Business Skills

Social media is a modern development that many professionals tend to overlook. LinkedIn provides one of the most commonly overlooked professional opportunities on the Internet today. Understanding how to use LinkedIn to spread your own credibility is a vital part…

Whatever profession you may be in, there will come a time when you are called upon to provide leadership to your company. Whether you have been unwillingly pushed into the leadership role, or if you are trying to prove that…

Communication is a vital part of everyday business. You know that you will spend the day communicating with other people, and there are always difficult topics that need to be discussed. If you need ideas on how to approach delicate…

If you’re a business man or woman, and you’d like some quick, easy-to-digest skills training, SkillBites.net is a great resource for you. You’ll find several excellent short eBooks with practical, easy to absorb and implement tips for improving leadership skills….

Have you ever had an idea for a business that kept coming back to you? I’ve had such ideas in the past, but until last summer, I never followed through with them. Some of those ideas came out on the…

OK, now you know that you don’t have the accountable organization that you need. How do you build company-wide accountability? As Oswald Viva explains in his SkillBite entitled Accountability in the Workplace, you need to start by changing or eliminating…

First you need to decide if accountability is missing from your organization or even in certain pockets of it. John Miller, author of “QBQ – The Question Behind the Question” gives some guidelines in this respect: Is there a tendency…

There are many types of tactics used in negotiations, usually designed to create tension, intimidate the other side, distract them from their issues or get them to make a hasty decision. Below are some strategies for dealing with tactics or…

Twitter is primarily a social network and people frequent the community to learn more about others who share their interests and passions. They aren’t there looking to buy products or sign up for service offers, so you need to take…