If you're like most human development professionals, you're very familiar with personality tests and probably use at least one in your work with clients. But personality tests and other psychometric instruments are only a part of the tool kit today's coaches, consultants, trainers and managers need.

Before a high-value opportunity can be turned into a success, someone has to explain what needs to be done. Most of us assume that perfect understanding follows our every utterance and e-mail. That’s a bad assumption that lies at the heart of the communications stall. This essay explains how you can be sure you are being understood.

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So many times you hear of small businesses working their rears off in order to satisfy large corporate clients only to find them selves buried in bills due to those large corporations slow payments. Unfortunately this is a typical strategy to hoard cash. After all the slower they payout the more money they have in cash flow.

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Machinery preventative maintenance is paramount in today’s factory. A machine going down can be catastrophic to the assembly line and many times specialized parts are not even available. Often such catastrophic failure or damage to a piece of machinery can be avoided thru early warning detection of the problem.

In a recent survey by the Mercury Consulting Group it stated that some British boards had frozen ICT budgets because they were seeing insufficient evidence of a return from their investments (ROI).

The Federal Trade Commission recently put forth a report to the franchse industry for comments to use in an upcoming rule-making event, which is sure to modify the current franchise rule. Many have been critical of additional rules in the industry, but none more critical than myself.

More and more companies in every industry are adding self defense training to their employees' benefit packages. Long-gone are the days when only the law enforcement and security industries where concerned with self-defense. Hospitals, business travelers, sales professionals, executives, and others are making sure that they and their valuable team members are learning important life-saving skills in today's often unsafe world.