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Managing, supervising, being a team leader is the hardest
job in the world and I’ll tell you why.
Imagine what it’s like to drive a car. You turn the key to
start the engine, select drive or the gear you want and
press the gas pedal. The car then moves off and if you want
to turn you rotate the steering wheel to the right or left
and to stop, you press the brake pedal. All this was quite
difficult when you first learned to drive but its easy now.

If I asked you to drive my car, you might take a short while
to get used to it, but you’d immediately be able to drive
down to the supermarket and get me some food.

However, if I was to tell you that my car was different from
any other you’d driven then I’m sure you’d have a problem -
“You don’t start it with a key there’s a little switch
somewhere. When you engage forward gear it might go backward
and if you turn the wheel left it might go right but
sometimes it goes left. And the gas peddle is what stops it
and the brake pedal makes it go faster but not every day.
You’ll get used to it in time; I’ve lived with it for
years”.

Managing people is pretty much like this, every model is
different and you need different skills to “drive” each one.
Just because pressing the gas pedal on one model makes it go
forward, doesn’t mean to say that the next one will be the
same; it might, but it might not.

The problem arises because we “learn” on certain models and
then find to our annoyance that the others are different.
“Why can’t they all be the same” we scream in frustration.”

Human beings are the most complex and complicated pieces of
“equipment” you’ll ever have to deal with. Many of them have
similarities but every one of them in this world is
different and they all work in a slightly different way.
Your job as a manager is to get these complex humans working
as efficiently as possible, there’s no one around to show
you what to do and there’s no instruction manual.

What also complicates the relationship between the manager
and the team is this -
Human beings are totally driven by their emotions.

When managers face a problem with one of their team they try
to solve it logically and then they wonder why it all goes
wrong.

Imagine that one of your team announces - “I’m leaving this
job, I’ve found another job doing the same thing and it pays
more money.” You realise that you don’t want to lose this
team member so you approach your boss and agree an increase
in salary. However, when you offer the increase in salary
the team member turns you down.

So you think logically -
“What’s wrong with this person, why are they leaving?”
They might be telling you that they’re leaving for more
money however that now doesn’t seem to be the reason. It
might just be that they’re leaving because they feel you
just don’t care about them.

I’ve seen this happen so often with the good guys in a team.
Because they’re one of the high achievers who don’t give the
manager any problem they get left alone too much. What
happens then is - they feel that the manager doesn’t care
about them so they leave.

Managing people is a hugely difficult job, a degree in
psychology would help but if you haven’t got that then click the link below.

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When Panasonic first began making a new leading collection of TV’s roughly around the year 2000, their goal was:

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Have you ever heard the term REO? Or bank owned before? These terms refer to the bank foreclosure list kept by any bank and lists all properties the bank owns due to mortgage note defaults. This list could be a great place to find inexpensive, fixer upper type properties for the budding flipper; but beware, flipping homes is a risky business and if you do not do it properly the bank will just end up owning that house again, and that certainly would not make you any money now would it. All you have to do is a little research on the internet to find these lists.

I recently completed my first house flipping investment and made money! I started by calling area banks and obtaining a copy of their bank foreclosure list. I then viewed prospective properties and bid on one. My bid was accepted by the bank and we were able to close the deal ten days later. I was then able to remodel the house, add an attached garage and landscape the entire property. I spent approximately $35,000 on renovations and sold approximately six weeks later for a profit after fees and mortgage payments of $125,000! Now that is a very nice pay day!

To give you a few ideas of which first year anniversary gifts are appropriate we have listen them in this article hoping that you find it helpful.

1. Time Capsule- The time capsule is an inexpensive memorandum that will hold memories of the past year. You should choose a contained that will last for many years. It should be waterproof and air tight so that your contents will not be destroyed with time. The capsule should contain photos, letters, birthday or holiday cards, souvenirs, or any small treasure that has been collected throughout the year. You may want to include an auto or video recording.
2. Memory Book- This wonderful sentimental gift will expose the memories of the first year of your marriage. This memorandum will allow you and your spouse to look back in time at the difficult and the wonderful times that you have experienced throughout the year. The photos should be arranged in order of occurrences for example, the wedding, honeymoon, holidays, and other special events, love letters, special occasion cards, gift tags, receipts from special events that you attended, and any other paper articles that you have collected throughout the first year of marriage and of your life together.

The marital aid industry has been ever changing since it all exploded in the noughties. The sex toys available get greater each year and the sensual aids for this year are unbelievable. If you have not got into sexy toys yet then this year is a great time to try. There are lots of benefits of owning sexual toys, the marital aids will help to spice up a love life, help to give blokes an improved time in the bedroom and help blokes to release tension. Add luxury into your love life and buy Vibrators from the sex toy retailer Sex Bomb.

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Personal contact with customers is a crucial element in the success of any new business - and it’s one of the most common casualties of growth. As a company grows, the president tends to fade away into his or her office. That can lead to loss of leverage right at the point when a company is starting to take off and needs it most.

The danger is that the company can become just another faceless entity that the customer deals with every day. This danger increases in this era of reliance on computers to handle communications with customers. Think about instituting a policy of sending a personal thank-you note to each customer. It’s not that difficult to do if you stick with it. Just sit down one evening per week and work through your list of customer contacts from the previous week.

Savvy companies will track customer contacts in their contact-management databases, but you can get away with keeping a simple Excel spreadsheet of all thank-you cards sent. Trust me, your customers will not forget it!

To really kick the personal touch into gear, spend one day per month doing nothing but making “courtesy” calls to your existing customers. Don’t have any plans to do real business - just call to say hello. Your clients will be pleased and astounded that you took the time just to check in. To ready your mind to play the role of friend rather than business associate, make the calls from home that day.

Really any little thing that you can do to make your customers feel that you remember them and care about them is priceless. I have a particular customer that mentioned to me one day that she was a tremendous Ray Charles fan. Months later when Ray passed away, I sent her a little note of condolence. I don’t think she will ever forget that gesture. She later told me that I was the only one who mentioned anything to her that day. She had been feeling like nobody knew or cared until she received my note.

What opportunities to make personal contact with clients are you missing each day? Sure, it’s easy to use convenient excuses like “I just don’t have the time,” or “I’ll get to it next week.” Just remember how much more difficult and time-consuming it is to find a new client rather than to keep a current one.

In the end, taking time to keep in contact with your customers will pay a lifetime of dividends both personally and professionally.

Tony Valle is owner of Promethius Consulting, LLC, a unique web-design and marketing firm. To learn more visit http://www.promethius.com

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Do you find that things would just be so much easier if your spouse would do things your way? Most of the time, this just isn’t the case.

So you married your complete opposite, your relationship is stressful and the two of you can’t even agree on what to have for dinner. Does this mean that for the rest of your life, you are subject to the painful battle of fighting over “your way vs. his/her way” unless one of you gives in?

No! There is no need to argue over “who does what which way”. And most importantly, neither of you need to change who you are.

You’re about to learn the single most important marriage saving tip that can drastically lower your stress with your spouse. If you understand what you and your spouse value in life, you can cut your relationship stress in half! (Like I did with MY wife!)

It’s true. I developed this marriage saving tip after using it to transform my OWN marriage. My 32 year marriage is PROOF that this marriage saving tip can work for YOUR marriage!

Okay, let’s get started…

The first thing you need to do is talk with your spouse about the things you passionately believe in…or feel strongly against.

You can start by discussing the little things in life that bug you (and no, I’m NOT talking about your spouse!)

Let me give you an example…

My wife absolutely HATES gum chewing. Now I’m not talking about people who silently chew their gum with their mouths closed, I’m talking about people who, when they pop a piece of gum in their mouth, EVERYONE knows it.

They pop their gum, smack and chew with their mouths wide open. Yes, I know it sounds trivial, but it absolutely drives her NUTS.

Now, if I didn’t know WHY this little pet peeve of hers drives her ‘up the wall’, I would simply think she’s crazy. I might even start becoming annoyed and aggravated whenever she starts to verbally attack the nearest “irritating gum chewer”.

Now here’s the part of this marriage saving tip that most people are not aware of…

EVERY one of your pet peeves, habits or BELIEFS are created by a memory or event from the past.

Take my wife for example. The reason she despises people who pop and crack their gum is because HER MOTHER would do it without any regard for her feelings…throughout her ENTIRE childhood. My wife hated it THEN and she still hates gum chewing TODAY. It simply brings back too many painful memories.

To her, a gum chewer might as well be scratching nails on a chalkboard or screeching a fork against a plate.

The main idea you should walk away with from this marriage saving tip is that you need to discuss with your spouse WHY you do things a certain way, WHY you hate certain things and WHY you love other things.

NOTE: Be sure to talk about the ‘problem areas’ in your marriage. That IS the point of this discussion after all. Give your spouse your perspective on ‘hot topics’ in your marriage which could be anything from punctuality, family values, religion, eating habits or even personal privacy.

Ask your spouse questions and have them do the same. Ask questions like…

1. “Honey, when you were young, did your mother or father have a problem being on time?”

2. “What happened in your childhood that makes you hate clutter and messes so much?”

WARNING: Don’t make this sound like an accusation! If you do, your positive discussion will be over!

When you ask your spouse these questions, s/he will probably struggle for words or not come up with an immediate explanation for WHY he or she does these things.

And that’s okay. Try to jog his/her memory by recalling your own memories about this subject…

For example:
“The reason I __ (fill in the blank) __ is because my parents __ (fill in the blank) ____ when I was a child.”

Remember: You and your spouse were shown how to live by your parents or guardians. They shaped most of what you value and believe in today. The point of this discussion is to understand WHY the two of you disagree on any given topic. This will help the two of you accept each other because you’ll no longer feel threatened by your very different values in life.

So there you have it. Use this marriage saving tip to get to the source of your problems instead of focusing on the ‘little issues’ (like gum chewing). If you don’t know which values are causing conflict in your marriage, you’ll never be able to truly resolve your disagreements.

When I finally understood WHY my wife’s values were so different from my own, the stress in my marriage was DRASTICALLY reduced. I know you’ll find the same to be true when you put this marriage saving tip to use in your own marriage.

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Winter brings its own set of problems to home sellers. Home buyers don’t feel as motivated to go home shopping in cold, wet weather. Plus, the early nightfall makes buyers want to wait until the weekend to view houses. When the weekend rolls around, home shoppers get sidetracked with holiday activities.

Besides the typical winter slow down in sales, today’s market also makes selling your home more difficult. Market concerns include:

1. Rising interest rates

2. More houses on the market

3. Longer time frame–days on the market

If you’re selling your home or investment property during this shifting real estate market, you can tempt buyers to get out of their warm cars and take a look at your home with home staging methods. Here are a few home staging strategies to help you sell your home during the holidays:

Home Staging the Exterior

Door wreaths welcome all to your home and set the stage for celebrating. Make a simple wreath to hang on your front door with holiday colors that blend in with and dress up your home’s exterior colors. Use tree branches from your garden; attach a few gourds or pomegranates, nuts, and ribbons.

Group vines and mums or poinsettias for display impact near the front entrance. Adjust the vines to add height and movement. Add colored ribbons and fall leaves or evergreen branches.

Holiday Décor and Your Target Buyers

Do your neighbors decorate their home exteriors with Christmas decorations? If your neighborhood supports Christmas themes, then your prospective buyers will appreciate your Christmas décor.

However, if your neighborhood doesn’t decorate for Christmas, then your buyers may feel more comfortable without Christmas decorations. Play down Christmas if you live in an area that promotes “politically correct” holiday and seasons greetings instead of “Christmas Cheer.”

If you feel that you want to celebrate Christmas your way, go for it. Just understand that your home sale may take a little longer.

Home Staging with Christmas Decorations

Use less of your ornament collection this year. Don’t over-crowd your rooms. You want your buyers to see your home’s features. Rooms filled to the brim with decorations stop the buyer’s eyes from visualizing their own furnishings in your home. Plus, crowded spaces feel smaller.

Examine your room colors and compare to your Christmas decorations. Do the reds clash? You may want to store ornaments with colors that don’t add to the setting.

Home Staging for the Senses During the Holidays

Appeal to your buyer’s senses to make them feel at home.

1. Sight: Use amber-colored lights that give a rich warm golden glow to your rooms. Switch out your regular white light bulbs in a few table lamps with amber bulbs to make your home feel toasty-warm and inviting.

2. Sound: Play gentle well-known music without words. This makes buyers feel like singing along and picks up their step. Music helps buyers feel joyful in your home.

3. Smell: Use natural essential oils in a diffuser. Many people suffer from allergic reactions to artificial sprays. Simmer cider with orange slices, cinnamon and cloves.

4. Touch: Add silky and velvet fabrics to table tops that tempt the buyer to feel the softness. The brain interprets the sense of touch just by seeing softness. Also, use thick, fluffy hand towels in the bathroom and kitchen to soften the cold, hard surfaces of room typically filled with tile, granite, and porcelain.

5. Taste: Yes! The sense of smell contributes to the sense of taste. Make sure you’re cooking something heavenly. Treat your prospective buyers like a guest. Invite them to share a warm drink and a sweet snack.

The more time your buyers spend in your home, the more they have invested in it. Houses do sell all year long. If you’re selling your home during the frantic holiday season, taking a few extra home staging steps can make a big difference in your sale.

Happy Holidays!

© Jeanette Fisher (Use with live links only.)

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Consumers have little knowledge of free line rental products due to the fact that they are a pretty recent trend. It is their lack of populartiy that allows them to remain the most cost effective mobile cell phone contracts available today.

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A free line rental contract is a type of refund by redemption deal. With a free line rental deal you are obligated to pay the bill exactly the same as you would with any other contract for the first months until you get your one hundred percent refund. Then it is your responsibility to remember to claim the cost of the mobile cellular phone back from the store that initially gave you the mobile cellular phone.

Theoretically a 12 month free line rental phone contract does not cost a dime to run. That is, as long as the person taking out the contract correctly makes a request for for cashback. This is not as easy as it first seems because of the fact that vendors include sneaky pre-requisites in the conditions of free line rental contracts in order to control the quantity of successful consumers.

Free line rental is will always be a compromise, as they are usually only offered on cheaper handsets. The major problem of free line rental offers is the fact that in the event that the shop go bust you will lose the ability to get your refund.

Despite the complications of free line rental contracts they remain genuine and consumers are still able to get one hundred percent free mobile for 12 months.