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Sherry Day - EzineArticles.com Expert Author  

Over the past twenty years, Sherry G. Day, MS, "The Success Strategist" and author of "Strategically Transforming Entrepreneurial Potential," has worked with thousands of individuals to assist them in discovering the potential within oneself. Transforming individuals and organizations to maximize potential and execute intentions, Sherry works in one-on-one, team and classroom environments to help individuals develop their innate interpersonal skills to communicate more effectively. She uses self-discovery assessments, relationship strategies, team building and problem ... [More]

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  • Business Etiquette - The Do's and Don'ts of Cell Phones and Texting
    [Communications:Mobile-Cell-Phone] Using your cell phone or texting is a convenient means of communication. You may be ignoring the negative message you are sending to those around you if you fail to use good business and social etiquette.


  • Communication Tips - Leaving Winning Voice Mail Messages
    [Business:Workplace-Communication] How many times do you have to replay a voice mail message to pick up all of the details? How frustrated do you feel by the time you get the information you need from the message? How much of your time is consumed in this way? It makes good business sense to leave good voice mail messages.


  • Coaching For Results - 20 Questions
    [Business:Management] There are a number of reasons leaders coach their employees - or should do so. All of them relate to getting results. But what results are they after?


  • Accountability - Delegating to Ensure Success
    [Business:Management] The key to creating an environment of accountability is to delegate to ensure success. Leaders must accept part of the responsibility for successful outcomes by making sure they delegate properly. It is also important to make themselves available to coach and guide the employees. After all, they are on the same team and looking for the same results.


  • Meeting Leadership - This Meeting is Called to Order!
    [Business:Management] As the leader, you have determined the need and mission for the meeting. Ideally, you have selected the right participants and given them enough notice to make themselves available. Now it's time to start the meeting. The first step in leading an effective meeting is to start on time! Why is it important to start on time?


  • Meeting Leadership - 3 Primary Responsibilities of Meeting Leaders
    [Business:Management] As every business becomes leaner and greener, leaders look for ways to increase effectiveness throughout the organization. When you look at utilization of resources, serious consideration must be given to the time spent in meetings.


  • Success Strategies - Motivate With Celebrations
    [Self-Improvement:Success] Too often you work hard on a project and never take time to reflect and celebrate your success. You just move on to the next pressing task or event. You are often moving so quickly that you don't even feel when one project ends and the next begins. Slow down for a nano-second to smell the roses!


  • Why "Intentions" Are Critical to Your Goals
    [Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] There is a lot of discussion about goal setting. It ties in with the Law of Attraction by focusing on what you desire rather than what you fear. But it takes more than "setting goals" to make something happen! And you do have to "make something happen" as you can not just wish the desired outcome and expect it to show up. The real key to achieving your goal(s) is to focus on setting "intentions."


  • Eating the Elephant - Tackling Big Goals
    [Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] Do you ever feel like you just cannot get started on a project or task? What is blocking your action? Are you afraid of failing - or of succeeding? Or is it simply that you are feeling overwhelmed? In order to successfully achieve your goals, you must break the desired outcome into action steps and specific tasks with timelines. It is like eating the elephant one bite at a time.


  • Time Management Challenges - Too Much Information!
    [Self-Improvement:Time-Management] Between the mail, emails, radio and television plus whatever newspapers or magazines you read - online or off, there is just too much information to handle each day. It is time consuming and frustrating when you can't remember where you read that tidbit you wanted to share because your mind has traversed numerous information sources. The form in which it comes in not the issue - it's the amount! Handling the abundance of information requires some good habits.


  • Success Strategies - Lessons Learned Yield Best Practices
    [Self-Improvement:Success] Often you count success when the outcome is positive. If the outcome is less than what you expected, it is labeled a failure. In both situations, lessons can be learned. It is important to take time at the end of any task or project to analyze "what worked' and "what didn't work." From this analysis, you can draw out the lessons learned and from those create best practices.


  • Time Management Challenges - Ineffective Multi-Tasking
    [Self-Improvement:Time-Management] As women, we often snicker at the whole concept of multi-tasking. Who hasn't had several pans on the stove while answering the phone, opening the mail, switching loads of laundry and making a kid's snack - all at the same time? The only way to make it through each day is to double and triple our efforts in the same time slot. Is this the most effective way to function? Maybe not, but it is often the most efficient way for us.


  • Achieving Your Goals - Get Your Foot Off the Brake!
    [Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] Have you been going through life with one foot on the gas pedal and the other one on the brake? If you learned to drive a stick shift vehicle, you needed your left foot on the clutch. Now that your life is out of first and second gears and hopefully humming along in overdrive, it is time to stop using the left foot. It's on the brake - not the clutch! It is holding you back in success!


  • Time Management Challenges - Poor Habits
    [Self-Improvement:Time-Management] We all know we have bad habits! Actually, we have many more good habits than bad. It is just that the bad ones stand out or cause us grief in some way. One of the greatest challenges to managing our time and activities lies in not giving in to our bad habits: time wasters, failure to organize our lives, procrastination, etc.


  • How to Achieve Strategic Thinking With SWOT
    [Business:Strategic-Planning] There are a number of techniques to stimulate strategic thinking. One of the most balanced approaches is the SWOT approach. The reason the SWOT technique works so well is that it requires you to think about the four categories equally.


  • Time Management Challenges - Mindless Time Wasters
    [Self-Improvement:Time-Management] Do you ever find yourself in a "frump" and just can't get into a project? Then you click on a computer game or surf the Internet or "veg" in front of the television or... Unless you are consciously aware of the amount of time you are wasting, this type of activity can become a bad habit in no time. There are a couple of things to keep in your awareness:


  • Time Management Challenges - Too Many Added Tasks
    [Self-Improvement:Time-Management] What's a person to do? You survived the downsizing - again! The work still needs to get done and there are fewer people to do it.


  • Building Relationships - How to Live by the Platinum Rule
    [Business:Management] Just what is the "Platinum Rule"? Most of us have heard of the "Golden Rule" and have tried to live by it throughout our lives. The Golden Rule states "Do Unto Others As You Would Have Them Do Unto You" or treat others like you would like to be treated. Take a good look at the words there. See how you can improve your relationship with this simple concept.


  • Communication - How to Bring Up a Difficult Topic
    [Relationships:Communication] Do you have a difficult situation to discuss but can't seem to find the courage to bring it up? If you dread confrontation because it makes you uncomfortable, there are ways with words to put a difficult topic on the table. Usually such conversations don't go well due to the way they are introduced. Think about it. How do you usually open the conversation?


  • Success Strategies - How to Create Your Productive Home Office
    [Business:Productivity] Working from a Home Office? Whether it is your primary or secondary office, it is important to create an environment for success. Have you established a way to separate personal time and space from business? It is important to establish business hours and communicate them to family and friends.


  • Relationships - 'Tis the Season - Will You Make the Cut?
    [Relationships] As the holiday season approaches, there are numerous decisions made relevant to the relationships in our lives. It is interesting to analyze our decisions regarding whom to invite to holiday celebrations, whether or not to give gifts and if so, how much to spend on a particular person, and to whom should greeting cards be sent. This is an issue I ponder every November as I print out the holiday card list.


  • Effective Goal Setting - How to Set Attainable Goals For Success
    [Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] Effective goal setting is different from merely setting goals. Anyone can set a goal, but effective goal setting means that it will actually get done. The following guidelines will help you to set effective goals and help you manage your time in an efficient manner that will cause those goals to become reality.


  • Networking - How to Use the 2-1 Rule to Your Advantage
    [Business:Networking] The best way to get business is by referral. No one looks forward to seeing the person who is always eager to push their products and services! Nor are they willing to refer you to their network when they are not comfortable with your approach. If the purpose of networking is to get to know others who might be able to refer business to you, concentrate on listening rather than speaking.


  • Meeting Your Client's Needs With Customer Satisfaction Awareness
    [Business:Customer-Service] Remember you are working for your customer. Just showing off your talents without regard to the clients' expectations and desired outcomes will not make you successful. Be aware of how others are reacting to your service.


  • Leadership Challenges and How to Deal With Them
    [Self-Improvement:Leadership] The situations are unique to each leadership role. The pressures vary with the importance of the position. There are several things that all executive leadership roles have in common. The situations are unique to each leadership role. The pressures vary with the importance of the position. Those of us who have held leadership roles - especially the one at the head (where the buck stops!) could relate to the message.


  • Can You See What I'm Really Saying?
    [Relationships:Communication] The old adage "Your actions speak louder than your words" is as true today as it was when some wise sage proclaimed it. Whether in a family, social, educational or work setting, the unspoken language of facial expressions, posture, gestures and the like send very powerful -- and often incongruent - messages.


  • Communicating For Successful Outcomes - Building Relationships Through Understanding
    [Relationships:Communication] The more we can understand about others, the more we can set aside the need to judge their behavior by our personal standards. Once we understand the basic styles, we can adapt our communication and actions in ways that will enhance understanding and develop better relationships.


  • Improving Your Relationships - Are You Really Listening?
    [Relationships:Communication] Shared understanding is the real essence of communication. Miscommunication can be simple. Communication is complex! Listening is an ACTIVE SPORT! It requires focus and intention.


  • How to Deal With Interruptions That Take You Off Task
    [Business:Productivity] Tips for creating quiet work time, free from interruptions. The best laid plans can go astray when others invade your planned day! Not all interruptions are bad. If we all consciously thought about the impact on productivity - or lack of due to interruptions, we may be able to reduce the number of times we interrupt others or are interrupted by others.


  • Is Stress Taking Its Toll on You? How You Can Control It
    [Self-Improvement:Stress-Management] In this bustling 24/7 world today, it is difficult to carve out some quiet space. As working women (a category that includes mothers working at raising their children), each of us has too many lists, too many tasks, too many requests from others, too many expectations and not enough time or energy to meet our own standards of perfection or self-expectations. We fail to cut ourselves some slack as the calendar fills up. We try to be everything to everyone - except oneself!


  • Taking the Stress Out of Your Holiday Season
    [Self-Improvement:Stress-Management] As the holiday season revs up, you feel the time pressures of the days dwindling on the fall calendar. This should be a time of celebration with family and friends, a time of joy, love and laughter. Instead it often becomes a time of extreme overload. It is time to break the holiday hassles before you breakdown. Take refuge in the following actions to restore harmony to the holidays, your family and your health.




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