Human Resource and Business Management Articles by Priority Learning

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Show your Product: Leadership and Entrepreneurial Strategy (April 2012)
Show your Product: Leadership and Entrepreneurial Strategy How to show you have what it takes as a leader Last month (March) http://aprioritylearning.com/articles/know_your_product.php I talked a little about your leadership product. I proposed to each of ...

Organizational and Departmental Permission (March 2012)
The greatest privilege I have with my job is the ability to work with many different companies and individuals. I enjoy learning the craft of their jobs and also the challenges they face in the ...

Book Review: Stephen R. Covey's The 3rd Alternative (March 2012)
This is a good book about synergy and people getting together to think of other ways to solve their conflicts or problems. I've always liked that word synergy, because it symbolizes the need to work ...

Know Your Product: Leadership and Entrepreneurial Strategy (March 2012)
It seems there is no end to the things that I would like to share with you. About the time I think I will be out of gas regarding something you might think is meaningful, ...

Directive Decision Making (February 2012)
Introduction to Decision Making We talk a lot about decision making in our work.Included in that discussion, we frame at least three types of decisions people make in business. First, there are decisions that individuals ...

Consultative Decision Making (February 2012)
Consultative is the second or what we consider as the middle of the three decision making styles. In Ralph's article he outlined the three decision-making styles. To his point decision-making styles and the approaches leaders ...

Collaborative Decision Making (February 2012)
Introduction to decision making… If you read Ralph's or Craig's article already, you will notice that they took the first two styles (directive and consultative) to write about this month.  The style I'm writing about ...

Letting Go (January 2012)
Years ago when my son was in high school I learned how smart a trait it is to simply let go of things that are out of my control. You may wonder what I mean ...

Jungle Rules: Resilience and Reflective Time Shifting (January 2012)
In my article in December we were examining how people fit in or didn't fit in with their respective organizations. As I was writing the article, it had occurred to me (again) that just because ...

Risk Taking and Leadership (January 2012)
Risks are an inherent part of everyday life, some risks are big and some are small. When you get into a vehicle and drive to work, you are taking a risk. Although it does not ...

Why SOPA & PIPA Could Change The Internet As We Know It (January 2012)
If you happened to be browsing the web on January 28th you may have noticed that some popular websites like Wikipedia and Reddit were missing in action, protesting two bills currently in the United States ...

Reflections of 2011: Internal Locus of Control (December 2011)
As the year comes to an end, it often leaves many people looking back at the last year in reflection. Many people will use the opportunity to look at the success they had during the ...

Creating A Google+ Business Page (December 2011)
Creating A Google+ Business Page Just when you thought you had a handle on promoting your business with social media, Google throws a wrench in your marketing plans by creating its own social media platform ...

Creating a Professional Image (December 2011)
Last month I wrote about the many ways leaders behave that turn people off from following them or believing in them. Listed in last month's article were the behavior segments, along with examples of what ...

Wrapping Up 2011 From all of us at Priority Learning! (December 2011)
Wow, what happened to 2011? It is December and it seems like only yesterday I was trying to figuring out where I stored my summer clothes. The year has been a very good one for ...