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What It Means To Be Professional (87.7 kb)
What transforms an occupation into a "profession" has been the subject of debate and the topic of numerous scholarly articles by sociologists, business people, and others for years. However, what is generally accepted by all parties is that when an occupational group or discipline reaches professional status, the level of trust and respect for that discipline by society is raised dramatically...
Download White Paper Leadership for a Changing Culture (132.8 kb)
Bankers Life and Casualty Company Focuses on Employee and Customer Engagement
Bankers Life and Casualty Company—a 126-year-old insurance firm focused exclusively on the needs of senior Americans—has long been recognized for its family culture. Finding itself in an increasingly competitive marketplace in which the culture lacked the aggressive stance it felt necessary to drive future success, and with a new CEO at the helm, the company set out to build a new leadership culture that would incorporate team skills and performance management systems to replace previous emphasis on subject matter knowledge...
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The Principles Of Persuasion (436.7 kb)
What Does It Take To Advance In A Business career?
When asked, most people tell us there are three ingredients to career advancement: 1) have the right skills, 2) work hard, and 3) be in the right place at the right time. But if there is a general consensus about what it takes to get ahead, why do so many people have stalled careers? The evidence strongly suggests that there is something more to career advancement than the right skills, hard work, and luck...
Download White Paper Virtual Meetings: Mastering the New Medium (650.2 kb)
People still tell a story, perhaps apocryphal, about the early days of automobiles. At that tentative beginning of the transportation revolution, there were only two horseless carriages in the entire city of Topeka, Kansas. Somehow, improbably, they managed to crash into each other...
Download White Paper Talk Your Way to the Top (70.2 kb)
How to Address Any Audience Like Your Career Depends On It.We have a saying at Communispond: "Every business challenge is a communications challenge." At first, it may sound like one of those simple "So what?" axioms, often heard in the business world, that are impossible to disagree with because it’s impossible to find any deeper meaning behind them. But think about it a little more. Try to name one business challenge that doesn’t hinge on effective communication...
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