http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Helen+Wilkie Writing Helen Wilkie Wed, 12 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=44615&ca=Writing 1. Define your audience. The words you use, the content you include and even the format of your report will all be influenced by the intended readers. Who are they? Are they experienced in the subject matter? Are there different types of readers? What issues are important to them? What will they use... Leadership Helen Wilkie Wed, 05 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=44574&ca=Leadership When you delegate tasks or processes, you transfer a certain level of freedom in how the tasks are to be handled. These levels range from simply giving instructions to be followed right through to handing over a complete project that then becomes part of the person's job description. But how do you... Business Management Helen Wilkie Sun, 02 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=44106&ca=Business+Management When you decide to delegate a task to someone, that person may see it as a welcome responsibility that shows your trust in him or her, or just another job to be added to an already burdensome workload. Which it is can depend largely on how well you communicate with the person during the actual deleg... Career Helen Wilkie Sun, 02 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=44588&ca=Career Burn-out --- it's become something of an epidemic in today's workplace. But sometimes we only have ourselves to blame. Often we overload ourselves with extra work, waste large amounts of our time and build resentment against others, simply because we don't know how to say 'no'. A friend complained a... Career Helen Wilkie Sun, 02 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=44595&ca=Career People often tell me about being angry at work. Well, anger at work is inevitable. If you work with others there will be times when you are angry at them—and if you work alone there will be times when you are angry at yourself! Learning to deal appropriately with our anger is vital to our own health... Business Management Helen Wilkie Sat, 04 Feb 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=32451&ca=Business+Management You've recently been promoted to management, and are now responsible for the department in which you were previously employed. One of your former peers had also applied for the job, and you are now feeling waves of resentment from him that threaten the success of your promotion. Does this sound fami... Business Management Helen Wilkie Wed, 01 Feb 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=31344&ca=Business+Management It's becoming more and more difficult to sift the nuggets of true knowledge from the mountains of data thrown at us from all directions. Of course, we do this to ourselves to a certain extent, because in this age of unlimited access to information through the Internet as well as all the traditional... Leadership Helen Wilkie Fri, 18 Nov 2005 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=18960&ca=Leadership Moving from staff into management for the first time is exciting—but it can also be scarey. There’s so much you don’t know. Somehow managing looked so easy from the outside, but now you actually have to do it, you realize it’s more complicated than you thought. Before, you had certain tasks to accom... Business Management Helen Wilkie Sat, 22 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=15901&ca=Business+Management Productivity almost always suffers in times of great change, because employee stress dramatically increases due to the universal fear of the unknown. In these times, communication becomes more important than ever. Often senior executives genuinely believe they are communicating with employees when i... Marketing Helen Wilkie Thu, 06 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=13872&ca=Marketing Networking events are different from normal business meals, and you must prepare properly in order to fully benefit from them. Here’s a networking event success blueprint. 1. Your networking purpose Why are you attending this particular event? Be specific. Do you want to meet a particularl person or...