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Listen for Clues to Promotion

October 29, 2019

Some employees who are ready for promotion may be easy to spot, but others aren’t always so obvious. If you think you may be overlooking some talent that can be developed, look for these clues that a worker is ready for a promotion: Free time. If an employee has finished all his or her regularly assigned work and has nothing to do, it could be a sign that he or she is ready for more responsibility. Fast response time. Keep track of how quickly the employee finishes assignments and short-notice tasks. If he or she is getting faster, a promotion
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Don’t Deal With Clients

September 9, 2019

Don’t Deal With Clients Do you work with your clients or deal with your clients? “The Big Secret of Dealing With People” is the title of the second chapter in Dale Carnegie’s “How to Win Friends & Influence People.” I take exception to the use of the words dealing with. When you say you are dealing with a person, there’s a negative connotation. It sounds like you are fulfilling an obligation or doing something you don’t want to do. It doesn’t sound like you want to help solve a problem — it sounds like you think the client IS the
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Know the Basics of Marketing Even When You’re Not a Marketer

August 12, 2019

Continuous learning is one of the top habits for any entrepreneur. If you’re not consuming information content about how your industry is changing, you might get left behind. Adjacent areas of expertise, like technology, marketing, and sales, are just as important. Knowing how systems work together opens the door for faster growth and bigger wins. Stay current with these three growing areas of marketing analysis: How are visitors interacting with your company website? Websites are a requirement for almost every business. Whether your company uses your website as a landing page for entirely offline products and services or your website is
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Are You Delegating the Wrong Way?

June 10, 2019

One of the most important characteristics of a good manager or a good business owner is the ability to delegate. You’re not going to have time to do everything. The sooner you can let things go, the better: you can focus on growth and overall strategy, not day-to-day details. But delegating is hard, and nobody’s perfect at it. So regularly check in on your delegation style, especially if you’ve just started. Ask yourself these three questions: 1. Am I overloading employees beyond what they expected? None of your employees will love your company like you do. You might be willing
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There Are Two Types of Clients

June 4, 2019

Every business has two types of clients: Internal and external. External clients are the ones who purchase our products and services. As business owners, we place a huge emphasis on providing excellent customer service to keep those clients happy and to keep them coming back. We can’t forget, though, the importance of providing excellent service to our internal clients as well. Who are our internal clients? These are the individuals who play an important role in keeping your business running smoothly. If you are an accountant, your internal clients are those who you need to do your job. Consider the
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Build Team Spirit in Your Workforce

February 19, 2019

Let’s Build Your Team Spirit! Employees don’t work in isolation, whatever their jobs are. They’re part of a team, large or small, and your efforts to motivate them should be team-based. Emphasize the connections among individual employees and between employees’ home and work lives. Here are three ways to accomplish this: Build high opinions of one another’s skills and strengths. Encourage your staff to praise their colleagues at meetings with questions like, “Who helped you out this week?” Public praise from peers redirects focus away from the boss/worker relationship and extends accountability to the entire team, which in turn
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Suffering from a Messy Workspace? Five Benefits of Being Organized to Boost Your Potential

June 5, 2018

Declutter Your Messy Workspace to Save Time & Money! Being surrounded by clutter is unpleasing. Maneuvering around your office is like participating in an obstacle course, you have business updates tucked into the contact book, and you can’t locate the flyers you swear you already printed. Let’s face it, being unorganized puts a damper on more than just your workspace appearance. It affects your time, you mood, and your wallet. Being exhausted after a long day is understandable, but taking the time to straighten things out will benefit you more than crashing on the coach with a frozen dinner to watch the premiere of
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Want a Successful Business? Delegate

May 1, 2018

Delegating is Key to Running a Successful Business It’s easy to get in the mindset that if you want things done the right way you have to do them yourself. But that isn’t always the best approach at work, even if you firmly believe you’re the best person for the job. There simply isn’t enough time in the day, especially if you have a business to run. Like it or not, you must learn how to delegate work to your employees. Here are some helpful hints: Develop a game plan. Start by deciding which tasks to delegate and which employees
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Keep Your Focus on What You Do Best

April 3, 2018

Focus on Your Strengths! Practice management is one of the hardest parts of running a small business. All of the infrastructural elements that large corporations have to manage, such as data security, finance, customer service, and legal documentation, are still on your to-do list. But managing all of those elements without the large employment force that big businesses can bring to the table is a challenge that seems unending. If you started an accounting practice because you wanted to focus on certain types of accounting services, you can still do precisely that. Here’s how: Make a list of what requires
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Personal Routines and Business Procedures: What Works and What Doesn’t

January 23, 2018

The Importance of Routines and Procedures Not everybody loves routines and procedures. But everybody has them. When you wake up in the morning, you probably have a routine or a ritual that you go through in order to wake up and get ready for work. This might be a routine that someone taught you when you were a kid. Or it might be something that you’ve arrived at over the years because you feel that it works for you. Sometimes, we just go through these routines and procedures without thinking about whether they really work for us. It might take
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