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Has Your Business Had a Recent Check-up?
How is the health of your business? Take a quick pulse by looking at the following areas:1. Financials - key items to look at are your balance sheet, income (or profit & loss) statement and cash flow statement. Is your equity, profit margin and cash flow growing? If not, why not? If so, what plans do you have with your growing cash flow? Reinvestment? Expansion? Capital Investment? Acquisition? Do you have any major expenditures coming up on the horizon? If so, will you have sufficient cash or will you need to finance?2. Market Analysis - start from scratch and see if you have a targeted niche market. If not, how

g in order to remain competitive." Not only is it important to introduce technical concepts specific to an industry, but in many ways, it is more important to add training that will help employees become more adept at generating new ideas. New ideas are what keep a company

Mortgage Training: How to Triple Production While Cutting Your Office Hours in Half
Do you ever wonder where your time goes during the day? Well here is an eye opening mortgage training exercise you should try:For one full day, write down what you are doing every 15 minutes. At the end of the day you will be amazed by how much time you spend doing “non-dollar-productive” activities.Non-dollar-productive activities are activities you do day in and day out that make you zero money… Like walking to the fax machine or using the copier.In this mortgage training article you’ll discover how to walk into your office, do only what you enjoy doing for 2 to 4 hours and then go home. Would that imp

At one of my recent photography assignments, a senior vice president was very impressed with the amount of gear that I brought with me and how prepared I seemed to be. He noticed how I planned for the unexpected by bringing redundant pieces of equipment. He asked if I did anything else besides photography. I informed him that those areas that make me a very successful photographer, creativity, balance, leadership and personal development, also help organizations provide for increased passion, happier employees, increased profitability and a more balanced workforce. He was intrigued.

He runs the company 'college' that trains their employees in those areas that are specific to his industry. While he said that the majority of the programs are technical, he thought that adding one of my programs would 'round out' the course work. According to the Aspen Institute's Maureen Conway, coauthor on a report on the benefits of targeted training programs, " changes in technology and in the general business environment have compelled many companies to increase their investment in training in order to remain competitive." Not only is it important to introduce technical concepts specific to an industry, but in many ways, it is more important to add training that will help employees become more adept at generating new ideas. New ideas are what keep a company

Moment of Truth or Moment of Impact
Moments of truth are all those times when customers experience and evaluate your service. Work hard, do a good job, and customers will come back for more.Moments of impact are those rare moments when someone goes way above the call of duty, stretches the envelope far beyond the stamp, innovates and takes action in unexpected ways that are valued, appreciated…and remembered.A client at a seminar handed me this note: ‘Last night, 10 minutes before departure at the airport, I found my car and house keys still with me, which means my wife would have been locked out of the house. I passed them to the Singapore Airlines

anything else besides photography. I informed him that those areas that make me a very successful photographer, creativity, balance, leadership and personal development, also help organizations provide for increased passion, happier employees, increased profitability and a more balanced workforce. He was intrigued.

What You Say, and How You Say It, Affects Bottom Line Quality
Unless you start doing “it” today, all the quality checks in the world won’t save your company from a major stumble. "It" is right speech. As a quality manager, I like to imagine that if everybody does their job and quality is high at every stage in the production process, I’ll enjoy a smooth operation and get satisfied customers as a result. But experience has taught me that a mean spirit can infect and poison the work place when people don’t watch what they say.Mean comments by coworkers about managers, snide asides about other employees, managers who gossip about recently terminated employees, supervisors who don’t co

ore balanced workforce. He was intrigued.

Guarantees In Marketing And How You Can Use Them To Increase Your Profits - Response
All too often people overlook the importance of guarantees in their marketing. Guarantees perform some basic functions in business, but they can be used far more effectively in marketing your product as well. Typically, you will see standard guarantees like “Double Your Money Back” or “100% Satisfaction Guaranteed”. These types of guarantees are common and serve the purpose of easing the prospects mind, and allowing them to move forward with their purchase.While these guarantees are useful you can use them in much better ways. First, I would recommend using a stronger or more unique guarantee. For instance, “If you

out' the course work. According to the Aspen Institute's Maureen Conway, coauthor on a report on the benefits of targeted training programs, " changes in technology and in the general business environment have compelled many companies to increase their investment in training in order to remain competitive." Not only is it important to introduce technical concepts specific to an industry, but in many ways, it is more important to add training that will help employees become more adept at generating new ideas. New ideas are what keep a company

Innovation Management - IBM Opens Lid On Its Treasure Chest
IBM, which registered 3248 patents last year, has decided that sharing technology can sometimes be more profitable than jealously guarding its property rights on patents, copyrights and trade secrets (Herald Tribune, April 11 2005).International Business Machines have come to the above conclusion 205 years after the invention of electric light – thus clearly illustrating that even the 19th largest company in the world (fortune.com) with a market capitalization on $141 billion (nasdaq.com) is still only learning about creativity and innovation.Of course the issue of control is important but a quick history lesson i

I telephoned the person responsible for the content of this organization's training all the while referencing the senior vice president who had asked me to call. I mentioned the value of my programs and how it is important to introduce a concept like balance early, so that employee's will practice it from the beginning of their employment or careers. There was an uncomfortable pause on the phone, and then I was told that this company's first order of business was to become more professional and not focus on 'soft skills' like work/life balance. My contact said, "We don't want to add any non-technical training; rather we want to motivate our employees to become more professional by working harder and by working longer hours."

I was taken aback. This was exactly the opposite approach that I would have expected, but it seems to be what is still happening in some American Companies. According to the Wall Street Journal , many of the nation's largest retailers such

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There is no room for a disconnect between the image your firm is projecting and the position you seek to carve out of the marketplace. More than ever, shifts in the legal industry are shining a bright light on business development. As the face of the firm evolves, its storytellers, i.e. the logo, firm brochure, practice area literature, recruitment material, trade publication ads, event invitations, newsletters, and the web site need to reflect the change. Collectively and individually, these ambassadors make a great case in favor of judging a book by its cover. How they look is just as important as their content.

All great speakers know one thing: people only start listening when you STOP talking. Learn how to capture audiences with the power of the pause.

Whether it is a party or formal ceremony, it would take some effort to imagine a corporate event without the element of entertainment. An entire corporate event in its broad sense (including corporate retreats, corporate Christmas parties and non-cash incentives), may seem nothing more than entertainment. The element of entertainment is also present in the schedules of such events as corporate meetings, sales conferences, product launches, trade shows and so on (why not start a conference with a stunning lights show?). In any case, entertaining programmes are far more than just having fun.

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