March 26, 2012 Improve & Progress Blog

BriefCase Radio Workshop

March 25, 2012 Radio Workshop

How clean is your cleaning business? On the next BriefCase radio workshop we go into our Psychology of Business workshop to provide strategies on giving your cleaning business an upscale feel. We also share tips and strategies on building your external team and access to capital. 

Psychology of Business:  applying psychology to increase your business success

How to Give Your Cleaning Business an Upscale Feel

Resource:

Dr. Renee, Founder & Director of Harding Consulting
www.areyouhappy.org
hardingconsulting@areyouhappy.org

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Special Radio Workshop

Building Your External Team

Resources:

Antony Gross
Mackenzie Commercial Real Estate Services

Andrea O'Hara
AROS Consulting LLC
andrea@arosconsultingllc.com

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Special Radio Workshop

Access to Capital

Resource:

Michael Dupye
MABD Direct

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The Spokesman Newspaper at Morgan State University

Perry Sweeper, Direct of Student Media
Sam Ofoio, Editor in Chief Spokesman, Sophomore, English Major

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The Entrepreneur's Game Plan

Next Week's BriefCase Radio Workshop includes strategies and information from our segments:   Accounting E Insider

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Idea Bank for the Week

Steps to Finishing Tasks

 

Have you participated in a meeting or strategic planning session that afterwards there were task to be completed for the next meeting?  Ok, I will not put your on the spot.  However, we all know that many individuals fail to complete their assigned task or wait until the day before the next meeting to compete the task.  Here are 3 actions you can take to finishing tasks:

1. Be Organized – First, only accept task that you believe you can achieve in the time allotted. If the task is huge, break it into smaller portions and set goals for when you will complete each portion. Breaking the goals into smaller portions can motivate you as you can see the progress being made when another goal is checked off.  
2. Be Accountable – Ok, we all know things happen.  Prior to the meeting, tell the team what you have and have not accomplished for your task.  Don’t come to the table with excuses or worse nothing completed.  You are on the team for a reason and accomplishing a task assigned to you is your responsibility.   Stay focus and organized to help your team move forward.
3. Read Goal Setting: 13 Secrets of World Class Achievers by Vic Johnson

 

On the Web

http://us.smetoolkit.org/us/en/

IBM and IFC Launch a Small Business Toolkit to Create Jobs and Fuel Growth in Underserved and Emerging Markets

Among the specially designed free tools are: 

• an online calculator that helps small businesses determine their readiness for financing,
• free software to build a web site,
• free business forms used for employee performance evaluations
• community tools such as online conferencing, blog capability, group calendars,
• survey and quiz builders to help small businesses make decisions, and
• a multilingual business directory to help small businesses link locally, regionally and globally

 

BookShelf

 

Your Best Just Got Better: Work Smarter, Think Bigger, Make More 

Jason W. Womack

In Your Best Just Got Better, productivity expert Jason Womack teaches readers that working longer hours doesn't make up for a flawed approach to productivity and performance. Workers need to clarify their habits, build mindset-based strategies, and be proactive. Womack's signature "workplace performance" techniques offer specific strategies to consistently and incrementally improve performance.

Readers will:

• Understand the fundamentals of workflow and the principles of human performance
• Arm themselves with the tools and the processes to get more of their work done, on time, with fewer resources, and with less stress

Making your best better won't happen overnight, but learning how to effectively manage just a few critical success factors lead to an effective workday and an overall successful professional career.