The Mutual Benefit of Mystery Shopping

As you consider implementing mystery shopping to develop your business’s customer service and experience, you may wonder how your employees will feel about it. You may worry that some will feel like they’re being spied on, that you don’t trust them, that what they do is never good enough. Some…
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Does Your Business Offer Enough Upgrades?

Unless you’re running a charity or volunteering, most business owners are in the game to make a profit, and most of your employees work to earn a salary. Enhancing your business’s sales are crucial to making both goals a reality, so let’s take a look at how you can encourage…
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Managing Your Productivity: Striving for Zero

We’ve spent the last couple of weeks delving into how to improve your productivity with the processing and organizing workflow described in David Allen’s Getting Things Done book on the subject. One of the concepts we covered was the notion of an inbox, at which time we described this as…
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Managing Your Productivity: When to Say Yes

As we established last week, your time is a limited resource, so you have to wisely invest it into the tasks that matter the most. Returning to David Allen’s Getting Things Done workflow, let’s take a look at the “Is it actionable?” step to see what we should do when…
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Managing Your Productivity: When to Say No

Your time is a limited resource and you have to decide what you’ll spend that currency on. There aren’t enough hours in the day for you to do everything, and to be completely fair, when you split your attention among multiple tasks, none of them are going to be done…
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The Value of Roleplay

Roleplay has long been used a training tool in the world of sales and customer service. In fact, one of the first articles to come up if you search the topic is an article from the May 1987 issue of the Harvard Business Review. In fact, this concept originates with…
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How to Show Employee Appreciation Through Engagement

Today is Employee Appreciation Day! This is the one day to say thank you to your employees, to show them you value the hard work they invest each and every day, and that you care about their well being. Right? Of course not. Just like Valentine’s Day isn’t the one…
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