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What Are 5 Components of Emotional Intelligence & How Do They Shape Your Future?

Success

Consider, for instance, an entrepreneur who has a great relationship with an essential supplier. Rather than becoming angry, hanging up the phone or ending the business relationship on impulse, the self-regulated entrepreneur controls their emotional impulses and approaches the situation more strategically.

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5 Ways to Thrill Your Customers (Because a Thank You Email Just Doesn’t Cut It Anymore)

Success

Or the physician who returns a prospective patient’s call on a Saturday, spends 20 minutes on the phone discussing symptoms, and then shares a private cellphone number with instructions to call back if further medical advice is needed. I do more than 700 phone calls, not emails, to clients on their birthdays each year.

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Employee Monitoring: How to (and not to) track employee productivity

BMT Office Administration

The history of employee monitoring’s various forms. An example would be call centers, where employee phone calls and voicemails were recorded and closely monitored to ensure their quality and efficiency. Well, that’s a classic form of employee monitoring right there. Time tracking and file tracking. Keystroke logging.

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Benefits of corporate hospitality for small businesses.

The Small Business Blog

Friendships form: Taken out of the work environment and given the space and time to bond, your workforce can find common ground and develop new friendships. Standing out from the crowd: Offering your clients or suppliers a corporate event really gives your company a chance to be remembered and strike an edge between you and your competitors.

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Why India Is a Rising Star Among Exporting Nations

The Small Business Blog

million India-based members and hosts more Indian suppliers than suppliers from any other country outside of China. The ability to communicate with suppliers via phone, e-mail and Skype in a common language reduces confusion, response time and translation errors. The two main reasons why European countries and the U.S.

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New Types of Energy Efficient Lighting

Eco-Office Gals

LEDs have been in existence in a practically usable form since 1962, but have only gained general usage in the last decade or so, LEDs work on a simple principle – when a device that employs LEDs is switched on, electrons combine with holes incorporated into the device to produce photons. Light Emitting Diodes. photo by: Phil Roeder.

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Reducing Overheads Can Save A Business | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

Business Telephone Systems & Phone Lines For Your Business techdepot.co.uk In the simplest form this means having more money coming in than is going out. Shop around : Make sure you are getting the best deals from all you suppliers- right down to your electricity, broadband and gas bills. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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