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8 Ways to Promote Diversity and Tolerance in the Workplace
Diversity isn’t just a buzzword. It’s a quality to be prized, sought after and protected. Diversity is an asset to your sewer and...
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Providing Safe Drinking Water in Nicaragua
When Justin Mizell was looking for a way for Specialized Plumbing Technologies employees to give back by volunteering on a project, he...
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Warning: Heat Can Kill
Professional football players are tough. But more teams are outfitting their training camps with kiddie pools — a simple way to help...
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Passionate People Make Passionate Cleaners
Mandie Hagan can’t say enough good things about the employees at Rowell’s Sewer & Drain — the company in Northfield, New Hampshire, founded by her...
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5 Steps of Successful Team Building
The NFL has 32 teams, not groups. Teams. All teams are groups, but not all groups are teams. Calling a group a...
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7 Ways to Build a Team Mentality
Your technicians work best when they are working together – not acting in self-interest but in a spirit of teamwork, communicating, collaborating and...
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4 Ways to Jazz Up Your Employee Recognition Program
Leadership means inspiring and rallying people to endorse — and believe in — a common cause. As a third-generation business owner who worked as...
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Rotten Attitudes Ruin a Team: Changing the Team Dynamic
Negativity, gossip, chronic lateness, favoritism, micromanagement or a sense of entitlement pull businesses down. A clear system of accountability drives a business...
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11 Management Tips to Increase Employee Performance
Many business owners and managers wonder how to keep employees motivated. They say, “I want employees excited to come to work; we...
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Generosity Brings Rewards
A full-page ad in the Sunday edition of The New York Times stated boldly that $60,000,000 was received in 2012, over $1,000,000...















