Staying in the GameWritten by Nan S. Russell
The message came from Human Resources. There's nothing to worry about with newly announced organizational changes and pending merger, it reassured. The changes will be good for company and good for people who work here it coached.I've seen a couple dozen messages like this during my career. In fact, I've even crafted a few. I've been through mergers, acquisitions, downsizings, organizational changes, personal career set-backs and a myriad of new corporate initiatives. And best lesson I learned from all of them? Stay a player. Granted my tactics for what that meant varied with situation. Sometimes safest play was to keep my head down and do my work exceedingly well until I understood new landscape. Sometimes I rolled with punches long enough to realize what was happening might be great for company, but not a great long term choice for me, so I moved on. Sometimes I helped others acclimate to new direction or culture and found new opportunities emerging along way. Sometimes toll was personal, like when a promotion I'd worked my entire career to reach was given to an outsider. Still, I stayed in game. I'm not saying I didn't yell and complain to friends or go into a woe-is-me victim mode licking my wounds for a time; or require space to sort out divergent directional messages appearing to me like a corporate minefield. I'm not wired to change with immediacy of a remote control. But I am wired to change. I know taking myself out of game, retiring on job, or sitting it out on sidelines is not a viable option if I want to be winning at working. As Charles Darwin reminds, "It is not strongest of species that survive, nor most intelligent, but one most responsive to change."
| | SHOULD I START MY OWN COLLECTION AGENCY?Written by Michelle Dunn
If you are wondering if you should or can open your own collection agency, answer is yes, you can! There are some things you should do before opening your own agency. You should have experience in collection industry. You must know what type of business collection business is before you can understand what you are getting into. You need to know day-to-day activities of collections. You need to know laws in state you are in and states you will be collecting in. You want to have experience dealing with people and negotiation skills.You should also be ready to spend a lot of time getting people interested in your business. If you have worked in industry for other people, new clients will know you have experience and be more comfortable placing accounts with you. If you don’t have any experience, you need to build credibility so potential clients will know you can do job and do it well.
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