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Brandon Stewart of Starboard Investments: “It can be very challenging to coach employees to be customer focused”

Thrive Global

It can be very challenging to coach employees to be customer focused. Following this interest, Brandon and his family moved to Birmingham, AL, where he opened his first Jimmy John’s location in 2011. Aside from it being extremely time consuming, it also made it impossible to grow the business. Thank you so much for joining us!

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Getting Virtual Teams Right

Conversation Matters

o At that first meeting, take time for the team members to get to know each other in terms of their work experience and their areas of expertise. Establish peer coaching meetings to help the team problem solve and improve their skills. Bring together sub-teams or create coaching teams drawn from all the sub-teams.

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Claire Brummell On The Five Things You Can Do To Become More Resilient During Turbulent Times

Thrive Global

Times are not easy now. In this interview series, we are talking to mental health experts, authors, resilience experts, coaches, and business leaders who can talk about how we can develop greater resilience to improve our lives. She also lives and breathes the work that we teach, and helps to remind me of it when times are tough.

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SHRM Las Vegas Day 1: “Welcome to the Middle of the Stinking Desert”

TLNT: The Business of HR

If it’s June, it must be time for SHRM, and so yet another SHRM conference — the Society for Human Resource Management’s 67th annual Conference & Exhibition — kicked off on Sunday at the Las Vegas Convention Center. ” He added: “We’re in the right place at the right time.

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11 Ways to Celebrate National Entrepreneurship Month?

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As a result, President Obama designated November as National Entrepreneurship Month in 2011. Whether you need bookkeeping or business coaching, you can find many qualified service-based entrepreneurs. What if you’re worried that you don’t have time to mentor ? Attend a Conference. Obviously, this is easier said than done.

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SHRM Memories

Laurie Ruettimann

I have attended SHRM’s annual conference since 2008, but I’m sitting this year out. I applied for a press pass and was accepted as one of the first bloggers to attend SHRM. Those were weird times. I hung out with all the old school HR bloggers for the first time. Las Vegas 2011. Chicago 2008.

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“How Extremely Busy Executives Make Time To Be Great Parents”, With Dr. Ely Weinschneider & Eric Fontanot

Thrive Global

It is important to spend as much intentional time as possible nurturing, teaching, discipling and most importantly loving my daughter. As a part of my series about “ How extremely busy executives make time to be great parents ” I had the pleasure to interview Eric Fontanot. Thank you so much for joining us!