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Common Partnership Challenges
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| Partnerships can be very beneficial, but they can also be a source of frustration if there isn't a means for addressing common partnership challenges. This article will show how easy it is to go astray from what was originally planned when the partnership was initiated. See if any of these challenges sound familiar. Identifying problems early and taking corrective action may save your sanity and your partnership. |
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The Price of Worry How it Impacts Your Performance
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| You probably think worry is a ¡§natural¡¨ part of life; something that comes into play just to protect us. Reconsider this possibility: when you keep going through the same habits of worry, procrastination, or even emotional drama, again and again ¡X effectively avoiding having to take a constructive, corrective action, life does more than become rather repetitive¡K it gets to be predictable! And that ¡§prediction¡¨ does not leave you in a powerful place. |
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Email Etiquette - 6 Key Guidelines to Consider Before You Hit Send
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| The internet and email can provide a fast and easy way to communicate information but there is a right way and a wrong way to go about it. Follow these guidelines before writing your next email. |
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3 Tips for Customer Service Excellence
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| Customer loyalty is fundamental to business success. But just supplying customers with a quality product may not be enough to keep them coming back; companies need to go the proverbial extra mile to ensure the customer is fully satisfied- or even better, "wowed". |
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Try Selling Them A Better Buying Process
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| How much work do you expect your customers to do to for you? How much work do you need your customers to do for you? How much work are your customers doing for you? |
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Why Employee Suggestion Boxes Don’t Work
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| What does your employee feedback program look like? Do you have one of "those boxes in your office that sit in the corner of the break room with napkins piled on top of it? How do you really gauge the mood of the employees in your organization? Do you really know what’s getting in the way of your people’s performance?
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Expansion of Employee Retaliation Protection
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| Actions that employers should take in response to the Supreme Court's expansion of employee retaliation protection provided by Title VII. |
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Understanding Retail Metrics
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| Running a successful retail business involves more than buying merchandise, marking it up and selling it. The information you get from your POS software enables you to analyze your operation, identify problem areas, and take immediate corrective action before it costs you a bundle. These reports contain the Key Performance Indicators (KPI) for your business. |
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What Are You Legally Required to Pay Employees at Termination?
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| Quick summary of what is commonly paid at termination. |
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Why Human Resourses Protect
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| HR departments are established to protect workers and companies. |
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UNDERSTANDING FINANCIAL AND OPERATING RATIOS
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| The analysis of ratios can and will prevent most business bankruptcies.
The analysis of ratios can and will maximize your company's profit, sales, productivity potential.
This article includes 31 of the most important ratios worth tracking.
Each ratio includes the formula (so you don't need to go to your accountant)plus what the ratio could mean to your business. |
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How Healthy Is Your Business?
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| Cholesterol is often described as the silent killer. High cholesterol is bad for us and yet there are no symptoms. There is no pain; there is no nausea; there is no shortness of breath. That is why doctors regularly check our cholesterol. |
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Achieving Successful Business Growth
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| Successful business growth is not a miracle. It is the result of business owners directing all their talents and energies to the single purpose of building a bigger business. Through our work with successful businesses we have identified 6 key actions that business owners must do if they are to successfully grow their business. |
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Here Is A Quick Way To Improve Your Performance Review
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| The annual and dreaded performance review. Do you prepare for it? It is a waste of time? It's your personal review...so prepare! |
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Managing Change
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| Managing Change in an organization is not an option. The only option leaders have is whether to be pro active or reactive. Should you want to learn how to become pro active and effective with Managing Change, review this article |
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Manage Your Critical Success Indicators
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| The experts are unanimous! The first step to successfully grow a business is to develop a solid strategic plan. A plan with measurable three year objectives linked directly to one year operational tactics. In fact, my articles constantly extol the merits of strategic plans. The mantra is clear: Plan For Success. The warnings are also clear: fail to plan you plan to fail!
The implication that success will automatically follow a plan is misleading. While plans are extremely important they are only half the battle. The plan will give you the road map but you must still manage your business. Unfortunately, few of us have had any serious training in the management of a business and the trial and error approach of learning is fraught with danger. |
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Understanding Retail Metrics
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| Running a successful retail business involves more than buying merchandise, marking it up and selling it. The information you get from your POS software enables you to analyze your operation, identify problem areas, and take immediate corrective action before it costs you a bundle. These reports contain the Key Performance Indicators (KPI) for your business. |
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The Price of Worry How it Impacts Your Performance
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| You probably think worry is a ¡§natural¡¨ part of life; something that comes into play just to protect us. Reconsider this possibility: when you keep going through the same habits of worry, procrastination, or even emotional drama, again and again ¡X effectively avoiding having to take a constructive, corrective action, life does more than become rather repetitive¡K it gets to be predictable! And that ¡§prediction¡¨ does not leave you in a powerful place. |
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Common Partnership Challenges
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| Partnerships can be very beneficial, but they can also be a source of frustration if there isn't a means for addressing common partnership challenges. This article will show how easy it is to go astray from what was originally planned when the partnership was initiated. See if any of these challenges sound familiar. Identifying problems early and taking corrective action may save your sanity and your partnership. |
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Leadership Assessment #4 – Lack of Fear
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| There are hundreds of assessments for leaders. The content and quality of these assessments vary greatly. You can spend a lot of time and money taking surveys to tell you the quality of your leadership. There are a few leading indicators that can be used to give a pretty good picture of the overall quality of your leadership. These are not good for diagnosing problems or specifying corrective action, but they can tell you where you stand quickly. Here is one of my favorite measures. It is the absence of fear. |
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Leadership Assessment #8 – Firm but Fair
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| There are hundreds of assessments for leaders. The content and quality of these assessments vary greatly. You can spend a lot of time and money taking surveys to tell you the quality of your leadership. There are a few leading indicators that can be used to give a pretty good picture of the overall quality of your leadership. These are not good for diagnosing problems or specifying corrective action, but they can tell you where you stand quickly. Here is one of my favorite measures. It is being firm but fair. |
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Leadership Assessment #11 – Demonstrate Integrity
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| There are hundreds of assessments for leaders. The content and quality of these assessments vary greatly. You can spend a lot of time and money taking surveys to tell you the quality of your leadership. There are a few leading indicators that can be used to give a pretty good picture of the overall quality of your leadership. These are not good for diagnosing problems or specifying corrective action, but they can tell you where you stand quickly. Here is one of my favorite measures. It is demonstrating integrity. |
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Leadership Assessment #13 – Negotiate Well
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| There are hundreds of assessments for leaders. The content and quality of these assessments vary greatly. You can spend a lot of time and money taking surveys to tell you the quality of your leadership. There are a few leading indicators that can be used to give a pretty good picture of the overall quality of your leadership. These are not good for diagnosing problems or specifying corrective action, but they can tell you where you stand quickly. Here is one of my favorite measures. It is the ability to negotiate well. |
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Leadership Assessment #17 – Optimize Communication
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| There are hundreds of assessments for leaders. The content and quality of these assessments vary greatly. You can spend a lot of time and money taking surveys to tell you the quality of your leadership. There are a few leading indicators that can be used to give a pretty good picture of the overall quality of your leadership. These are not good for diagnosing problems or specifying corrective action, but they can tell you where you stand quickly. Here is one of my favorite measures. It is the ability to communicate well.
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Action Plan Example
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| Action plans are fairly common in business, but probably done wrong as often as not. A lot of people do not understand what an action plan is and often mistake it for a COE or Correction Of Errors, not one of my favorite types of documents. Having a good action plan starts with an understanding of what an action plan is and a great action plan example would be a huge help in this.
An action plan is a forward looking document and should be addressed as one. When looking at an action plan example one should take this into account. Action plans prevent business gaffs, keep everyone on task and help smooth out operations. In a way they could be considered a mini business plan, though I tend to look at them as a working business plan. |
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Communications and Safety Culture: I heard it through the grapevine.
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| A grapevine scenario could be triggered post-accident, if appropriate information (status of the injured, corrective action planning, etc) is not given to staff on a timely basis. |
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