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Some Companies Are Asking Employees to Pay for Training to Increase Buy-in. But Does It Work?

Success

In July 2022, the Student Borrower Protection Center released a report titled Trapped at Work: How Big Business Uses Student Debt to Restrict Worker Mobility detailing the issue. Payment and employee buy-in to the company mission If only all bosses learned how true motivation works before leading a company—but many haven’t.

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How Employers Can Better Serve Neurodiverse Employees in 2023

Success

Some employers have already built a work culture inclusive to employees who identify as neurodivergent, while others are just learning the term; “neurodiversity” points to conditions as differences, not deficits. Taking time to learn about and consider these alternative interview methods can lead to more inclusive results.

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How Women Are Rising in Business

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She taught financial managers to shift from stranded fossil fuel assets, realize the benefits of what she called “ ethical biomimicry finance , operating your company on nature’s principles” and act in the best interests of not only the shareholders but also the stakeholders—employees, customers, the community and the planet.

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Top 5 Tips for Learning More About Your Customers

The Small Business Blog

Top 5 Tips for Learning More About Your Customers by Stefan Töpfer on Mar 22, 2010 The top 5 tips weekly post is always full of hints and tips for small, home & micro business owners. Try to figure out exactly what it is that you want to know about your customer base. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0

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TechShop, Ford Partner on Automotive Innovation Center

Small Business Labs

  The joint press release describes it as "a collaborative effort to open a communal work center in the Detroit area for individual inventors."   But they have learned that inexpensive access to advanced machinery attracts entrepreneurs and inventors, and they have adjusted to better target and serve them. 

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Don't Let Empty Pockets Hold You Back!

The Small Business Blog

Many small businesses struggle to find finance, especially with the financial climate being as decidedly frosty as it is at present. Jp14 Said on March 5th, 2010 at 10:36 pm Another common thing is to keep learning. Hiring people comes with fixed costs. If you can outsource work to freelancers, then do. Not an excuse not to succeed.

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Top 5 Biz-to-Biz Sales Tips

The Small Business Blog

Try to learn a bit about the industry that your prospective business customer works in so you don’t look out of your depth. If only more people would learn the value in such information. Listen carefully to what your B2B clients require. If you can determine exactly what they need, you can serve them better.

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