Small Business CEO

OCTOBER 30, 2013

This is a growing trend too, as more companies see the positive impact telecommuting can have on the environment, while helping reduce operating costs and increase productivity for their businesses. This green strategy can also help to improve a company’s brand, and if done properly, can be a great sell to shareholders.

Telecommuting 40

Telecommuting Staples Expenses Phones 40

Allwork

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Companies need to make wise decisions and avoid biases in considering individual employee circumstances, including disability, age, and parental responsibilities, to navigate this new legal landscape successfully. The settlement also required the company to permit EEOC monitoring of future accommodation requests. The case, EEOC v.

Legal 296

Legal Policies Retirement Environment 296

Practically Perfect PA

DECEMBER 12, 2014

More and more organisations are allowing their employees access to their social media sites so that staff can express their love of the company, the business culture and what life is like working for that organisation. For those managing their organisation’s social media this is something you might be asked to research in 2015.

Social Media 100

Social Media 2015 Phones Twitter 100

Success

MAY 25, 2022

Despite years of experience helping grocery stores and retailers with their consumer strategies, the Harvard Business School grad never considered running her own company. What if she launched a company focused on healthy, organic snacks and pantry staples? Sun & Swell Foods launched in 2017 with date and cashew bites.

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Service Untitled

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

According to online surveys, over 80 percent of customers now give Sears poor customer service grades citing reasons of inept management, unreliable products, poor customer service, and a profound lack of employee training. After all Craftsman tools have always been a male Christmas present staple; for all those weekend home chores.

Customer Service 40

Customer Service Staples Holidays Clothes 40

On The Job

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

And yet, thousands of pregnant women go to work every day, giving the job 100 percent, even if they feel like crap and raging hormones have them considering stapling a co-worker to the wall. Companies have trimmed maternity leave benefits — or eliminated them — as they seek to trim costly employee benefits.

Staples 100

Staples Stress Salary Health 100

Make or Break Moments

MAY 7, 2010

With Drew McLellan and Gavin Heaton still firmly at the helm, the third book in the Age of Conversation series has become a veritable “who’s who” of the world’s leading marketing bloggers.

Social Media 100

Social Media Customer Service 2009 2008 100

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

MAY 24, 2013

I applied to be a EA to the CEO of a big company in my country. Also respect that they are also busy and may not be able to hold your hand past the initial training period. You are their to conform and fit into the dept and company as the newest member. They have helped me so much but I still have concerns.

Staples 40

Staples Mentoring Gossip Interviewing 40

Service Untitled

JUNE 8, 2010

That teamwork eventually evolved into a company boasting 62,000 support personnel, 7,000 branches, and 800,000 vehicles. Regularly surveying customers, but keeping questions targeted to one specific area could evaluate the company’s progress. Three questions pertaining to customer service became staples: How satisfied were you?

Customer Service 40

Customer Service Staples Etiquette 2010 40

Service Untitled

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Training representatives and putting processes in place to avoid blind transfers is not rocket science, but a majority of companies still do blind transfers more often than not. If your company is doing any of these things, think of ways to change that.

Customer Service 40

Customer Service Verizon Staples Phones 40

Laughing all the Way to Work

JUNE 23, 2009

I was in back-to-back Committee meetings and I decided to use two different colours of folders, a blue one for the Committee members, with an attendance sheet stapled to the inside cover for my purposes, along with their meeting packages, and a red one for the Chair with everything the Chair was going to need.

Time Zones 100

Time Zones IAAP Staples Meeting Minutes 100

Stephanie LH Calahan

MARCH 25, 2011

In addition to the name, phone numbers, company, and e-mail, include where and when you met the person, who introduced you, and why you might want to contact him/her in the future. Thanks to Peter Coombs of FRONTLINE Training & Consulting. Staple the cards into a little notebook, one card per page. The business cards?

Business Cards 100

Business Cards Networking ASAP Etiquette 100

Stephanie LH Calahan

MAY 13, 2011

            Peter Coombs FRONTLINE Training & Consulting. I had some basic understandings of what I needed to track (because I was a consultant with a home-sales company) & just tweaked my tracking spreadsheet for my new business. Find here: steph.bz/jI9HDF. I use Carbonite. Find here: steph.bz/lkOHaY.

Credit Card 100

Credit Card Google Docs Dropbox Filing 100

Brilliantly Better

APRIL 4, 2010

If you can’t figure it out, ask the person or company that rejected you. If you run a small company, lose a contract and go bankrupt, is that success? I printed out all the feedback – the good, the bad, and the ugly – and stapled it to my story. If you sent in a guest post to a blogger, ask why it got rejected.

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2010 AT&T Learning Goals 40