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Managing Emotionally Challenging Situations: Two Little Known But Wildly Effective Strategies

Many years ago (think decades) when I was working on my Ph.D., I held a variety of interesting jobs to help supplement the meager pay I was receiving as a teaching fellow and adjunct faculty. During the summer sessions, when teaching oppor [...]

How to Evaluate Supplier Performance and Use the Information

This is the third and the last in the articles addressing “SUPPLIER PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT”.Let’s make sure we know why we want to do this:There is a need to align the performances of us, our suppliers, and customers To identify what th [...]

What is Supplier Selection? - Formal Process of Determining the Best

This is the 2nd article of 3 dealing with “SUPPLIER PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT”. The 3rd article will address “HOW TO EVALUATE THE SUPPLIER & USE THE INFORMATION”.This is a significant point of activity. Please note that it is Procurem [...]

Proactive Planning for Increased Success

Do you find yourself scrambling last minute, having to be reminded of deadlines, or being hunted down by others, after a deadline has passed? Or do you want to stop wasting time searching for things & feeling overwhelmed? Or do you thin [...]

Supplier Performance Measurement - A Tool Leading to Success

Your business performance is directly related to the quality and delivery of materials and services from your supplier. They play a major role in your success or failure.Recognizing this point requires that we must pursue a new relation [...]

Secret Strategies to Giving Performance Feedback

Does this sound familiar? You have a team member who is engaged in some rather sketchy behavior, behavior that you know you ought to address. However, the thought of having a performance feedback conversation isn’t really appealing. So, you [...]

The Best No Cost Employee Recognition Strategy

It’s no secret that employee recognition matters. Numerous research studies reveal that well over 50% of employees crave more recognition both from their leaders and their immediate peers. Employee recognition is a key driver of retention, [...]

All You Need is Love

February is a month filled with hearts wherever you go. Love it or hate it…St. Valentine’s Day is here to stay like many other contemporary holidays along with their commercialization. But it doesn’t have to be that way. We have choices [...]

The Science of Compassion

Do you know that 70% of all people who seek medical attention for headaches find they have nothing to do with any organic reason? It is simply stress! Are you aware that 40% of the workforce is on some type of medication for anxiety or [...]

Comparing Excel’s VLOOKUP and XLOOKUP Functions

According to Microsoft, VLOOKUP is the third most used worksheet function, behind the SUM and AVERAGE functions, respectively. VLOOKUP is used to look up information in a spreadsheet based on criteria that you provide. VLOOKUP has four argu [...]