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Articles Tagged 'Business Productivity'
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The right way to engage high potential employees
Organisations need strong performers, working smarter and more productively, with competent leadership who will engage and motivate them to meet growth goals. Here are some strategies to keep your high potentials engaged, and with you for a long time.
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Need to increase productivity? You must innovate
Many business owners make the mistake of assuming that productivity means working themselves and their employees harder, but putting more pressure on your staff to get more done can actually be counterproductive. When it comes to increasing productivity, what most businesses need is innovation.
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Why ‘no worries’ isn’t the way to approach engagement
Australia really is the Lucky Country, but local businesses need to seize the benefits of the boom by supporting innovation, growing their skilled workforces, attracting investment and increasing productivity. All these goals require a workplace where employees are engaged and motivated – but, engagement doesn’t always sit well with our national persona.
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How to foster a feedback-friendly company
These four tips will make your employees happier and your company more productive.
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9 apps every entrepreneur needs now
Seems there’s an app for everything these days. But which ones are actually useful for the small business owner? We’ve done the hard work and research for you, and picked our 9 favourites.
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The business tools you wish you had 10 years ago
As a business owner, you need to get lots of things done at the same time, and in the most efficient way. The good news is that you don’t need to live in the future to have access to free and low-cost online tools that will transform the way you do business.
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6 lessons in how to build a successful app
Development firm inMarket shares the secrets to building a successful app.
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How to deliver great customer service in a multi-channel world
To deliver quality customer service, businesses must work to understand the customers’ needs, how they like to buy – in-store, online or a combination of the both – and how to accommodate these requirements. Here are some simple ways to do this effectively.
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Mastering the 50-10 sprint for the benefit of productivity
It’s impossible to stay focused on work for eight hours straight, which is why one productivity guru suggests we all work at mastering the ’50-10 sprint’. It’s the secret to doing more in less time.
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Why free apps can be time wasters
Five tips for avoiding some of the biggest stumbling blocks when it comes to using low-cost online tools.
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10 apps that improve business productivity
When your business is growing, staying on top of everything can be difficult. Without proper organisation, things can get messy when approaching deadlines, making payments or figuring out where your next meeting is. When you can’t do these simple things on the run, it can end up costing your business. These 10 apps will help.
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Productivity: The case for an organised email inbox
Less emails in an inbox equals more dollars in your pocket. Why? Because the more that’s piled into your inbox the more likely you are to lose track of new opportunities and see a dip in personal productivity. Here’s how to break the cycle and eliminate excessive emails.
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Four reasons you can’t execute
Feeling like you just can’t get things done? Use these ideas to figure out what’s slowing you down.
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Focus on customer service or fail, retail expert warns
Clothing retailers are being urged to perk up their customer service or continue to experience gloom and doom when it comes to sales. One retail expert has three pieces of service advice every store owner should live by if they want to stay in business.
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Winning over disconnected customers: Four ways
Businesses that quickly deliver personalised, relevant content using the channel customers prefer — whether print, email, web, mobile or social networks — can capture greater loyalty and reduce the chance customers will take their business elsewhere.
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Keeping staff engaged in the winter months: 12 tips
It can be tough to keep employees engaged through the cold winter months, as many are struck down by colds, flus and the winter blues. Here are 12 practical ways to keep your team’s productivity up.
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Bad night’s sleep costing businesses $5b in lost revenue
Sleep deprivation is costing the Australian economy billions every year in lost productivity, according to a new sleep study.
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Imagination the forgotten key to business success
Imagination is one of the country’s most underrated business assets, a new report has found, coming in last place on a list of 15 workforce characteristics valued by employers.
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Two-way radios outsmarting phones for intelligent fleet communications
There has never been a more important time for companies – particularly smaller businesses – to take control of their fleet communications, and two-way radios are proving an easy way to do this.
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