Three Easy PowerPoint Tips to Enhance Your Credibility and Increase Learning

It’s appalling how awful most PowerPoint presentations are. Think about it. When was the last time you saw a truly great slideshow? Especially as part of a business presentation, it’s rare for people to say, “Wow, That was an awesome PowerPoint!” LOL. Most people are resigned to the slideshow struggle being something they just have …

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Want to Keep Learners Engaged? Start With Why.

Do your learners pay less attention than a goldfish? If the human attention span dropped to 8 seconds according to a Microsoft study, it is less than the 9 seconds tallied by goldfish. Wait. What? Most of us can agree that our collective attention span does seem shorter in recent years. This is partly attributed …

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Managing Your Time

When it feels like you never have enough time Taking charge of your time is easier said than done. First and foremost, realize that progress in this arena is what you’re after, not necessarily perfection. To effectively manage your time, it is vital to become well-acquainted with yourself and the real world you operate in. …

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The Beginner’s Guide to Hiring Remote Workers

Remote workers are happier, more productive, and more likely to stick around. Access more talent! Learn the basics of hiring remote workers.

What Tellers Could Gain from Learning About Psychology

What could tellers gain from learning about psychology? More and more people are interested in different topics within the field. And why wouldn’t they?

Training Resistant Employees

Do you build your training programs with resistant employees in mind? If not, you’re in the right place to learn how to alter your training so that you get the people who have checked-out checked back in! Training Resistant Employees: Where to Begin? Some employees have been in their job for such a long time …

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Six Questions Head Tellers Asked Us

What is a head-teller to do when faced with tough stuff? We received six questions about six different situations. Here are our suggested responses! 1. Repeated Mistakes I have a teller that continues to make mistakes – the same mistakes – on completing forms incorrectly. I have told her and told her. The customers love …

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Choices that Can Stink Up Your Work Reputation

Your happiness, success, self-confidence, and quality of life increases when you have a good work reputation. Like a degree from a university or badge from the Boy Scouts a reputation, be it good, bad, or questionable is earned. Make a pact with yourself to earn an enviable one. Building a good reputation is important. Maintaining it depends on …

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How to Improve Work Relationships

Nothing, including salary, can offset the stress associated with working with people you need to get along with but for whatever reason don’t. It’s normal that you won’t like everyone, but it’s equally normal that not everyone will like you. The only thing you have control over are your choices on how you deal with …

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Evaluating Your Customer Service

Evaluating your customer service is crucial in today’s competitive landscape. Even if it scares you, feedback is important. Celebrate the positive feedback and learn from the disappointments and issues customers have. Remember: you can’t change anything you didn’t know about.

3 Ways to Enhance Your PowerPoint Presentations

A common pitfall when making a PowerPoint presentation is the urge to share EVERYTHING you want to cover in your training. The way we typically do this is by copying the material from our training manual or notes straight onto the slides. Then, we pick a design template, arrange your text in bullet points, and …

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7 Creative Training Methods

Learning doesn’t always happen within the confines of a classic training room environment. Sometimes it takes a bit of creativity to turn training into learning, so here are seven creative training methods to consider as alternatives to the classic classroom setup.

9 Strategies That Will Help You Create a Harmonious Team

9 Strategies That Help You Create a Harmonious Team

People don’t magically start working as an effective team, it takes work from the Supervisor, sometimes a lot! Here are 9 strategies that will help your people work together as a tightly knit unit. Think you’ll need a little more help? Consider hosting Supervisor Boot Camp at your organization! 1. Make Inclusivity Your Rule It’s important …

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7 Practices That Turn a Group into a Team

A Group is not a Team One of the most challenging tasks facing a supervisor is how to take the group of employees that work for them and mold them into a team. Too often in businesses, we are confronted with cliques, separation, and division. It is often an uphill battle for a supervisor to …

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Plot and Plan Your Success

Planning for success is hard. When it comes to achieving our goals, we often need that extra little push to keep going at some point. If we don’t get that nudge, we tend to lose motivation or even abandon our goal altogether. Why is following through so hard? What are we missing? Let’s find out! …

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Increase Your Quality of Life

How Are You Increasing Your Quality of Life? Are you happy with your quality of life or do you procrastinate sometimes and later regret that? We all know how satisfying it is when we finally cross the item that’s been bugging us for months off our list. So, why do we postpone the things that would …

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Meeting Best Practices

Wasting Time on Unproductive Meetings is an Ongoing Issue It’s no secret that most employees would rather be working than sitting through an unproductive meeting. This is simply a consequence of not knowing why or how to meet. Follow these meeting best practices! Value Don’t meet for the sake of meeting. Your meeting must have …

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Talent Management Plan Wisconsin Banker Article featuring Honey Shelton

Do You Have a Talent Management Plan?

Talent Management Plans Develop Your People for enterprise-wide ROI by Amber Seitz This article appeared first in “Wisconsin Banker“ One of the most important investments an organization can make is to develop its staff. A recent Gallup study found that companies that have implemented strengths-based management practices have more engaging and productive workplaces, leading to …

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Planning and Wishing... What's the difference?

The Difference Between Planning and Wishing

It’s that time of the year in which we make big plans and bold statements for the upcoming year. Have you thought about your goals yet? What are your plans and more importantly, are they actually plans or is it just wishful thinking? Planning Planning and wishing are terms that are easily confused. A plan indicates …

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Expressing Genuine Interest in Others

The Art of Expressing Interest You know that person that you can’t wait to hear? That person that, when you see their picture appear on your phone, instantly makes you feel delighted. You feel that way because that person has developed the art of expressing real interest in you. Are any of these people your …

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