Build Bridges Not Walls – Employee ...

Regular, one-on-one assessments with your staff provide an efficient two-way forum with which to set and review realistic achievement targets, provide feedback on performance, and listen to and consider any problems employees may have. For example, a sales executive may feel that he or she is...

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Branding and Employee Communication

In the I-HR newsletter, moderator Beth N. Carvin asked if the idea of branding could be used effectively to improve productivity and retention. This is an expanded version of my response to her question:

Yes, I think you can use the idea of branding as a tool for improving employee...

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Brainstorming Techniques

Have you been in a “brainstorming” session where each person just defended their own ideas? Worse is when people don’t suggest ideas at all, for fear they’ll be attacked. That’s no way to brainstorm. Brainstorming is using the power of many minds, and ideas should...

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Boost Employee Morale With An Exciting ...

Boost Employee Morale With An Exciting Adventure Team Building Event!

Corporations faced with a bout of low employee morale should organise exciting team building events to turn things around. Depending on the company budget available, there are lots of team building activities that can...

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Boost Employee Morale With An Employee ...

Is there a lull in your office? Are your employees not satisfied anymore with the way that you are manning the place? Good managers know from their own observations that employee attitude affects their work and eventually the companys output.

When your employees have a happy and healthy...

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Blind Spots — (If you don’t ...

Blind Spots — (If you don’t check your mirrors, you’re going to crash)

For a driver, a blind spot is an area not easily seen. It may be the area the mirrors miss, either beside or behind the driver…or is simply forgotten by the driver. Accidents occur when the...

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Big Questions That Could Change Your Business

How does your business perform in these areas?

Effecitve Meeetings

What if people:

* Called a meeting only when they had a specific goal supported by a detailed agenda?

* Checked with the key participants to help them prepare for the meeting?

* Involved all of...

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Beyond Marketing — Brand Management

In the past, the management of an organization’s brand has usually been the sole domain of the organization’s marketing team. However, with the evolution of the Internet and people’s need for instant information, there is a greater call for public relations professionals to...

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Beware The Busy Manager

Only about 10 percent of managers work purposefully to complete important tasks, according to a 10-year study of managerial behavior across a variety of industries. The other 90 percent self-sabotage by busily engaging in non-purposeful activities, procrastinating, detaching from their work and...

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Better Than E-mail, Guaranteed

There’s a rampaging fascination with E-mail. People send out billions and billions of messages every day.

And they’re missing out on a more effective tool.

So what could be better than E-mail?

What guarantees effective communication?

What always lets you...

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Better Approach for Bigger Results

Two scenes of beauty and happiness, side by side on the television. Flip: a preview of the latest hot model of cards for 2006. Flip: the most recent addition to the fully high-tech camera phones. Flip: an ad of the latest hot perfume for men. Flip: a new commercial of one of the flourishing fast...

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Benefits of Dry Ice Blasting

Cleans More Thoroughly

Dry ice blasting can effectively and easily clean and reach places that other methods cannot. Like reaching nooks and crannies that are difficult to reach with brushes or chemicals

Saves time

In dry ice blasting, equipments are cleaned on...

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