Business Opportunity - Leverage Your Employees!Written by Martin Haworth
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Prospectors Great employees, onside with you, can be brilliant for developing new clients or customers. They will work on your behalf, if your behaviours encourage them to fight for you. Too often employees expend energy fighting against their organisation.Sensors When in flow, as your people will be when they work in great culture you have in your business, they will 'smell out' business. They will create freqently returning customers and sell each one of them more. In that enabled relationship they are a money-making machine.Recruiters They will wear your business or organisation on their sleeve - so if you need great employees to show up for you, working on your existing people is a first, vital step. They will recruit for you!Your Life Great employees make a great team. A great team make you enjoy that 40% of your life you spend at work. If you treat them well (see below), you will reap rewards far beyond financial value of what cashflow is - or profit outturn. You will lead a happy and fun life at work, full of laughter and joy - what more could you want? By way - your business will do very well too! So what do you need to do. In my experience, not much. Do these things and you will have a brilliant teams about you. - Say 'Thank You' often
- Be very clear in your expectations
- Be interested in your people fully
- Be honest and trustworthy
- Deliver your promises (or don't make them)
- Be consistent and very fair
- Keep your people informed
- Model way you want your people to be
- Be a part of team - join in
- Fight for their cause
Working with people can be such fun and so rewarding. It ain't hard either - but you can do it if you focus, one changed behaviour at a time. Step by step.
© 2005 Martin Haworth is a Business and Management Coach. He works worldwide, mainly by phone, with small business owners, managers and corporate leaders. He has hundreds of hints, tips and ideas at his website, www.coaching-businesses-to-success.com. (Note to editors. Feel free to use this article, wherever you think it might be of value - with a live link if you can).
| | An introduction to point of sale softwareWritten by Jakob Jelling
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Point of sale software receives input from POS hardware, which is scanning station for credit card. The software will process credit card payment for you. It can check that card has not expired and is valid. You will need a merchant account for point of sale software to do its job. POS software is generally easy to install and easy to use. You will need to know how to update inventory and record a price change for an item. Point of sale software usually provides an easy to use interface to do this. It can make job of cashier a lot easier by automating routine tasks of day. There is a wide variety of point of sale software available. You can choose one that fits your budget and meets needs of your particular business. The software will have compatibility requirements with point of sale hardware. It will also have operating system requirements such as it might need a Windows or Linux system. Point of sale software can more than pay for itself over time by making checkout faster and doing your accounting for you. Point of sale software may be right solution for your business and can provide you with tons of benefits.
Jakob Jelling is the founder of http://www.cashbazar.com. Visit his website for the latest on personal finance, debt elimination, budgeting, credit cards and real estate.
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