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Get More Done – Interrupt Your Interruptions

Constant interruptions reduce focus and effectiveness. Learn how the human brain handles interruptions (poorly) and how to work more effectively by stemming their flow.

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The Benefits of Using An Independent Sales Organization (ISO) For Your Business’s Credit Card Transactions

You may think that when it comes to taking credit card payments from your clients, that all you need is the right hardware. However, this isn’t the case. Indeed, in most situations, you will also need to go through an ISO or Independent Sales Organization, which are third-party companies that mediate between you and the…

Working From Home – Creating the Perfect Ergonomic Workspace

Photo by FOX on Pexels With everyone working and zooming from home, it’s important to make sure your home office is not holding you back and is helping you reach and bypass your targets! So is your workplace helping you work, or is it holding you back? Studies have shown that ergonomic design in your…

8 Tips for Managing Your Business with a Mix of In-Office and Work from Home Models

The COVID-19 pandemic has introduced a new method of operation in companies that has become the new normal and is here to stay. The work-from-home culture has caught on rapidly, with professionals in a variety of different sectors embracing it enthusiastically. However, this work model does have its drawbacks and challenges. Certain weak spots need…

Managing Our Natural Impatience In The Business

In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Veruca Salt is a spoiled child who is constantly demanding every single thing she happens to see or hear about. In the book, Veruca wants to buy a squirrel from the Nut Room. As Willy Wonka refuses, she grabs one herself but is soon declared a bad nut. At…

Event Promotion Strategies For Business Leaders Who Feel Clueless

image source If you have no idea how to promote a business event, you’re not alone. It’s something that countless other brands struggle with.  On the one hand, they know that they have to get the message out there by doing something live. But on the other hand, the practicalities of promoting their event and…

Getting Your Business Back On Track Following the Pandemic

Image Source The past year and a half has seen businesses of all shapes and sizes, operating in all sorts of fields, undergoing a whole lot of change. The coronavirus and Covid-19 pandemic – and the rules implemented by the government to slow the spread of the virus – have forced into working in different…

Those darn employees

It is a common refrain across every industry and every size organization today. In addition to, “I am having trouble finding the right people or any people in some cases! And once we get them, keeping them is harder than ever.” There are a lot of innovative ways to address the shrinking labor pool and…

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Get More Done – Interrupt Your Interruptions

Constant interruptions reduce focus and effectiveness. Learn how the human brain handles interruptions (poorly) and how to work more effectively by stemming their flow.

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Thriving in Ongoing Change

And we can create whole new pathways, new structures and frameworks constantly. This neuroplasticity requires the crucial ingredients of time and intention.   Typically in unexpected change, we go through various phases including: Shock |  a sudden upsetting or surprising event or experience | “What is this?” Denial | looking for evidence it is not…

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4 Strategies for Hiring Bilingual Employees

Source The world is changing at an ever-increasing pace, and so should your company. In order to remain competitive, you need to keep pace by hiring writers that will spek the language of your consumers. By investing in bilingual employees who are able to speak and understand the changing trends you are enabling your content…

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Seven Winning Habits to Practice in 2022

Want your organization to win in 2022? Start by practicing these winning habits.

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GBG: The Acronym that Works

Many acronyms are negative and self-inhibiting. They stop us from pondering possibilities or alternatives. Here’s one that will switch your thinking from negative to positive.

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Are you playing to win…to achieve excellence?

Your #1 job as a leader is to create a compelling vision of winning

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Are you curious? Is your organization?

Curiosity: a strong desire to know or learn something

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Teach Employees the Business of your Business

Your employees are making decisions right now. How do they now the best ones if they don’t know the business of your business?

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Transparent thinking

To make this a reality, leaders need to develop transparent thinking in themselves and their team members.

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Are you clear on success in 2021?

  Roger Bannister set out to become the first athlete to break the four-minute mile. “Experts” told him it was impossible.  Some even suggested he was risking death; doctors told him his heart would explode! Not only did Bannister not die, but the week after he broke the barrier another runner followed in his footsteps,…

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Are You Preparing to Win in 2021 or Just Continuing to Work Hard?

No doubt 2020 was a challenging year in so many ways. Whether you were busier than you ever dreamed because market conditions changed in your favor, or you were shut down, had supply chains completely disrupted, or found your customers were negatively impacted, 2020 tested us at work. And that doesn’t even begin to cover…

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Top Workforce Issues

Effective business management requires balancing the big picture with the details.

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Lead the Possible, Not the Probable

Today’s uncertain and volatile business landscape calls for new ways of thinking and working. So why do most companies attempt to solve problems and manage massive change in the wrong manner? A lot of it has to do with the way the human brain works. Our brains love certainty and predictability. So when faced with…

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The Next Next

Individual and organizational brains in constant, unexpected change If you are like many, you were certain in April that by June we would see a settling in to the ‘new normal’.  And then in May, once again, many of us were sure that by the end of June, our norms would be reset, and we…

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Keeping Employees Connected

During times of uncertainty, human beings seek community and safety, and many find it in the workplace. Work typically provides a much-needed sense of stability and control over at least one aspect of our lives when everything else has gone topsy-turvy. Yet, millions of people have lost their jobs, either temporarily or permanently, due to…

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Executing with Excellence in Uncertainty

Why is it so hard to keep up with the pace of change these days? Some ascribe it to the overwhelming amount of information we try to process every day. Others point to the rapid pace of change. Both are partly to blame. But the primary reason is our brains were not constructed to work…

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How to Use Your Brain During Unexpected Change

The human brain is an amazing tool. But there’s one thing it doesn’t handle very well – change. Especially change of the magnitude brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Nobody saw this virus coming, but it has turned our world upside down. Our challenge as leaders is how we respond to it – a task…

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