Don’t Be Robbed in Your Next Meeting

What if someone asks to borrow your checkbook? And then the person says, “By the way, could you sign the checks before handing it over?”

Absurd, right?

And yet, people freely sign over huge chunks of their lives by agreeing to attend pointless meetings.

Here are...

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Doing Business In The Future – ...

Business Process Management (BPM) is a set of activities performed by organizations to improve or streamline their business processes. Since software tools are usually used to aid these activities, these software tools are referred to as Business Process Management Systems.

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Does Your Dress Code Address Flip Flop?

One of the most important things a manager can do to set healthy boundaries in the office is to define a dress code. It’s more critical today than ever before. Young men today show up for job interviews wearing shorts and muscle shirts. Others look like they just crawled out of bed wearing...

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Does Sales Training Matter?

Of the 4,158 colleges and universities in the United States, only 35 offer sales curricula. Nevertheless, more than 50% of the 1.3 million college graduates in 2007 will become professional sellers on the first day of their employment. Yet, turnover rates, attrition and failure in-the-field for...

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Document Shredding And Document Security: ...

Document security and document shredding have never been more important before and are bound to impact our lives in a way that we just cant imagine. If you see a proliferation of caro document shredding or Davison document shredding, or even curtis document shredding, you are witnessing the new...

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Document Security Not Just Paper Shredding

What is document security? Why is document security important to me? What are the best methods my company can use to enhance document security? Is it expensive to do? These are some of the questions you may have about document security.

In this article, I will explain more about document...

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Document Scanning Services: Needed Or Not?

It is hard to imagine anyone in today’s age of computers not being able to scan a document, let alone know what to do with it once it is scanned. Yet, there are countless services offering to do just that–scan, upload and make your file as you want. Whether you want it simply stored...

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Do You Let Your Staff Daydream?

How much time do you let your staff think? I mean think in all shapes and forms. Such as planning and reviewing, brainstorming and creativity, decision-taking and problem-solving, logical thinking and free-flow thinking.

And, yes, daydreaming, too.

Well, if its not up to a quarter...

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Do You Know What Your Customers Want?

“The True Function of Any Successful Business is to Sell People Precisely What They Want To Buy” – Bob Serling

I suppose the above seems rather obvious. After all, no customers, no business, right? But if the failure rate of businesses today is any indication, then...

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Do These Myths Make Your Meetings Miserable?

You can hold effective meetings and become a more successful leader if you avoid these seven monsters. Here’s how.

> Myth 1: Executives belong in meetings.

Although the demands of business cause executives to attend more meetings than other professionals, executives should be...

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Developmental Delegation: How To Kindle The ...

If you manage others, one of your most important roles will be to develop the resources that you have under you and that includes the people themselves. Here is a 6-step guide to how to develop people through delegation.

1. Kindle The Inner Spirit. The first step in developing...

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Developing the Secretarial Role – ...

Secretarial and administrative staff can only develop and add value to the business for the future, if their peers, the organization’s culture and their immediate managers create the right opportunities for them to do so. So here are the top ten tips for Managers:

1. Talk to them! ...

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