Wed.Oct 25, 2017

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How to Avoid Being Blindsided in Your Career

On The Job

I've written before about how to know when your job is in trouble: The boss avoids you, there are meetings that you used to attend that are now excluding you and your job duties are being trimmed. The story, "How to Know When You're on Thin Ice at Work," in today's Wall Street Journal covers much of this in its reporting, but I think more discussion is needed of how to avoid having your job yanked out from under you.

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Why I’ve Stopped Saying That You Shouldn’t Check Email First Thing In The Morning

Productivityist

For a long time, I’ve believed that you should not check email first thing in the morning. As a matter fact, I still don’t. But the truth is, that advice won’t work for everybody. So I’ve stopped saying it. I think what’s more important is that you have a strategy whenever you open your email application – no matter when you do it.

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Small Business Management for Dummies

Small Business CEO

Managing a small business is not easier than managing a large business just because the word “small” is involved. Ultimately, you are still working with people, and people are an unpredictable variable of business. Effective business management is about more than finding success or pushing your employees to work harder. Effective business management is doing all of that with a crew of people who are fulfilled and content in their position with the company.

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Meetings and Momentum with Mamie Kanfer Stewart

Productivityist

I welcome Mamie Kanfer Stewart to the show on this episode. She is CEO and founder of Meeteor , a venture that helps teams build their capabilities for effective collaboration and productive meetings. Mamie is driven to help others optimize their time and cultivate their team to achieve results. On this episode we talk about meeting strategies and pitfalls to avoid, such as how to avoid back-to-back meetings, going into a meeting with not enough information, dealing with late meetings attendees,

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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Want to Flourish Your Business? Try the 4 Splendid Couponing Strategies!

Small Business CEO

Whether your business revolves around fashion industry, craft, and arts or any other sector, coupons should be one of the major ways to build a loyal customer base. Well, if you haven’t tried yet then just make a move soon! Moreover, if you keep a keen eye on Marks And Spencer or any such top-notch brands then you can notice there is a continuous flow of deals, coupons, and offers from the same to which people get attracted usually.

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5 Ways to Make Your Office Eco-Friendly

Small Business CEO

Our efforts to go green and do better for our planet do not have to stop at home. If you are a business owner, there is a lot of things you can do to make sure your office is as green as it can be. There are numerous opportunities to make your office eco-friendly , from switching to green lighting options, choosing recyclable materials for the furniture and supplies and others that will make your office environmentally aware.