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Problem Deadline ... Dead Ahead

A deadline is looming. Your readers know that deadlines are important, even critical. But what happens when a deadline looks like it can't be met? No simple answers, but the reader facing a problematic deadline needs to know the drill: understanding the meaning behind the deadline, examining hidden options and, most important, taking action wherever possible.This engaging feature explains how. 1066 words. [Feature 1006]

Let Me Make a Suggestion!

Offering suggestions to co-workers, employees, vendors or virtually anyone can be tricky business.  Making a good suggestion -- one that will be respected and implemented -- is especially hard when there's potential criticism involved.  This article offers nine specific suggestions readers can use to make suggestions that work.  505 words.  [Feature 0314]

Big Egos: How to Manage Them

These are the people who always try to be out front and in the center of everything.  Bragging about accomplishments, real or imagined.  Dominating the conversation.  Here, your readers will learn how to build sound working relationships with these folks and manage their seemingly egotistical behavior productively.  631 words.  [Feature 0208]

Working Relationships: Twenty of the World's Best

The best working relationships are built around collaborative models, such as advisers, boards, councils or followers.  Twenty top-notch models are described here.  848 words.  [Feature 9926]

What to Do When You Can't Beat 'Em

If you can't beat 'em, you can always sit back and listen ... or learn from 'em ... or beat someone else ... or beat your own drum ... or any one of the many lighthearted alternatives to "beating them" listed in this entertaining article.  A touch of humor mixed with time-tested wisdom.  370 words.  [Feature 9904]

Be a Team Player!

This feature offers eleven questions readers can pose to team leaders at a project's outset.  The answers help determine whether, and how, any reader can make a full contribution to the team effort and manage regular work duties at the same time.  958 words.  [Manuscript 9517]

Teamwork Tips for Team Members

Many of your readers are members of teams.  What can they do to make their teams more vital and successful?  Here's a potpourri of suggestions.  850 words.  [Feature 9711]

Back Fence Relationships: Solving Disputes with Your Neighbors at Work

When ordinary workplace courtesies or procedures break down, friction develops.  This feature shows readers how to gently bring irritating behavior to the attention of co-workers -- and ease the threat of damaged relationships.  873 words.  [Feature 9620]

How to Cope with a Disorganized Co-Worker

You know the type:  they're late for meetings, they can't find things, and planning seems to be a foreign concept to them.  This feature explains the "organizational P's": pacing, packaging, padding, and fifteen more techniques readers can use to wean co-workers out of the disorganization trap and help them become more productive.  1218 words.  [Feature 9615]

How to Be a Great Follower

Volumes have been written about the qualities of great leaders.  But your readers will often find themselves serving as followers:  as subordinates, committee members, or work team participants.  This feature introduces readers to the qualities of great followership:  loyalty, predictability, candor, and more.  568 words.  [Feature 9610]