Proper clean-up is critical to proper housetraining. A puppy will return to where he has eliminated before if it is not properly cleaned. Your workplace also needs to be properly maintained. Sort through your materials and remove what isn’t needed. Materials that are necessary should be properly stored, so everyone knows where everything goes. Clean equipment, tools and workplace. This is a foundation for both safety and equipment maintenance.

Prevention and positive encouragement are best ways to teach your puppy. Once an employee identifies a solution to a problem, put a procedure or fixture in place to prevent problem from reoccurring. Respond to your people’s ideas. Use praise, show respect, thank them and treat them way you would like to be treated. See how their ideas can or cannot be implemented and provide positive feedback.

Punishment won’t help. Screaming or hitting will only create fear, confusing and training your puppy to soil when you are not around. Enough said.

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Are there any other options?

An alternative solution to centralized collaboration software is NextPage. NextPage 1.5 Collaboration Software tracks documents with Digital Thread technology. Say, for instance, that you are working on your company's budget. You want to make sure that your facts and figures are correct so you send your spreadsheet to several of your co-workers for review. They look over spreadsheet and make necessary changes. They then return their spreadsheet version to you, and with NextPage 1.5, you simply merge document versions together into one. NextPage 1.5 lets you see all of this visually via a graphical version history. With graphical version history, you would always know where various versions of your spreadsheet are stored, what changes have been made, who has reviewed your spreadsheet, when revisions were made, and how revisions fit together. NextPage makes it easy to see where document has been and what revisions have been made.

So what are major advantages of using NextPage?

The major advantages to using NextPage's collaboration software include following:

• Do NOT need a centralized server • Do NOT need an IT infrastructure • Installation can be done in a matter of minutes • Will work with associates who are NOT NextPage subscribers • Solves document management problems where they originate

In conclusion, if you are in a business that could greatly benefit from using collaboration software, look at and evaluate possible software options out there and see which one will be of most benefit to you in your company. I have presented a few ideas for you to think about and get you started in your decision. So get out there and organize your document management!