Author Information
Karen Sieczka
Member since 19th September 2005
Occupation: training consultant, facilitator Karen S. Sieczka is a training consultant and founder of Growing Great Ideas.com. Her latest training program is Growing Great Ideas: Unleashing Creativity at Work. The program generates ideas, enthusiasm, and teamwork and can be customized to address particular organizational issues or challenges.
The Growing Great Ideas: Unleashing Creativity at Work book is now available at LULU.com for download or print version.
http://www.lulu.com/browse/book_view.php?fCID=3342025
The author can be reached at founder@growinggreatideas.com
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03rd September 2008
Why even try to be creative at work? So why should you bother looking more closely at creativity or even encourage it from your staff? For one thing, promoting creativity at work has many benefits and an organization’s continued survival may depend on i...
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03rd September 2008
It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all. --Edward de Bono
As entrepreneurs, we have all failed at one time or another. An idea doesn’t pan out, a deal falls through, we get rej...
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20th September 2005
Researching, designing, and preparing curriculum for workplace training is a creative process that can be broken down into some simple steps:
What subject is going to be taught? Usually the subject matter is based on organizational goals or mission, a...
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20th September 2005
Preserve your family's recipes. Get them on paper before it's too late.
What is soul food? Everyone seems to have their own take on the topic but most can agree soul food is ethnic in its origins. Most agree it was creation of the slave population in ...
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20th September 2005
Preliminaries What is the reasoning behind the event? Meet goals of the organization? Raise money for specific or general purpose? Community Education? To publicize a particular need? New donors? Cultivate volunteers? All of the above? Does the event enha...
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20th September 2005
Preliminaries
What is the reasoning behind the event? Meet goals of the organization? Raise money for specific or general purpose? Community Education? To publicize a particular need? New donors? Cultivate volunteers? All of the above? Does the event enh...
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20th September 2005
Teaching in the classroom and teaching or training in the workplace may seem, to the inexperienced eye, to be one in the same technique. A person gets up in front of a group and imparts information to them. The group is them tested or evaluated in some ma...
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20th September 2005
Question: Name some well known brands. What do they stand for? Question: Do you have a brand?
When you talk about brands, what comes to mind? Probably Levi ™jeans, Sony™televisions or Starbucks™ Coffee, names that instantly bring a picture to mind--a ...
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20th September 2005
When you empower someone, you provide the training and guidance to cultivate skills that serve them for a lifetime. You start with a person's basic talents and then structure opportunities to incrementally build skills and confidence levels.
Think abo...
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20th September 2005
Let's Take A Cue From the Military.
Many factors distinguish a mediocre leader from a good leader. One of the most important is the ability to make decisions. On the surface it may seem a simple proposition, yes or no; up or down, left or right, but i...
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20th September 2005
We often see only a glimpse of an employee's capabilities during working hours and believe this is the total of his or her potential.
Cultivate and tap into employee skills by following some simple guidelines:
Have high expectations. People rise t...
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20th September 2005
In the business world…it pays to listen and ask the right questions. Miscommunication and misunderstanding can often lead to problems… unhappy customers, lost sales, excess inventory, misunderstood instructions, and disgruntled employees ...all affecting ...
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20th September 2005
Body language speaks volumes and can give insight into the true feelings of a person. Be aware of body language cues you project when speaking and pay attention to the signs others may give off. Some signals:
• Arm crossing: May indicate defensiveness...
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20th September 2005
Last time we talked about the different signals your body language may give out. Now try this role-playing exercise with your team or colleagues. Have one person play the part of the boss and one the employee. Pay close attention to body language and post...
Views: 234
20th September 2005
Although the media are generally accepted as observers and reporters of events, keeping the public informed, they also have the power to shape and influence events, sometimes as they are unfolding. This gives the media a power of significant magnitude. Th...
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