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Selling Your Business - What Would Sam Zell Do?
Sam Zell, multibillionaire founder of Equity Residential (EQR) has approached the sale of his business the right way. Sellers of privately held businesses can learn a great deal from his approach. This article explores his process.
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Beat the Bully
Big Brother beware. Bullying doesn't stop in the playground. It takes many forms and can be very intimidating. Bullies often appear confident and strong, they are not. Simple ideas to halt bullying in the workplace.
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Ten Tips To Workplace Noise Management
Have you streamlined your business with innovative equipment and progressive training, yet, efficiency eludes you? Do you cringe when you hear the words human error? Is the cash register too quiet and the standard office operating procedure chaotic and unproductive? How can you make your business run smoother and demand optimum performance from your team without becoming more stressed yourself? Stress is your company’s worst enemy. The cost in health care, mistakes on the job, troubled family lives and unpleasant work environments often add up to lost revenues for your company. Take a moment to step back and incorporate some stress reducing techniques regarding noise at the workplace. These tips will help management be more successful with employees and employees more successful with customers. Stress-reduction will always help to improve your bottom-line numbers.
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Calendars and Cubicles
Calendars and cubicles, do you wonder how they could possibly be related? For example, a calendar provides a way to determine which days are religious or civil holidays, which days mark the beginning and end of business accounting periods, and which days have legal significance, such as the day taxes are due or a contract expires. So where does the cubicle come in you ask? That is quite a different story.
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Your Advisory Staff
Many business owners mistakenly believe that they have to learn and know every possible nuance about business to be successful. From accounting to taxes to incorporating, many business owners needlessly try to do it all.
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Secrets to Environmentally Friendly Car Wash Fundraisers
Doing Car Wash fundraisers to help raise funds for kid's organizations, makes a lot of sense, as the kids are making their own money and they can generate significant dollars to offset the costs of the club, team or youth group.
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The Importance of Hand Washing
It is well known that inadequate hand washing can lead to the spread of germs. However, as cleaning professionals it is sometimes overlooked how important this is in our industry. Even if your cleaning staff is wearing gloves, it is still important that they spend the extra time necessary to make sure chemicals and germs are thoroughly washed off their hands
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12 Things About Business I Learned While On Jury Duty
I sat on two juries (felony cases) during three weeks of jury duty. After I reviewed the evidence, testimonies, and arguments and then deliberated with my fellow jury members I reflected on my knowledge of business communications and found a direct parallel.
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Perfecting the Elevator Pitch
An elevator pitch is a brief description of a business idea. It is termed as such since it usually must be delivered within the time that you spend with an investor in an elevator, or just a few minutes. Perfecting the elevator pitch can have a significant impact on the success of a new venture.
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Easy Steps to Improve Your Business - NOW!
One of the catalysts I use for topic ideas is Chase’s
Calendar of Events (if you’re looking to find a publicity “hook”
for your business, or for a volunteer organization for which you
are trying to raise money, I can’t think of a better tool!
www.chases.com) According to Chase’s, May is Business
Improvement Month.
While you may not be a registered as a business owner, you are
indeed involved in the most important business in the world – the “business of life.”...Easy Steps to Improve Your Business - NOW!
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