Ten Tips for Staying Awake in meetings.

Ten Tips for Staying Awake

Meetings are an evil fact of life in Corporate America. Sitting through them can be hard enough, but when you're running a meeting it's just as difficult to speak to a room full of snoozing salespeople. Here are some tips for managers hoping to engage their salespeople during meetings from Eli Mina, author of The Complete Handbook of Business Meetings:

1. Give each member a lead role on a selected agenda item such as when he/she will make a presentation or facilitate a discussion. No member should be allowed to sit back and observe a meeting. 

Need a lift, be good at work

Being a good worker alone does not get you that promotion

You may be a great worker but is your etiquette stopping that much-deserved promotion. Yes? Then its time you turn to us for some good etiquette lessons.

Appropriate business etiquette can have a significant influence on your career, promotions and pay hikes. Etiquette makes a huge difference in the way you are perceived by the management and by your colleagues. So, if you don·t want to miss the bus, pick up these pointers.

Don't abuse technology

Career Tips - Relocation Hangover

Relocation essentials never leave home without it.

Relocating to a new place is a difficult and a painful process. Moving to a new town means starting out all over again. Leaving your friends, comfort, familiarity is difficult. Over and above that the process of packing and unpacking is hateful. So, it is imperative for you to be meticulous when it is time to pack your bags, lock stock and barrel.

Where are you moving?

On the job, you are obviously moving to another town or city. Get to know the city. Make efforts to understand the city, from the point of view of people, their attitudes, civic sense and the rules of life out there. Moving to a new place can be both exciting and disastrous, so know about it. As they as, it is important to be Roman in Rome.

Building team spirit

The winning spirit for teams

Rihom is arrogant and standoffish, preferring to keep his contact with colleague minimal; thinks he is the undisputable authority in his field, he works in seclusion. Rihom’s condescending attitude is insufferable and those who are forced to interact with him. It’s a belittling experience. Working in a team is a different ballgame altogether for him!

This description may have conjured up the memory of someone of the likes of Rihom. On the other hand, you may catch yourself wincing as you nearly fit the description. Either way, effects of this on a company is damaging and the sooner one realises it, the better it is.

Few ways to help you get the raise you deserve

Mounting frustration and reluctance interjected with the odd burst of determination to ask for a raise. You may have been a steady performer, whizzing past every deadline and taking on added responsibility with relative ease. The catch, however, is that your pay packet hardly goes with your performance and it’s hardly any consolation.

Walking into the boss’s cabin and asking for a raise can be downright intimidating. However, to have relative satisfaction in your job, you need to have a salary that makes you feel good, you need to muster up the courage to pop the question.

Career Tips - A Controlled Workaholic

Clockwork!

No social outings, no workouts, no time for the family and no time for yourself. It's lacklustre. The sparkle in life disappears when you have nothing to look forward to, nothing but your work to think about. Workaholism has reached epidemic proportions and its alarming repercussions can turn "Karoshi' (Japanese for death and suicide from overwork) for Bangladeshis too.

With technology hooking up home, the possibility of working round the clock is just about annihilating the home experience.

Career Tips - Dont Lost your Savor

Avoid being a victim of downsizing, upgrade yourself.

It’s just like an outdated product in a department store. When you are no longer a product in demand, and obsolescence stares you in the face, you have no choice but to give in. Being downsized or laid-off is a common feature in today’s workplace.The accelerated pace of technology has changed business processes and so demand professionals who can handle these implications become necessary.

Persons who are not alert to the subtle changes face the danger of being thrown out of work. This is more so in the IT industry where only the fittest and the fastest can survive the onslaught of obsolescence in technology.