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Fresh Air Improves Productivity and Your Bottom Line

by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Business Blog

What your people to be more productive? Here’s a novel idea: open the window. That’s right. Give them some fresh air. According to Joseph G. Allen, assistant professor and director of the Healthy Buildings program at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the...

Want to Get Stuff Done? Pick Up the Phone!

“IT’S FOR YOU!”

by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Business Blog

Personal business experience has proven to us that face-to-face meetings are the most productive for breaking the ice with a new prospect. The human face has at least 43 muscles that act in consort to produce over 20 expressions. If you see a negative one while you...

Busy is Not Necessarily Productive

“I HAVE ENOUGH TO KEEP ME BUSY”

by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Business Blog

Are you paying people to stay busy or are you paying them to be productive? Having a great deal to do or keeping occupied is no measure of productivity. If you pay employees no matter whether the company succeeds or fails, folks will actually look for ways to appear...

5 Ways to Become Indispensable

JUST OWN IT!

by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Business Blog

People often ask us what the characteristics of an ideal employee or outsourced service are. The answer is they should be effective, dependable, and irreplaceable. If you are the employee or outsourced service, ask yourself, “Why was the job created, and what are the...