If you're concerned about employee retention and engagement, then you should find your business heroes. These are the people who make a big difference in your organization, even though many of them do this under the radar.  Take the time to identify these people and use them as a template that can inspire others to [...]

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If you feel like you need to start using nametags at work, then your business may need some strategic retention tips. These can help you hold on to more of your top performers.  And while paying more may work in some situations, a pay raise may not be enough to retain someone if your competition [...]

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In order to prevent bad employee behavior, leaders may need to adjust their workplace culture. During challenging times or times of uncertainty, your team may lose its focus.  In its place, more selfish behavior may start to move in. The good news is that you can maintain good workplace culture, through some strategic moves. Say [...]

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In business, you can be busy all the time, during challenging days but do you worry about the right things? It's easy to put your focus in the wrong place, when a more urgent need may demand your attention. Often, we fall into this problem over time, as we lose track of top priorities. How [...]

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While people may want to improve their personal or professional lives, do they need motivation to change? Simply knowing that something needs to get better, may not be enough to produce action.  A status quo that's not getting better can become comfortable, if you're not careful. Instead, empower yourself with several actionable improvement strategies, in [...]

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If you're self-employed, then you may need to hear this solopreneur work-life balance tip. There's a good chance you need to reconnect with some of the fun traditions from the Monday through Friday work world. For instance, the office holiday party. These events give you a chance to network with colleagues and celebrate your accomplishments. [...]

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An important leadership skill sees you able to get employees to follow your instructions. While this may sound obvious, there may come a time when you need to make a fast change in your business and your employees are the ones who must make it happen. Are you going to rely on chance to make [...]

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At a time when you may be looking for a retention or team engagement edge, you may want to consider some employee appreciation gifts. This kind of gesture happens outside people's normal compensation. For some, the biggest challenge is selecting the gift. Recently, I conducted an unscientific survey on LinkedIn and found that people have [...]

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Let's continue our self-publishing discussion with more book writing tips. As you know, having an idea for a book is great but actually writing it is a different story. In episode 618, I talked about the importance of having a vision for your book, why I went with self-publishing, and how to do some market [...]

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If you've been thinking about becoming an author for a while, then these book writing tips may give you the push you need. We live in a time when book publishing is more accessible than ever before. You do still have to write the book and that's where some become challenged. In this two part [...]

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