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FEBRUARY 21, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Quick Thought on Leadership and Subordination to a Cause If you are a manager or leader, you are very likely to have followers whom we commonly refer to as ‘subordinates.’ Alignment of each team member to goal/results leads to a flat structure where role of a leader is that of an enabler.

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QAspire

AUGUST 8, 2010

Whether measuring a project or a business, here are a five steps to map your metrics with your business objectives: Know your goals : Identify what are your strategic, tactical and operational goals. Understanding your business challenges and goals is the first most important step. You get the point. Don’t Kill It!

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DECEMBER 19, 2010

The goal was to identify the opportunities for improvement in processes. How is this conversation strengthening the alignment of people to the goal, and helping me build relationship? - - - - - P.S: with Phil Gerbyshak Management Craft Nicholas Bate NOOP.NL Don’t Kill It! Working and Walking – Where Are You Going?

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Develop your web of influence (key stakeholders, decision makers, influencers, connectors) to assist you in reaching your goal. If you have the goal of sitting in the C-Suite, start by communicating this goal to others and find out how you can get a sponsor to take you under his/her wings and move you up the ranks.

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AUGUST 15, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer 10 Pointers to Build Comfort Within The Team It pains to see teams where people work on a common goal but don’t get along well with each other. Don’t talk small : You have a goal to achieve as a team. with Phil Gerbyshak Management Craft Nicholas Bate NOOP.NL Do that with grace.

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Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 1, 2019

Let’s look at the individual steps needed to make your goal a reality. This allows you to further separate your personal and business information ; credit bureaus and online directories will both recognize this distinction. ​Make sure you list your business name, address, website, and business phone number to the listings.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

In other words, the ultimate goal of a good search engine optimization strategy is to rank higher in search results, something that MackMedia can help you to ascertain. SEO can and should be combined with both SEM and PPC for optimal results. Here is what you need to know about all three. SEO is comprised of both on-page and off-page factors.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 15, 2010

The opportunity to be a part of a team that works together toward a common goal. If sitting on a board is one of your goals, it is important to learn how to communicate your value and to network strategically so others know what you can bring to the table. The opportunity to build relationships that will bring you business.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

Wouldn’t it be great to simply plug in your dreams or goals for your life and career and have someone tell you in a very confident assuring voice how to get there? It is common this time of year to set goals. We’re often so much better at setting the goals than keeping on track until we reach our destination.

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QAspire

JANUARY 12, 2011

Bottom line : Pursuing excellence is a worthy goal. with Phil Gerbyshak Management Craft Nicholas Bate NOOP.NL Finally, just like quality , excellence is a moving target. Today’s excellent becomes tomorrow’s good enough and day-after-tomorrow’s mediocre. Knowing the close inter-relationship between quality and excellence is important.

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QAspire

JANUARY 16, 2011

When leaders are absolutely clear of their vision, goals and the means to attain those, they can simplify things a great deal. with Phil Gerbyshak Management Craft Nicholas Bate NOOP.NL Simplicity stems from clarity of purpose. Don’t Kill It! Working and Walking – Where Are You Going?

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Address personal fears, listen to your own instincts and intuition, and start believing in yourself to have the tenacity and drive to see your goal of business ownership actualize. Offer support to others with similar goals of business ownership. Be proactive; take action Sometimes our biggest obstacle to success is ourselves!

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Women on Business

JANUARY 3, 2011

The goal is to get a response from 1,500 women over the next 90 days. “Dear Diary&# is a questionnaire designed specifically for women to gather feedback on their thoughts around achievement, fulfillment and relationships, past, present and future. . Will you help?

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Women on Business

JANUARY 14, 2011

How often have you found yourself avoiding challenges and playing it safe, sticking to goals you knew would be easy for you to reach? In addition to her work as author and co-editor of the highly-regarded academic book The Psychology of Goals (Guilford, 2009), she has authored papers in her field’s most prestigious journals.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 28, 2010

As we approach a new year and an opportunity for that fresh start, look no further than inside yourself to keep a resolution, start a new habit, break an old one, be a better person, achieve new business goals, find a job, etc. So look no further because “there’s no place like home.”

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Time Management: As a solo entrepreneur, I find myself toggling between prospecting for new business, meeting with clients, administrative responsibilities, networking, planning, strategizing, and, oh, I almost forgot…actually doing the work! Business Goals: Goals, like those leg warmers and jelly shoes, go out of style.

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QAspire

JULY 1, 2010

This lead to an immediate realization that everything we do is a project, be it loosing your weight, writing a book, painting your home, getting a degree or managing an improvement initiative. For any effort where you have goals, time line, constraints, dependencies, risks and need of resources to be managed - you have a project on your hand.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 4, 2011

If you want a team of dedicated employees working diligently to accomplish goals, helping each other succeed, and helping you reach new heights in your business, consider a guilt-prone hire. The findings? The link between guilt and performance is clearly there. Translation: Guilt is good!!

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Finally, don’t go to networking events with the goal of giving out as many business cards as you can. Be strategic about give-aways. What product or service positions you best? What will provide a good intro so that people will want to purchase more? Collecting cards from the people you have good conversations with is much more important.

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QAspire

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

My book #QUALITYtweet has a chapter dedicated to ‘Management, Leadership and Quality’ and I thought Tom would enjoy reading the ideas presented in the book. An excerpt: The purpose of any quality management system is to build a quality oriented culture (internal goal) and deliver exceptional value for money to customers (external goal).

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Strategy Driven

MAY 13, 2019

Know exactly what your end goal is. Decide now what message you want to promote and how it helps you accomplish your goals. Make certain that everything from your website to paid ads to business directory entries follow the new branding scheme. Select a brand that matches your new or revised company principles.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 13, 2010

But I still need to remind myself that being liked is not my goal—it is a secondary outcome and sugary sweet is not the way to get there. Its OK to want to be liked–it might even help in some cases. My need to be liked helps me deliver tough messages in a way that allows people to open up and listen.

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QAspire

JULY 29, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Adding Value: A Gentle Reminder Sure, as a project manager / business leader, you: Completed the project in given time frame. Shared statistical reports with the top management. Adding value – that is what project management (and all our work as professionals) is all about.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 12, 2011

As men and women work together on business focused goals everyone learns. Culture shift is very difficult and ambiguous. Facilitating advocacy is a powerful culture shifting strategy for organizations.

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QAspire

JULY 1, 2010

Sales managers often forget relationship aspect. The last post of June emphasized on importance of enjoying the process of achieving our goals. Carnival of Management Improvement at Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog by John Hunter was a fantastic collection of posts on leadership, improvement, lean and quality.

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QAspire

JULY 27, 2010

While reading I recalled one of your tweet “Quality is never a short-term goal. Yes, quality is a long term goal that requires discipline over a period of time. with Phil Gerbyshak Management Craft Nicholas Bate NOOP.NL Check it out if you haven’t already ! It is a long-term differentiators&#. Don’t Kill It!

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QAspire

AUGUST 29, 2010

For the manager. Giving an example of QA, a QA / Tester should not just strive to dig out defects in applications, he/she should also think out of the box and come up with usability enhancements and suggestions for management to give a thought in improvement of some feature or help them inject a new functionality in application.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 13, 2011

Getting our basic needs met; the rest of our time is spent trying on different masks, cloaked in various costumes being who we need to be to realize those primal goals. That’s really what life is all about, right? Well, maybe that’s a bit over-simplistic, but at the core of survival is selfishness…as it should be.

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QAspire

JULY 14, 2010

As you very rightly said, driving people (and their performances) through short-term goals leads to risky growth where people are only seen as ‘means to an end’ (resources). with Phil Gerbyshak Management Craft Nicholas Bate NOOP.NL Excellent Post. Must read for all the leaders. Jagat´s last blog. Don’t Kill It!

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QAspire

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

If you are a manager or leader at any level, these tips will help you come out of your comfort zone and improve things around. Seven Key Thoughts About Managing Human Resources was the post I wrote for business owners, team leaders and human resources teams. with Phil Gerbyshak Management Craft Nicholas Bate NOOP.NL

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

A Roadmap For Recovery Stimulus dollars are headed toward businesses that support these Recovery Act goals: Healthcare : Modernize the healthcare system with electronic medical records systems. To secure your little corner of the recovery, you’ll need to be at the right place with the right business plan.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 10, 2011

The benefit of maintaining and managing your own account is that you claim your identity and no one else can pretend to be you and/or invite others based on your name. When you claim your profile, you may also link to that profile in places like your blog, company website, or other places you’ll need some references.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

Time is something we either manage well or have no sense of. If we are lacking in time-management skills it could take away from the time and love we get to share with our families. How great would it be if everyone would operate with the ultimate goal being love? It’s that simple of an equation. Interesting thoughts.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

I bring this up today as it is currently the time of year when we are fired with resolutions, goals, plans…. Marlene Dietrich didn’t speak often, but in this instance it was worth waiting for.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 26, 2011

Even though the chosen path resulted in the realization of my goals and dreams, I quickly became completely disinterested in corporate culture and, unwilling to jump through any more hoops for the big bucks. My former employer decided to downsize our management group within two months of my planned exodus.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

When you do, please tell him my goal is not to point fingers—what I’m after is a better understanding of the situation.” (Note, please: don’t, then, point fingers. If you have the sense they are covering for someone else, it can also help to suggest they speak directly to the person in question.

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QAspire

JULY 6, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Change Management Essentials - 5 Things To Avoid Most organizational/team improvement initiatives we undertake involve change - from current state of affairs to desired state. Think about a few key things you can do now, that will take you one step nearer to your goal.

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