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101: Cross Training Employees
April 1, 2013Teaching employees skills outside their immediate job descriptions seems like an automatic win-win: it helps with scheduling and employee morale, increases efficiency and builds strong teams.
April 1, 2013
10 Things I Know About ... Designing For Business Clients
March 18, 201310. ART AND DESIGN HAVE DIFFERENT MEANINGS.
March 18, 2013
Know How5 Ways To Spread A Critical Message To Your Work Team
March 18, 2013In this digital age, when corporate scandals spread in a matter of seconds, “accountability” has become a buzzword for company leaders to prevent mistakes before they happen and clean them up afterwards.
March 18, 2013
101: Negotiating A Deal
March 18, 2013Any good negotiator will tell you that getting a deal completed — and getting as much as you can out of it — is an art that must be learned.
March 18, 2013
Know How5 Grammar ‘Gotchas’ To Avoid
March 4, 2013As a former employer used to tell me, “Everyone's a writer, everyone's an editor.” But professional writers and editors know the common mistakes to seek and remove.
March 4, 2013
10 Things I Know About ... Managing A Distributed Workforce
March 4, 201310. CLEAR COMMUNICATIONS
Develop a clear plan for communication: how often, through what channels, how decisions will be made.
9. MEET IN PERSON – REGULARLY
March 4, 2013101: Employee Appreciation
March 4, 2013We recently celebrated Employee Appreciation Day in the United States. But many studies have shown that displays of gratitude toward staffers or co-workers go a long way, and need not be confined to one day per year or cost money.
March 4, 2013
10 Things I Know About ... Benefits Of Massage Therapy
February 18, 201310. IT CAN BE A DAY AT THE BEACH
You can listen to crashing waves or Bob Marley on the sound system to make you feel like you're at the beach — with no chance of getting sand in your underwear!
February 18, 2013
Know HowHow Not To Promote Your Business
February 18, 2013Want to make certain your press releases and pitches are ignored by reporters and editors? It's easy. Here are 15 tips:
February 18, 2013101: Giving Bad News
February 18, 2013Hopefully you work at a company where layoffs, firings and dramatic downward shifts in business don't happen. But if they do, there are right and wrong ways to handle the delivery of bad news.
February 18, 2013
101: Managing From Afar
February 4, 2013With SmartPhones, iPads and laptops, employees who don't physically work in the office are becoming more common. More supervisory types are overseeing remote employees.
February 4, 2013
10 Things I Know About ... Choosing A Financial Institution
February 4, 201310. RESPONSIVENESS
As a business owner, your time and money are valuable, so it's important to measure how quickly a financial institution provides you with services and solutions for your banking needs.
February 4, 2013
Know HowHow You Can ‘Engineer’ Demand
February 4, 2013The spark of entrepreneurial creativity can power perpetual motion that ignites new ideas and results in a constant flow of inventive new products and services. Many of these have transformed our lives and our world.
February 4, 2013
10 Things I Know About ... Employee Background Checks
January 21, 201310. DON'T ASK, INITIALLY
Generally, employers may not ask about criminal offender record information (CORI) on initial written applications.
9. HAVE A WRITTEN POLICY
January 21, 2013
101: Collaborating
January 21, 2013“Putting our heads together,” “partnering,” “teaming up” — there are many ways to say “working together,” but how can we ensure these arrangements run smoothly and are profitable for all concerned?
January 21, 2013
Know How5 Tax Issues You Can’t Ignore
January 21, 2013Along-awaited deal was passed by Congress Jan. 1 that prevented the immediate impact of going over the “fiscal cliff” of tax hikes and mandatory spending cuts.
January 21, 2013
