When to Refuse Your Year-End Bonus. It doesn’t seem right but sometimes you actually lose more money when you make more money.
That is just the way our tax code works and the last thing you want is to be caught off guard when it happens. Most people think that it is always better to have higher income because we don’t have a 100% income tax rate on earned income. With every dollar you earn, even at the highest federal tax rate of 35% and combined state and local income tax rate of 12.7%in New York City, you are still “only” paying just under half of your income in taxes. How to Invest - Investing in Gold and Silver - Economics 101.
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Workers are unhappy: 3 things a manager can do. Oops! What NOT to Do While Networking on LinkedIn. I am forever grateful to my LinkedIn network and love doing whatever I can to help my connections in their networking efforts.
I enjoy being a piece in the puzzle as they network to find employment, grow their businesses, hire talent, share best practices, ask questions, learn, knowledge share, reconnect with former coworkers, etc. Email Marketing Blog for Small Business: How to Make the... So many times email signatures are an afterthought and not really looked at as an opportunity to sell.
What I mean by “email signature” is the signature you put at the bottom of your person-to-person emails, not on your email marketing campaigns (although you can use signatures for that as well!) And I don’t only mean your own email signature, I mean the email signatures of all of your employees as well, especially if you’re sending out a lot of customer service related emails. First things first, you’ve got to make sure that there are standard pieces of information your employees include when they’re representing your business. Name, company name, address and phone number.Twitter and Facebook links and encourage people to follow you.Website and blog address.
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April 2011 09:34. 86% of Recruiters Use Social Media to Research Applicants. Research shows 86% of recruiters look at social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and MySpace to learn more about job applicants and 44% don’t hire applicants based on their findings.
“What you say and do on-line is just as important as what you say and do in the workplace. Whether you’re job hunting or gainfully employed inappropriate behavior can be a deal-breaker,” says Pamela Eyring, President of The Protocol School of Washington,® global leader in business etiquette and international protocol since 1988 and the first school of its kind in America to become accredited in December 2009. To spotlight the importance of business etiquette, especially in today’s digital age, PSOW (www.psow.edu) is sponsoring the 4th annual National Business Etiquette Week June 1-7 offering tips and advice to help professionals recognize and combat bad behavior and act more professional.
Six Strategies to Get Your Tough On. 15 Proven Ways to Deal with Difficult People. People are not necessarily difficult but different.
In other words if someone sees things different than us we might think they are “difficult.” To deal with these “difficult” people follow these rules: Realize that people who are angry feel justified in their anger -Whether it’s a perception or reality there is “real” reason for their anger.Avoid anger in yourself – Angry exchanges change few minds. Speak in a calm voice.Ask questions – Make sure you get the real reason for the anger.Show empathy – Put yourself in the other person’s shoes.
5 Ways to Eliminate Misunderstandings. There are over 600 or more words in the English language with 10 or more meanings.
In addition, our body language and tone of voice can also be percieved in many ways. 6 Reasons Your Plans to Move Abroad Might Not Work Out. If you hang around Internet message boards, about once a month or so somebody will announce they're fed up with America and want to move abroad.
The reasons vary: they want to escape to Canada to get away from the corrupt corporations, or they fear a President Bachmann. Maybe they want to go to Japan and get a job as President of Anime. I have some experience with this, because I, too, heartlessly abandoned my home nation, moving from Australia to the United States after a prolonged land battle with immigration and before that, spent a large part of my life in countries other than my own (including several years in Europe, a stint in Japan and another at an international high school in Thailand).
Why Knowing Acronyms In Government Contracting Is Critical : Innovation. What's the key to success with government contracting?
Knowing how to navigate the alphabet soup. August 26, 2011 Lisa Dolan, the Chief Executive Officer of Securit, a New York-based security firm, understands the value of knowing government acronyms. Her firm has doubled its business and increased the number of employees ever since getting into government contracting. And key to success in government contracting, she says, is a thorough understanding of how the government system works, especially the alphabet soup of acronyms. Dolan started the business back in 1997 with a trademarked accident reconstruction kit that was sold to large trucking companies, insurance companies and others. As a female head of a security firm, she thrives despite being in a male dominated field. How to prospect the "Hidden Job Market" Okay, let’s get this blog post going with a simple multiple-choice question. When picking up a newspaper, you search for jobs in: A) The Classifieds Section (Want-ads) B) The Business Section C) The Front Page D) The Entire Paper The correct answer is… E, all of the above.
Come to the interview working, not looking for work. Fistful of Talent: Anatomy of the Counter Offer - What the Employee Hears. Nine Bad Behaviors of Struggling Startup Founders. June 21, 2011 by Marty Zwilling After working with dozens of startup founders, I’m still amazed that some seem to be able to do the job easily and effectively, always in control, while others always seem to be struggling, out-of-control, and fighting the latest crisis. I am more and more convinced that it is the right founder behavior that leads to success, rather than some exceptional intelligence or training. In that context, startup founders should carefully review the points made by Denny F. Strigl, former CEO of Verizon Wireless, in his recent book, aptly named “Managers, Can You Hear Me Now?”
He outlines the behavioral habits he has seen in managers who are successful, versus the bad habits of ones who struggle. Failure to build trust and integrity. 3 Ways To Increase Your Success Rate When Using Resume Distribution Services. 11 Questions to Ask Yourself That Guarantee a Powerful Resume. Why are Salary Ranges Secret? Last Updated Nov 9, 2010 5:29 AM EST. How To Grow Your Company : Managing. The Secret Language of Salaries. Last Updated Oct 21, 2011 6:29 AM EDT. It’s no longer up to companies to hire you, it’s up to you to get hired. 9 Magic Metrics Your Organization Needs to Adopt. It's rare a singular metric like turnover or a customer survey score is by itself a good measure of an organization's performance.
Most of the more meaningful measures on dashboards of executives today are indices, made up of three to five submeasures. I review the nine most useful and creative performance measures I have seen in government and business organizations over the last few years. Communication Effectiveness -- An important metric for organizations is one that measures how well they communicate to employees, suppliers, shareholders and others.
Some of the better communication metrics I've seen weigh the frequency and media used to communicate important messages as worth 30-40 percent, and the effectiveness of the communication as being worth 60-70 percent of the index. One client measures communication effectiveness by handing out anonymous short answer quizzes after a meeting or presentation to see if the audience heard and understood the main points. What It Really Takes To Do Business With The Government : Innovation. 6 Reasons You Need A Sleep Mask For Your Business : Lifestyle. The 3 Secrets To Extremely Loyal Employees : Managing.