Remember the days of making a decision about what programs to purchase for the office? You carefully evaluated needs, looked through your software options, made a decision, then worked for days to get the program loaded and functioning on every computer in the office.
We’ve all been through it; the meeting that goes on and on. Instead of listening, you resort to playing with your phone or daydreaming the time away, all the while wondering why you are even in attendance.
According to Salary.com, meetings are ranked as the number one office productivity killer, and they are increasingly filling up a good portion of our days.
Being online means growing and sharing all that you do under the watchful eye of the public. It isn’t just your business that is impacted; every single person in your organization can have an influence on how people view what you do.
Imagine an employee constantly whining about having to work for your company on Facebook.
Data breaches have become a common topic in the news. While we tend to think of data breaches as being caused by hackers in far away lands, studies consistently show that isn’t true. Internal threats are equally dangerous to customer data, whether they are caused by malicious behavior or by human error.
By the end of 2015, it is predicted that well over 2 billion smartphones and 1 billion tablets will be used on a regular basis throughout the world. And if you look around your office, chances are the majority of your employees have at least one of these devices of their own sitting on their desks or tucked away in their pockets.
Think back to the last time you found yourself in a situation where you were developing a relationship with a new friend or possibly even a love interest. A lot of things went through your mind as the relationship grew. On some level, you probably asked yourself questions such as:
What will we gain by deepening this relationship?
What are the expectations if we move forward?
While the outcomes may be different, a relationship is a relationship.
Are you a highly productive person? Do you wonder how some people seem to get a lot more done during the day?
Productivity isn’t about how smart you are, your knowledge base, or how capable you are. Being productive is about putting certain habits into place.
Your customers have questions. You have the answers. It’s the job of your sales and marketing process to make the two connect in the easiest way possible.
In years past, you might have handled the process with consultations and brochures. Technology increased and a lot of the process moved to the web.
As a small medical practice, comparing how your business runs today with even a few short years ago can make it seem light years apart. Technology doesn’t just change by the year, in some cases it seems to change every day. Go back ten years to a time when a cell phone was simply a phone.
No matter if you run a company of one, or have thousands of employees all over the world, keeping your sensitive information away from potential threats is critical to your success.
Yet studies consistently show that as many as 8 in 10 businesses have had a data breach at some point in the previous two years.