Helpful Links

We've listed other sites we find intelligent, useful or fun in four groups: Business, Media, Resources and Still Searching?

Business Links

Customer Service Benchmarking

www.benchmarkingreports.com/customerservice

While this site promotes reports which are for sale, each has a 'Study Snapshot' and useful Key Findings summaries.

Refresher.com

www.refresher.com/ceo.html

Articles on creative leadership, competitive strategy, leading change, performance improvment and more.   Plus over 400 articles in the archives.


Media

Training Journal

www.trainingjournal.co.uk

A UK based 'Independant Journal for Professional Trainers'.   Good articles with informative and practical content including a regular column by Peter Honey.

Background Briefing

www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/bbing

ABC Radio National's agenda-setting, current affairs radio documentary program, with a history of award-winning investigative journalism.   Links to transcripts and archives.

Inside Business

www.abc.net.au/insidebusiness

Features, interviews and news from the ABC's weekly business program.


Resources

Training Zone

www.trainingzone.co.uk

A community interest site (free membership).   Resources Section includes 'Trainer Toolkit' with more downloadable materials.

Mind Tools

www.mindtools.com/index.html

A useful site with good suggestions on developing time/self management, delegation and communication skills.   Generous extracts and book references.

Myers-Briggs

www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes1.htm

Take the Myers-Briggs type indicator test with on-line analysis.

Games

www.thiagi.com/games.html

Games, puzzles, team exercises and icebreakers

Just for Fun

www.queendom.com/tests/alltests.html

Contains a host of on-line tests for personality, career, health and more. Some much less serious than others.

Creativity

www.whatagreatidea.com/stuck.htm

If you're stuck for ideas, try this site.   It includes a transcript of an interview with Dr. Yoshiro Nakamatsu the inventor of the floppy disc (click on the link in "Add Creative Stimuli").

Still Searching?

Links

www.ceoexpress.com

A US site with literally hundreds of links to other sites under the categories: "Daily News and Info", "Business Research", "Office Tools and Travel" and "Take a Break".

Web Searching

www.searchenginewatch.com

An up to date description of search engine capabilities.





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