Have you not broken your new year resolution ?

Hello Workaholic, Most of us make new year resolutions, that are a long list of things we have not done in the past many years.  New year is a good time to think of those "memories" and wanting to start it all over again. But never get down to do it and is already broken ! Let us take up , the one that many employees like to make. Setting up their own business. ! With the appraisal time coming to an end, this is probably the best time as any to go back to those thoughts. Here are the top 3 things, that could get you started :- 1. In the new financial year starting from 1st April, things at office are bound to be "slow" and hence, the world will not fall , if you take a few days off to "take a break". If possible, go away from home too to a small town, just off the city. Leave your...

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Greeting Customers in a Retail Store

A Genuine Welcome J J. This is a series of articles on Retailing in India, targeted at Retailers wanting to improve their business. First impressions count. In a speciality store … Speciality stores have seen the benefits of a greeter for a long time now, because, of the higher value of the products being retailed by them. But in a large apparel store or a  super market ? For some “crazy cost control reason ?”, most apparel stores and super markets in India, don’t have a greeter. Even today,  where the small business owner runs the store, he sits just near the entrance and is always at hand to greet, welcome, smile at the visitor. But with the “multi store franchisee / company managed store” format, the store manager...

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Morning Meetings @ Stores

Store Meetings for Retailers It is one of the better management practices that we have begun to see in the more successful stores. Increasingly, if you were to ask the Store managers, if they had been doing this in the past, when they were young and in junior positions like most of us, then they will say no. What is this “new thing”, that we are discussing now ? What is a “meeting in the store” ? Typically, a store meeting is a place where all the relevant employees of the store get together to discuss various opportunities and problems that are faced by the store . Prayer, For a country that has so much of religion, it is quite normal for staff to start the day with a silent prayer. In some stores, it is normal to end the meeting...

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Will you volunteer to have a BOSS :) :(

Yes, The question is correct. If you had a choice between having a Boss and not having a Boss, will you still have one? It is said, that in life, you cannot choose your parents, and in your company::_-  your Boss, your subordinates, your peers etc . At home too, after  you have had some choice in choosing your spouse, what are the other spaces where you can get yourself a "BOSS" if you want.? There are still a few things in this world,  that you would have started to do something on your own for your own sake. Not for the sake of your parents, company, spouse, kids, friends etc. For example, stock market investment , Gyming as part of your new year resolution , even a small time business on your own. Now is the choice for you to either learn and do it on your own with all...

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Nation,Family and then Company in that order ?

In a country , where politicians have no morals, Mr. Dinesh Trivedi, the then Railway Minister came as a breadth of fresh air. He went about doing what was best for the country , ie increase railway passenger fares, which due to populist notions had not been increased by both his boss Mamata Didi and the earlier irrepressible Mr. Lalloo Prasad Yadav and others even before him. He said, it was necessary to keep the Railyways healthy and since he was a central minister, did not find the need to go back to his Boss for her approval. He said, first came the Country, then his family and then the party . Even in his resignation he has maintained that, since the country came first, rather than the party or the Railway ministership that came with it, he has chosen to actually resign rather...

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Retail Sales Professional - It's all in the mind :)

Chapter 1. Let us start with the mind…"When the student is ready, the teacher will appear. – Buddhist proverbDid you know, that selling is the world’s oldest profession ?Did you know, that in India, it Retail industry is the second largest employer, that means that  plenty  of jobs or opportunities in sales are going to be available now and in the future for a long long time.Want to become a Sales Professional, not just a sales man in a unknown neighbourhood store ?  But then, whether we call ourselves Sales Professionals or not, every one is in the field of selling. 1 .Five important benefits of becoming a Sales Professional ? 1.    You get to  meet people and solve their problems2.    You...

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Do you know the way to your women's heart ?

Ask any man, whether a 21 year old boy with a girl friend or a married man in his late 30's with a kid or even a guy in his late 50's with over 30 years of married life... Do you know the way to your woman's heart ? The response will be a surprise, a blank face  or a huge laugh, all meaning the same thing, that he just doesn't know. Approach your  woman and ask her if an unexpected gift from her man at an unexpected time will mean a lot to her ? and the answer will be an emphatic yes. Remember the TV advertisement from SBI Life about an old man gifting his wife a diamond, the surprise on her face and she asking him why does she needs a diamond at her ripe old age.. ?? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMMNbY4STfU These incidents have lessons for all men...

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