Casual Articles
#1 in Business Subscribe Email Print


Court Reporting 101

Court reporting is an exciting field! From the court room to the deposition suite to broadcast television, court reporters, deposition reporters, and captioners make it happen! Court reporting is the way to launch a professional career that's crucial to the legal field, challenging, and well-paid. There are literally global job opportunities awaiting you.


Interim Management - Increasingly Part Of The Plan

Interim management has traditionally been seen as a reactive response to organisational failure. Increasingly, a new breed of interims are emerging - people who regard interim management as a career and have transferable leadership skills to work across sectors. Building in organisational capacity to accommodate career interims 'as part of the solution' is discussed.


Communication Skills - Say What You Mean and Mean What You Say

In using our communication skills and abilities how we say something is just as important as what we say. Body language plays an extremely important part of our communication. In fact studies have been done showing that when we interact in a communication process the receiver actually receives 7% of the message verbally. The other 93% is received based on the non-verbal aspects of the message.


Winning With Diversity - The Next Phase

Diversity training is great, but in order for your diversity strategy to be properly implemented, you must take additional steps.


The Boss is the Boss, No Matter Where They Came From

Career assistance for any position. The first in a series on selecting the right company for your career. This is a discussion on two types of entities based on the leadership; entrepreneur or corporate executive. This article allows you to take a moment to think about the leadership of any company you are considering to help you bring your career to the next level.


Who Do You Be In Business?

Who you are in life creates your results. Who are you in your business. If you want to have, you must be a certain person and this will drive your actions, which drive your results.


Web 2.0 Has Business Owners Blogging The Success Stories of Their Company

People want to read about other people. People who want to be more successful often learn from their contemporaries who are already successful. And truly successful people want to share their vision, to help others take advantage of what they had to learn the hard way.


Now it's Time to Get Your Feet Wet

Growing a business - being successful in business - great home-based business tips.


Easy But Powerful Brochure Writing Tips

Medical companies and hospitals spend a lot of time and money creating brochures, but often they miss the mark. It's not that they're not good--they just are written at the customer instead of to the customer. Good news: it's not hard to fix the writing.


Scala 500 Bluetooth Headset

When selecting a Bluetooth headset, it's very important to consider what kind of lifestyle you have, and what your daily activities consist of. If you spend the majority of your time inside, the Scala 500 Bluetooth headset probably isn't your best bet. However, the Scala 500 Bluetooth headset is the perfect solution if you're looking for a headset that performs well in outside conditions.


5 Steps to Preventing Workplace Violence

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics 95% of the 7.1 million U.S. employers reported at least one act of some type of workplace violence in 2006. These acts may include anything from assault, armed robbery to even homicide. With the recent bloodbath at Virginia Tech, where two professors died, and another homicide at Delphi in Michigan many managers and business owners wonder what they can do to reduce the chance of violence in their workplace.


How I Survived an IRS Audit (and How You Can Too!)

Here's an overview of what an IRS audit is like along with steps you can take to prepare!


Are Movado Watches Worth The Price?

The downsides to movado watches and an answer to whether or not they are worth the price.


Internet Marketing: A Reflection after One Year in the Business

Internet marketing is here to stay and is a great business opportunity.


Top 5 Office Supplies Bought Online

Unless you've been living under a rock for the last few years, you're well aware of the online-shopping craze that's sweeping the country! From rare books and CDs, to cars and vacations.


Consensus - What It Is And When To Achieve It

When the stakes of a decision are high, or a high level of commitmentis needed from every involved person, then the time required to reach a concensus is a worthwhile investment.


19 Tips for Hiring an Entertainer for Your Next Business Function

Do something different for your next business event and hire a comedian!


Running a Business is Like Gardening

Having had a busy week, I was only too happy to don my gardening clothes and get outside to do some planting, weeding and pruning last weekend. “It’s interesting”, I thought, “how business refers to a slight improvement as the green shoots of recovery”. I then began to think of other gardening analogies that could be applied to business.


Should we Believe the Experts? (Part III)

Why do we use experts? To predict the future. Consider a patient who is asking a physician about the future effects of a certain drug, or the investor who is asking a stock analyst about the future prices of a certain stock, or the manager who is asking a human resource manager about the future performance of a certain candidate, or the brand manager who is asking a market researcher about the future sales of a certain new product. Should we believe these experts? History tells us that accurate predictions of the future are rare. Many examples exist where the brightest and most qualified individuals failed to see the future. This series of articles presents examples from the arts (see part I), business (see part II), and science (see part III).


Rewarding Award Plaques

When you think about contests or other various events when human skill or genius is being acknowledge, there are always various types of award plaques that are being handed out to either the contest winners or just to the persons who are being honored at a certain event.


The Softer Benefits of Corporate Giving

People tend to be aware that there are financial benefits to corporations for donating to charities and that corporations want to be good, forward-acting citizens. What people—and many organizations—don’t realize yet is that there are still other motivators and benefits for corporate giving.


Gold Mining

Mining Gold is hard work you know? There are many people in the US to this day who still mine for gold. Did you know that in many countries people have protested mines, gold and silver are easy ones to protest because it is associated with greed as those minerals are also considered legal tender.


10 Lessons From Don Corleone

Learn the ten secrets used by Don Corleone to build his money making empire.



Next page>>