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Casual Articles - Are you Aiming too High?
An accountant can be more than just a person who prepares the accounts and talks to the taxman for you.Over time you will find that your accountant can become a valued business advisor. Remember that they are dealing with a spectrum of local businesses of various types.A natural by-product of this is that they will have: Many contacts – some probably very relevant to your own business Dealings with the local bank managers and a good idea of what they expect for applications such as financing in particular, the style of business plan they like to see presented to them The respect of other local organisations particularly banks and other professionals that will reflect well on your business A lot of experience in dealing with the local tax office and regulatory bodies Professional qualificationsI can’t stress enough that
TARGETS MUST SPEAK TO THE HEART, NOT JUST THE HEAD
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As a manager or leader you will no doubt have responsibility for undertaking staff appraisals. If you have been appraised in the past by your manager it can appear easy and it should be. So how can you make appraisals effective and powerful sources of staff motivation?PlanningPlanning is the key to effective appraisal. Make sure that:1. You schedule appraisal meetings at least two weeks before the appraisal date2. You book a room for the appraisal3. All of the pre-appraisal documentation goes out to the employee at least two weeks before the appraisal with clear instructions on how to complete it. Within this documentation include a draft agenda4. You set time in your diary to carry out the pre-meeting work5. You block out sufficient time for the appraisal in your diary. Ideally, I suggest that you block out a minimum of 2 hours for the meeting and have
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What's your target achieving track record? Do you reach the majority of your targets within their set timeframes, or do you find yourself throwing up all kinds of rationalizations and reasons as to why the majority of your targets were not met? It might be because your target setting process is a little too much about numbers and not nearly enough about emotion, about how people feel about the various aspects of target setting, pursuing and achieving.
TARGETS MUST SPEAK TO THE HEART, NOT JUST THE HEAD
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Executive gifts used to be a nice pen or a nice meal, today it's more common to give a Tag Heuer or Baume and Mercier Watch or Swarofski Crystal. If you think business is tough take a look at what's happening in the executive gift and promotional products market.When people used to think promotional products for their business, they advertised on a pen or calendar and got a great return on their money in the 60's and 70's. With the 80's and the explosion of corporate wealth more was expected. Wall street bonuses were frequently dolling out BMW's, Porsche's, Ferrari's, Rolex's and other expensive gifts. Those in the promotional product industry jumped on this trend. They convinced high end luxury manufacturers and distributors that they were missing out on a huge growing market. With business deals today running in the hundreds of thousand and millions, and competition fierce, every body is looking f
TARGETS MUST SPEAK TO THE HEART, NOT JUST THE HEAD
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This is a true story.I was 25 years old when I answered an ad in the Toronto Star one day.It read "GROUND FLOOR OPPORTUNITY". The content of the ad basically discussed the fact that the company was new,willing to train managers in every facet of the business and would promote successful candidates into their own office.As well they had large ,international intentions.I walked into a cramped ,shabby interior of an office smack dab in the heart of Chinatown but what struck me was the energy of the place and the confidence of the gentleman who interviewed me ( unbeknownst to me at the time but he was a millionaire by the age of 30).I was hired on a 100% commission plan only and thus I entered the world of telemarketing selling paper rolls and ribbons for POS,cash registers and credit card machines.It was a classic boiler room only the business was a legitimate model through and through.However,hust
TARGETS MUST SPEAK TO THE HEART, NOT JUST THE HEAD
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Many Muslim Youth see themselves as fighting the Infidels or Western World and they have the opportunity to show their manhood and join in the cause of the Jihad. Becoming a Jihadist is a rather dangerous choice and for instance in the Hezbollah-Israeli conflict in Lebanon a Hezbollah rebel had a life expectancy of 11.2 hours or 1.3 hours on the front line.Needless to say it is a short career so if you are lazy and want to retire early then it could be just the job for you. But also realize there are no government regulations like OSHA to protect you from workplace injury or death and no personal injury lawyers to get you paid if you fall down with your body parts in multiple locations?In studying this career path, well lets just say it is a dead end job with really no forward advancement for your cause or yourself and although you might be remembered as a mighty warrior for a couple of days
TARGETS MUST SPEAK TO THE HEART, NOT JUST THE HEAD
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Okay, so you’ve made the controversial and often contentious decision to outsource your customer support operations to an external call center. Before closing this all-important deal, there are a few steps you should take to ensure that your business is getting the quality and flexibility it deserves.First of all, it’s important to ask where your support calls will be handled. Just because a call center has offices in your area doesn’t necessarily mean that calls will be sent there; in fact, many customer support firms outsource their business to other countries or even continents. Before signing a contract, its best to be clear on this issue, and ask yourself whether you (and more importantly your customers) are happy with support calls being dealt with from half a world away.Secondly, you should ask exactly how much of the vendor’s business your company will account for. Ideally, its best t
TARGETS MUST SPEAK TO THE HEART, NOT JUST THE HEAD
Targets that are an almost mathematical arrangement of "performance measure + target value + timeframe" speak loudly and clearly to the head. They say nothing to the heart. What makes a target speak to the heart is rich and sensual language that tells vivid and compelling stories of the future as if the target had already been achieved.
This isn't magic. It's just our brain's RAS (reticular activating system) which is the part of the brain that decides what we give conscious attention to. Whatever turns you
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