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Want to Connect With Your Customers? Here Are 6 Skills You Need.

Laura Sukorokoff

Oct 6, 2020
4 min

Want to Connect With Your Customers? Here Are 6 Skills You Need.

How do you gain or maintain the connection when you can’t meet face to face? Here are 6 things to focus on.

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3 Manager Metrics That Can Significantly Impact Engagement

Laura Sukorokoff

Sep 16, 2020
4 min

3 Manager Metrics That Can Significantly Impact Engagement

There are many data points companies measure. However, there are 3 more very important metrics that should be included.

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One Could Say Soft-Skills Training is More Important Now Than Ever. So, Why Are We Cutting It?

Laura Sukorokoff

Jul 16, 2020
5 min

One Could Say Soft-Skills Training is More Important Now Than Ever. So, Why Are We Cutting It?

Can you think of a time when you most needed to support others? Yet, much needed soft skills training is being pushed aside. Why?

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What Does the New (or should we say 'Next'?) Normal Mean to Your Business?

Laura Sukorokoff

Jun 12, 2020
4 min

What Does the New (or should we say 'Next'?) Normal Mean to Your Business?

What does it mean to companies trying to make their way through this “next normal”? Now is the time to invest in training your people.

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Is Customer Service a Thing in a Pandemic Environment?

Laura Sukorokoff

May 27, 2020
3 min

Is Customer Service a Thing in a Pandemic Environment?

At this time, we are putting high regard on the physical safety and security of our staff and customers, but what about customer service?

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Employees Have Concerns About the Return to Work. Are Managers Prepared to Hear Them?

Laura Sukorokoff

May 18, 2020
5 min

Employees Have Concerns About the Return to Work. Are Managers Prepared to Hear Them?

Even as the economy stumbles back on track, people wonder what going back to work will really means to them and their health.

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Why Do Companies Need to See Their People To Trust Them?

Laura Sukorokoff

Apr 23, 2020
3 min

Why Do Companies Need to See Their People To Trust Them?

Trust brings out the best in people, and they want to live up to it. Why is it companies can’t trust their people if they can’t see them?

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5 Big No-Nos for Hosting Virtual Meetings

Laura Sukorokoff

Apr 7, 2020
4 min

5 Big No-Nos for Hosting Virtual Meetings

Online meetings can be just as boring as in-person meetings - maybe even worse. So, avoid these virtual meeting mine traps.

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At a time when people need EMPATHY from their bosses, are they getting it?

Laura Sukorokoff

Mar 29, 2020
4 min

At a time when people need EMPATHY from their bosses, are they getting it?

Covid-19 has businesses scrambling to manage change. At a time when people need EMPATHY from their bosses, are they getting it?

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Do We Really Need Them To Come In To The Office? It's time to let them work from home.

Laura Sukorokoff

Mar 11, 2020
4 min

Do We Really Need Them To Come In To The Office? It's time to let them work from home.

We are at a point where we all have to band together to determine how business can continue when people don’t want to gather in work spaces.

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Managers - What Are You Doing to SUPPORT Your People?

Laura Sukorokoff

Feb 24, 2020
3 min

Managers - What Are You Doing to SUPPORT Your People?

Instead of feeling supported by their managers, there are a good many people feeling frustrated, lost, and disengaged. This has to change.

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Laura Sukorokoff

Feb 22, 2020
2 min

Crafting a vision statement is so hard!

I would love for my vision statement to be about how I want to feel, as well as how others feel about me and the work I do.

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I Have Found My Voice, And I Have Something To Say!

Laura Sukorokoff

Feb 6, 2020
3 min

I Have Found My Voice, And I Have Something To Say!

I am living proof that it doesn’t matter how old one is or at what career stage. There is always a place for doing the right thing.

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If You Want Them to Follow, You Need to Have Vision

Laura Sukorokoff

Dec 18, 2019
3 min

If You Want Them to Follow, You Need to Have Vision

Leaders have vision. Whether you run a company, manage a team, or are a solopreneur, if you want to stand out in your space you need vision.

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CEOs - Come Out of Your Ivory Towers and Meet Your Employees

Laura Sukorokoff

Nov 26, 2019
4 min

CEOs - Come Out of Your Ivory Towers and Meet Your Employees

“The most valuable asset in our company is our employees!” How nice it is when executives say this in company town hall meetings, or send...

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