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Why Our Employees Asked Us To Stop Giving Away Cars

Strategy Driven

We sent out a survey (which we still do today) to ask our employees about the cleanliness, the temperature in the building, the security, the lighting, the management, the pay, the incentives, the likelihood that they’d leave if another company offered them more money, all-in-all we had about twenty five questions. Consider leaving a comment!

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Encourage Employees to Talk More

Tony Mayo

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Top 10 US Cities to Capture Small Business Recovery Act Dollars.

Women on Business

Your federal small business loan can fund a call center and answering service , linking local talent to employers nationwide. Women Leadership and Mad Men Some revolutions are bloody, and some are flash-in-the-pan moments. Authentic Leadership I was recently at the Pa. Governor’s Conference for Women.

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Building Trust Develops Team Cohesiveness

Strategy Driven

This is leadership! Instead of having an odd man out, I kept an old, beat up call center chair and my team got the good chairs until mine could be replaced. If you enjoyed this article, let us keep you up-to-date on other newly published insights by signing up for our complimentary StrategyDriven Newsletter.

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The Big Picture of Business – Avoid the Tired, Trite Terms: Encourage Original Thought, Focus on Priorities and Strategy

Strategy Driven

‘Customer care’ means that customer service is palmed off on some call center. If you enjoyed this article, let us keep you up-to-date on other newly published insights by signing up for our complimentary StrategyDriven Newsletter. Expect to render good business all the time. Consider leaving a comment!

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Five Steps to Resource Optimization: Any process can be improved.

Strategy Driven

Every performance management paradigm, every mission statement, could point to a different definition of success – and therefore to a different way to “optimally” allocate resources. Best practices for resource optimization are tied to performance management by answering questions such as: “Were recommended decisions put into action?”

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Corporate Empathy Is Not an Oxymoron

Harvard Business Review

So empathy is de-prioritized, and relegated to the status of just yet another HR initiative that looks good in the company newsletter. Their social media strategies tell one part of the story: they are over-reliant on unhelpful canned responses which merely shunt customers to more traditional forms of contact, such as call-centers.