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It’s Just Around The Corner

It’s already that time of year again.  You can hear the music playing when you’re out shopping.  Neighbors are starting to decorate their homes before it gets too cold to get up on their ladder. It seems like it gets earlier and earlier every year.  The last thing anybody wants to be accused of is being called a Scrooge. Keeping that in mind, the top question we get asked every year at this time is, “What should I give my employees for a Christmas bonus?”

It is very hard for me to answer this question because the truth is…I love Christmas!  Or at least I love the idea of Christmas and the feeling you get when giving to someone else.  So it’s even harder for me to say that the days of giving Christmas bonuses are over.  You shouldn’t be giving your employees a Christmas bonus.

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Using A Map To Get Around

One of my favorite pastimes is traveling.  It doesn’t matter where, I just like to get out of the house and explore new places.  As a little girl, my mom would pack some snacks, gather my brother and sister and hop in the car and head off while my dad sat in the navigator seat with his oversized  Rand McNally map in hand.

We took many trips over the years, exploring all corners of the country, sometimes more than once.  We’ve traveled out east along the coast visiting the Nation’s Capital, the Big Apple and Niagara Falls. We’ve been out west stopping to see the Corn Palace, Wal-Drug, Mount Rushmore and Yellowstone National Park. We drove through the Redwoods (literally through a redwood tree) and down the coast to Big Sur. We saw Hoover Dam, the Grand Canyon and a re-enactment of the OK Corral in Tombstone, AZ.  I’ve been to Disneyland and Disney World many times over, all along my dad carrying his trusty map.

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A Business Organizational Chart

If you are tired of parts not being ordered, customers not being called, or bills not being paid on time, or the daily “finger pointing” that goes on when you address these issues with your employees, then now is the time to create an organizational chart.   Whether you draw it out on paper or purchase an organizational software program to do it for you, creating a business organizational chart is the first step of seven in this eight- part series to organizing your service contracting office, once and for all.

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7 Steps to Organizing Your Contracting Office

Whether you already have an office, are moving into a new one or are just moving into an office for the first time after working out of your home, the thought of setting up or organizing your office can be daunting.

We usually find ourselves swearing to “get things organized around here for the last time.” Let’s face it. It can be very difficult to find something we need, like customers’ paperwork, check deposits, time sheets and the many other mounds of paper our business generates. We perform this vicious cycle only to find ourselves repeating the same process the next time we cannot find something.

What is the secret to getting your office set up for the last time? The answer is all in the way you plan to organize your environment.  In the following series, let’s discuss how to get your office set up and stay organized, once and for all.

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Is Your Service System Too Hard?

Last month we had a momentous occasion in our household.  Wyatt, who just turned one in February, graduated from his first ever survival training class with the Baby Seals Swim Academy. 

We watched our little one transform from being unsure and uncertain of the water and of his trainer, to being confident and courageous in and under the water. He is now willing and able to jump in the water and kick himself right back up to the top where he starts to float on his back, even while being fully clothed. 

What started out for us as a safety precaution due to the new pool in our backyard turned into one of the best decisions we made so far for our little guy.  We want to continue to build his confidence and his skills. 

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