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Is Your Virtual Assistant Letting You Down: Sound Business Advice for Women Entrepreneurs
Hiring a virtual assistant or VA is like any relationship and nobody likes to be disappointed, especially when you’re investing in someone who is supposed to make your life easier. Don’t be afraid to expect the best. Here are three respectful, yet powerful tips on how you can nip an assistant problem in the bud, without losing sleep or feeling like you’ve suddenly turned into a raging diva.

Setting a Marketing Budget
One of the most important decisions that a small to medium-sized business has to make is how much money to spend on a marketing budget.

Employee Retention: 7 Tactics to Retain Your Most Valuable Asset

Recent surveys show that senior executives place employee retention as their greatest staffing concern. And so they should. Employers who are able to minimize their employee turnover during this recession period are going to emerge from it stronger and healthier than those companies whose employees have defected. You should be doing everything you can to make sure that you keep your employees happy, engaged, and productive. Your company depends on it, and here's why.

Conflicts in the Workplace: Top 10 Workplace Dysfunctions - And How to TERMINATE Them
Purge your workplace of dysfunctional behavior and you will terminate all workplace conflicts and improve your organization's productivity...

Fill 'er Up This Holiday Season!
3 Simple Steps for filling the tanks of our family and friends, our customers and prospects, and everyone else we have the privilege of interacting with on a daily basis.

Fill'er Up With Love
We often encounter people whose tanks are dry. Here are 3 things you can do to help someone FILL 'ER UP!

Managing Performance: How To Conduct A Performance Review Right

One of the most common questions we get asked is: "We need to do annual performance reviews. Do you have a performance review form that we could use?" While admirable that the need to conduct a performance review is recognized, the purpose is often lost in the frenzy of filling out forms, setting up meetings with employees, and sitting through awkward, contrived discussions with them about their performance. The performance review is about managing and improving performance. It should be a motivating, inspiring process conducted not just once a year, but on a regular basis. In this article, we'll discuss how to effectively manage performance and provide tips for how and when to conduct a proper performance review.

Lessons from The Breakfast Club

Have you ever tried to look better on the outside than you were feeling on the inside? Do you ever abandon your truth to please others? If you weren’t afraid of losing someone’s approval, acceptance, or love, if you didn’t feel that you had to choose between abandoning yourself or being abandoned by someone else, wouldn’t you be authentic all the time with everyone? Wouldn’t you stand up for yourself more? Whenever I am challenged to please others at the expense of being real, I think about Anais Nin’s eloquent quote, “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”

Stress Management

We’ve all had it happen to us before: we’re just about to head home from the office for the day when a colleague asks us if we could stay just a bit later to help them with something. And, against the advice of the little voice in your head telling you to go home to your family, you accept. Ignoring that little voice of ours is what so often leads to us becoming inundated with more projects that we can handle. And that is why no matter in what line of business you work, it is important to understand and master the principles of stress management.

Human Resource Management

Ask any CEO of any Fortune 500 company what the most important part of their company is, what is the one single thing that drives their company to reach new heights of success, and I guarantee you they will tell you one thing: people. People are the power behind any company, big or small. So how do you keep your people happy? How do you ensure they are working to maximum capacity and boosting your company’s productivity? The answer comes in three not so simple words: human resource management.

Maintaining a Healthy Job Share Partner Relationship
Being in a job share partnership is like any other relationship. It can really be compared to a marriage. As a matter of fact, you may end up spending more time working collaboratively with a job share partner than you do with your own spouse. So, it is very important to make sure that you work at the relationship just like a marriage. Here are some tips to keep it in check.


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