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Article Thumbnail Leadership education top notch at Athletic Business Conference
Jan 6, 2012
While it's common for trade shows to offer some educational seminars as added value for attendees, the Athletic Business Conference does it with a twist – offering educational seminars as the prime attraction at a solid trade show. SNEWS offers some notes from excellent seminars it attended from the leadership track at ABC.
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Article Thumbnail Human Resources: Linking strategy with talent -- Are you asking the right questions?
Jan 12, 2011
Many companies use the last quarter of the year to nail the final sales, plan the strategy and budget for the next year. Come January everyone hits the ground running. But how robust is your strategy implementation track record? Use these strategies to see how your talent lines up.
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Article Thumbnail The SNEWS View: Bitter employees post-company acquisition share woes with customers
Jan 29, 2010
Employees willing and eager to share their displeasure about their employer with their customers must be truly disgruntled. And that just isn’t good for business. Firing them isn’t a good choice since that’s akin to shooting the messenger.... Read about our latest shopping experience, and think about it.
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Article Thumbnail Business 101: Re-evaluate, re-create, re-visit to keep your retail biz humming
Oct 5, 2009
Does your store need to re-evaluate, re-create, re-emphasize, and re-visit? In late summer, a SNEWS shopper went into Sacramento Exercise Equipment in California -- but something was a bit off, not quite right. There's something to be said for intuition, and in the end, we -- and the store involved -- learned a whole lot more from this shopping experience...and we are sure you will too.
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Article Thumbnail Business 101: Effective delegation
Delegation. It sounds simple and most of us assume we have a good understanding of what it means, but it's probably one of the most misunderstood terms used in business.
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Article Thumbnail Business 101: Job Descriptions, Organization Charts and Performance Evaluations
When you and your spouse started the business 15 years ago, it was hard work to get things up and running and keep the boat afloat, but communication was easy and organization was a word you probably didn't use often. Back and forth each day in the car, around the dinner table, every day, every night, you discussed the business, made plans, worried together and made it work.
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Article Thumbnail Business 101: Running Effective Meetings
Meetings are essential to every organization. Knowing how to set them up and manage them efficiently are the keys to using meetings to your advantage.
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