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8 lease warnings for commercial tenants
Dale Willerton and Jeff Grandfield RetailOpening a business and leasing space from a landlord may feel like a marriage, but it's not. Commercial tenants need to get that notion out of their heads. With commercial leasing, a commercial landlord will have many different partners — even several hundred or thousands of tenants — and many different motivations for the relationship. The tenant, on the other hand, has only one landlord and one motivation for leasing space — as a means to an end to do business.
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2 key traits of effective leadership
Michael J. Berens Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementEffective leadership is critical to the success of any organization. At every level of the organization, how individuals in leadership positions conduct themselves has a reverberating impact on performance and productivity. For that reason, companies are willing to invest considerable time and resources on leadership development.
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The delicate balance of HR: Employees
Catherine Iste Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementFrom an employee perspective, HR can be anything from the team who coordinates the holiday party to the person who is telling us our benefits will cost more and we will not get a raise. In this series, we will look at the department from different perspectives to illustrate the delicate balance required to grow and maintain a functional department that contributes positively to the organization and its culture. In the first article, we examined HR from the leadership perspective. In this article, we will look at the employee perspective.
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Slowing down for the holidays
Michelle LaBrosse Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementFor many businesses, winter is a busy and frenetic time of the year. It just so happens that the need for increased productivity — whether it's to finish end-of-the-year projects, or adjusting to increased demand for your product — also coincides with fewer work days to do the work, since many holidays fall during this time.
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Why are good employees unproductive?
Kevin Herring Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementDo you feel energized at the end of the workday? Or does your work experience drain you so much you're just happy to make it through the day? If you're like most people, you're probably somewhere between just doing OK and slogging through. According to annual surveys from Gallup, most employee workdays are anything but energizing. Your 100 percent effort may sometimes feel like it's not as productive as you would like.
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The new overtime rule has been stopped — but for how long?
Jessica Taylor RetailA new salary limit for the Fair Labor Standard Act's overtime rule was supposed to take effect Dec. 1. But the changes, which would affect about 4 million workers, have come to a screeching halt after a preliminary injunction by a federal judge in Texas last week.
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The delicate balance of HR: Leadership
Catherine Iste Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementIt is easy to hate human resources professionals. In small or startup organizations, they are constantly delivering bad news: benefits have changed, and the costs have gone up; no, there is no money for raises; we are in a hiring freeze and so on.
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Achieving your organization’s vision with a cohesive strategy map
Michelle LaBrosse Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementWhen you’re knee-deep in the logistical details of managing a project team, it can be easy to lose sight of the big picture: your organization’s vision. We use established and proven strategies at Cheetah Learning to help us achieve our vision in each course we offer. For example, the vision for our new program is pretty simple: With the right training and systems, most people can efficiently and cost-effectively grow their own food year-round.
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Reclaim your time from the co‑workers who waste it
Catherine Iste Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementWhat is more frustrating than staying late in the office to get something done only to have your co-worker swing by with a full coffee and plant herself at your desk? Or perhaps it is yet another meeting with your boss about how to improve time management and increase efficiency?
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Rise of ransomware: How to protect your business
Adam Ferraresi Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementThere will probably never be a clear account on how many types of threats lurk on the World Wide Web, but one thing is for sure: We have never been in more danger from cyberattacks. Though it seems internet users have learned their lessons when it comes to falling for popup ads and suspicious email, black-hat hackers have evolved as well, and they are continuously finding new ways to earn a quick buck on security-unaware people.
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