100 Ways to Provide Greater Customer Service


Customer service is the staff’s ability to provide a series of activities designed to identify and meet customer expectations in order to acquire, ret...
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  1284 lectures
1284 lectures

Being Assertive – When One’s Freedom Does Not Hinder Another’s!


Assertiveness is frequently confused with freedom of expression. Under the pretext ofexpressing one’s opinion freely,we hurt or abuse someon...
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  2036 lectures
2036 lectures

Not turning your camera on... Is like going to a face-to-face training with a paper bag on your head!


In order to optimize the participants’ experience, and offer quality training, Solutions & Co. trainers are physically present in their classes an...
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  1605 lectures
1605 lectures

Career Progression: Ladder or Lattice?


What is the best way to advance in a career? The most common answer: get a promotion… For many, this is the only way! Our concept of “promotion” is qu...
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  1466 lectures
1466 lectures

Hiring criteria: Experience or potential?


Findings :   Highly skilled job seekers blame employers of not being interested in hiring unemployed people.Students with new...
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1180 lectures

The perfect moment for awareness…


Slowly, but surely, the ashes return to the ground… Once we have dusted ourselves off and our bruises disappear slowly… Before projecting ourselves in...
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997 lectures

Navigate difficult conversations with empathy during a period of tension


Difficult conversations… You dread them, you postpone them sometimes, but you have to have them at some point. Difficult discussions are part of every...
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  1231 lectures
1231 lectures

Managing your emotions in time of uncertainty and chaos


Circumstances of great uncertainty - like the current crisis - can make us feel destabilized and anxious. Our emotions and thoughts can get in the way...
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  2807 lectures
2807 lectures

Optimism – In time of crisis…


Why write about optimism when we are in the midst of a worldwide crisis and people are manifestly fearful and worried? Research in neuroscience and ps...
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  2027 lectures
2027 lectures

Visual supports | The analog tools’ advantages in the digital era


Before foreseeing a PowerPoint for your next presentation, and neglecting (even forgetting) white boards and flip charts, take the time to read this: ...
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1334 lectures

Front-Line Personnel – Have we abandoned our soldiers on the Front?


Soldiers? Uuuh… On the front? What? As a soft skills trainer, I have encountered thousands of workers who come to learn the skills needed to face the ...
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1067 lectures

Tattoos in the Work Place: is it Still a Taboo Topic?


Tattoos, once associated with rebellion, crimes, delinquency, gang membership, and machismo, has now become a modern phenomenon of self affirmation an...
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  2032 lectures
2032 lectures

MENTAL IMAGERY: TO DEVELOP AND INTEGRATE SOFT SKILLS


Here is the second of two articles about mental imagery. In the previous article we explained the technique and how it helps the performance and devel...
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2634 lectures

MENTAL IMAGERY: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF PERFORMANCE


The next two articles are dedicated to mental imagery. This first article focuses on explaining this science-based technique, how it contributes to pe...
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  7507 lectures
7507 lectures

“NEW COLLAR” WORKERS ARE TODAY’S PROFESSIONAL WORKFORCE VERSION 4.0


We all understand the difference between white-collar workers (those who have historically worked with their minds) and blue-collar workers (those who...
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1336 lectures

Burn-Out, Bore-Out and Brown-Out – Demystifying Modern Work Afflictions


The last decades have seen workers overwhelmed by all kinds of mental health issues, disconcerting afflictions that slowly consumed them engulfing the...
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  35263 lectures
35263 lectures

Communication Isn’t What We Say – It’s What the Other Person Understands


Communication is a complex process. Speaking well or forming good arguments is not sufficient to be a good communicator. In order to explain the compl...
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  6764 lectures
6764 lectures

Demonstrating Courtesy and Respect in the Workplace


Do good manners at work really matter? Should you really be expected to be polite all the time, or can you bend the rules in the name of efficiency an...
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Open Office Environment: How to Make it Work


There is an ongoing debate about the pros and cons of open offices. Some research indicates they are a playground for collaboration, innovation, creat...
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  4361 lectures
4361 lectures

Working in a Multicultural Environment


Working in a multicultural environment can be a satisfying and rewarding professional experience. You can broaden your horizons by learning various sk...
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10955 lectures

Professional Competencies


To continue where the article entitled THE ABILITY TO ACT… AT THE HEART OF PERFORMANCE AND EXCELLENCE left off, let’s begin by defining the term “comp...
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1754 lectures

The Ability to Act… At the Heart Of Performance and Excellence


“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” - Aristotle “The ability to act” is the intentional and effective levera...
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32275 lectures

Knowing How to Act


WHAT IS PROFESSIONALISM? The ability and commitment to adopt the right behaviour in the workplace – to behave in a way that reflects favourably on the...
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2931 lectures

Services Standards - Levers of customer service quality

Why are service standards important? Service standards represent an important element for customer service excellence, as well as good yield managemen...
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36421 lectures

Achieving Objectives - Going Beyond New Year's Resolutions!

The New Year is when many of us step back, take a good look at our lives and careers, and resolve to change things for the better.  We make a lis...
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  16595 lectures
16595 lectures

Being self-confident and trusting yourself

Self-confidence is the ability to believe, realistically and constantly, that we possess the necessary resources to face any situation with ease. It’s...
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  4326 lectures
4326 lectures

The Routine that Hinders our Effectiveness

Despite your willingness, efforts, and your engagement to be effective, you will simply not succeed! Days come by and all look the same. You get in to...
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  2855 lectures
2855 lectures

Generations in Today's Workplace


Today’s workforce is more diverse than ever. An aspect of this diversity, among many others, is the age of workers. More generations interact in the s...
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2581 lectures

Adaptability


It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change. Cha...
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2733 lectures

Being Assertive - It's All About Respect!


Assertiveness is the ability to express our feelings, sensations, thoughts, opinions, convictions and preferences freely, openly and directly regardle...
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  20417 lectures
20417 lectures