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Management

How to Promote Work-Life Balance

Discover ways to implement a healthy work-life balance for your employees.
Think about ways you can provide support or resources to encourage better mental health and well-being for your employees.
Technology

How to Benefit from Customer Behavior Analytics

Discover how behavioral science technology works and how you can benefit from data-driven decisions.
By leveraging customer behavior analytics and data based on previous decision-making, businesses can get insights into their customers' preferences.
Management

Embrace Generational Diversity at Work

Discover ways you can understand and manage generational diversity at work.
Cultivating and retaining vital talent through generational diversity can yield strategic benefits for companies of all sizes.
Management

Best Practices When Auditing Your Vendors

Learn about the essential key metrics that can help you get started on your vendor management audit.
It's also key to audit your vendors to help identify potential risks, inefficiencies and compliance issues before they become a problem.
Management

Is Your Business Facing a Skills Gap?

Lead your employees into the future by reskilling the workforce.
Select the right candidates by choosing employees who already go above and beyond in their roles and are true team players.
Accounting

The Benefits of Direct Deposit for Your Business

Learn how direct deposit can be a secure, convenient payroll option that benefits both your employees and your business.
Offering direct deposit is one of the best flexible payment options for your employees.
Management

Keep the Talent You Have With Employee Engagement

Learn about employee engagement strategies that can help you retain talent and avoid unnecessary turnover.
By ensuring your salaries are competitive, you may avoid tempting employees to leave for better pay and benefits.
Planning

Key Employee Retention Strategies to Know

Learn about the benefits and perks you can offer to improve employee retention strategies.
It's important to recognize that different benefits are more important for different groups. If an organization can offer choice, that can be really helpful.
Management

Picking the Right Vendors Is Vital for Business Success

Strong vendor relationships begin with finding the right suppliers.
Work to understand how well a potential supplier relationship can meet the needs of your business stage.
Management

Supporting Women at Your Company Post-Pandemic

Explore ways your company can actively support women in all conditions and economies.
By implementing training and educational programs specifically about gender bias, you can help remove the roadblocks that hold women back.
Management

Evaluate if Vendor Consolidation Is Worth It

Vendor consolidation streamlines vendor management, focuses resources and maximizes profit.
Strategic vendor consolidation can strengthen your business relationships.
Finance

Explore How to Generate Profits for Your Business

Is your business up and running? Here's how to start thinking about ways you can make a profit.
Money spent hoping to get a return on investment also counts as an expense, even if it helps generate sales.
Planning

How to Build an Inclusive Business

Diversity isn't just important for diversity's sake—it's key to building a competitive business.
Diversity is key to building a business that can function in today's global marketplace.
Security

Cybersecurity and Remote Work

Working from home is here to stay, and cybersecurity risks are high. Here's how to protect your business.
Although there are advantages to working remotely, it may also expose your business to greater cybersecurity risks.
Planning

Keep Your Business Running With a Business Continuity Plan

Learn how smart business continuity planning can help you stay afloat when employees are out sick or a natural disaster strikes.
Disruptions are nothing new in the business world, but they can become even more difficult when a pandemic or other type of disaster hits.
Management

Develop a Strong Plan for a Safer Workplace

Review small business guidelines at all levels before developing your own workplace safety plan.
Every business is different, and there's no one-size-fits-all plan for transitioning back to the office for any situation.

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