5 Reasons to Write Notes in a Meeting Instead of Memorizing
A study to establish ways in which employees’ waste time at work concluded that too many meetings were the biggest time-waster. Most workers will try remembering the proceedings of the meeting but will end up forgetting most of the things they learned, especially if they don’t take notes. If you want your meetings to work, you have to set a clear objective, prepare the agendas, and invite interested people only. However, these strategies alone will not be useful if you do not send out notes. If no one documents the decisions, then you must get ready to schedule another meeting to talk about the same agendas. Here are five reasons…
The In’s and Out’s of Virtual Team Leadership
Virtual team leadership is on the rise, with workplace trends such as telework and work-life balance accommodation becoming more popular, according to Rutgers University’s' online resources. They write that telecommuting is becoming so widespread that rates may even approach 50 percent of the workforce by 2020.
Anticipating Customer Needs on Your Website
Are you one of the 53 percent of U.S. adults who tend to abandon their online order if you can’t find a quick answer to your question? The truth is most people want to be able to easily find what they are looking for without having to pick up the phone to ask their question. How do you give people what they want when they visit your website? You anticipate their needs! If you can predict what questions they may have, you’re not only being helpful, you’re potentially turning visitors into customers, avoiding complaints, and improving conversion rates. You’re thinking like your customers and optimizing your website. How do you…
Business Design Tips for a Winning Website
Designing a winning business website requires a key set of foundational knowledge about the ways in which that website will be utilized. Understanding how a website will be utilized by web users is vital to the process of designing. Once you can fully visualize what web users need from your business in the digital realm, you will be more fully equipped to create a successful site design. Start building your knowledge now, and check out a quick summary of a few of the most important aspects of a winning website design. Navigational options are vital Speaking in terms of foundational design aspects, you have to make sure to provide a…
Necessary Software Tools for Small Business Owners
As a small business owner, you are probably faced with at least one ad or email per day telling you to use this product or that to vault you into the next level of success. Promises of super success, stellar organization, and more plague your every digital move, and it’s ludicrous to believe you’ll ever have time to go through every detail. As an entrepreneur, you’re busy, and busy is most likely an understatement. We’ve got your back. Just read through a brief overview of some of the most necessary software tools for small business owners, and you’re direction will be clear. Get that money If you plan to make…
Make Your Business Website Great With These Tactical Design Tips
You may have already undergone a crash course, and designed your business website, but there’s always something new to learn. Your business website is never finished. There will always be a need for changes and upgrades. In fact, a malleable business website will fare better in the long run than a stagnant, stationary design.
3 Tips for Improving Communication in the Digital Workplace
We live in the most connected time that any human being has ever lived in, and yet, it seems that we’ve grown worse at communicating as time has gone on. Gone are the days of the workforce that could rely on face-to-face communication as an workplace staple, as offices exist in both physical locales and in virtual spaces accessed from all over the globe. Communication all too often now boils down to textual exchanges between multiple time zones, sometimes even utilizing varying degrees of shorthand and emojis to get points across. Compounding the issue is the degree to which the current workforce can be considered intergenerational, with baby boomers on…
Business Design Made Easy: 5 Website Essentials For Your Organization
Creating a well-rounded business website isn’t as simple as the template website make it look. There is more to a proper site design than a few fancy words and some pretty pictures. You have to design in such a way that your website will be easy to access and engaging for web users.
5 Ways Technology Has Boosted Employee Retention Rates
Employee retention is important for building an operation with the fewest kinks possible. When you have the same group of employees for an extended amount of time, they learn to work well together. Disturbing the homeostasis of the office will always result in setbacks and slow periods. Turning over an employee means that the next person must go through training, learn the work environment, and begin all over again to build new relationships with coworkers. It is much more efficient to focus on employee retention, rather than continue spending money on new hire training. To give employees more of what they need to continue their relationship with your organization, you…
Strengthen Your Working Relationships with Escape Room Team Building Activities
In the world of business, there has been an increasing popularity in team building activities. And of all the activities that most people want for the company team building, escape room take the cake. The truth is, escape rooms are one of the best activities to ensure that communication barriers between the colleagues are broken and that everyone works together as a team. Well, for years now, employers have been encouraging their employees to participate in room escapes as a fun way of breaking the office monotony. But the truth is, in addition to the fun that comes with escape room games, the activities will also be more valuable to…
New Skills to Learn for Your Business
When you start to develop your own small business, there are a lot of things which you will need to be able to juggle. Starting up a business is probably one of the hardest things you will do in your life, however if you put the work into it, it can also be the most rewarding thing too. As an entrepreneur you will be responsible for building your business brick by brick from the ground up, and this will require gallons of coffee, lots of late nights and plenty of pizza. Building a business isn’t just about someone who is determined working hard and putting the hours in, you will…
3 Ways Technology Is Improving Communication
You are on your way home and run into a tremendous traffic jam. You will be more than a few minutes late. So, you reach for your phone and make a quick text to home to let them know what’s going on so they don’t worry. You’re out and about, just running errands and an awesome song pops in your head to practice for your band’s next show, but you left your phone at home. No problem. You decide to run into your local library and email the idea to your bandmates so you are all prepared for practice later. Thanks to technology, communication has become as easy as breathing.…