Write Right When You Write

Does it turn you off when you’re introduced to someone by your given name and few seconds later that person addresses you by the wrong name? Tom rather than Tim? Or June instead of Jane? And then, in an obvious attempt to commit your name to memory – the wrong name, that is – that person repeats the error several times more?

The Recognition Factor

What's the one thing all people have in common. You might be surprised to learn what it is. When you use this in your business, your sales will skyrocket!

Cupid, Coffee, And Copiers - Which Of These Does Not Belong In The Office

Dating coworkers is a bad idea. Dating your boss is an even worse idea. This article presents some points to ponder if you find yourself thinking more about romance than the work you should be doing.

The Latest News on Today’s Most Efficient Means of Global Communication

Perhaps the most effective way to communicate globally is also the most affordable. Web conferencing may be the solution you are looking for to economically run your business and keep in touch with your family. Your kids probably know how to manage a web conference, isn't it time you learned as well.

Managing Strategies For Telework - The Virtual Workforce

The freedom and independence of working from home for professionals can be the Christmas Wish that finally came to be. This absolute desire to Telework requires managing strategies that adapt for the virtual workforce.

Communication - The Lifeblood of a Project

The communication plan-like the project plan-is a necessary part of the project. However, when thinking of the project manager's role in communication planning, organizations and project teams too often think solely of the documents that establish the frequency, roles, responsibilities, recipients, and channel for which communication will be dispersed during a project. If you don't look beyond the written word and the outline prepared in the early phases of a project, you are setting yourself up for project losses.

Safety Cabinets Make Storage of Workplace Materials Safer and More Efficient

Safety cabinets can be used to safely store various workplace materials. The proper use and design of safety storage containers will enhance not only the safety of the workplace but the efficiency as well.

Working With Volunteer Help

If your organization uses or depends on volunteers, then you have many challenges. We need volunteers and people want to feel needed. It is a wonderful and rare thing when two needs can be satisfied at the same time.

Conflict Avoidance: Don't Let It Ruin Your Business

How to talk with someone about a problem – whether it is about a disagreement you are in the midst of, or it is about an agreement they broke with you.

How to Create a Safe and Productive Workplace

Many times it seems that the only way to create a safe workplace is to send every one home and close the doors. Potential hazards abound in all places where goods are produced and services are rendered. Here are five simple steps for creating a safer and more productive work environment.

Communicating Powerfully With Customers

Customers have a great deal of anxiety in the selection of a new vendor. The anxiety is especially high with the first few orders.

Is Your Work Making You Sick?

Did you know that the indoor climate in a third of all modern office buildings is inadequate and that as a result absence due to illness is much higher than it should be? A Norwegian study found that introducing plants to the workplace decreased absenteeism from 15% to 5%. It also found that placing a plant near a worker could save a company up to 10% of a person’s salary. If you take the average wage as being $50,000 – each plant placed near a worker is actually worth at least $5,000.

How Much is Workplace Conflict Costing Your Company

In the end you can come up with an amount of money, the ACTUAL HARD DOLLAR COST of workplace conflict in your organization, that is overwhelming. So overwhelming in fact that many business owners will decide not to believe the numbers.