photo credit: Iain Farrell Marshall Goldsmith recently did an article on ways to improve the level of engagement from your employees during difficult times. With the way business and the economy is doing right now, it is very critical to keep your employees as engaged as you can. The biggest piece of advice is communication. This can […]
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photo credit: justgrimes Yelp is a site that allows customers from all over to go online and write reviews on small businesses such as stores, restaurants, and more. Reviews can be a great thing as they can provide great word of mouth advertising. However, the only problem with this is that businesses can’t go online
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photo credit: marfis75 When you reach that time of moving on to another company or even starting your own business, many people ponder the thought of how to tell their successor as well as the team that work’s directly under them. If you have worked with these people for say 20 year’s, it can be
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Springwise: There’s no doubt the internet has transformed the way people communicate; what’s less clear is that people are willing to let the old methods disappear. We’ve already seen companies that transform emails into paper letters; now, an Australian contender has resurrected none other than the classic telegram. Focusing on the role telegrams have long
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photo credit: Milica Sekulic Today phone business is booming more then ever in terms of so many different options of systems, features, phones themselves and more. Technology has found a way to make even the phone a high tech device that creates a more simple form of communicating at home or in your office. So
photo credit: roberlan While President Obama gives speeches on how our economy will turn around and we will come out of this recession with a more positive outlook, he should be adding other words to these statements. While he is painting a positive outlook, he still needs to be completely honest. This is where leaders
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photo credit: Rob Gallop In business it is always important to speak with authority but also intelligence and some compassion to your listeners. Certain words and phrases not only make you look insensitive but also can make you look a little lower on the intelligence poll. Below are a few examples of words that one
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photo credit: Dano Today there are so many people embracing the negativity at work of our current economy. It seems as though everyone has their own supporting statistic that proves our world is going to come to an end, this only creates stress and panic throughout your office. Below are a few ways you can
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photo credit: Jacob Bøtter We all have seen articles written on how to handle your under-performers or less than par performers, but what about your star employees, the top performers, have we forgotten about them? Truth is, most of us take the easy way out and either have them write their own review that we
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photo credit: barto While business spend a lot of time figuring out new way’s of communication that will increase work activity and eventually revenue, we are forgetting about the form’s of communication that actually work against our company, such as gossiping about yourself or other’s around you. What percent of all interpersonal communication time in
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