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Nine ways to reduce absenteeism

Does your business suffer from absenteeism?  Absenteeism weakens businesses and reduces profits. The cost of absenteeism is difficult to quantify.  In the US, has been calculated the direct wage losses totalled more than $30 billion per year.  However, there are many other losses which are incurred directly as a result of absenteeism.  Some of these losses include: Regular wages, overtime wages, and company benefits. Administration of recruitment, selection, induction, and training.…


Laughter in the workplace

Humour is an important human function and an asset in the workplace.  Humour breaks the ice and shows that the person is human and it helps to build a bond between people.  Sharing is an important social function, and sharing humour is an important part of helping to build relationships. When people are in groups they tend to laugh more, sometimes because the other people laughing.  Is very hard to keep a straight face if you are in the company of people who are laughing.The Victorian conce…


Eight Strategies For Staff Retention

The cost to the organisation is a powerful incentive to reduce staff turnover. There are many calculations regarding the cost of staff turnover.  The most conservative is that the total cost of replacing a member of staff is equivalent to a minimum of 30 weeks income of that staff member. At the other end of the scale this balloons out to a minimum of 100 weeks.  Whatever the figure, it is a preventable loss to the organisation. If we take the middle ground and use a figure of 60 weeks, the tot…


Time Management

The key to effective leadership-of yourself and others, is the ability to manage resources within the constraints of time, budgets, the market, your boss and the political environment.  Time Management is probably the most important.  If you find yourself saying, "I just don't have enough time", then it's probably your own fault. It's all too easy to blame everyone else for the fact that you have to take work home, that you missed deadlines, that the day's work is never planned and that you end …


How to design winning Yellow Pages adverts

The majority of advertisements, especially those in the Yellow Pages are saying nothing much to anyone.  Most advertisements basically say, "Hi there, my business name is this and my phone number is this.  These types of advertisements rarely do anything except fund the Yellow Pages.  The people won't read them unless you write them in a way that makes you different  from the rest of the competition.  This is not as difficult as it seems.  But first we have to look at the Ba…


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45 Ways to increase profits

This special report has been written to show what can be done with your business.  It contains only some of the strategies and tactics learned and developed during the success and excitement I have experienced starting eleven different companies over the last thirty years.  Some of the lessons have been hard because they didn't appear to be obvious.  Others have been surprisingly easy once I was thinking the right way. My belief is simple now, "If what you are doing or about to do, is not g…


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