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You’ve Got to Know Your Numbers

You’ve Got to Know Your Numbers

Top-level baseball players know their numbers. Every time they complete an at-bat, they know how those results will affect their averages. They strive to get better every day, knowing that even the slightest improvement could lead them to a better contract or into the...

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Transfer Your Knowledge to the Next Generation

Transfer Your Knowledge to the Next Generation

Hey, when are you going to teach me what you know? What else should I know going forward? While the next generation may not come out and say that, they are most likely thinking it. They want to be as successful as you were, maybe more successful. You know who else is...

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Make Your Hiring Strategy a Competitive Advantage

Make Your Hiring Strategy a Competitive Advantage

A hiring strategy means different things to different people. It certainly means different things post-pandemic. Finding experienced labor and the work-from-home movement have created challenges that we have not seen before. From the production floor to the customer...

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Grow Your Sales by Leveraging Your CSR Team

Grow Your Sales by Leveraging Your CSR Team

Companies are reporting record year over year sales increases for the most recent year. We’ve seen many that have recorded increases greater than 20% from the prior year. Congratulations to them all. Yet these same companies are frustrated with the overall composition...

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Keep Your Employees Engaged

Keep Your Employees Engaged

Jim was the general manager of a large printing company. I worked there early in my career as a customer service rep along with 10 other CSRs. The work we did was all critical color and ran on sheetfed and heat set web offset presses. Jim was a big guy and had hands...

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