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Articles listed on this page are by Robert Bacal, CEO of Bacal & Associates and Work911. You are welcome to use these for your own personal use. Please keep in mind that they are copyright protected, and so cannot be reproduced without permission. By abiding by the law, you ensure that we will create new material for our visitors. Due to the size of the library we have categorized the material in a number of ways to make access easier for you. As an overview you will find articles on:
Management Tips
Performance Management & Performance Appraisal
Interpersonal Communication
Corporate Communication
Change Management
Customer Service
Human Resources
Training & Facilitation
Health & Stress Information
Workplace Relationships
Productivity Improvement
Career Success
Conflict Management
Dealing With DIfficult People
Workplace Humor
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Change Management & Leadership

Understanding The Cycle of Change, And How People React To It
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The Importance of Leadership In Managing Change
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Leading Those That Remain After Downsizing Or Job Loss
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For Managers - How Constant Change Affects Managers And Wears Them Down And Out
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The Responsive Leader/Manager
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The Responsiveness Paradigm
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The Effects of Change On The Manager
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Turning Around Negative Attitudes
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Leadership - The Link Between Planning & Doing
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The Long Term Effects of Downsizing
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Critical Factors For Dealing With Downsizing - Quicktips
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Leadership, Communication & Change
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Empowerment Difficulties - Employees That Don't Wanna
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Change Management - Look Over Yonder Wall
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Understanding The Seven Dynamics of Change
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Communication & Conflict Related

Applying Bacal's Law Of Meaningless Utterances
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Learning About Conversational "Cons"
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Defusing Hostile People - Part 1
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Defusing Hostile People - Part 2
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Improving Communication By Eliminating Insinuation
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Organizational Conflict - The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
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Basic Negotiating Tips
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Dealing With Hostile Bait
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Exorcise Blame For Success
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Cooperative Communication - What Is It? Why Is It Important
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Is Conflict Bad?
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Dealing With Difficult People - It's About Skill
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Person Centered Comments - Path To Poor Relationships
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Eleven Things That Create Anger and Resistance In Others
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Listen Up! Real Listening & How To Practice It
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Dealing With A Difficult Colleague
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Dealing With Angry Employees Or Other Angry People Around You
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The Difference Between Conflict Prevention & Conflict Avoidance
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Learn to Deal With Conflict At Work
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Using Positive Language To Change The Way People See You
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Public Speaking - Getting The Attention of Your Audience
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Getting Heard By Your Boss
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Controversy/Scams

Styles & The MBTI - Timewaster or Useful?
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Those Darned Motivational Speakers
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Can Motivational Speakers Do Harm?
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Management Fads - Things You Should Know To Avoid Being Had
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The Problem With Pop Psychology In The Workplace
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Customer Service Related
The #1 Mistake Made Dealing With Angry Customers
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Gathering Customer Service Data - Every Employee A Researcher
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Humor For Learning - Words & Customer Understanding
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Understanding Angry Customers
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Do Governments Have "Customers"?
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Success With Difficult Customers - The Mindset
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Health, Stress & Other Work Issues
Losing Weight The Olympic Way
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Work & Life Stress Getting To You? Getting Help With No Shame
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Leaving The Nest - Surviving Layoffs
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Stressed Out? Some Solutions You Probably Haven't Tried
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Human Resources

A Quick Guide To Employee Orientation For HR Staff And Managers
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Abuse Of Internet Access At Work - How To Address It
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The Role of Human Resources Departments?
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Humor & The Weird & Strange

Strange But True (And Really Funny) Job Interview Behaviour
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Strangest U.S. Laws
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Writing An Annual Report For Government (Humor)
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Reasons For Not Coming To Work (More Strange But True Humor)
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They Couldn't REALLY Mean THAT, Could They? Strange Subtitles
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Lighter Side - You Know You Are Stressed Out If...
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Affirmations For The Grump Who Wants To Stay Grumpy
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Management & Supervision/Performance Appraisal

Toxic Organizations - Where They Come From, What To Do
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Our Dead Strategic Plan
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Improving Communication - Tips For Managers
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Winning Organizations - Applying What We Know About Sports/Athletics
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Winning Management - Learning From Olympic Athletes
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Fast Track To Promotion & Recognition
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Leadership Secrets - The Responsive Manager/Leader
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Seven Stupid Things Employees Do To Screw Up Performance Appraisal
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Why Employee Ranking Systems Lead To Disaster
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Why Improving Performance Management Systems Is So Difficult
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Bullying And Manipulation At Work
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Discipline & Performance Problems Quick Tips
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Twelve Tips For Recognizing The Contributions of Your Employees And Colleagues
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What IS The Point Of Performance Appraisal
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Biases That Affect Manager's Evaluations of Staff
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Diagnosing Performance Problems
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Bidirectional Evaluation - You Evaluate The Boss, The Boss Evaluates You
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Five Sins Of Discipline
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Managers - Are You Getting The Information You Need To Do A Good Job?!
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For Managers - How Constant Change Affects Managers And Wears Them Down And Out
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Dealing With Human Speed Bumps!
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Managing The Maverick Employee
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Speaker's Corner - Presentations & Public Speaking

Principles of Credibility In Public Speaking
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Success At Work

Lessons From Olympic Athletes - Winning In Everyday Life
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Learn To Negotiate So Everybody Wins!
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Know Your Role. What About Theirs?
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Fast Track To Promotion & Recognition
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Productivity, Meetings, Time Management

One More Meeting & I'll Scream (And What To Do About It)
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Effective Meetings - Meeting Management Problems & How To Fix Them
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More Time Management Tactics For Busy People
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Staunching The Paper Flow - Time Management Tips
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More On Surviving Meetings - Twelve Questions And Answers
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When Enough Is Enough (Work, that is)
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Technology And Productivity--Why We Get One Without The Other
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Use "Flex Meetings" To Improve Communication & Increase Productivity
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Success At Work - Tips For Everyone

Know Your Role, How About Their's
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Teams, Team Building And Related

How To Be A Better Team Contributor
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Sharpening The Decision Making Process In Groups - Fighting Groupthink
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About Team Building - The Manager's Role
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How To Be A Better Team Contributor
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Six Deadly Sins of Team Building
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When Teams Aren't Important Or Desired
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Total Quality Management And Continuous Improvement

The Curse of Compromise & Total Quality Management
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TQM - What Is It? A Brief Synopsis
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Why TQM Fails?
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Are Government Customers Really Customers?
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Where TQM and Politics Clash
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TQM As Organizational Change
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Avoiding The Perverted Inverted Pyramid
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Creating Hassle-Hunters - Every Employee A Quality Specialist
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Gathering Customer Service Data - Every Employee A Researcher
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Little-Bitty Quality Steps - Thirty-Two Small Steps
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Training & Learning Related

Going To Training? Some Hints
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Personal Styles -- Time-Waster or Useful - Should You Join The MBTI Shuffle?
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The Educated Training Consumer - Why Is Training Undervalued
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The Value of Value Clarification - Or - Cut Out The Navel-Gazing
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Strategic Learning Contracts - Maximizing Training Results
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What Faciliators Really Do
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Getting Value From Training - How To Improve Return On Investment
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Danger! Corporate Training Ahead
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Ugh! Training, What's It Good For?
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Web, Internet or E-Commerce Related

Webmasters - Generate Revenue From Search Engines 1/2
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Generate Revenue From Search Engines 2/2
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Stay Out of Trouble Using Email To Promote Your Website Or Articles
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How to Get Listed In Search Engines & Get Found
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Finding A Good Web Hosting Company
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What You Need To Know About Affiliate Programs - Part 1/3
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Seven Critical Errors Consultants & Small Businesses Make with Their Web Sites
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Writing & Publishing

Authors, Business Owners - Get Your E-zine Sponsored & Generate Revenue Part 1
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Get Your E-zine Sponsored - Ad Agencies Part 2
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Authors - Want To Get Published? Lose The #%@^#@ Attitude
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Want To Be A Pro Writer? Lose The "I" Perspective
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Difference Between Professional And Recreational Writing
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Writers - Get Edited - Get Better - Get Paid
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