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January 2016 Features
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Welcome to 2016!  I've been part of many recent discussions regarding the Millenial generation in the workplace.  What has your experience been in this regard?  What have you observed?  How have you engaged them?  Please contact me at [email protected] with your thoughts and experience if you have things to share on this topic.

Mark Komen, Owner, TAB Twin Cities - North/Central

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Technology
There�s an App for That

Relationships are everything but let’s face it – technology is crucial in our world today. Here are a few applications you can use to help relationships and streamline your activities…

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Quick Tips
Develop a Plan to Manage a New Employee

I am a high-I (DISC) and am training a high-C who learns by seeing while I tend to be verbal in my communications. My board suggested I dictate into an app that creates a text or email from my spoken words. I followed a suggestion of describing a document that we can use to manage onboarding and ongoing performance. The employee loved that I allowed her to put that structure together and not only did she get it done more easily and quickly than I could, she owns it!


� Dan Ryan, Dan the Window Man
Crowdfunding for Finance

One of the ways we suggest our clients get funding is through a mechanism called Crowdfunding, which is the practice of funding a project or venture by raising monetary contributions from a large number of people. Today crowdfunding is often performed through internet-mediated registries, but the concept can also be executed through mail-order subscriptions, benefit events, and other methods. Crowdfunding is a form of alternative finance, which has emerged outside of the traditional financial system.

The crowdfunding model is based on three people:

  1. the project initiator who proposes the idea and/or project to be funded;
  2. individuals or groups who support the idea; and
  3. a moderating organization (the "platform") that brings the parties together to launch the idea.

If you want to start a new product line or company, don’t forget to explore this option.


� Andy Jacobs, Didit
Send Simpler Emails for Success

Since we are all bombarded with email, getting through the clutter is difficult. One of the things we have found is that in order to get emails read, we need to send emails that they want to read. If emails have a lot of banners and design pieces to them, everyone knows these emails are marketing emails and they are more likely to not read them.

Sending short emails with three bullets about their pain points gets them read. We developed a series of 24 emails that will help get our prospect by not taking a lot of time to read while allowing them to think about the message. These emails have generated over $168,000 in recurring revenue.


� Rick Maher, Effective Human Resources
Everyone Can Make Things Happen

"Why is it that things only happen if I follow up, and don’t happen if I don’t?"

In my business I use a very visible way of seeing progress made, but it’s also very visible for everyone else to see what they are responsible for.

It’s simple: We use Post-It Notes, with the task / action / ownership and deadline, on a suitable space of wall annotated with To-Do (and various process stages) and Done. Each person moves the Post-It once they have done their part, and then it’s easy to see where any blockages are and who they sit with.

There are technology equivalents that can do this, but for me the power is in the fact that everyone can see it at a glance.


� Flora Maudsley-Barton, Parsonage Financial
 
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