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Learn to Delegate and You Will Stop Procrastinating - Quick Tip

Learn to Delegate and You Will Stop Procrastinating - Quick Tip

Procrastination isn't always about getting started on a project. It can also be about a project leader trying to do ALL of the work.

When someone thinks that they have to be in control of everything, they tend to get overwhelmed. The overwhelm results in procrastination. See the connection?

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If too much time is spent on minute details, deadlines are in danger of not being met. Focus on the big picture.

When you recognize that your project leader is too detail oriented, think about ways you can overcome this stumbling block. Have your project leader delegate some tasks to others and prioritize items in order of importance.

A project leader needs to be ask, "Which details are crucial to the success of the project and which details are of secondary importance?"

Learning to delegate tasks is one of several effective ways to stop procrastinating.

"Stop Procrastinating, Now!" is one of the 13 essential tools in the Employee Success Toolkit.

The Employee Success Toolkit is a professional development course in 13 easy-to-follow lessons. It is a system guaranteed to improve attitude, skills, and productivity.

See all the details and learn what the other 12 lessons are at:
http://www.confidencecenter.com/url/toolkit.htm

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The ultimate goal of any supervisor is to turn
ordinary workers into extraordinary employees.
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If you want...

- Employees to manage their time efficiently,

- Respect and a better understanding of co-workers with different backgrounds or cultures,

- Employees having fun at work while achieving their goals,

You can do it -and much more- with the Employee Success Toolkit.

See all the details and learn what the other 12
lessons are at:
http://www.confidencecenter.com/url/toolkit.htm

Employee Morale Tips Newsletter - April 28, 2009

Employee Morale Tips
April 28, 2009 - Vol. 9 - Issue 17

Written by Harriet Meyerson and published every Tuesday compliments of www.ConfidenceCenter.com

In This Issue:

• Word, Quote, Trivia, and Joke of the Week
• Article: Crazy T-shirt Day

We have a special gift for you.
 - An exclusive interview with leadership expert, Sam Horn.

The topic:

Got Clout? How Women Can Increase Confidence, Influence and Respect at Work.

To listen to the interview go to:
http://tinyurl.com/getclout

Word and Quote of the Week

*** Healing ***

*** The soul is healed by being with children. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky

Trivia Question of the Week

Q. What ability has the silkworm moth lost through domestication?

(Answer at the end of this newsletter.)

Employee Morale
Crazy T-shirt Day

Contributed by loyal subscriber, Erika Bialek

We have crazy t-shirt day in May when employees can wear any (appropriate) t-shirt they wish. The crazier the better.

A panel judges the shirts and the winner's picture is emailed around the company.

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It's easy for morale to wear thin...

So, we've put together hundreds of sure-fire activities that will dress up any Employee Morale Program in no time. Our eBook, Fire Up Your Staff on a Shoestring Budget, is packed full of unique low-cost ideas and activities, as well as certificates, coupons and forms that work to raise employee morale FAST without spending a lot of money.

This ebook is part of the Employee Morale Secrets - Power Pack of employee morale books.

Learn what the other books are and see all the details at:
http://www.confidencecenter.com/prod23.htm

Tomorrow's Leadership Quick Tip:
Learn to Delegate and You Will Stop Procrastinating

 

Our Quick Tip Leadership Series comes to you every Wednesday by email and on our blog, so be sure to look for it.

Latest Leadership Tips on our blog...

If you haven't visited our blog - you're missing a lot of useful articles and tips. These are some of the latest ones.

* Magic Words that Change Negative to Positive - Quick Tip

* Successful Workplace Communication - Quick Tip

* Increase Your Workplace Energy - Quick Tip

* Past newsletters - if you missed a recent issue you can find it on our blog.

Also... look at our list of categories for many other useful articles, audios and videos.

Visit our blog at:
http://www.BecomeABetterLeader.com
and sign up for email updates in the upper right corner.

Answer to This Week's Trivia Question

Q. What ability has the silkworm moth lost through domestication?

A.  Flight

Joke of the Week

Items from real résumés and cover letters that were printed in the Fortune Magazine:

• I was working for my mom until she decided to move.

• Marital status: single. Unmarried. Unengaged. Uninvolved. No commitments.

• I have an excellent track record, although I am not a horse.

• I am loyal to my employer at all costs....Please feel free to respond to my résumé on my office voice mail.

• I have become completely paranoid, trusting completely no one and absolutely nothing.

• My goal is to be a meteorologist. But since I possess no training in meteorology, I suppose I should try stock brokerage.

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Written by Harriet Meyerson.
Take our -Employee Morale Assessment-
and get the top 10 Employee Morale Boosters
at: http://www.ConfidenceCenter.com
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leadership tips and strategies.
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Help Us Spread the News...

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(c) Copyright 2009 Harriet Meyerson. All rights reserved.

Get Rid of Energy Vampires at your Workplace and Increase Your Workplace Energy - Quick Tip

Get Rid of Energy Vampires at your Workplace and Increase Your Workplace Energy - Quick Tip

If misery loves company, how come no one likes a pity party?

Probably because all that's served are the blues and negativity - energy vampires that are deadly to workplace morale.

In today's marketplace, negativity is everywhere,bringing morale low which in turn decreases productivity.

It is more important than ever for supervisors to learn how to increase the energy at their workplace.

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So what's a supervisor to do?
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Teach your employees the benefits of having an "Attitude of Gratitude".

Instead of focusing on negatives, have your employees take two minutes to make a list of the many things for which they are grateful.

As they become aware of their many blessings, you will see their sadness transformed into happiness.

This is one of several easy and effective ways to increase workplace energy from the Employee Success Toolkit.

Increase Your Workplace Energy is one of the 13 essential tools in the Employee Success Toolkit.

The Employee Success Toolkit is a professional development course in 13 easy-to-follow lessons. It is a system guaranteed to improve attitude, skills, and productivity.

See all the details and learn what the other 12 lessons are at:
http://www.confidencecenter.com/url/toolkit.htm

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The ultimate goal of any supervisor is to turn
ordinary workers into extraordinary employees.
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If you want...

• Happy, positive employees who work as a team, deal with problems and get along with each other instead of constantly complaining.

• Shared excitement and enthusiasm for  work even though it's very difficult at times.

• Better flow of communication between management and staff

You can do it -and much more- with the Employee Success Toolkit.

See all the details and learn what the other 12 lessons are at:

http://www.confidencecenter.com/url/toolkit.htm

Have a great day,
Harriet
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Harriet Meyerson
The Confidence Center
Dallas, TX

http://www.ConfidenceCenter.com

Visit our blog for Leadership Articles, Tips, and Strategies:
http://www.BecomeABetterLeader.com

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Employee Morale Tips Newsletter - April 21, 2009

Employee Morale Tips
April 21, 2009 - Vol. 9 - Issue 16

Written by Harriet Meyerson and published every Tuesday compliments of www.ConfidenceCenter.com

In This Issue:

• Word, Quote, Trivia, and Joke of the Week
• Article: Pet Picture Contest

We have a special gift for you in honor of Administrative Professionals Week (April 19-25).
 - An exclusive interview with leadership expert, Sam Horn.

The topic:

Got Clout? How Women Can Increase Confidence, Influence and Respect at Work.

To listen to the interview go to:
http://tinyurl.com/getclout

After you listen, please leave your comments on this blog.

Comments from subscribers:

"Thank you for this Harriet! Absolutely great advice. I thoroughly enjoyed listening to the interview. It addressed quite a few issues that I have experienced myself."

"Thanks so much for this gift.  I just finished listening to it and loved it."
 
Word and Quote of the Week

***Point of View***

***  "The possibility of stepping into a higher plane is quite real for everyone. It requires no force or effort or sacrifice.  It involves little more than changing our ideas about what is normal." — Deepak Chopra: Doctor and mind/body/spirit author

Trivia Question of the Week

Q. What was the first animal named to the animal Hall of Fame, in 1969?
(Answer at the end of this newsletter.)

Employee Morale
Pet Picture Contest

Got Clout? How Women Can Increase Confidence, Influence and Respect at Work

Sam Horn, professional speaker, consultant, and author

In honor of Administrative Professionals Week (April 19-25) we have a special gift for you.
(Read this information to find out what it is.)

Are co-workers, managers and others ignoring, disrespecting, or belittling you at work? Are there difficult people you have to deal with every day on the job? Do you feel that your career is at a standstill and going nowhere?

The solution in our gift for you:

Got Clout? How Women Can Increase Confidence, Influence and Respect at Work.

This is the topic of an exclusive audio interview with Sam Horn, a successful woman who is a professional speaker, management consultant, and author. She will tell you how to get more respect at work so that you can have more influence and more success in your career.

To listen to the interview with Sam Horn Click Here or go to:
http://tinyurl.com/getclout

To learn more about this interview, read the article.

Make Connections that Create Workplace Success - Quick Tip

What does an Academy Award winner from the glamorous world of Hollywood have in common with a mail clerk who has just been promoted to supervisor? Plenty.

Neither person won or was promoted without help. That's right. Someone helped that person win that award or get that promotion.

For the award winner it was the writer, producer, director, other actors, lighting people, sound people, the Academy itself, etc., etc. that financed the project, made the winner look and sound good, and nominated and awarded the winner.

For the newly promoted mail clerk, it was co-workers whose problems the mail clerk helped solve, and the manager who saw the mail clerk's potential, who actually did the promoting.

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Nobody achieves success alone. For your employees to succeed they will need help getting to the top. Encourage them to develop a social network of people within their  workplace community.

Have staff look for common interests and experiences from others in different departments within your company.

They will soon see each other as real people and not just computer programmers, marketing people, or mail clerks. This personal connection will be make it easier for everyone to want to help each other, and as a result, everyone benefits and succeeds.

Successful Workplace Communication is one of the 13 essential tools in the Employee Success Toolkit.

The Employee Success Toolkit is a professional development course in 13 easy-to-follow lessons. It is a system guaranteed to improve attitude, skills, and productivity.

See all the details and learn what the other 12 lessons are at:
http://www.confidencecenter.com/url/toolkit.htm

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The ultimate goal of any supervisor is to turn
ordinary workers into extraordinary employees.
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If you want...

• Happy, positive employees who work as a team, deal with problems and get along with each other instead of constantly complaining.

• Shared excitement and enthusiasm for  work even though it's very difficult at times.

• Better flow of communication between management and staff

You can do it -and much more- with the Employee Success Toolkit.

See all the details and learn what the other 12 lessons are at:

http://www.confidencecenter.com/url/toolkit.htm

Employee Morale Tips Newsletter - April 14, 2009

Employee Morale Tips
April 14, 2009 - Vol. 9 - Issue 15

Written by Harriet Meyerson and published every Tuesday compliments of www.ConfidenceCenter.com

In This Issue:

• Word, Quote, Trivia, and Joke of the Week
• Article: Manager's Pot Luck

This year Administrative Professionals Week is April 19-25 with Administrative Professionals Day on Wednesday, April 22. Be sure to do something special for them during the week. See our employee morale tip for a great idea.

Magic Words that Change Negative to Positive - Quick Tip

Magic Words that Change Negative to Positive - Quick Tip

How often do you think about the words you use on a daily basis?

Did you know that some of the seemingly innocent words you use may actually create negative relationships with your employees, managers, and even your customers?

However, there are some magic words you can use to change that - and they're not "Abracadabra" or "Hocus Pocus".

Take for example the words "Problem" and "Situation".

A negative statement would be, "I have a difficult problem."
Contrast that with, "I have a difficult situation."

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What difference does this make?
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A "problem" seems stuck to you and will always be there. It seems heavy.

A "situation", on the other hand, seems temporary and solvable. It has a much lighter feel to it.

Just exchanging the word "Problem" with "Situation" can go a long way in easing the anxiety in some of your communications.

There are many other words, too...
With a simple exchange of one word, you can change a Negative tone to a Positive one - just like magic.

Magic Words that Change Negative to Positive is one of the 13 essential tools in the Employee Success Toolkit.

The Employee Success Toolkit is a professional development course in 13 easy-to-follow lessons. It is a system guaranteed to improve attitude, skills, and productivity.

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The ultimate goal of any supervisor is to turn
ordinary workers into extraordinary employees.
--------------------------------------------------------------

If you want...

• Happy, positive employees who work as a team, deal with problems and get along with each other instead of constantly complaining.

• Shared excitement and enthusiasm for  work even though it's very difficult at times.

• Better flow of communication between management and staff

You can do it -and much more- with the Employee Success Toolkit.

See all the details and learn what the other 12 lessons are at:

http://www.confidencecenter.com/url/toolkit.htm

Employee Morale Tips Newsletter - April 7, 2009

Employee Morale Tips
April 7, 2009 - Vol. 9 - Issue 14

Written by Harriet Meyerson and published every Tuesday compliments of www.ConfidenceCenter.com

In This Issue:

• Word, Quote, Trivia, and Joke of the Week
• Article: Motivating with Quotes

April 19-25 is Administrative Professionals Week. Remember the people who make your company successful and who are often taken for granted.

Word and Quote of the Week

***Hope***

*** "Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit." — Napoleon Hill: was a personal success author

Trivia Question of the Week

Q. Who was the first voice of Mickey Mouse?

(Answer at the end of this newsletter.)

Employee Morale Calendar

Plan ahead for Employee Morale themes for next month.

For example May 10th is Mother's day.

Visit our 2009 calendar listing many other special days you can celebrate at work.
http://confidencecenter.com/free.htm

Employee Morale
Motivating with Quotes

Happiness: Learn the Secret to Feeling Happy Every Day - Starting Today!

My latest article, "Happiness: Learn the Secret to Feeling Happy Every Day" - has just been accepted and published on EzineArticles.com:
http://EzineArticles.com/?id=2153393

Happiness is that elusive feeling that we have once in a while and yearn for all the time. The good news is that you can learn one secret that will bring you happiness every day. So, take a look and learn that big secret to feeling happy every day - starting today!

You may also publish that article in your company or organization newsletter or post it on your web.