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What’s Your One Word Mantra for 2018?

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For 2018, my word is “grow.” I have been blessed with a special gift that I have been using for 27 years—inspiring others to be their very best. And I have other gifts to uncover. So, what is your word going to be for 2018? The post What’s Your One Word Mantra for 2018? appeared first on Office Dynamics.

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Q&A: Bauble Stockings Founder on Turning a Family Tradition Into a Business

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Growing up, Kate Stice Stewart would shop for a special Christmas gift for her mother. She, her brothers and their father would nestle it—or a clue about it—in a small needlepoint stocking on the tree, and it would be the last gift opened. She had talked to Page Six saying we were the best gift of Christmas. She agreed.

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What Leslie Jordan’s Legacy Can Teach Us About Pivoting to a Third Act

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Leslie Jordan: Repurposing Your Gifts. Jordan had a social media presence prior to the pandemic, having joined Instagram in September 2018. It’s also a great example of how someone can take their gifts— in Jordan’s case, stage presence, comedic timing and storytelling—and repurpose them, like he did from on-screen to online.

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How To Create A Happy Workplace? Business Environment Design Matters

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Visionary leaders recognize that an employee-focused environment promoting happiness and engagement enhances productivity, sales, and retention, thereby improving the company’s overall performance. Research shows that having a happy workforce increases sales, improves productivity, and boosts the organization’s bottom line.

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How to Make Networking Less Painful

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When I first started my business, I was desperate to make productive connections and gain some traction. Ideally, you’ll have a copy to gift, but an enticing (and quick) description will work as well. When you deliver the gift, add a personal touch, such as a note on the inside cover explaining why you think they’ll love the book.

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

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Then determine whether your way of doing business can accommodate their visions and needs; if it can’t, suggest alternatives to your products and services, perhaps a different provider for one component of the deal in order to produce the exact results they want. (At This article was published in April 2018 and has been updated.

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3 Steps to Unveil Your Full Human Power Through ‘Unfocus’

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And productivity mavens of the Industrial Revolution were likewise arduously devoted to the hypnotic trance of line-worker thinking: the easy-to-imagine trudge that underscores the appealing simplicity of grit. A combination of unfocus and grit will optimize productivity. They regarded physical wandering as “uncivilized.”

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