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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 #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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50 Ways to WOW Your Others – Tip #37: Decorate Someone’s Desk, Cubicle or Office

Tip #37: Decorate someone’s desk, cubicle or office. Do it up right on their birthday, anniversary, graduation, or other big life events. What a WOW it would be to come in and find your work area festooned with balloons, streamers, signs … Continue reading

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50 Ways to WOW Your Others – Tip #36: Institute Motivational Meeting Openers and Closers

Tip #36: Institute motivational meeting openers and closers. Open and/or close every meeting with something positive shared by an attendee. Set a new tone for your meetings with one or two minutes of positive sharing. So many meetings begin with … Continue reading

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Walgreens Pharmacy’s Proactive Customer Service is a WOW

Customer Service is all about making our customers’ lives better… and one way to WOW them is to be proactive in our quest to serve them at the highest levels. Take, for example, the following simple nuance of customer service often overlooked by many … Continue reading

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Talk About an Innovative Twist on a Familiar Topic!

I love it when I come across something so innovative, yet so simple, that I say WOW!! Take a look at Ikea’s promotion for their new catalog… they call it a BookBook. (If you’re receiving this post via e-mail and … Continue reading

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Talent + Creativity + Action = WOW!

This post expands on my recent post about not slamming down potentially useable, patentable, creative ideas just because… “No one else has ever done it” or “Someone else has probably done it” or “I’ve never done that before.” The reason I … Continue reading

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Talent + New Creative Ideas = WOW

Many artists WOW us with their talent, but this incredible example of extreme talent, combined with the creativity of working with a medium most would never even conceive is possible, is a perfect example of why this artist WOWs us. Remember, … Continue reading

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Flexibility is a Must for Creating WOWs

A while back, I spoke at a conference that had over 12,000 attendees, as well as a trade show with 368+ booths. This trade show was like no other I’ve ever attended. It was enormous and reminiscent of a circus, … Continue reading

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