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• Negotiating commercial leases: Focus on important issues

  Dale Willerton and Jeff Grandfield Retail

  For many commercial tenants, negotiating a good lease or lease renewal against an experienced agent or landlord can be a challenge. While an entrepreneur focuses on marketing and managing, savvy real estate agents and brokers are specialized salespeople. Their job is to sell tenants on leasing their location at the highest possible rental rate. Whether you are leasing a new location for the first time or negotiating a lease renewal for your business, here are two money-saving tips.

• Applying an agile tool to make your proposal processes better

  Maryann Lesnick Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  We talk about it in our proposals. We know it works. Agile practitioners take it seriously and are diligent about its use. What is it? It’s the idea of using lessons learned from each proposal effort to improve our approach the next time. In the Agile Scrum world, they call it a retrospective. APMP best practices suggest that conducting a lessons-learned review on each major bid opportunity is a critical best practice. Lessons learned should be well-documented and stored for others to access and reference on future opportunities.

• Acetaminophen may decrease recurrence of febrile seizures in children within…

  Lynn Hetzler Medical & Allied Healthcare

  When administered soon after the initial seizure, rectal acetaminophen can decrease the rates of second febrile seizure in pediatric patients during the course of the same febrile illness, according to a new study. Febrile seizures are the most common type of seizures seen in children. Many children have multiple convulsions during the course of a single febrile illness. While febrile seizures frequently occur, and multiple seizures within febrile events are common, there is a paucity of data on the prevention of recurrent seizures — especially in the pediatric population.

• Top Veterans Day celebrations for 2018

  Miranda Y. Brumbaugh Law Enforcement, Defense & Security

  Veterans Day is the quintessential time to focus on honoring those who have sacrificed so much. It is the one day of the year when all veterans should be honored and remembered. If you are looking for a parade, a Flags Across America event, or other community activities, here are some of the most anticipated Veterans Day celebrations for 2018. For example, Auburn, Washington, is home to one of the largest parades for Veterans Day to be held anywhere. More than 6,000 parade participants, including 200 military units and over 30 high school marching bands will be in attendance.

• Law enforcement vs. tech: Addressing privacy, competition concerns

  Bambi Majumdar Law Enforcement, Defense & Security

  The more we immerse ourselves in the virtual world, the more we demand cybersecurity and privacy assurances from tech companies. A recent meeting between several state law enforcement officials and Attorney General Jeff Sessions opened a new chapter of strict scrutiny. Both the Department of Justice and the states want to explore better ways to protect consumers and businesses from powerful technology companies. At the same time, they want laws that will give law enforcement access to essential data to solve crimes.

• How can controls, automation, and instrumentation help with integration…

  Joseph Zulick Manufacturing

  As advances in technology make it more cost-effective to deploy the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), industries will need to acquire a strategic approach to integrating new sensor data with pre-existing data environments. Now more than ever, industries are seeking simple integrations with controls, automation, and data analytics visualization software to harness the power of IIoT and realize attractive operational and competitive benefits for their business. IIoT can unite people and systems on the plant floor with those at the enterprise level and enable users to get the most value from their automated systems while reducing technological and economic limitations.

• 3 essential steps to avoiding leadership burnout

  Catherine Iste Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  Burnout does not always look like a heart attack, high blood pressure or weight gain. It is not only increased stress, loss of sleep or a caffeine requirement. While these physical symptoms may be the easiest to recognize, many of us have figured out ways to incorporate exercise and healthier habits into our routines thereby reducing the physical issues most commonly associated with burnout. In such cases, burnout may show up as a strained relationship, reduced free time or downtime, or daydreams of an off-the-grid escape vacation. The key is to understand what burnout looks like for us.

• Provide the most productive feedback for your healthcare workers

  Lisa Mulcahy Healthcare Administration

  Every medical organization's most important ongoing efforts include thorough evaluation of worker performance. Surprisingly often, though, the most helpful feedback often never gets delivered — because you, as an administrator, aren't aware of the key details your doctors, nurses and residents need to hear to make their work the best it can be. The good news: researchers have analyzed and identified a number of several specific feedback areas you can cover that will allow your healthcare workers to provide better and safer patient care. Here's what you need to know.

• 4 questions to strengthen team relationships

  Deborah Ike Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  What have you asked your team lately? As project managers, we have to ask about the progress and status of various tasks. However, we can also use questions to develop our team and our relationships with team members. For example, your project team is used to you asking them to finish a task or give you a status update. However, what if you turned things around for a moment and asked how you can help them? The key to this question is to listen carefully and work to fulfill their request if possible.

• Millennials at the forefront of healthcare

  Keith Carlson Medical & Allied Healthcare

  As of 2018, millennials (those born between approximately 1979 and 1994) are now the pre-eminent generation within the American workforce. According to the Pew Research Center, a full third of American workers are members of the millennial generation, and this demographic shift is worthy of our attention, both inside and outside of healthcare. Every outgoing generation speaks negatively of the younger generations replacing it, and the baby boomers are no exception.

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