Do Business Well

The majority of people who work from home, whether they be working for giant corporations or in one-man bands, work by themselves. On the one hand, that means they are extremely efficient — no interruptions, no joking during meetings, no office politicking around the coffee machine, or gossiping in the lunch break — but it also means that homeworkers can feel terribly alone and isolated.

`I found that working six hours a day at home was worth more than eight in the office,’ says Emma Dally, now Publishing Director for The National Magazine Company. ‘There are so few interruptions that you are able to work very intensively.’ Continue Reading »

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Evaluate Professional Email Marketing Services Capabilities

Does your provider or product vendor have a professional services group or does it rely on your internal IT group or outside system integration services to install its product or integrate its technology platform? The quality of professional services groups varies widely and the vendor’s own team is often not the one best suited to implement your email marketing solution. When evaluating professional services organizations, look for the following:

• An emphasis placed on professional services by the vendor (as opposed to your sudden realization that you need help implementing the vendor’s solution).
• Depth and breadth of services offered.
• Detailed domain experience that maps to the problem your are attempting to solve and products or technology you have chosen.

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1. What is your organisation’s attitude towards sexism and sexual harassment?
2. Summarise your organisation’s written policy on sexual harassment.
3. If it doesn’t have a policy, who should you choose to make management aware of the problem?
4. How should you go about this and by when?

An organisational policy is essential. But the real onus of minimising the possibility of being harassed is on you. Here is some sound advice:

Maintain a good self-image

Know yourself. Value yourself. Remember that you have a right to be taken seriously in the workplace. Continue Reading »

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