Last summer, I had a discussion with an OD on his staff personal frame policy. His policy was all personal frames had to be approved first and paid for in advance and no discount for friends and families. The problem was his ex-wife that worked at the office, took advantage of him and was constantly ordering personal frames for her husband and … [Read more...]
Sounds strange at first glance doesn't it? I read a blog post today on mycreativeteam.com that got me thinking about how we communicate with employees. More than likely you spend many tens of thousands of dollars and for some of you hundreds of thousands of dollars every year advertising to your current and prospective patients/customers. How much … [Read more...]
A recent study by conducted by recruiting platform Jobvite suggests that companies are now using social media to find and recruit potential employees. 90% of US-based companies are planning to use social networking to find job vacancies, an increase of 7% from last year’s figures. Two-thirds of the companies surveyed reported that they were … [Read more...]
Reading Dan's post yesterday on Great Artists Steal , I was reminded of a little story I would like to share. Back in the days when a fax machine was considered a technological marvel, I worked for a little company called Marchon (over 25 years ago). I still remember the sales meeting where Al Berg gave his closing speech on being the best you can … [Read more...]
According to the US Government these New Year's resolutions are popular year after year. One of my resolutions this year was to get better at delegating and when I looked at this list I thought, hmm, I could actually achieve nearly all of these as well if I got better at delegating: Drink Less Alcohol (not an issue for me but sometimes I feel … [Read more...]
"A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed." - Henrik Ibsen A new employee's first few days on the job has a big impact on how fast he/she ramps-up to meeting and exceeding your expectations. I'm the first to admit that I've had more than my share of new employees whose first days were less than stellar. I … [Read more...]
We always enjoy the OWA's One Minute Mentor emails and thought we would share this one as it is particularly relevant during this challenging economic period. Helping Employees Adapt to Change by Audrey Pavia, Vice President of Marketing at Tura, Inc: We all face change – more often than not. Staff changes, downsizing, reorganizing and … [Read more...]
Another great weekly post from one of our favorites Doug Fleener. Please read through to the end, which has a great exercise in evalutating whether or not you Love or Like your job and better yet discover if others like or love and how it effects buying habits. "You can't deliver good service from unhappy employees." - Tony Hsieh When the … [Read more...]
If the one takeway from the Business of Eyecare was this gem on how and what to delegate, you saved yourself hours a day! How hours a day do you make decisions, do tasks that not only wear you down but others can do? It can be a heavy burden and the reality is many of those tasks/decision can be delegated to someone else. Steps To … [Read more...]
Steve Jobs was a shining example of a visionary, a mentor, a person who through sheer will and the force of his mind, changed an industry and created a new one. iMatters a optical recruiting company just posted an article on who is your mentor, and for those who have been lucky to have a mentor, please share your stories on this post. Click the … [Read more...]
'Style" is an expression of individualism mixed with charisma. Fashion is something that comes after style.'(John Fairchild) I have been pondering this question after watching crowds of teetering, tubed girls lined up at Tao (nightclub) at Vision Expo. 100's of girls were dressed the same, tight tube dress, really high cloggly shoes, long … [Read more...]
We live in the information age. For many of us, even those who practically live on their computers, we live in the Too Much Information age. Let's review a few numbers here. There are on average 50 million Twitter tweets each and every day. That is about 600 per second. There are over 60 million status updates on Facebook every day, or roughly 700 … [Read more...]
My husband manages a fast pitch travel team and recently dealt with unhappy parents. While the majority of the team believes in being competitive and playing hard, one parent feels that their child should be able to play all the positions. Their request was expressed as a sense of entitlement, full of frustration, and regardless of the child’s … [Read more...]
Guest Post by Mary Crisafulli of ClearVision Optical: Building Employee Engagement Through Wellness Wellness: This simple word incorporates many facets that affect our whole being: how we work, how we play, how we live. As leaders we need to begin to acknowledge the importance of keeping our employees holistically healthy – physically, … [Read more...]
I don't know about you, but I have a case of SOME-BO (Social Media Burnout). Between Google Alerts, Twitter, Facebook, LInked In, Branch-out, Buzz, Google+, Klout, Digg, Stumbleupon, AddThis, Redditt... all the forums, email... I login 7 days a week and usually post something somewhere. I know blogging is our chosen way to be a productive, … [Read more...]
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