, I need to talk to you and you got a deep sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach? What was it that made you react to those words? There are any number of reasons that you reacted that way, many of which were based on the experiences you had following the statement I need ...
Business > Human Resources How to reduce employee turnover: 15 of 27

A June 2008 Employee Engagement Survey by HR Solutions of Chicago revealed that employees were more engaged with their work when they felt: 1. supported by their manager when making suggestions to correct work place problems. 2. valued and recognized as an important part of the team. 3. their manager was helpful and friendly...
Business > Human Resources Writing a personal vision statement: 4 of 7

Your Personal Vision Statement: The Beginning of Your Future When coaching executives and business leaders, I often discover that although their company has a vision statement, they don't have their own personal vision statement. So what's the big problem of not having your own personal vision statement? What I have found ti...
Business > Leadership Strategies The importance of integrity to leadership: 13 of 20

Leadership: How Important Is 'Integrity'? In Today's Business World Is Integrity an Afterthought? I don't know about you, but reading and hearing about leaders who have either lost, or never had integrity, has become all too common these days. It makes us believe that perhaps there are no leaders with integrity. As someone w...
Jobs & Careers > Getting Ahead Tips for professional development: 4 of 6

Whether you are a CEO, Manager or Administrative Assistant, you are responsible for your own development. During these economically challenging times, one of the first things to be cut in a company's budget is training and development. More than likely the cuts were done at the beginning of 2009. If you are lucky, there is s...
Business > Management (Other) Tips for prospective managers: 9 of 10

Leadership: Trick or Treat? For all you new leader-managers out there and you know who you are. Until recently, you were performing as a super-star engineer, programmer, scientist, accountant, sales rep, to name a few and then you were offered the opportunity to manage. This step up was what you had been working towards. It ...