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How to Encourage Your Employees to Think and Act Like Owners

Great Leadership By Dan

Teach your employees the fundamentals of business and finance , how their company makes money, and how they add (or take away) value. In fact, there is a fairly high percentage of people on leadership teams who are not particularly financially savvy. Here are three steps that I recommend in order to accomplish this: 1.

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Why is it so darn easy to say NO?

Women on Business

What if service people were given incentives for the “yes” answers they gave to customers and were docked pay for their “no” answers? If the person says “yes” they may have to do something and then take a risk for doing it. And frankly, it seems that some service people don’t feel like they are being paid to say “yes.”

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Interns to the Rescue! :: Women on Business

Women on Business

If possible, provide some financial incentive like a small hourly rate or commission for work well-done. Make sure you say in your ad description what they need to be successful with you (eg – a computer with internet access, a nice phone voice, computer skills, etc.). I have used www.internhere.com to post my request.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Success Checklist

Strategy Driven

Provide leadership. Strategic Plan includes provisions for refinancing, equity and debt financing. Finance charges are negotiated. Human Resources program is active, professional and responsive to the organization. Incentives-rewards-bonus plan is annually updated, with realistic, measurable goals.

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This Pharma Company Stays Innovative by Doing Two Things

Harvard Business Review

After extensive assessment, they settled on two initiatives: realigning incentives for employees and systematically introducing outside talent and practices. Roivant’s first response was to address misaligned incentives.

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Make Your Company Customer-Centric – and Increase Profitability by a Whopping 75 Percent

Strategy Driven

It has to be the responsibility of every single department: human resources, training, marketing, support, sales, IT, finance, operations and, most importantly, leadership. Start asking yourself if you’re constantly offering incentives to new customers only. You ignore them at your peril.

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The Rebirth of the CMO

Harvard Business Review

To have the influence to help set business strategy for the company, CMOs need to translate customer insights into terms meaningful to senior leadership. The CMO also worked with the finance office and product managers to link pricing and benchmark data into the RFP process, which improved quality and response times.

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