Management Lessons from Mom

Only one week until Mothers Day…a good time to think about lessons from our mothers that have helped us as leaders, managers, coaches and just regular people. Here are a few things I learned from mine. I hope you’ll read, enjoy and then share some stories of your own.

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10 May-Only Marketing Opportunities

In addition to May Day and Mother’s Day, there are many May-only opportunities to creatively and inexpensively market and promote our businesses to current and prospective customers. A potential side benefit internally…a boost to morale and productivity. All good for bottom line performance.

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10 May-Only Ways to Boost Morale & Productivity

Here are ten May-only ways to boost morale, productivity and overall performance.

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Don’t like “your world”?

“What if you take the things you don’t like in this world and you flip them upside down?

You can start that today.”

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April 28 is Pay It Forward Day

Thank you to Jim Enright who just reminded me with his quarterly mailer that Thursday, April 28 is International Pay It Forward Day.

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10 More Quotes & Reasons to Show Appreciation

Since this week is Administrative Professionals Week, we wanted to feature a quote about appreciation. And the best one for the occasion was Quote of the Week: Appreciation can make a day…

In selecting that one though, we passed up many others, ten of which we’ve decided to share here. Perhaps this list will serve as a reminder that appreciation during Administrative Professionals Week is not enough.

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