Category Archives: Rule #4: A WOWplace is Innovative, Creative & Fun!

Creativity, innovation and humor abound in the WOWplace!

How To Improve Your Creativity in the Workplace

This week we have a wonderful guest post by Gloria Martinez of Womenled.org – Enjoy! Sometimes at work there are so many distractions that deter you from actually… working. You may be pulled in so many directions that it seems … Continue reading

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Thriving in the “Silver Lining” Requires Action

Everyone in the world is experiencing challenging times right now. And the challenges will probably continue for a while, even after travel and meetings resume and business gets “back to normal.” Since no one knows what “normal” is going to … Continue reading

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Is a Lack of Proactive Thinking Hurting Your Business?

A man calls a golf course to add one more player to a foursome scheduled for 8:12 a.m., asking if he can just add a 5th to the group, or does he need to break them up into two groups. … Continue reading

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Leadership Structure: Hierarchical or Flat? Don’t Go Overboard Either Way

Back in the 1970s, a new concept called “flattening the organization” was introduced, which eliminates much organizational hierarchy and helps people at all levels collaborate and contribute on projects. It came about as a result of excessive levels of management … Continue reading

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50 Ways to WOW Your Others – Tip #50: Creativity Rules!

Tip #50: Creativity rules! Whatever you do, add a dash of creativity and your own unique personality to it! Everything is enhanced when you take a couple of extra minutes to do it in a unique and creative way! Put … Continue reading

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50 Ways to WOW Your Others – Tip #49: Be the WOW in a World Full of OWs!

Tip #49: Be the WOW in a world full of OWs! Correct something that someone else has done wrong. Even if you weren’t the cause, if there’s a way you can be the solution, you will create a WOW. Things … Continue reading

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50 Ways to WOW Your Others – Tip #48: Change the Conversation

Tip #48: Change the conversation Get customers involved with helping you identify and create WOWs for them. When you ask people what will cause them to be WOWed, you can hit the mark more often than if you guess. My … Continue reading

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50 Ways to WOW Your Others – Tip #46: Be Sure Everything You Do is of the Highest Possible Quality.

Tip #46: Be sure everything you do is of the highest possible quality. Extreme competence WOWs us, no matter where it occurs. It doesn’t matter what we’re talking about… if you do it, extremely well, it creates a WOW! Whether you’re talking … Continue reading

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50 Ways to WOW Your Others – Tip #45: Be the Opposite

Tip #45: Be the opposite If no one else is doing something, you do it; if everyone is doing it, you do something else. Don’t let excuses hold you back! Not to pick on the construction industry, but almost every … Continue reading

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50 Ways to WOW Your Others – Tip #38: Make Something Better, Easier, Faster

Tip #38: Make something better, easier, faster. Improve a process everyone struggles with; share the improvement. Find a way to fix a common problem and share it! Many people struggle with inefficient and/or confusing processes in the office. If you’re … Continue reading

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