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7 Powerful Proactive Responses to Hot Emotion
Proactive people make things happen. Reactive people wait for things to happen. Reactions come with their own punishment. Reactions are spontaneous. Someone pushes you; you push back. You say something that causes harm. Reactions deliver short-term satisfaction and long-term hardship. 7 dangers of...
5 Challenges of Hybrid Work — and How to Overcome Them
One thing is clear about the future of work: At least in the near term — and possibly for much longer — hybrid work arrangements are going to be the norm for many organizations, in industries ranging from tech to pharmaceuticals to academia. There are good reasons why many companies and employees...
How to Know if Hiring a Sales Consultant is Worth the Money
Sales consultants can be helpful, but they can also be expensive. Are they worth it? If you're struggling to build sales momentum or if you have a challenging goal you need to achieve, you might consider hiring a sales consultant. Sales consultants have the potential to help you reassess and...
New Study Reveals the Top 3 Cyber Threats You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
One of the vulnerabilities is called 'sniffing.' If you think your business is completely protected from inbound cyberthreats, think again. A study released Wednesday from the San Diego-based CyberCatch, a cybersecurity platform provider focusing on small and mid-size businesses, reveals that more...
The Rise of the 15-Minute Meeting — And How to Run One
“Hey, can we get meetings both shorter and more engaging?” It’s a question software CEO Jim Szafranski gets a lot from customers, which range from start-ups to Fortune 100 companies. Szafranski runs Prezi, whose technology allows executives to add visuals and animations to video presentations and...
Fighting Employee Attrition: What is Within Your Control?
No matter what industry you are in, it’s normal for employees to come and go. Some employees leave their job because they may have found a better job opportunity. Others leave because they’re retiring, they’ve been let go, or even due to illness. Although they’re often used interchangeably,...
Owners Sued After Company Dissolved: New Ruling Highlights Why TCPA Liability Doesn’t Always Die With Company Making Calls
As we’ve covered repeatedly on TCPAWorld, one of the most unfair things about this whacky TCPAWorld of ours is that individual employees, officers, and directors of companies that violate the TCPA can be sued directly for conduct they took on behalf of their employer. So the CEO, the guy in charge...
Work-From-Home Conditions Require New Ways to Onboard Employees
What if we treated new employees like new customers? It's a provocative question worth considering. In a time when finding, hiring and retaining talented employees is harder than ever, we need to look at how little we spend to turn these employees into loyalists. It may take months or a year to...
7 Problems to Pay Attention to for the Biggest Payout With Your Business
No doubt you are working on many challenges daily, but are they the right things for your business? I hear too often from business owners and entrepreneurs that they are bombarded by so many requests and problems, that they have trouble sorting out the daily crises from opportunities with a major...