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... agreement. Determine with your off-site employee how to measure job achievements. This guarantees that your telecommuters are working, not playing, at home. Experiment with a virtual office for a limited time to ensure it is appropriate for your business and your employees. You may start with telecommuters working two or three days away from the central office and then increase the number of days as you see the positive results. Manage the change. Telecommuting is unfamiliar for you and most workers. Managing change within your organization will be your greatest challenge. Maintain regular communication with your on-site and off-site employees as you implement this new organization. TYPES OF POSITION TO CONSIDER Many positions in the insurance industry are ideally suited for telecommuting. For carriers, ideal jobs for a virtual office include actuary, field marketing representative, programmer, and systems analyst. For agencies, positions that work well in a virtual office include marketing representative, producer, and telemarketer. Automation vendors can use telecommuting with positions such as programmer, sales support representative, sales representative, systems analyst, technical support representative, and trainer. Your challenge is to think creatively and flexibly. Be willing to re-engineer your organization to meet the demands of today's changing business needs. Consider Peter Drucker's counsel: "Commuting to the office is obsolete. It is now infinitely easier, cheaper and faster to . . . move information . . . to where the people are." This article was adapted with permission from IN ACORD. © Copyright ACORD, 1996. LuNell Gilliland is a principal of L Squared Consulting Services, a marketing consulting firm. She ...

... a forex expert advisor (EA) . But what if there was a way to customize the EA you use every day? Now it is possible to work with an EA that works for you the way you want it to. A personalized EA can be achieved with the help of a forex EA builder . Let's discuss the benefits and drawbacks of a standard forex EA builder. It is a relatively new way to experience automated forex trading in which a trader's work is almost done through a couple of clicks. A well-made forex EA builder has the potential to bring your trading strategies come to life. It runs on an automated system combined with user-preferred indicators and strategies to bring unparalleled results after each trade. Many online platforms provide a forex EA builder of your choice without having to hire a programmer. The internet is saturated with vast knowledge about how easily forex EA builders work and how they should be utilized to open a window of opportunities. Advantages of a Forex EA Builder: Not only EA builders are extremely rewarding for traders but there are many unexpected benefits to using them for forex trading. As mentioned earlier, a forex EA builder is preferred for being incredibly customizable. It is an automated idea turned into a forex EA that executes certain pre-determined tasks with absolute perfection every single time. Being custom means, one could add an indicator or a trading strategy that they find appropriate. It is easy-to-use software which is specifically made to be utilized by all those who do not possess programming skills but require next-level automated forex trading solution. People simply visit a provider they prefer and visit ...

... running the markets and teaching us how to shop in them. Other signs of change include the Internet and the virtual market it created, which ensures that everything we do someone else can do better – "fast, hot, and cheap, or even free." All of us have access to all the information we need and unlimited options for where and how we buy. We've seen dictators who controlled wealth, power, and the machines of war turned out by peaceful street protestors in the Arab world. Might no longer makes right. Who is right? For a possible answer, read this quote from best-selling author Daniel Pink in A Whole New Mind: The past few decades have belonged to a certain kind of person with a certain kind of mind – computer programmers who could crank code, lawyers who could craft contracts, MBAs who could crunch numbers. However, the keys to the kingdom are changing hands. The future belongs to a far different kind of person with a very different kind of mind – creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers, and meaning makers. These people – artists, inventors, designers, storytellers, caregivers, consolers, big picture thinkers –will now reap society's richest rewards and share its greatest joys. If you accept this paradigm shift in our world, you'll agree that we need leadership and that new leaders must comfort those afflicted with all this change – but more importantly, must afflict those comfortably, contently and even happily wrong. Here's my best guess on tomorrow: You won't be able ...

... Management Human Resources Selling Legal and E&O Technology Life/Financial Services Glossaries Management Resources & Links Categories Popular Recent All Back Are You Listening To Your Customers?4/30/2013 10:36:34 PM by CompleteMarkets Editor , Emily Huling This content has not been rated yet. ARE YOU LISTENING TO YOUR CUSTOMERS? by Emily Huling On a recent business trip, I had dinner at one of the nicer family restaurants. A couple seated nearby had the same attentive server that I did. When the woman asked for a substitution, the server replied, I'm sorry, I can't do that. The computer will automatically charge you for the extra side order. Would the restaurant have lost money serving green beans instead of a salad? I doubt it. More likely, the computer programmer never considered the option of swapping side orders. A similar situation cropped up in my own business with a new audio album. I thought I had all the bases covered: My mailing describes the content and gives ordering instructions; My Web site is loaded with in-depth information about the album; my background; other products and services; and an order form. I even offer a 100% money-back guarantee. What else could a customer want? Well, a woman in Branson, MO, wants a sample of the audio portion. In all my planning, I hadn't anticipated such a reasonable request! I'll bet you've experienced a similar situation. Here are a few suggestions for determining what your customers need: Post a large piece of paper on the wall, with a left column headed ...

... credibility of your testimonials will increase if you cite experts. Although your words of praise needn't be from clients who hold Ph.D.s, you'll pique your prospects' interest if you quote people in positions of authority. To make sure you pick the perfect spokesperson from among your satisfied respondents, include enough room on the form for the client's full name (avoid using initials), address, job title, background, and other credentials. Better yet, if someone of high esteem has sent you a positive letter, include a copy of the whole letter in your press kit. For instance, Egberto Willies, owner of Willies' Insurance Center, has increased sales 30% by adding the testimonials of clients and companies to his Web pages, direct mailings, and brochures. Because he sells insurance to programmers, he scours his database for high-profile decision makers. If a corporate executive compliments your company directly, ask to include the firm's logo on your marketing materials. PLAY UP THE BENEFITS Prospects shop with their gut. Often, before making a purchase, they'll look for information that justifies their premeditated decisions. That's why testimonials work: They confirm to prospects that your company is a wise choice. To help reduce the apprehensions of first-time buyers, use positive recommendations that highlight the unique advantages of your product or service. "Your testimonial can't just say, ‘Great service! '" insists Patrick. Instead, ask satisfied clients to elaborate on benefits. For example, Patrick's Web page includes a remark saying, "Patrick's agency gives me peace of mind. I don't have to ...

... that it will somehow materialize. You wouldn't just buy wood and fixtures and hope they'd all fit together. The key to attaining complex or elusive goals is to come up with a concrete strategy. KEYS TO SUCCESSFUL GOAL REACHING Develop a clear, concise plan. Take time to anticipate any obstacles that might stop you from reaching your goal. List potential problems and the actions you'll need to take to overcome them. Check to see if you have "mixed feelings" about your goal. Use a goal-reaching method that works. DEVELOP A CLEAR, CONCISE PLAN "A man without a plan is not a man," says a gangster in the movie Dick Tracy. Your mind is like a computer. You have enough experience with automation to know that a computer is only as good as its programmer. Bad software, bad results. How can you expect your computer to give you outstanding results if you haven't done an outstanding job of programming it? A plan is your program. ANTICIPATE PROBLEMS Now that you've programmed your bio-computer with clarity and precision, something will probably change. Start asking yourself what could prevent your plan from working. Asking yourself questions at this point will help you solve problems before they happen. One of the best insurance agents I know has a great strategy for writing large accounts. He is constantly asking, "What if?" What if the insurance company doesn't want to write this account? How can I persuade them to act differently? If I need additional sensitive information, how can I ask for it in a way that will cause a resistant client ...

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... Release Employee Power 5/19/2015 by Don Phin This content has not been rated yet. Profit and control have been the driving themes of the manufacturing industry over the past 150 years. However, as we get deeper into the knowledge economy, we find both of these concepts evolving. The issue of profitability is turning into the issue of sustainability. The issue of control is turning into the issue of empowerment. In the early 1900s, the philosophy of scientific management was perfect for a domination-and-control theory of the workplace. Taking advantage of automation, we told employees exactly what to do and punished them when they failed to do it. In essence, we treated people like machines. Control simply doesn't work as a motivator today. For instance, try taking that approach with a software programmer! With the advent of total quality management and learning organizations, even rank-and-file workers are being converted into knowledge workers-and knowledge can't be controlled. It can only be enhanced, unleashed, and managed. As I explain in my workshops, much legal and management thinking has developed around yesterday's concepts of control. We define people as employees or independent contractors, depending largely on how much control we exert over them. We define employees as either exempt or non-exempt, depending largely on how much control we can place over them or they can place over others. We determine if someone is a common-law employee for benefits purposes, depending on the amount of control placed on them. But this control paradigm is rapidly becoming pass acute. Recently, a software company client of mine asked, How can we ...