Building a Business
How to Get Everyone on Your Team ‘Up to Speed’ Really Fast
Try out a process called 'speed training' to make things competitive, and fun, with prizes.
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Building a Business
Your Best Employee Is Your Weakest Link
If the slacker everybody has learned to work around quits, no problem. It's the person who always picks up the slack you can't afford to lose.
Building a Business
Flip the Sales Process
What worked yesterday does not work today. You must adapt to the changing times.
Building a Business
Bringing an On-Demand Mentality to Employee Development
What is your business doing to cater to employee development needs? Adopting an on-demand thought process is a good place to start.
Building a Business
4 Ways to Train Employees Effectively
Without the right combination of technology, hands-on attention and follow up you can't be confident what is taught today will be remembered tomorrow.
Building a Business
3 Basics to Hire and Train a Virtual Assistant
A VA is great because it's like an employee you're not legally responsible for, but you must ensure this individual knows what he or she is doing.
Building a Business
Technology You Bought But Won’t Learn to Use Is Money Wasted
Remarkably few businesses invest the time, much less money, to maximize software they own but don't really understand.
By Gene Marks
Building a Business
Digitally Sold: The Logistics of Transferring Your Online Business
Instead of handing over keys to a building, you're transferring account passwords, intellectual property and domain names.
By Mark Daoust
Building a Business
6 Cloud-Based Learning Platforms That Can Help Educate Your Workforce
Today, online-learning platforms are flexible, dynamic and can be accessed on the user's preferred device, including smartphones and tablets.
By Adam Toren
Building a Business
4 of the Hottest Markets for Professionals Who Want to Teach and Train Others
Not sure which market to target? Here are four smart choices for eLearning entrepreneurs.
Building a Business
6 Ways Employers Can Make Unpaid Internships Worthwhile
Interns have a legal right to take something of value from their experiences. Like a much better chance of getting a real job.
Building a Business
Personalize Onboarding to Jumpstart a New Hire’s Performance
You want your newest team member to be excited, not bewildered.
Building a Business
3 Occasions Where Patience Is Key
There are those people that can't seem to wait for anything, and on the surface, seem to get an insane amount done. But there's a hidden strategy below the surface.
Thought Leaders
5 Strategies to Grow Effective Leaders
Just like any investment, leadership development requires time, focus and a consistent effort to make it work.
By Jeff Boss
Thought Leaders
High Performers and High-Potential Employees Are Not One in the Same
Not being able to distinguish between performance and potential will make it difficult for employers to identify, develop and retain talent.
By Andre Lavoie
Business Accounting
Sales Training Won’t Work Without This
There are four things that companies with effective training share.
Building a Business
Amping Up Employee Tech Skills Is a Bargain With These 4 Tools
Many inexpensive apps and online courses are available to teach skills that are in demand.
Thought Leaders
Work-Life Compatibility: Why and How Leaders Should Promote It
Offering your employees optional workshops on stress management, personal finance and work-life balance could be a smart move for business owners.
By Marty Fukuda
Thought Leaders
How to Win Every Day
In business, when we define the win as one outcome -- a sale, an innovation, or reaching a quarterly goal -- we're limiting ourselves.
Building a Business
The Fastest Way to the Top? Work at a Startup.
You could learn a lot by working your way to the top of a well-established company, but who has time for that?
By Stephen Key
Building a Business
Create a Corporate Mentoring Program and You May Reap the Benefits
The benefits of having experienced employees train those with less expertise are many.
Building a Business
Exploring a Franchise Opportunity? 5 Key Questions to Ask.
Embarking on this discovery process will let you check out the business model even as you, the franchisee, are being vetted.
By Anna Wilds
Tech
The One Question All Businesses Must Ask About Protecting Trade Secrets
With news reports of large-scale data thefts coming almost daily, managers might be wise to adopt a culture of protection.
By Eric Ostroff
Building a Business
A Well-Trained IT Team: Your Company’s Secret Weapon (Infographic)
IT pros are the backbone of your business. Make sure they're up to the tall task.
Tech
How to Equip Yourself for the Data-Driven Future
Nearly every industry will be benefiting from professionals with a solid analytical foundation in the near future. Here's how to get into the game.
By Asha Saxena
Entrepreneurs
3 Tweaks in Thinking That Turn a Goal Set Into a Goal Achieved
Dropping a bad habit or developing a better one is notoriously difficult but what you need to succeed is all in your head.
Business News
4 Data-Backed Reasons to Use Mobile in the Workplace
Mobile technology is reshaping work and business but few companies have taken full advantage of the potential.
By Matt Straz