Good communication is essential in building a business that prospers. It allows information to flow effortlessly around your business, and helps everybody know exactly what’s expected from them, and who to turn to for help. A good flow of information is necessary to help your business achieve its goals. Here are 4 ways effective communication helps in the workplace.
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You could end up losing at least 18lbs in a single year by shrinking the size of the dinner plate by 2 inches only. This is in line with the Small Plate Movement that was established by Dr.Brian Wansink who works at Cornell University to help enhance healthy eating habits. The main aim of the movement is to help people eat on small plate sizes in a bid to reduce over eating and calorie intake. They say by doing this, a person can end up losing a lot of weight. This can be applied to an individual’s personal finances especially for people who are looking to make changes at this front by:
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Innovation and new ideas can stem from social media sites and the knowledge of the crowd can be a catalyst for change. Organizations and individuals can foster new things and ideas, identify service opportunities and market needs with the use of these new technologies as well.
Feedback, ideas and market needs
Social media channels allow organizations and individuals alike gather insights into the needs and wants of their customers or possible clients. Twitter, Facebook and other channels are examples of these virtual venues. Innovation can come from the innovative mass and not just from the innovate few that firms hire to get things done in a different fashion, and they need to set their egos aside if they want to innovate like no other firm in their industry. Advocacy programs can be used to get more ideas from customers and the way the want their future products created.
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Australia’s economy has witnessed exponential growth over the past decade, even as the rest of the world battled with recession. This growth is largely owed to a mining and resources boom that has been prevalent over that period. Actually, the boom has been occasioned by increased demand for Australia’s minerals and construction equipment. The last few years have seen unprecedented growth of infrastructure in many Asian economies, and particularly in China, prompting a seemingly insatiable demand for construction equipment. In fact, the price of iron ore exported by Australia has increased nine times from the year 2004.
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After a brief period following the housing boom which ended in 2007, property prices appear to be on the rise once again. The average house price in many parts of the UK is over £200,000 which makes home-ownership something people on modest incomes can only dream of. To try and remedy this, a scheme launched by the government could make buying a home a little less unaffordable.
Help to Buy, launched earlier this year by the coalition government, was designed to try and give both first-time buyers and property developers a much-needed boost. The scheme, part of which has already been rolled out, could be a success, but concerns voiced by the likes of Vince Cable might help to undermine how effective it becomes.
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