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Teaching Business Communication and Workplace Issues
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This is an online magazine by Bovee & Thill, authors of the leading textbooks in business communication and business writing, published by Pearson, featuring resources about teaching business communication and workplace issues. For more information about Bovee & Thill texts and the exclusive, superior coverage they give to workplace issues, visit their blog: http://blog.businesscommuniationnetwork.com. For instructor examination copies, go to http://blog.businesscommunicationnetwork.com/texts. To find your local sales representative, go to http://www.pearsonhighered.com/educator/replocator. To contact the authors, use this form: https://businesscommunicationnetwork.com/contact-us/. To get a free Comprehensive Guide to Business Communication Instructional Resources, visit http://blog.businesscommunicationnetwork.com/resources. Subscribe to a free weekly newsletter of new posts to all 11 of Bovee & Thill's Online Magazines: http://sco.lt/8kgeVV.
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Whatever your definition of success (each person’s definition of “success” is and should be different), one thing is true for everyone: Success means getting things done.
Highly successful people are able to get a lot more things done, and here are simple ways you can too.
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Bovee & Thill's Online Business Communication Magazines's insight:
"When we’re having a rough day, many of us tend to treat ourselves to some form of retail therapy, a favorite dessert or going out with friends in hopes of feeling better.
"But a new study published in the journal Emotion last week suggests that treating ourselves is no more likely to boost our mood than doing nothing."
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Bovee & Thill's Online Business Communication Magazines's insight:
"In a recent Quora thread, users responded to the question: What life lessons are counter-intuitive or go against common sense or wisdom?" "We trawled through the list looking for the best and most surprising advice. Many of these insights have been confirmed by social science." "Here are the takeaways. " . . .
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The employee handbook can't always tell you everything you need to know.
Bovee & Thill's Online Business Communication Magazines's insight:
Here are seven rules you need to pay attention to in order to survive and thrive in the workplace:
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If you think you'll ace the test, brace yourself: The people who think they are the best multitaskers are usually among the worst.
Progressive training's curator insight,
May 13, 2014 11:27 AM
Only 2% of People Can Actually Multitask — This Test Will Tell You If You Are One of Them
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The purpose of a business meal is business. You are not there for the food, though you may need to eat. Here are eight mistakes that businesspeople should avoid while dining.
Bovee & Thill's Online Business Communication Magazines's insight:
Since the economy has been somewhat improving, companies are entertaining their clients and potential clients more often and want to make them feel comfortable in restaurants.
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Bovee & Thill's Online Business Communication Magazines's insight:
Fear is one of our most basic and essential survival mechanisms, but sometimes it can overwhelm us even when a real threat doesn't exist. We're afraid of failure and embarrassment, despite the consequences normally being far from life-or-death. We're terrified of shark attacks and plane crashes, even though the odds of catastrophe are so minute. . .
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T. Boone Pickens, Arianna Huffington, Richard Branson, and more.
Bovee & Thill's Online Business Communication Magazines's insight:
Successful people don't mess around when it comes to their working space. A desk has to be a place where you can be productive, healthy, and comfortable for many hours, day in day out. . .
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You can't actually multitask, you're more susceptible to ads when you're sad, and other surprising facts.
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Hedge fund manager James Altucher recently wrote about how multitasking can kill you. Neuroscience shows that our brains simply weren't created for it. Yet many people continue to live hyper-connected lives, essentially creating 24/7 workweeks — no matter how unhealthy it is. This excellent infographic by OnlineUniversities.com shows how acutely information overload affects productivity: . . .
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Bovee & Thill's Online Business Communication Magazines's insight:
Every experience – positive and negative, strength and weakness, love and hate, health and sickness – adds to your personal growth. You will never be called upon to face any challenge which you do not possess the strength to overcome. But there are great enemies: anxiety, fear, worry, etc. These inner demons set up conditions which disturb and prevent the clear thinking you require. . .
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Bovee & Thill's Online Business Communication Magazines's insight:
Sixty-two percent of Bulgarians say they are “not very” happy or “not at all” happy. At some point we’re all Bulgarians: We're all unhappy at times, regardless of business or professional success. Here's are some reasons why: . . .
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"There is always more to do than time in which to do it. And the more you take on, the more there is to do. You finish one task and six more pop out of nowhere."
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"Our homes are tricked out with comfortable furniture, stylish decor, and the latest technology — shouldn't our work spaces be equally lavish?"
Bovee & Thill's Online Business Communication Magazines's insight:
"From the indoor lawns at Japanese ad agency TBWA to the bright blue slide at footwear company Toms, the coolest office spaces around the world understand that a well-designed workplace can impact people's happiness just as much as where they live." . . .
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Flexible hours, the ability to work remotely and more time off will motivate employees to work harder in 2015. But there’s another motivator on this list you might not expect: better communication."
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Bovee & Thill's Online Business Communication Magazines's insight:
" . . .because although you and I might never come up with the Next Big Thing, we can decide to think and believe differently than most other people — and in the process, achieve differently than most other people. "That process starts with letting go of things many people believe:" . . .
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Are you going to adopt a modern “Essentials” textbook with extensive integration of mobile communication in every chapter, or are you going to saddle your students with a commonly adopted “Essentials” text that is stuck in the last decade? Bovee & Thill's Online Magazines for Business Communication's insight: Because of complacency and a lack of knowledge about the topic, most business communication textbook authors are ignoring the mobile revolution. In fact, they’re pretending that it doesn’t even exist. In light of these facts, are your students being served well? There is one team that’s always on the cutting edge: Bovee and Thill. The fact they are the only business communication textbook authors currently writing about mobile tells you everything you need to know about which author team conscientiously revises its books and keeps them current. (Bovee and Thill were also the first authors to discuss social media and digital communication in their texts.) Adopt the only modern "Essentials" text: Business Communications Essentials by Bovee and Thill. See how your text compares to Business Communication Essentials with this interactive checklist.
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"The first thing you need to know is this: Discomfort and the desire for something better drives change."
Bovee & Thill's Online Business Communication Magazines's insight:
"I’ve been in the business world for a long time and have distilled success down to 4 main keys." Here they are: . . .
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"We’re now years into the proliferation of mobile devices. It is no longer a novelty. Mobile devices are here to stay, they are a great tool that can create efficiency and rapid responses. But the time has come to get a better handle on how to manage them."
Bovee & Thill's Online Business Communication Magazines's insight:
I had four separate conversations this week, with four different people, all of whom expressed serious frustration with colleagues who literally could not stop looking at their email during a work-related conversation or meeting.
Madison Fontaine's curator insight,
October 1, 2013 10:23 AM
This article explains an issue that many people, especially the younger generations, face everyday. The author of the article states that so many people can't even hold a conversation without checking their email or reading text messages off of their mobile devices. The author has a strong opinion that not being able to put your cell phone down to simply hold a conversation is rude and "not cool". The article basically eplains that when you are holding a conversation, especially if you are in a meeting, you should give the other people your full attention, not your cell phone.
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Bovee & Thill's Online Business Communication Magazines's insight:
Learning how to read a room is incredibly difficult. Yet we've all seen people who can do it, who manage to sense how people relate to each other, and use it to get things done. . .
Bovee & Thill's Online Business Communication Magazines's curator insight,
January 18, 2013 6:36 PM
Learning how to read a room is incredibly difficult. Yet we've all seen people who can do it, who manage to sense how people relate to each other, and use it to get things done. . . .
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Happiness—in your business life and your personal life—is often a matter of subtraction, not addition. Consider, for example, what happens when you stop doing the following 10 things: . . .
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Bovee & Thill's Online Business Communication Magazines's insight:
You probably already tried everything you can to become more productive. Some things worked and some did not. Now it is time to try to be completely unproductive. It’s much simpler than you think! What are the guaranteed 12 ways to quickly become unproductive?
Progressive training's curator insight,
September 6, 2013 12:39 PM
12 Ways to Quickly Become Unproductive
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A YouTube video about pervasive smartphone use may have landed at a moment when people start questioning if something has gone too far and start doing something about it.
Bovee & Thill's Online Business Communication Magazines's insight:
This two-minute video has been viewed more than 15 million times. The woman in the video stares silently while her boyfriend pays no mind and checks his smartphone. The subsequent scenes follow the woman through a day that is downright dystopian: people ignore her as they stare at their phones during lunch, at a concert, while bowling, and at a birthday party. (Even the birthday boy is recording the party on his phone.)
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To be successful, you need to understand the very vital difference between believing you will succeed, and believing you will succeed easily. It's the difference between being a realistic optimist and an unrealistic optimist.
Bovee & Thill's Online Business Communication Magazines's insight:
There are quite a number of motivational speakers and self-improvement books out there with a surprisingly simple message: believe that success will come easily to you, and it will. There is one small problem with this argument, however, which unfortunately doesn't seem to stop anyone from making it: it is utterly false. . .
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