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Ignite Passion in Your Employees
Hundreds of studies over the last three decades indicate that business success and profitability begins and ends with the commitment and enthusiasm of employees. Lior Arussy, author of Passionate Employees – the Fast Track to Revenue Growth, states, "In today’s competitive environment, passionate employees bring a much higher return in the form of more business w

/growth opportunities
4 Job Security Good working conditions
5 Good wages Interesting work
6 Interesting work Personal loyalty to workers
7 Promotion/growth opportunities Tactful discipline
8 Personal loyalty to workers Full appreciation for work done
9 Good working conditions Sympathetic help with personal issues
10 Tactful discipline Feeling “part” of thi

Take Advantage Of These Tricks To Effectively Brand Your Business
Branding is an extraordinarily powerful marketing tool that is commonly overlooked. Your business needs to create an image of your company in the minds of consumers. Contrary to what most people believe, branding isn’t just a logo. Your businesses purpose, focus, and image all must be combined to create your brand. There are several benefits from making your brand s

A major problem for business owners and employers today is getting the best employees and then keeping them. Sounds easy, but any employer will tell you that these activities take up the most time and have the biggest impact on business results. So how do you go about retaining the good people once you’ve found them?

Understanding what your employees want from a workplace sounds like a logical place to start. After all, if you know what your employees are after, you simply need to provide it and all will be well. This is a great theory, but research shows that employers are not that successful at identifying what their employees actually want. In fact there is a significant disconnect between the things that employees say are important to them, and how highly employers rank those same things.

This survey first came out in 1946 in Foreman Facts, from the Labor Relations Institute of NY and was produced again by Lawrence Lindahl in Personnel magazine, in 1949. This study has since been replicated with similar results by Ken Kovach (1980); Valerie Wilson, Achievers International (1988); Bob Nelson, Blanchard Training & Development (1991); and Sheryl & Don Grimme, GHR Training Solutions (1997-2001).

When asked to rank a list of ten criteria, the employees and managers/owners ranked them very differently:

What Employees Want What Managers Think Their Employees Want
1 Full appreciation for work done Good wages
2 Feeling “part” of things Job Security
3 Sympathetic help on personal issues Promotion/growth opportunities
4 Job Security Good working conditions
5 Good wages Interesting work
6 Interesting work Personal loyalty to workers
7 Promotion/growth opportunities Tactful discipline
8 Personal loyalty to workers Full appreciation for work done
9 Good working conditions Sympathetic help with personal issues
10 Tactful discipline Feeling “part” of thin

Choosing A Fine Bubble Diffuser - Disc Diffuser - Tube Diffuser Or Panel Diffuser?
Purchasers of fine bubble diffusers for their sewage treatment plant or industrial wastewater treatment plant have a lot of choices to make when selecting equipment for their project.Diffusers are available in many shapes, including discs, tubes, squares, and rectangular panels, and in different materials, including elastomers like EPDM and porous media like Alum

ke a logical place to start. After all, if you know what your employees are after, you simply need to provide it and all will be well. This is a great theory, but research shows that employers are not that successful at identifying what their employees actually want. In fact there is a significant disconnect between the things that employees say are important to them, and how highly employers rank those same things.

When asked to rank a list of ten criteria, the employees and managers/owners ranked them very differently:

It's OK to Be Human
There are a few people in business who can remember LP Records, Eight Track Tapes, Cassettes, or Monochrome Monitors. There a few who can remember using the phone, as opposed to email, or even a time when we would walk down the hall to speak to someone in person. Some may even recall the dark ages of microfiche, facsimile machines or 56k modems. Those seasoned veterans

rank those same things.

When asked to rank a list of ten criteria, the employees and managers/owners ranked them very differently:

Tips For Pricing Your Restaurant Menu
Menu pricing is one of the most important decisions for any restauranteur. It may look easy, but the fact is that you cannot price it simply by your intuition. It requires consideration, observation and asking certain questions. For instance, do you remember your last visit to a market or a mall as a buyer? How many goods had an acceptable price enticing enough to motiv

l & Don Grimme, GHR Training Solutions (1997-2001).

When asked to rank a list of ten criteria, the employees and managers/owners ranked them very differently:

Is Real Estate The Right Career For You
The real estate business is overflowing with agents and as in most businesses only about 20% of those in the profession are making a living with it. The 20% are split into top producers,median income producers and barely scraping by producers.That is the reality, the dream is that you will make millions and do it in a few hours a week showing some property and pi

What does this mean if you are an employer or a manager in business today?

Frequent pats on the back will go a long way towards making your employees more satisfied at work. Happily, it’s not always about the money.

WHAT EMPLOYEES SAY THEY WANT (in order)
1. Full appreciation for work done
2. Feeling ‘part’ of things
3. Sympathetic help on personal issues
4. Job security
5. Good wages
6. Interesting work
7. Promotion/growth opportunities
8. Personal loyalty to workers
9. Good working conditions
10. Tactful discipline

WHAT MANAGERS THINK EMPLOYEES WANT (in order)
1. Good wages
2. Job security
3. Promotion/growth opportunities
4. Good working conditions
5. Interesting work
6. Personal loyalty to workers
7. Tactful discipline
8. Full appreciation for work done
9. Sympathetic help on personal issues
10. Feeling ‘part’ of things

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There has probably been no great accountant turned entrepreneur then Capitalist than Rockefeller who used his accounting skills to take over the entire Oil Industry back in the day. He kept immaculate books and started out as a promising young accountant.

Have you ever considered how smaller businesses and even franchisees who own franchised outlets are hurt in economic downturns? Have you ever considered the ebb and flow of regulations and how they try to control it? We all know that the government does nothing very well and yet we allow them to try to reign in the cattle and corral the raging rapids of our economy. Why?

Recruiters are an endangered species oblivious to their own demise. New technlogy and automation are threatening to eradicate the daily activities of the modern recruiter. What will the staffing department of the future look like?

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