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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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5 Steps to Achieving a Growth Mindset in Business

A growth mindset is a belief that individuals can develop their intellect, talents, abilities, and emotional intelligence through hard work and dedication. If an individual or organization makes consistent attempts to overcome challenges, they will be more likely to enjoy success throughout the years. If your company is willing to welcome input from employees, help…

Top 4 Reasons Why Your Business is Not Growing

Image Credit Nothing is more disappointing than running a business that is not growing even after investing your resources into it. Although every hard-working entrepreneur deserves to reap the benefits of their labor, it’s normal for businesses to stagnate due to unfavorable policies.  You will only see good results if your efforts are on the…

Here’s How To Avoid Future Business Headaches On The Horizon

As a business owner, it’s always important to make sure that you are getting ahead of certain situations. Here are some of the key steps to guarantee that a business disaster doesn’t take down your company.    Pexels CCO License Increase Security If you did a poll on the biggest fears of your customers and…

Key Business Metrics To Look Out For In 2021

Building a successful business is always a rollercoaster. One day, everything looks to be going perfectly fine. The next day, you’re dealing with unexpected issues that seem like they have no end. Amid all the highs and lows, you need to find ways to keep your business ship sailing towards your business goals. One of…

Warehouse Waste You Can Easily Avoid

When it comes to managing your warehouse, one of the most important factors in maintaining its cost-effectiveness is going to be reducing the number of wasted goods. While some waste is always going to be a factor, there are causes that you can crackdown on to ensure that you’re not letting too many products go…

How You Can Prevent Technical Hiccups In Your Business

In today’s world, technology is an integral part of almost every enterprise. In reality, if significant technological issues with their IT infrastructure occurred, many businesses would be severely disrupted, if not destroyed. Of course, you don’t want technical difficulties in your own business. Your company’s IT infrastructure, no matter how basic or complicated, is vulnerable…

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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