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6 Tips for Delegating Effectively in Project Management

If letting go feels like giving in, think through these 6 essential tips for delegating effectively in project management and you鈥檒l be on your way to helping your team take the reins and get more projects across the finish line.

November 15, 2019Project Management

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5 Reasons Strong Legal Writing Is Important for Paralegals

Almost all legal work depends upon the written word, so paralegals must know how to draft flawless and persuasive submissions to the court, emails to clients, internal memorandums, wills, resolutions, contracts, and other legal filings.

November 7, 2019Paralegal

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How to Improve Your Work Productivity

A day of picking pundits鈥 brains for ways to make your workdays/hours/minutes count led to the realization that capacity, efficiency, and organization are at the heart of the top tips on how to improve your work productivity.

November 4, 2019Process Improvement

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Creating a Culture of Excellence (Part 2)

Last month I began an installment of the Essentials of Modern Leadership series by speaking about the importance of culture in the workplace. I鈥檒l now elaborate further with three concluding strategies that, as I鈥檝e found from experience, play key roles in creating a culture of excellence.

October 31, 2019Director's Corner, Leadership and Management

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Core Principles of Business Process Improvement

The core principles of business process improvement (BPI) are not numbered, etched in stone, and universally accepted as the top 20 or 10 or five BPI commandments. There are, though, countless lists of rules or guidelines deemed most important. Using a sampling of those lists and a Venn diagram concept, we found six core principles of business process improvement.

October 22, 2019Process Improvement

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What Does a Leader Look Like? Identifying Real Leadership Qualities

If you鈥檙e reading this post about leadership qualities, you already possess one of the key traits of a leader, which is introspection. Your curiosity about the topic indicates a self-awareness to reflect on your personality, choices, and motivations, and compare them to the ideal.

October 17, 2019Leadership and Management, Professional Development

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Navigating the Generation Gap: How to Motivate Employees of All Ages

Whether you are a CEO, a manager, or a project leader, you need to cut through stereotypes, bridge the generation gap, and effectively work with people from different decades. It鈥檚 not as daunting as it sounds: The key to navigating the generation gap is understanding how to motivate employees of all ages.

October 11, 2019Leadership and Management

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How to Communicate Better: A Guide for HR Professionals

Speaking at a conference, SHRM-Senior Certified Professional Jennifer Currence defined what she called the three components of communication: self-awareness, listening, and speaking. Her thoughts and a synopsis of a SHRM toolkit/treatise titled 鈥淢anaging Organizational Communication鈥 are the essence of our guide for HR professionals on how to communicate better.

October 8, 2019Human Resources

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How to Choose the Right Business Process Improvement Methodology

Improving your competitive advantage is always your top business priority. One of the most effective ways to accomplish this is to focus on the quality of your organization鈥檚 processes.

September 30, 2019Process Improvement

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Creating a Culture of Excellence (Part 1)

A successful leader must possess a guiding set of principles. Your essential values, consistently applied, will create a culture of excellence. Excellence, by anyone鈥檚 standards, is equal to success.

September 30, 2019Director's Corner, Leadership and Management

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What You Can Expect as a Paralegal

You鈥檇 like to advance your career, and you think becoming a paralegal might be the way to do it. It鈥檚 a fast-growing field that offers challenging legal work for go-getters and problem-solvers like you 鈥 and the certification process is much faster than for a law degree.

September 11, 2019Paralegal

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Top 5 Reasons You Should Earn a SHRM Certification

Training for and achieving a professional certification from the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) is an invaluable tool as you build or expand your human resources career.

September 10, 2019Human Resources

About Corporate Training and Professional Education

USF Corporate Training and Professional Education empowers people to craft their future without limits through engaging professional growth learning and certification programs. Its programs focus on an array of topics – human resources, project management, paralegal, process improvement, leadership skills, technology, and much more.

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