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‘Dream Big, Start Small’ is theme for National Small Business…
Paul Zukowski Civil & GovernmentEach year the U.S. Small Business Administration "goes big" the first week in May to recognize America's top small businesses, the entrepreneurs who start them, and the advocates and champions who support them. National Small Business Week 2016 kicks off May 1 with an awards ceremony in Washington, D.C. where national award winners will be honored and the Small Business Person of the Year revealed.
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3 questions for a team health check
Deborah Ike Religious CommunityWhether you lead a team of staff members or volunteers, you're relying on them to bring their best to the table. However, they can't give their best if they're exhausted or frustrated by an overflowing to-do list. Here are three questions to ask your team for a quick health check.
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Energy service companies struggle to stay alive amid low oil prices
Chris Frevert Natural ResourcesSince 2014, over 60 percent of privately-held oilfield service company owners have reduced their rates for top customers by more than 20 percent. And over 65 percent have seen their gross revenues decline by more than 30 percent, according to respondents to the third survey we've conducted since the downturn began.
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Knowing where to look when driving fire apparatus
Frank R. Myers Law Enforcement, Defense & SecurityInstructing many new firefighters on driving larger vehicles, I observed that one of the crucial items many of them needed to learn was the reference points around their vehicle. While performing different day-to-day driving and intricate maneuvers, drivers also needed to know when and where to use the truck's mirrors.
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Millennials are not always the problem
Catherine Iste Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementIt is always the younger generation's fault. But if you think about it, that means at one point it was our fault — and we know that cannot be the case. Yet there is something about the challenges of working with employees who were raised on iPads and told they were great at everything. What is it and how do we deal with their entitlement?
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Emergency physician income increases, but issues remain
Chelsea Adams Healthcare AdministrationThe 2016 Medscape Physician Compensation Report indicates emergency physicians earned an average of $322,000 in 2015, slightly higher than 2014's earnings of $306,000. As part of the survey, nearly 20,000 physicians across 26 specialties were asked about earnings, job satisfaction and how much he or she works. In the survey, physicians provided their annual compensation for patient care.
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Is your department prepared for the next terrorist attack?
Danielle Manley Law Enforcement, Defense & SecurityPolice officers regularly participate in training, attend seminars and workshops, and learn through experiences throughout all stages of their careers. From dealing with agitated people suffering from mental illness to drunk driving crash-scene investigations, officers regularly experience situations that can have deadly consequences. Continuing education programs are created around these situations to prepare — and maintain — the skills necessary to prevent worst-case scenarios.
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10 questions: Do you really know your members?
Randall Craig Association ManagementYou invest in events, send out emails, educate them, certify them and collect their dues. But how well do you really know your members, both potential and existing? Beyond the basic demographics, perhaps not as well as you might think. Test yourself: Do you capture the answers to these 10 questions?
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Designers beware: The terrible 10 selling sins
Fred Berns Interior Design, Furnishings & FixturesWhen it comes to selling, many interior designers have discovered the hard way that avoiding the wrong steps can be as important as taking the right ones. Those design professionals whose sales results and profits aren't what they could be, or should be, are usually guilty of some — or perhaps all — of the terrible 10 selling sins.
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A matter of ethics and the law in hospice care
Ellen Jane Windham Healthcare AdministrationThe recent news articles involving an FBI investigation in the Dallas area of a hospice company has the potential to set hospice care back years. According to the report, the owner "regularly directed nurses to give hospice patients overdoses of drugs such as morphine to speed up their deaths and maximize profits."