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The Top 10 Things to Consider When Things aren’t Feeling Just Right at the Office.

Posted on February 20, 2012 by Mary

Everyday isn’t “business as usual”. Sometimes there are blank stares or no eye-contact at all between employees. Sometimes there seems to be more meetings in the hallway than in the conference room. Sometimes everyone is late and feels like the office is empty by 4:55pm. Managers and owners need to pay attention to their instincts; [...]

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How do people learn?

Posted on January 22, 2012 by Mary

Traditionally it is thought that everyone has one preferred way to learn: Seeing it OR Hearing it OR Doing it. Accelerate ROI would like to suggest that with the increase of information and informational stimulus, that our generation of workers are best reached by “experiential learning”. What is experiential learning? To Accelerate ROI it means [...]

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Trends in the Workplace 2012

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Mary

Today, everyone is a forecaster. With information and images at our fingertips, it appears anyone can make a case that a personal preference could be “trend” or will soon be. So after scouring the internet and surveying our favorite resources, we offer these observations for our readers on what could be trends for 2012. We [...]

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“Corporate” Any Group with Common Goals (Even the Family)

Posted on July 24, 2011 by Mary

Maybe it’s because it is summer and we are watching families go on vacations and return as tired as they were before they left. Do we need to be just as concerned about the dysfunction in families as in our businesses? Maybe, just maybe, both the office and the home could be improved with the same kinds of changes [...]

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In Honor of Dad

Posted on June 19, 2011 by Mary

This is a business blog. My Dad was a business man; probably better described as a sales man. I have two older brothers but I am the one that caught the “business” gene. He and I weren’t close, but I paid close attention and here are some anecdotal stories about my Dad-

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Chuck, the Paranoid Manager, and his Team

Posted on January 13, 2011 by Mary

After a scary morning, Chuck, the boss composes himself with a Cafe Americano and a video game. Two of his best performers stopped the daily sales meeting with a request for a change to the meeting. He asked them to meet him 30 minutes later. Their follow-up meeting was brief, orderly and to his surprise, helpful. [...]

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Why we don’t trust Chuck, the Paranoid Boss.

Posted on January 9, 2011 by Mary

It’s the first day after the holiday break,and your boss steps into your cubicle and says “Morgan, this year is going to be different. We are going to be friends”. After you start breathing again, you might quickly get up and look around to see if anyone heard the conversation. Hoping they didn’t, you crouch [...]

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