According to AARP, one of every six U.S. employees serves as a caregiver for a relative or friend, devoting at least 20 hours per week providing care. Why is Supporting Caregivers Important for Business Owners? As a business owner, this is an important employee circumstance to think through. Supporting your caregiving employees is central to employee retention, and employee retention is a vital contribution to productivity. Caregiving Responsibilities Are on the Increase As life spans increase, so do chronic illnesses and disability. Soaring costs and increasingly difficult to navigate systems of healthcare and insurance are translating to an increase in caregiving from family and friends rather than professional clinical settings.   It takes something to balance one’s own career efforts with caregiving responsibilities.  Your employees may

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Transcript: A lot of people are worried about how am I going to measure employee engagement? How am I going to know what I’m investing in, whether it’s my time or my money, that I’m going to get a return on this? Well, in this video, I’m going to share with you how you can measure employee engagement. Hi, my name is Jody, and welcome to another video. One big reason why it’s so hard to measure employee engagement is because there’s no clear definition of employee engagement. Some people think it’s happiness. Some people think it’s satisfaction. Some people think if I give more money, everything’s gonna be fine. There’s no real clear definition of engagement. And the reason that is, is because engagement

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Do you want to set your small business up for success in 2020? If so, here are some important tips to keep in mind: Utilize your data Working with data can be overwhelming – there’s an overabundance of data at your disposal. It’s best to start by narrowing things down and determining which data is relevant to your business right now. For example, if you’re a B2B company, you will probably want to look specifically at your customer retention rate, the cost to acquire a customer and the average lifetime value of a customer. However, you probably won’t be as concerned about capturing data on the emotional appeal of your product since B2B companies make purchases based primarily on business impact. Once you determine which

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Transcript: Hello again. In this video I’m going to talk about the five ways that you can take your business to the stratosphere. Stay tuned. Hi! Doug Barra with ActionCOACH business coaching and this is Business Success with Doug Barra. In today’s video, we’re going to talk about the five ways to massive success in your business. Now, the five ways starts with understanding that this is the chassis that your business runs on. Just like every kind of car has a chassis underneath it, every kind of business has a chassis underneath it and the same chassis can run many, many different businesses. I’ll tell you that for the chassis of business, it runs all businesses. I don’t care whether you have a nice

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As I set up for the Q4 planning session with my client and her team, there was something unusual in the air – a kind of buzz. Typically, when I work with them on their quarterly goals, the team meanders in. On this particular day, however, they were eager to get started. My client and her team had achieved EVERY SINGLE ONE of their quarterly goals for the first time in years. They’d knocked it out of the park and they couldn’t wait to share that with me! You see, most times at these quarterly meetings, we’d go over what got accomplished (typically somewhere around 50%), what didn’t get accomplished, what didn’t work and what displaced their word. We’d clear the space and reset the energy.

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div.speaker {font-style: italic;} div.transcript {margin-left: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px;} Transcript: Welcome to another session of Made in Miami where we’re interviewing entrepreneurs who are making it here in Miami. In this session of Made in Miami you’re in for a very special treat. I had the opportunity to moderate Melanie Fernandez, of House of Lilacs, with her very good friend, Tiffany Dominguez of Taudrey, at the Coral Gables Chamber luncheon for Women’s Business Networking. Take a listen and see why these two female entrepreneurs are making it big in Miami, going from their passion, to a paycheck, into profits. I’ll be back with you in a little bit. We’re going to start off with, tell us a little bit about your past, like your world before

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Transcript: Hello. In today’s video I’m going to talk to you about how to be successful as an entrepreneur. I’m Doug Barra and this is business success with Doug Barra. So one of the things about creating success as an entrepreneur is to understand the entrepreneurial ladder. So what am I talking about with an entrepreneurial ladder? Well the entrepreneurial entrepreneurial ladder starts with, basically, as a student. A student is below the first rung, it’s where we all start. And the first couple of steps on the entrepreneurial ladder are actually dictated by society. We all start as students. We all start in school. And what’s the job of being in school? The job of being in school is to learn how to learn,

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It is frustrating to lose hardworking, high-performing employees. It can leave employers blindsided and wondering what went wrong. The best way to retain your key employees is by understanding what they’re looking for in their jobs and in their work environment and by prioritizing the things that are important to them.  Countless interviews with HR professionals show consistent findings. Nine important measures your small business can take to nurture your top talent include:  Work/life balance: Satisfy your employees by accommodating their personal needs. Many employees appreciate the option to telecommute when they have a sick child or other urgent family matter to attend to. Big city employees may benefit from flexible commute hours to avoid rush hour traffic. Offering a fitness center pass is another

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Transcript: Hello followers. I am Amanda Noboa, your business coach with ActionCOACH Team Sage. It is great to be back with our next episode of Think Big Stay Focused. In my next video series I will discuss six basic principles of project management. My goal is to show you that you don’t have to be a certified project manager or a project management guru to implement these principles when launching a new initiative. These six basic principles will be your roadmap to the desired outcome. Principle number one: you have to create the vision and mission. In order to successfully execute projects or initiatives you should always begin with the end in mind. This is effectively accomplished by designing the vision and mission of the

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Recessions are cyclical and many experts are saying in 2020 the election year we’re heading into a recession, just as many including our president say the economy is strong and we’re not.  It’s hard to tune out all the noise and know what to think. Most people were caught off guard during the last recession and some of the smartest guys on the planet lost their business.  Duke professor and economist, John Graham said in a recent interview “CFOs are growing more certain of a 2020 recession because of the paralyzing consequences of economic and political uncertainty — including trade wars — on business. Faced with uncertainty, companies may pause by holding off on spending and hiring. That can turn into a self-fulfilling prophesy.” Regardless of what’s

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