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| | | Would you believe… that, unlike watching the movie, reading this will make you get smart? Get Smart has hit the big screens, and of course, if you're not a fan of the 1960s TV show, you might be a little disappointed to learn that this anticipated summer blockbuster isn't an educational film at all.In fact, you may not learn a thing. ... | | | No matter how many sales you make, your business will struggle if you don't watch your margins. One of the biggest mistakes made by startups is to confuse making sales with making money. New business owners seem to think that business is about busy-ness--that is, how many times the cash register rings. They fail to take even simple steps to ... | | | In part 5 of a series about leadership lessons learned in the tropics, Patty Vogan compares scuba diving and running a business. I was living out my dream of running a scuba diving business in Tonga when I realized that many of the lessons I'd learned about diving also applied to entrepreneurship. In previous parts of this series, I've talked about packing up my life in a ... | | | We're not talking kid stuff--the booming children's market is serious business, and franchisees are reaping the rewards. The franchising industry is aging beautifully, but there's one segment of it that stays forever young. Youthful, energetic, ever-growing and impulsive, the kids' market definitely reflects its target population. While kids hold the key to our ... | | | How to Motivate Today's Worker Copyright © 1999-2006 Edward Lowe Foundation.
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Learn how to identify causes of low morale, then apply proven
techniques to motivate ... | | | Training links People who are inadequately trained can spend huge amounts of
time trying to finish simple tasks. And when a job isn’t
done correctly, it usually has to be done all over again. All
that extra time quickly adds up to a large ... | | | How to Train One-On-One Copyright © 1999-2006 Edward Lowe Foundation.
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Training is an ongoing process that takes many forms, from
assigning new members to functioning teams to ... | | | How to Recruit and Hire for Better Results Copyright © 1999-2006 Edward Lowe Foundation.
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How To Recruit And Hire For Better Results
A well-selected workforce is key to growing your business.
You can improve your ... | | | How to Hire a Sales Staff Copyright © 1999-2006 Edward Lowe Foundation.
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How to bolster the sales of your product or services so your
business can grow? The key is your ... | | | Human Resources Achieving Employee Potential
Your greatest asset may be the people who work within your
company. When the last employee has gone home for the day, the
computers, desks, equipment, by themselves, will be useless
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Population ... | | | Small Businesses: Overconfident on Security This Dark Reading article reports on the results of a study by Visa USA and the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), which shows that most companies with fewer than 250 employees are storing sensitive data that they shouldn't.
57% of ... | | | Biggest Security Threat? Your Users Even the best security technology in the world can't completely protect a company from the biggest vulnerability it has-its own end users.
However, according to this Computerworld article, security education and continual reinforcement of policies ... | | | Entrepreneurs share the motherly advice that has shaped them into the successful leaders they are today. This Sunday, women around the world will be showered with flowers, jewelry and gourmet goodies as sons and daughters show their moms how much they care. Just how much? The National Retail Federation estimates consumers will spend an average of about ... | | | 30 years ago, huge corporations dominated the business world. Read about the seismic shifts that turned America into a nation of entrepreneurs. The late 1970s were a time of bright miniskirts, mirrored disco balls and platform shoes. But the wild changes taking place 30 years ago weren't all in music and fashion.Inside office suites, workers were learning to type memos into their Altair ... | | | Boosting Employee Performance: Employees Remember
Informal Learning Best Boosting Employee Performance:
Employees Remember Informal Learning Best
--by Charles Ginn
Research studies show that “water-cooler”
training—the kind that happens when a new employee learns ... | | | Boosting Employee Performance: 10 Reasons Employees Do
Not Perform As Expected Boosting Employee Performance:
10 Reasons Employees Do Not Perform As Expected
--by Charles Ginn
Not getting the high-quality job performance you want from
your employees? Don’t run to the phone and order ... | | | Best Practices: Win The Game With Proactive
Coaching Best Practices: Win The Game With Proactive
Coaching
-- by Charles Ginn
If you’re looking for a best practice you can use to
get rid of all the errors and misunderstandings in your
workplace forever, ... | | | Not-too-late deductions Not-too-late deductions
Even though the curtain has come down on 2004, you can still take advantage of a few opportunities to reduce last year's tax bill.
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Provided by ... | | | Pining for a paperless office? Pining for a paperless office?
Some tips for minimizing your paper glut.
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Q: What are the considerations, technologies and steps I should take to make our business paperless?
A: I take it that your ... | | | We've busted out the crystal ball to predict the hottest industries for the coming year. Food & BeveragesNew!SpiritsAs consumers nationwide toast the moment, their glasses reveal the cravings of today--premium spirits. "Over the past 15 years, there has been a trend toward people drinking less but drinking better," says David Ozgo, ... | | | Encouraging employees to take ownership of their work will result in better customer service and a stronger company. Most of us with childhood memories of learning to ride a bike can recall one exhilarating moment in particular: when our parent's hand let go of the bike and we were on our own. At that instant, ownership of the experience passed to us. We were ... | | | New Training Tool for Team USA(TM): Enterprise-Class Networking As a sponsor of the United States Olympic Team, ATamp;&T designed and manages the networking environment for the three U.S. Olympic Training Centers (OTCs) in Chula Vista, California, Colorado Springs, Colorado, and Lake Placid, New York.
The goal ... | | | Is the single biggest destroyer of employee motivation plaguing your workplace? Find out. Many business people use a single word to describe the combined symptoms of employee lack of motivation, apathy, resistance to change, resentment and mistrust: cynicism. That word pretty much says it all.The question that always intrigues me is, ... | | | Find out why three former teachers left red pens and chalkboards for A+ careers outside the classroom. Good teachers can stay with you your entire life. For entrepreneur Charles Best, Mr. Buxton, his high school wrestling coach, inspired him to become a teacher. "I looked up to him. I wanted to have that same thing happen to me," says Best of his ... |
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