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The 8 Best Cybersecurity Strategies for Small Businesses in 2021
Even small businesses can be targeted. Here's how to protect yours from cyber threats. People usually imagine the most prominent targets of hackers and cyberthreats to be government organizations and big businesses. But while these are highly lucrative targets, they're also exceptionally difficult...
How to Say No
Practical tips to optimize time and impact. There is a definite theme of saying YES! in most of my posts. I believe in the power of yes before we are ready, yes when we aren’t sure, yes when we are nervous, and generally taking action proactively (saying yes to ourselves) and being helpful or...
The Virtual Trainer (Part 2)
Bad classroom training doesn’t get better on a Webinar. Here are seven tips for successful delivery of training via Webinar. In part 1, we covered how to prepare trainers and participants when a Webinar is the delivery method of training, The Virtual Trainer (Part 1). Now let’s move on to the...
Job Interviews Without Interviewers, Products of the Pandemic
Video responses to set questions, online games that measure a person’s traits and skills: The future of interviews is coming to a wider variety of professions in the pandemic. So much of our work lives has moved online during the pandemic: group meetings, chats with the boss — even interviewing...
TCPA Plaintiff Penalized: Failure to Allege Correct Phone Numbers in Complaint Leads to Potentially Massive Sanctions Against Pro Per Plaintiff
Well here is one you don’t see every day. A Plaintiff fin Michigan is facing sanctions that may total the entire cost of defense in a TCPA suit. The reason? He pleaded two phone numbers in the complaint that did not actually receive any phone calls—even though he may actually have received...
How to Keep Your Employees from Getting Poached
Great talent waits for no one. I often say, talented people always have options. In the world of business, the war for talent is always raging and good people will always be a sought-after commodity. As leaders, you must constantly think about the employee life cycle of hiring, progression, and,...
Moved During COVID? A Third of Bosses Say They’ll Cut Your Pay
Any savings from relocating to a cheaper place might disappear. As many as a third of remote workers who move to a cheaper place to live during the pandemic could end up getting a pay cut that offsets any savings, Willis Towers Watson found in a survey released recently. About a quarter...
The Virtual Trainer (Part 1)
Transferring face-to-face classroom energy strategies to the virtual environment. I conducted my first virtual training program in 1986 via satellite. It was for the United States Chamber of Commerce. It was three hours long on the topic of “Creative Presentation Techniques,” and it was delivered...
Cyber Crime Costs Predicted to Hit $10.5 Trillion Per Year by 2025
The inability to effectively detect and prosecute cyber crime is a driving force. Cybersecurity Ventures, a trusted resource for cyber security statistics and predictions, predicts global cyber crime costs will reach $10.5 trillion by 2025. This would more than triple the $3 trillion in cyber...