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Add You - Franchising Pros and Cons
Why Bachelors Make Bad Decisions: Five Serious Career Change Lessons from a Light-Hearted Reality Sh
The Bachelor - a popular reality TV show - offers an example of how we absolutely, positively should not make career decisons.Premise: A very eligible Bachelor (last season featured an NFL quarterback) stays in a mansion with several eligible young women. They seem to spend their days swimming, tanning, and speculating about the Bachelor's intentions. They meet the Bachelor in one-to-one and group activities. Each week the Bachelor gives a rose to the women who will continue to compete, and two who do not receive a rose go home. (If you're a more faithful viewer than I am, please email me with corrections!)So what can we learn about career reality from this reality show?
from other readers wanting to offer theiThe Bachelor - a popular reality TV show - offers an example of how we absolutely, positively should not make career decisons.Premise: A very eligible Bachelor (last season featured an NFL quarterback) stays in a mansion with several eligible young women. They seem to spend their days swimming, tanning, and speculating about the Bachelor's intentions. They meet the Bachelor in one-to-one and group activities. Each week the Bachelor gives a rose to the women who will continue to compete, and two who do not receive a rose go home. (If you're a more faithful viewer than I am, please email me with corrections!)So what can we learn about career reality from this reality show?
Attitude of Service
When conducting a training session about customer service, I always spend a fair amount of time talking about attitudes. After all, to be of service, you must develop an attitude of service.It has recently come to mind that the attitude of service is not something you put on and take off when at work. It is something you carry with you throughout each day. Someone who truly has the attitude of service will always serve other people, no matter what the circumstances.Let’s take a look at a few of the more obvious ways of observing an attitude of service.Have you ever had the occasion to approach a door at the same time another person is advancing toward it? I
Last week's question from Anthony R. on how to choose the franchise that would best fulfill his life-long dream of owning his own business sparked a number of emails from other readers wanting to offer theirWhen conducting a training session about customer service, I always spend a fair amount of time talking about attitudes. After all, to be of service, you must develop an attitude of service.It has recently come to mind that the attitude of service is not something you put on and take off when at work. It is something you carry with you throughout each day. Someone who truly has the attitude of service will always serve other people, no matter what the circumstances.Let’s take a look at a few of the more obvious ways of observing an attitude of service.Have you ever had the occasion to approach a door at the same time another person is advancing toward it? I
Facility Management Companies
The main principle behind the existence of facilities management is that businesses rely on a whole network of essential support services. From receptionists to the security staff, the business relies on a whole network of essential support services. Since facility management is multi-disciplinary, the jobs vary from project managers to cleaners. And since most of the services are not core to the business, many companies outsource such jobs. There are many companies which provide expert facilities. These mainly include building maintenance, cleaning facilities, catering, administration and security.There are many advantages of outsourcing such tasks. It not only simplifies the process but
ow to choose the franchise that would best fulfill his life-long dream of owning his own business sparked a number of emails from other readers wanting to offer theiThe main principle behind the existence of facilities management is that businesses rely on a whole network of essential support services. From receptionists to the security staff, the business relies on a whole network of essential support services. Since facility management is multi-disciplinary, the jobs vary from project managers to cleaners. And since most of the services are not core to the business, many companies outsource such jobs. There are many companies which provide expert facilities. These mainly include building maintenance, cleaning facilities, catering, administration and security.There are many advantages of outsourcing such tasks. It not only simplifies the process but
Effective Change, Three Critical Components
Resistance to change that is experienced by organizations is based more on objections to the content and the direction of the change itself.• Not all organizational changes have been well thought through.• There is a big difference between strategically changing for the better and reactively changing for simple survival as a business entity.The norm today is change, and not just changes to your firm’s way of doing, but also significant deep changes that demand of your organization to fundamentally reexamine and redefine it’s basic purpose, it’s sense of identity, it’s core values, and it’s very ways of thinking. Such changes at such strategic and foundational levels are, bef
t fulfill his life-long dream of owning his own business sparked a number of emails from other readers wanting to offer theiResistance to change that is experienced by organizations is based more on objections to the content and the direction of the change itself.• Not all organizational changes have been well thought through.• There is a big difference between strategically changing for the better and reactively changing for simple survival as a business entity.The norm today is change, and not just changes to your firm’s way of doing, but also significant deep changes that demand of your organization to fundamentally reexamine and redefine it’s basic purpose, it’s sense of identity, it’s core values, and it’s very ways of thinking. Such changes at such strategic and foundational levels are, bef
Websense Web Filtering - Good or Bad?
Companies like Websense sell their web filtering software to corporate clients. Their marketing material is pointing out how much productivity is lost due to employees casually surfing the web while at work. With Websense software corporations are able to restrict web surfing to certain websites and put monitoring in place. This allows to protect the corporations from malicious viruses entering the network from untrusted websites and to limit the overall Internet activity of employees to business related websites. It also allows to run specific reporting on every user and to monitor web usage on a per user base.But how much web monitoring and filtering is really helping a corporation and w
s own business sparked a number of emails from other readers wanting to offer theiCompanies like Websense sell their web filtering software to corporate clients. Their marketing material is pointing out how much productivity is lost due to employees casually surfing the web while at work. With Websense software corporations are able to restrict web surfing to certain websites and put monitoring in place. This allows to protect the corporations from malicious viruses entering the network from untrusted websites and to limit the overall Internet activity of employees to business related websites. It also allows to run specific reporting on every user and to monitor web usage on a per user base.But how much web monitoring and filtering is really helping a corporation and w
Job Interviewing Tips
There seem to be too many people in the world that are interested in giving tips and advice that you do not want, or even care to waste the time hearing them. Why? Because opinions are like bad breath – everybody gets it from time to time, and everyone else seems to love to point out when yours stinks! There are plenty of decent tips for you to successfully complete a proper job interview (and land that one perfect job you have been searching for your whole life!). There is going to be one big stipulation – YOU need to decide what works for you!There is one big tip that is overlooked. That is – being prepared for the future! Say you DO get the job. What next? Usually the “what next” become
from other readers wanting to offer their two cents on the subject.There seem to be too many people in the world that are interested in giving tips and advice that you do not want, or even care to waste the time hearing them. Why? Because opinions are like bad breath – everybody gets it from time to time, and everyone else seems to love to point out when yours stinks! There are plenty of decent tips for you to successfully complete a proper job interview (and land that one perfect job you have been searching for your whole life!). There is going to be one big stipulation – YOU need to decide what works for you!There is one big tip that is overlooked. That is – being prepared for the future! Say you DO get the job. What next? Usually the “what next” become
Some folks offered helpful insights and suggestions on how to pick a franchise and a few things to watch out for, while other emails
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