Understanding Your Employees with Lynn Thomas - Episode 123
Release Date: 08/17/2021
The Illusion of Being Stuck
Business Growth
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An Empty Can Makes the Most Noise
Business Growth
Explore the gap between capturing attention and genuine business acumen, focusing on the often-missed distinction between visibility and viability. Learn to distinguish between mere noise and true depth in the digital age, seeking leaders who deliver real value beyond getting noticed.
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When to Grow and When to Hold
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The delicate balance between accelerating growth and consolidating gains in entrepreneurship. Learn why speed is crucial for gaining rapid feedback, allowing informed decisions on when to scale up or refine strategies.
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Slow is Smooth Smooth is Fast
Business Growth
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Using AI for Business Growth
Business Growth
Discover how artificial intelligence (AI) revolutionizes business growth by driving efficiency and fostering innovation. Learn practical strategies to integrate AI across customer service, market analysis, operational tasks, and personalized experiences.
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Creative Pricing to Unlock a Competitive Advantage
Business Growth
Unlock competitive advantage through creative pricing strategies that align with customer success and drive profitability. Learn how skipping free trials, embracing recurring revenue, and pricing based on customer outcomes can transform your business, creating strong, lasting relationships and stabilizing cash flow.
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The Double-Edged Sword of Automation
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Cross-Cultural Communication in Business
Business Growth
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The Reward of Getting Lost in the Work
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How Consumer Insights Drive Innovation
Business Growth
Discover how consumer insights fuel innovation by shaping products that truly meet market needs. Learn from a real-world example where simplifying a tech app in response to freelance needs led to significant success, emphasizing the importance of engaging directly with consumers and being ready to pivot.
info_outlineAfter experiencing working from home, a lot of employees refuse to return to work, especially after the scare of COVID-19. As an employer who prefers working on location, what are the ways you can encourage your team to enjoy working back in an office? In this episode, Spencer and Lynn Thomas talk about how you can build stronger connections with your employees and strategies that you can apply in your business.
Episode Highlights
- How COVID-19 has given companies a great opportunity to build stronger connections with employees.
- COVID has changed the relationship between the workplace, employees, and employers.
- As a manager and employer, should you share issues that are hard like your mental health, physical health, and overall well-being with your team?
- How does an employer, who’s used to having employees within the company inside a location, decide whether they’ll implement the permanent work from home setup or not?
- Make your employees and yourself be part of your future.
- Do you prefer working in an office or virtually?
- What are the different ways you can discourage boredom in the office, without working remotely?
- Coming from COVID, people miss the social connection, the human connection.
- Caring plus passion equals empathy.
- You want to be trusted by your employees.
- Connect to your employees by asking, “As a human being, how are you doing?”
- There’s a slice of genius in every employee.
- Be curious enough to ask a question and patient enough to listen.
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- https://www.linkedin.com/company/thomas-consulting/
- https://www.thomasconsultingwins.com/
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