The Three C's of Good Communication

The CEO asked the DVPs to estimate the ROI on the M and A proposal. Now, can you decipher that code? The chief executive officer (the CEO) asked the division vice presidents (the DVPs) to estimate the return-on-investment (or ROI) on the merger and acquisition (M and A) proposal.

Communication Style and Diplomacy and Tact

To communicate with tact and diplomacy, you need to be sensitive and respectful. However, this can be more challenging than it first seems. People are sensitive to different things. And what one person sees as a lack of respect may not be an issue for another. For example, some people think it's respectful to make eye contact, while others do not.

Listening Essentials: The importance of listening

A conversation requires concentrated listening. Many people assume they know how to listen. However, these people may be mistaking just hearing for effective listening. Listening does require hearing, but it also requires interpretation and understanding – in other words, two-way communication.

Effective Listening during Change

Everyone reacts to change slightly differently and is likely to have their own opinion about the change – that's just human nature. However, it's how you handle reactions to and opinions about change that will impact the success of a change initiative.

Becoming a More Responsive Listener

Being successful at work usually depends on access to good information. Some information arrives in written form, but the vast majority is delivered orally. By becoming a more responsive listener, you'll increase your opportunities for collecting valuable information, and reduce mistakes due to miscommunications and misunderstandings.
 
There are several things you can do to become a more responsive listener.

Setting Expiry Date on Static Components for Improving Performance

Objective:To improve the performance of the Siebel Application and reduce the load on the Web Server.
 
Problem / Analysis:  The “start.swe” component is the one that has all the data for building any Siebel page. The remaining components are the static components (that is the .gif and .js) that are used for building the Web Page.

Optimization of Data Warehouse – Reporting Design

Problem Definition:- As per any standard Data Warehouse Project the entities <Transactional DB Source, ETL(Extract, Transform & Load)  Process, Analytical DB Destination, UI for Reporting>  are being used in the current Process/Project. Before looking in to the problems in the current system design let us first see the current system design:

 

Debugging Profile Attribute

There would have been umpteen number of situations where you might have felt the need for an easier way of debugging profile attributes than logging the values in a script, haven't you?.If yes, then here is a much simpler way and you can do this on the fly.
When the web client is up, replace the URL with the following script:

Limit Text Field Length - Text Length Override

User is using a column "PROTOCOL_NAME" (varchar-100) to store the value entered in the Field "Name"(varchar-30) but can enter more than 30 characters.
It seems intuitive that a field attribute called "Text Length" would set a limit to the amount of text that could be entered into a field.
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