How effective is your company’s communication?

Clear, concise, and effective communications for both internal office documents as well as customer-facing copy can mean reducing wasted time and costly miscommunications as well as mean the difference between closing or losing the deal. Writing well at work is an often-overlooked virtue. Job descriptions required “excellent communications skills” and…
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Is your HR staff drowning in manual tasks and tedious duties, taking away their vital contribution to the business a whole?

HR departments, for any-size company and specifically the small and mid-sized company, are over overburdened with ministerial and manual tasks necessary to keep HR systems, benefit administration, and compliance issues. These tasks take professionals’ time and talent and re-directs it to duties that can and should be automated. In addition,…
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Why you need a tenant broker

(Portions of this article retrieved from Squarefoot.com) To illustrate the value of a commercial real estate broker, let’s talk about apartments for a moment. As time-consuming as finding an apartment is, the process for seeking one is straightforward. Browse listings across a handful of trusted sites, isolate the apartments with…
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Why Businesses Should Invest in Employee Training

Here are five reasons why investing in employee training pays off for your business. In many organizations, human resources are labeled as the most valuable asset. Yet, you’ll occasionally hear a few snickers from skeptics. Opponents of the employees-as-company-assets mindset believe that more than a label, managers need to treat employees in…
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Where Companies Go Wrong with Learning and Development

Organizations spent $359 billion globally on training in 2016, but was it worth it? Not when you consider the following: 75% of 1,500 managers surveyed from across 50 organizations were dissatisfied with their company’s Learning & Development (L&D) function; 70% of employees report that they don’t have mastery of the skills needed to do their…
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When to Hire a Consultant

Hiring a business consultant is costly enough without hiring the wrong one. There will be a time when you and your business will face the need for outside consulting and help. It might be market information you need, or advice, skills, strategies and techniques that don’t exist in your organization.…
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