At times, meetings are a real pain. Trying to find a suitable location and working around tight schedules can turn into an absolute nightmare, while it’s almost impossible to arrange a meet-up during the busier times of the year—which is usually when a meeting is most needed. If that wasn’t bad …
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Productivity Concerns? Try Un-Chaining Employees from their Desks
Who doesn’t get bogged down with projects and anxiety now and then? What do you do when that happens? You take it easy. There’s a lot of research pointing to the fact that working beyond 50-60 hours a week is unproductive and toxic in the long run. Add poor or insufficient sleep to the crazy work …
8 Essential Ground Rules to Keep Conference Calls on Track
Business meetings are often derailed by poor preparation, bad behavior or dismal time management. Add in the unique pitfalls associated with today’s virtual meetings, and the hazards are compounded. Meeting via conference call is even more likely to run aground with the possibilities of inattention, …
Top Tips to Implement When Experiencing Inefficiency in Your Business
It’s a competitive environment for businesses of all sizes. Your profitability is the most important indicator of your success. The biggest factor driving your profit margins is the efficiency of your operations. The less waste of time and money there is, the greater your returns will be. Here are …
Top Skills Every Small Business Owner Needs to Help Drive Their Company to Success
Owning and running a small business can be tough. This is especially true if your SMB is new. In fact, 30% of new businesses are expected to fail within their first years. Furthermore, 50% will fail within the first five years and only 44% will make it past the first 10 years. To be one of the 44%, …
7 Ways to Make Meetings More Effective Over the Summer
Summer days at the office can drag on, and so can meetings. But meetings are expensive. Say you have 10 employees who each make $70,000 a year ($35 an hour, in other words). That’s $350 for a one-hour meeting. In fact, the average meeting costs about $500 to $1,000 an hour. Other issues with …
