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Top 5 Tips for Working With a Mentor

The Small Business Blog

Top 5 Tips for Working With a Mentor by Stefan Töpfer on Jan 25, 2010 The top 5 tips weekly post is always full of hints and tips for small, home & micro business owners. Make sure that the mentor is aware of what you want from them e.g. cashflow advice. Develop a network of mentors you can rely on for good advice.

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Introduction to Procedures: Usage, Terminology, and Tips for Getting Started

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Ultimately, well-defined procedures save you and your team members time, provide clarity, and ensure consistency, compliance, and customer service across the board. Everything is right there in your procedures manual! Procedure – A documented, step-by-step guide that tells someone how to complete a certain task or process.

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Why You Need to Grab for Training Opportunities at Work

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Among the most popular skills employers want are communication, writing, finance and customer service, he says. You want to model them and make them your mentors," Blumenthal says. Another key: Be known as someone who treats customers like gold, he says. These days, it's all about service," Blumenthal says.

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Collaborating With The Enemy: Competitive Advantage? | THE SMALL.

The Small Business Blog

Within his business he has established what he calls a Mentor Board of Advisors, a group of people he turns to for advice and learning. Not surprisingly this group includes mentors within his own industry, but what is unique about Scudamore is that some of these mentors run the businesses he competes against every day.

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How to Survive a Recession, According to a 91-Year-Old Business

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These types of dreaded, so-called “ black swan ” events are difficult to predict, so it’s important to have a plan in place before crisis strikes, advises Frank LaMonaca, a mentor with SCORE, a network of volunteer, expert business mentors. As a result, he began monitoring the company’s finances on a weekly basis.

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Small Business World News Round-up - 2009/11/03

The Small Business Blog

Entrepreneurs benefit from mentors : Starting a new business involves a steep learning curve, but thanks to a local mentoring program, owners of fledgling Sask atoon businesses can call on the experience of established entrepreneurs. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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Top 5 Tips on Making Big Changes

The Small Business Blog

Oh, and get the mentoring and personal access to make it happen as safely as possible. do cost cutting do credit control do customer service export find funding grow your business handle problems keep data safe lower overheads manage your time market and sell motivate your staff not to do it! Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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