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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1752 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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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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2924 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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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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16581 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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4300 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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2847 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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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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2725 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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20411 lectures

Empathy on the Workplace


Developing Empathy to Understand Others We all know individuals who lack empathy. Be it for their insensitivity when they make requests, or because th...
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Beware of Presenteeism - a Sign of Ineffiency!


The term “presenteeism” has been used widely in management magazines recently. It describes a situation in which we show up to work in a state where w...
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4203 lectures

Be Careful with Emotions - Risk of Contagion!


Our brain is wired to imitate others – when we are in the presence of people, our mirror neurons (our learning neurons functioning by imitating and sh...
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6365 lectures

Building a Service-Centered Business


The staff in contact with the customer takes an ambassador role for your organization and represents – to his eyes – the service quality of your busin...
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3212 lectures

Owning up to Change


We are very ambivalent when it comes to change. We constantly ask our surrounding environment (spouse, colleagues, children, politicians, bosses, etc....
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4352 lectures