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How To Prepare Your Company for a Recession or Economic Downturn

Great Place to Work

Employers are worried about how to generate revenue during an economic downturn, while employees are fearful for their jobs during a period typically synonymous with mass layoffs. From January 3, 2006, to February 1, 2014, the Thriving group saw their stock performance increase 35%, while the S&P 500 had just a 9% gain.

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11 Small Business Loans to Give Your Business A Boost in 2024

Homebase

Business plan Lenders want to know that you have a plan on how to use the funds they lend you and see that you’ve got a solid plan to repay. A business plan that explains your goals and how you plan to reach them can help lenders feel confident. OnDeck Founded in 2006, OnDeck is one of the leading online lenders in the U.S.

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Learn How To Develop Others

All Things Workplace

Here's How To Begin. In a series of leadership conferences we conducted between 2006-2009, participants told us that the single most valuable contributor to their leadership growth was a series of stretch assignments. It's because development takes time. To develop people, you have to follow a few fundamental steps.

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Upwork tapped this HR pro to make remote work ‘best in class’

HR Brew

She’s working on “things like meeting effectiveness, things like transparency, things like how to offer benefits and flexibility for folks,” and those will look different for a remote-first organization like Upwork. I’ve been remote since 2006, and I try to integrate my personal experience to help others succeed in the virtual workplace.

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How to make a high deductible health plan work for you

PeopleKeep

The number of covered workers on HDHPs has increased from just 4% in 2006 to nearly one-third of all covered workers in 2019 (30%). It’s no secret that the use of high deductible health plans (HDHPs) continues to skyrocket.

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“5 Things You Need To Know To Create a Successful Service Business” With Stewart Vernon

Thrive Global

The first five franchisees were challenging in that regard, and 2006 was a hard year to overcome to get the brand up and running, but failure was not an option. This taught me how to be an entrepreneur and the power that it can bring to create something of their own. You are a person of great influence.

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Envato Improves Clarity of Expectations And Performance With 15Five

15Five

The company was founded in 2006 as a platform for professional creatives to sell their digital assets, resources, and services, and is now expanding its offerings to empower anyone to produce creative solutions for their needs. ” Rebecca Covington, Organizational Development Manager.