Page 1 of Ed Sykes's writing

1. Career Advice: Five Secrets to Creating Your Dream Career There are countless career opportunities in this economy for you to create your dream job. Why be unhappy with your career when you can create the perfect job that leads to a happy fulfilling career using a little creativity? The following are... (posted by Ed 1 year 214 days ago.)

2. Career Advice: Four Secrets to Creating Successful Job Opportunities Soon after I graduated from college, I moved to New York City to find fame and fortune. I was in a great relationship, found a great job working in Manhattan and I was feeling on top of the world. I was going places! I applied for job after... (posted by Ed 1 year 214 days ago.)

3. Ten Presentation Skills Secrets to Outselling the Competition Usually, you have one opportunity to present your organization's ideas, products, and/or services to the audience. You work on the account for months and the presentation is your big moment. You speak to an under enthusiastic, yet polite audience;... (posted by Ed 2 years 222 days ago.)

4. The Secret to Successful Goal Setting for Changing Times: Seven Steps to Achieving Your Dreams Have you noticed that you've experienced much change over the past year, months, weeks, and even days? Your situation may have changed due to the challenges presented by these changing times, and you may ask yourself if you have achieved your... (posted by Ed 3 years 100 days ago.)

5. Five Stress Management Secrets for Challenging Times: How to Use Stress for Your Career Success The way we handle stress is always a factor in our success in challenging times. Unmanaged, stress can hold us back from being successful Once managed, stress propels us to new levels of success. When you learn how to manage stress, you benefit... (posted by Ed 3 years 179 days ago.)

6. JumpStart Your Employee Motivation: Ten Secrets to Empower Your Team One of the important keys to employee motivation is to empower your employees to be successful. An empowered employee leads to the following benefits: Increased creativity Increased productivity Increased teamwork and motivation ... (posted by Ed 3 years 179 days ago.)

7. Eight Customer Service Secrets to Jumpstarting Your Customers During Challenging Times! Outstanding customer service is the key to creating a successful organization during any economic time but especially during challenging economic times. It's amazing how most organizations will invest millions, if not billions, of dollars on... (posted by Ed 3 years 179 days ago.)

8. How to Recession Proof Your Job: Ten Job Secrets for Career Success! Economic times constantly change and organizations adapt to these changes. For you to find career success, you must be pro-active about your job. What are the career secrets of those who soar to the top in their careers no matter what the economic... (posted by Ed 4 years 65 days ago.)

9. The Secret to Living Your Dreams: Five Techniques to Living Your Dreams! How many times in our lives have we said the following? If I had more time, I would have acted on my dream... If I didn't need this job, I would have pursued my dream of... If only I had (you fill in the blank) ten years ago, I would have... (posted by Ed 4 years 191 days ago.)

10. Change Management: Seven Change Management Secrets to Creating a Winning Culture of Change Change is occurring all around us everyday. Most changes are small and go unnoticed by us. Think about your daily ride to work and notice what changes are taking place over the course of a week: possible changes in traffic patterns, new stores... (posted by Ed 4 years 191 days ago.)

11. How to Give an Outstanding Acceptance Speech: Seven Presentation Secrets Learned from the Academy Awards Academy Awards come and go, but one thing is a constant: bad acceptance speeches. You may never win an Academy Award, but you may be asked to give an acceptance speech for an accomplishment in your business, your career, your community, or your... (posted by Ed 4 years 325 days ago.)

12. Are You Building Your Foundation of Success: Six Secrets of Motivating Yourself for Success Are you creating your foundation of success? Are you motivated to take on challenges that others are not willing to do? The following is a story of someone who did and achieved great success in his life and how you can, too! There once was a... (posted by Ed 4 years 331 days ago.)

13. How to Prepare an Outstanding Presentation in Thirty Minutes or Less It's 2 p.m. and your manager walks up to you with that look on his face. He announces that the company president wants you to give a presentation to him concerning the high profile project you have been working on & and he wants the presentation... (posted by Ed 5 years 85 days ago.)

14. Career Advice: Three Secrets to Telling Your Story for Career and Life Success When was the last time you received a job promotion? You are doing a great job at work but everyone else seems to get the promotion you want. You may even start making excuses as to why you are not getting the career promotions you deserve. Well... (posted by Ed 5 years 169 days ago.)

15. Customer Service Secrets: Six Secrets of Outstanding Customer Retention When I was Vice President of Sales for a New York based computer services company, I walked by one of my salesperson's desk when the phone began to ring and picked up the phone to answer the call. It was one call that tested my customer service... (posted by Ed 5 years 261 days ago.)

16. Five Career Advice Secrets for Being the Perfect Employee Everyone Wants on Their Team – Part 2 The following are five career advice secrets for being the perfect, motivated employee that everyone wants on their team, putting your career on the fast track, and creating great relationship with management: Be Enthusiastic Be known as an... (posted by Ed 5 years 313 days ago.)

17. Life Before Downsizing: Six Secrets to Managing Change and Creating Opportunities for the Future What would you do if you learned your organization was bought by another organization, was downsizing, or closing its doors tomorrow? In 30 days? Six months? In one year? Are you prepared for the change? What will you do in the future? In this... (posted by Ed 5 years 354 days ago.)

18. Coaching: How to Succeed in Half the Time Using a Personal Coach I love watching the top sports individuals and teams especially, the ones who consistently year in and year out maintain the highest level of excellence. What is the common factor of these successful individuals and teams? Great coaching! Great... (posted by Ed 6 years 35 days ago.)

19. Leadership Techniques for Anyone: How Kermit Shared Five Leadership Secrets with the World Recently, I had the pleasure of attending the funeral of my friend Kermit. A pleasure, you ask? Yes, a pleasure and a honor, because it was a great celebration of Kermit's life and the passion and spirit he brought to living it. Usually, when I... (posted by Ed 6 years 43 days ago.)

20. Eight Leadership Techniques for Outstanding Teams Apply the following eight leadership techniques to create highly motivated, self-directed, and extremely productive employees and teams: Provide Clear Expectations Winning organizations know where they are going and what is required to get... (posted by Ed 6 years 98 days ago.)

21. Romance Your Goals: Seven Secrets for SMARTER Goal It's that time of the year when you are motivated and ready to take on the whole world. You know you need to set goals, but in the past you have set goals with mixed results. However, this year will be different. This year you will be S-... (posted by Ed 6 years 103 days ago.)

22. E-mail Protocol – 12 Simple Rules to Stay Connected E-mail Protocol – 12 Simple Rules to Stay Connected By Joy Fisher-Sykes Electronic mail is a quick, easy, and convenient way to instantly link up with people around the globe. To ensure our messages don’t confuse or alienate others, it’s... (posted by Ed 6 years 190 days ago.)

23. Motivate Your Team! Eight Quick Tips to Motivate for Success Motivation is the key ingredient for success in any organization. You can have all the technical skills in the world however, if you can’t motivate your team, you will not achieve success. As a leader, a majority of your job is to motivate others... (posted by Ed 6 years 217 days ago.)

24. Common Courtesy Isn’t So Common – 10 Telephone Blunders in Everyday Business Common Courtesy Isn’t So Common – 10 Telephone Blunders in Everyday Business By Joy Fisher-Sykes As youngsters, many of us were taught basic telephone etiquette. These lessons taught us the basic components of conducting a phone conversation -... (posted by Ed 6 years 225 days ago.)

25. Adversity: Your Seed of Greatness (Three Secrets to Using Adversity to Become Great) From our first day on earth until our last, we face different levels of adversity. Adversity may be sickness, a property loss, or the loss of a family member. It may be a lost career promotion or a business setback. How we handle these adversities... (posted by Ed 6 years 225 days ago.)