Succession Planning Video - Kelly Coyle Wyngarden

Watch this succession planning video. It may help you save your business? In recent years, succession planning has become increasingly important for organizations. This heightened attention has been driven by the haunting reality that compa...

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5 Tips For Dealing With Conflict in the Workplace

Conflict strikes most individuals, teams and organizations at some time. For most it brings about feelings of stress, anger, frustration and so on. It often results in blocked communication, lack of ability to understand others perspectives an...

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Successful Family Business Succession Plans Require Collaboration

People reading this article are usually those right in the middle of creating their own family business succession plans. As such they have begun to understand more clearly how many facets there are to successful family business succession plans. And because historically family business succession plans were dealt with once per generation, it is extremely [ ]The post Successful Family Business Succession Plans Require Collaboration appeared first on Business Development Strategies.

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Leaders Don't Make Excuses

Successful business owners understand that leadership traits take many forms, in fact the expression "leadership traits" itself means different things to different people. If they expect to be taken seriously leaders who get results absolutely...

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The Most Rewarding Marketing Mistake I Ever Made

Recently, a colleague asked me, “What was the most rewarding marketing mistake you ever made in business?” It’s a great question, and I quickly had an answer for him because it was an incredibly painful marketing mistake. However, it pro...

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Trade Shows Expert Shares 3 Cutting-Edge New Technologies

‘Jetson’-Age Tools Click with Big-Event Planners Most of us think about technology on a mostly two-dimensional plane as we flick our way from screen to screen on touch glass. But today’s tech includes applications that are far from flat, s...

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John McDonough: 4 Things Parents Should Know Before Paying for College

 Financial Specialist Shares Ways to Help Your Child While Protecting Your Retirement From $20,000 to $65,000 a year – that’s the tuition cost for one year of college, says John McDonough, a money expert who helps retirees and parents plan...

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Bottom Line Growth Strategies

There are numerous ways to develop your firm s bottom line growth strategies. Here are two of the most important and two of the most often overlooked. Take Advantage of IT Information technology helps individuals too, but the IT field would not be as large as it is today were it not for how it drives [ ]The post Bottom Line Growth Strategies appeared first on Business Development Strategies.

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Mitchell Levy: Thought-Leading CEO Reviews Time-Tested Principles

 Mitchell Levy: 4 ‘Aha’ Truths for a Changing Corporate Landscape Technology is moving much faster than many of our institutions – while it continues to change the way people interact with businesses, many corporate leaders are still oper...

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Local Internet Marketing For Your Small Business Success

It was 1999 when I presented the idea of local Internet marketing for your small business becoming an integral part of their normal day to day sales and marketing efforts (See Infographic) "The Internet Will Be Your Bridge to The 21st. Century" to t...

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Catherine Foster: As Self-Publishing Explodes, Marketing Expert Offers 4 Tips for Authors

Don’t Sell Your Back Cover Short! She Says The number of self-published books has exploded, growing 287 percent since 2006, according to research by Bowker, the official ISBN agency for the United States. “In 2012, more than 235,000 print...

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Betty Hechtman: Mother of Re-Invention Shares Tips for Finding Work that Feeds the Soul

Ready to Make the Jump? Now’s the Time for a Heartfelt Encore They’re called second acts, encore careers or reinventing yourself – they’re the completely new and different jobs people take in midlife or later. Today, making that jump...

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Return on Networking – the ROI of Social Media

I was never a fan of the cocktail party-variety networking scene. I will never be one to dart around a room shoving business cards into people’s hands. I prefer meaningful conversations with people, getting to know them and vice versa. Bu...

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Conflict Resolution Skills – Everyone Needs Them

Having good conflict resolution skills is absolutely essential. Conflict is a fact of life and arises in a variety of different circumstances from your personal life to your professional life. Conflict doesn t have to be a bad thing as it can help you to learn to communicate your needs, to develop creative compromises and to [ ]The post Conflict Resolution Skills Everyone Needs Them appeared first on Business Development Strategies.

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Conflict Resolution Skills - Everyone Needs Them

Having good conflict resolution skills is absolutely essential. Conflict is a fact of life and arises in a variety of different circumstances from your personal life to your professional life. Conflict doesn't have to be a bad thing as it can ...

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Jim Kohles: Transitioning from CEO to Retiree: Why You Need a 5-Year Plan

3 Steps You Can Take Now to Realize Your Goals Today’s 50-something CEOs tend to have vague dreams of  more fishing, traveling or sailing  when they retire, but they don’t know when that might be so they haven’t begun planning for it. ...

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Does Your Leadership Measure Up?

The top five leaders most admired by the world’s business executives are Winston Churchill, Steve Jobs, Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela  and Jack Welch – in that order, according to the 2013 Global CEO Survey conducted by PwC. The qualitie...

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The Family Business Succession Planning Process

The family business succession planning process may include a number of different steps. Much depends on the size of the business. Small Family Owned Businesses Just because yours is a small business doesn t mean that the family business succession planning process does not apply to you. In fact every small business we ve ever seen can [ ]The post The Family Business Succession Planning Process appeared first on Business Development Strategies.

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Will Your Beneficiaries Beat the Odds?

Tips for Helping Your Family Survive the ‘3 Generations’ Rule Two-thirds of baby boomers will inherit a total $7.6 trillion in their lifetimes, according to the Boston College Center for Retirement Research -- that’s $1.7 trillion more tha...

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How is Innovation Like Baseball?

Travelocity Founder Shares 3 Ways CEOs Can Benefit by Thinking Like a Manager “In baseball, you can fail 70 percent of the time and still be considered a strong player,”  says Terry Jones, founder of Travelocity.com and founding CEO of its co...

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Top-Selling Indie Author Shares 4 Tips for Marketing Your Book

Building a Following is a Marathon, Not a Sprint, Says Corporate Exec-Turned-Novelist If you want people to read your book, you have to be more than a talented storyteller or researcher – you will need plenty of persistence, says Darlene Quinn, a ...

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Plan Ahead for Your Online Hereafter

Asset Protection Lawyer Offers 3 Steps to Take Now Now, you really can live forever, but that’s not necessarily a good thing. Many of your online accounts – from automatic bill payments to eBay – may remain active after you pass away, unles...

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Family Business Leadership Skills

What are family business leadership skills? Can family business leadership skills be learned? Are there personality qualities that make some people better leaders? We look at those questions here in this article in the context of family business leadership skills since in a family business leadership decisions often turn out to be more about [ ]The post Family Business Leadership Skills appeared first on Business Development Strategies.

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Kathleen Brush: Is Your Leadership Hurting the Bottom Line?

4 ‘Bad Leader Behaviors’ That Affect Productivity, Profits What can business leaders and managers learn from watching the earnings of publicly traded companies? “Plenty,” says Kathleen Brush, a 25-year veteran of international business an...

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Aiming for the Top – Tips for Women

Executive Coach Offers Her Own ‘MBA for Success’ What becomes of the women who graduate with MBAs from Harvard Business School? Do most go on to fulfilling careers, or do they drop out of the work force when they become moms? “The number th...

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June Jewell: 3 Problem Areas Where Professional Firms Can Find Lost Money

Architectural, Engineering & Environmental Firms Lose an Average 100K a Year, CPA Says June Jewell, a CPA and owner of Acuity Business Solutions consulting, says the architectural, engineering and environmental firms she works for easily lose $1...

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How Top Companies are Elevating Loyalty, Productivity and Innovation in Their Workforce

Treat Your Organization’s Most Valuable Resource with Care, Says Former Businessman of the Year When a successful formula is discovered in the business world, it’s copied and becomes part of standard operating procedure throughout entire indus...

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Lost Sales Leads: 4 Common Problems & How to Correct Them

U.S. businesses spend billions of dollars generating sales leads only to lose more than 70 percent of them simply because they don’t make contact quickly enough, according to one study. But that’s not the only way they’re losing out on oppor...

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Mastering Life Balance: Achieving Greatness at Home and at Work

5 Tips from Former Businessman of the Year Gary Kunath People are overwhelmed with the complexities of their own lives and are desperately seeking a way to maximize happiness in their home and work lives, says Gary Kunath, an entrepreneur, speaker...

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Terry Jones: 4 Ways to Turn Your Company Into an Innovation Machine

Terry Jones Travelocity and Kayak.com Founder Offers Tips for Culture Change The world’s future leaders overwhelmingly believe that today’s businesses can grow only if they can innovate – and that today’s business leaders aren’t demonstrat...

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Business Development Planning: A Time Tested Agenda

Your business development planning can take several forms. You can hire outsiders, experts in business development planning to tell you what to do. And unless they are actively helping you build the skills you ll need after their contract is up, you will have to keep them on the payroll forever. The second, and best, business [ ]The post Business Development Planning: A Time Tested Agenda appeared first on Business Development Strategies.

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Definition of Succession Planning Means Reorganization

Considering that planning for family business succession must get started before it can be done, it falls to you to consider the definition of succession planning first. First, the definition of succession planning must include a clear picture of the businesses ultimate destination. Well that s not the first element of the definition of succession planning, [ ]The post Definition of Succession Planning Means Reorganization appeared first on Business Development Strategies.

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John Child: Top 5 Small Business Marketing Books

Top 5 Small Business Marketing Books There is certainly no shortage of great small business marketing books out there, but I thought I would take a shot at putting together my personal top 5. There's not really a science behind them, they are ju...

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What is Leadership Strategy, What Does It Mean To You?

When a discussion of leadership takes place do you ever ask what is leadership strategy? For that matter do leaders actually have the answer to that, or are they just making it up as they go along? What is leadership strategy first presumes...

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Considering Self-Publishing Your Book?

Longtime Publisher Offers Tips for Making Choices Authors self-publishing their books have transformed both the reading and writing landscape, with hundreds of thousands of authors now eschewing traditional publishing routes. Once reserved fo...

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Chris Hurn: 5 Resolutions for Your Business

Almost on a daily basis, news reports detail the marketplace factors that can affect businesses large and small. No matter what the potentially game-changing info coming out of Washington, D.C., or China, though, there are winning strategies that...

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Michael Levin: Small Book, Big Payoff?

Business people and professionals struggle with the challenges of establishing trust and preeminence both online and off. On the Internet, it’s a particular challenge for individuals and firms to stand out from the pack.  Pretty much everyb...

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Another Reason to Nurture Your Law Firm’s Culture -- Law Firm Marketing

Why You Need to Develop a Brand & 4 Tips to Get You Started There’s a strong correlation between the growth of a law firm and the strength of its culture, according to a new survey published in February’s ABA Journal. The most success...

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Family Business Conflicts: How to Resolve Conflict in the Workplace

Learning how to resolve family business conflicts is important for any human resources manager if you have one and for other types of managers - especially including the business owner, as well. There are many different types of family busines...

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Business Development Tips: 13 Principles For Success

Business Development Tips - The Mastermind Genius of Napoleon Hill Entrepreneurs are a different breed. As a group, we tend to be feverishly passionate about our businesses and our work. Ironically, many traditional business groups are unabl...

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Kathleen Brush: What Will 21st Century Managers Need to Succeed?

Kathleen Brush: Expert Shares 7 Skills for Competing Globally Are the young, multiplying countries of Africa the next frontier? Which countries will be members of the EU in five years? Where is the ground safe in the Middle East? What will...

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The Business Growth Strategy For The 21st Century

When planning your company's business growth strategy what do you consider is the most important element? Remember, the success of your business growth strategy for the future success depends on the decisions you're making right now. Businesse...

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Do You Have Effective Leadership Skills?

Everywhere you look today you can find another workshop supposedly to demonstrate whether or not you have the effective leadership skills you need to survive and prosper in the 21st Century. Commonly these effective leadership skills programs ...

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Paper Mart: Ninety Two And Still Partying 24/7 365

Paper Mart: Making Parties More Fun For Nearly A Century Paper Mart is a 4th generation owned and operated family business that is celebrating its 92nd year in business. They have defied the very long odds, not only surviving from the days of...

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Elements of Business Development Strategies

Business development strategies? When we write about business development strategies we're referring to the confluence of several interdependent leadership and business growth attitudes and actions. To us business development strategies connec...

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Workplace Conflict Management Strategies - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Conflict exists. This is a simple fact of life. In any business or personal relationship of any depth, conflict will occur at times. Conflict in and of itself is not bad. Conflict is a neutral and natural occurrence. Conflict has three element...

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Do You Have A Strategic Planning Team In Place Right Now?

That was a silly question wasn't it? Not only do you not have a strategic planning team in place you never will. The result will inevitably be either a failure to realize your full potential, the missing of some key opportunities for growth...

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A Succession Planning Process: First Set Your Goals Needs

There was a great line in Alice in Wonderland that if you don t know where you re going any way is fine, or something like that. When it comes to the succession planning process nothing could be any more accurate that that. In another article we talk about the need for having a commitment to the [ ]The post A Succession Planning Process: First Set Your Goals Needs appeared first on Business Development Strategies.

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Today’s Small Business Marketing Strategies

Small business marketing strategies have certainly changed over the years. We have practically come full circle. For many decades, businesses relied on word-of-mouth advertising. Because of online social networks, word-of-mouth advertising has become important once again. Small business marketing strategies are nothing new. Small business marketing strategies began to evolve with the introduction of the [ ]The post Today s Small Business Marketing Strategies appeared first on Business Development Strategies.

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Stamina Is Crucial To Small Business Success

Success in the Olympics requires stamina, success in NCAA basketball requires, and small business success requires stamina. In fact one of the principle characteristics of effective leaders is stamina, even though it is described differently b...

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The 5 Phases of Business Development Process

The Business Development process in Government Contracting relates to the identification of suitable contracts and preparation of proposals in response to Government solicitations for these contracts. It typically consists of five separate and...

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Leadership Development Strategy: True Leaders Help Their Employees Grow

When your employees are actively involved with the leadership development strategy they help you and the business develop sustainable growth and profitability. I hope your leadership development strategy is one whose focus is on helping your e...

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