Articles/Podcasts

5 Practices To Ensure Your Meetings Are High-Impact
By: Dr. Todd Thomas, President, IMPACT Consulting and Development, LLC

As the year begins, there are a number of responsibilities that can seem like clutter on your already busy calendars. For most of us, the first of the year is filled with meeting after meeting, after meeting, as we discuss strategy, goals, evaluations, and action plans. With all of this activity comes one consistent element that many of us dread...meetings. In fact it might even be that your first meetings of the year will be to plan the meetings of the year! More…

Making Promises You Can Keep
From Snippets, a sales/marketing eNewsletter

I can sell you a lawnmower, but if you never use it the grass will still continue to grow. For those of you who are salespeople, we don’t need to deliver the perfect service, product, or price. And we’re not responsible if the customer misuses or doesn’t use what he buys. But it is our responsibility to help make customers and their situations better—if they want our help. We can’t save them, but we can help them to save themselves. More…

Scheme to Pay Fee to Fake National Registry to Avoid Dissolution

Michigan Department of Labor & Economic Growth (DLEG) Director Keith W. Cooley warns Michigan corporations to be aware of a possible scam that involves business directory solicitations that may look deceptively like a mailing from DLEG. More…