Keep Your Head or You'll Lose Your Best Workers

Stress created by the economy and increased workloads has lots of people on edge, but it's cause for concern if you have to apologize more than once to your sales team for losing your cool. Besides controlling your own emotions, you must be on the lookout for increased irritation between co-workers and mediate before things spiral quickly out of control. Read more on limiting workplace irritation here...

One effective reminder for remaining calm in the workplace is to watch examples of people who couldn't. Watch a collection of office meltdowns caught on video here...

Reward them with entertainment products that really hit home Sometimes the choice of reward can be rewarding for everyone. Sony offers a selection of products your employees can share with loved ones or enjoy on their own, from flat screen televisions to digital camcorders to MP3 players. For more information about using Sony products to reward your employees, call toll-free 800-833-6302 or visit www.motivation.sony.com

Inspiration Goes Green

Neil Young's new album, "Fork In the Road," (due out April 4) took inspiration from his LincVolt project, the conversion of a gas-guzzling 1959 Lincoln into a hybrid running on electricity and hydrogen. On the garage rocker "Johnny Magic," he sings, "She was born to run on the proud highway/Now she goes long-range on domestic green fuel/100 miles a gallon." Lots of people are inspired by "going green," which is why we've showcased some great new incentive ideas that also benefit the environment...

An Unprecedented Sales Management Challenge

Sales managers need their teams to focus at a time when there is a lot t0 distract them. Sales consultant Lee Salz offers four tips for keeping your team focused in these trying times, and collects additional ideas from his sales training cohorts. Read through them and add your own success stories here...

Exotic Carry-On Collection Heys USA XCase Exotic Collection carry-on makes the perfect employee reward or customer incentive because it's a gift that everyone will love. Motivating the team with a combination fashion statement and the "World's Lightest Carry-on" will make them feel like a million bucks, and it's a gift they will be proud to use. For incentive and business gift ideas from Heys USA (www.heysusa.com), call George L. Cassius at 718-338-0177, or e-mail George@Earthgear.org.

Not All Business Is Good Business

The temptation when your regular customers aren't spending money is to chase after sales wherever they may be found. Larry Selden, co-author of Killer Customers: Tell the Good From the Bad and Dominate Your Competitors, contends that the bottom 20 percent of customers can drain profits by at least 80 percent, while at the same time the top 20 percent can generate 150 percent of a company's profit. Selden explains why you should leave some customers alone in his column from CFO magazine...

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Now's Your Chance To Do Things Differently!

It might seem an inopportune time to advise business executives to "seize the day," but that's exactly the message that Harvard Business Report author Robert Steven Kaplan delivered to a room full of executives discussing the global economic crisis recently. Kaplan told the business leaders it's a great time to conduct the "clean sheet of paper" exercise.

What's that? Sit down and take a fresh look at key elements of your business. "How would you redesign the business if you were starting from scratch?" Kaplan asks. "What are your company's core strengths? Do you have the right mission? Do the employees, the tasks that they perform, the organizational structure and the culture fit that mission? Where should you be investing today?"

It's important, Kaplan adds, to bring younger people -- your future leaders -- into the conversation. "Doing the clean sheet of paper exercise is a great way to develop key people," he says.

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