From time to time, we all deal with things with a lack of confidence. Sometimes we feel incompetent about the things that we do both personally and professionally. Our confidence may seem to wane and diminish. When we try to accomplish something in business, it really hits us hard, even more so than in our personal lives. Your profit margin can diminish greatly and your self-esteem can falter, which can ruin your ability to profit in business.
In the following paragraphs, you will learn some useful tips on how to improve yourself and make your business more profitable.
Delegation is a skill you must learn. If you attempt to do everything yourself, you?ll find yourself completely stressed out. Clearly, you want tasks completed as you think is right. You really aren?t the only person who can handle the job, and you need to remember that. You can achieve two things through delegation. It?s a clear indication to you and others that you believe in the people you work with and in your team enough to ask for their help with your projects. This elevates you in their self-esteem (especially if you let them know how much you appreciate them taking on the work you give them). It also frees up your time, allowing you to focus on more important tasks. Your self-esteem will be sky high because you will be able to achieve more of your objectives like this. All of these things will play a positive role in your business and professional life. You need to be able to prioritize. So many people have a hard time prioritizing the things they need to do. After all, everything seems important, doesn?t it? The truth is that some things are just more important than others. If you write out the things that you want to get done (on a daily, monthly or even yearly basis) you should try to prioritize them. Do the most important things first. This will help you feel good about yourself and keep you working through to the things that don?t matter quite as much. If you fail to prioritize the things that have to get done every day, you risk running out of time for important things because you?ll have spent time focusing on the things that aren?t as important.
Try to keep up with all your mail, shredding and all the little jobs that need to be done as well. Let?s say that you do not file one single piece of paper. If you do this, you stand to lose the ability to flow throughout the day because you are unable to find it. By not being proficient with your organizational skills, and spending the five minutes necessary to keep everything in line, your entire afternoon could be blown as a result. Keeping up with little things will help you feel organized enough to keep up with the big things and to stay on task. These were merely a couple of suggestions in terms of how beneficial self-improvement techniques can be to a business. Simply try them out and find out how much more profitable your company can become and how good you feel.
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Businesses just thought that they may be called across the country for no cost using attractive, interesting or basic number permutations when tollfree numbers were first presented. VoIP or Voice over Internet Protocol has allowed us to generate calls inexpensively to global destinations. This unwraps telephone systems to more possibilities and a lot more options that had been expensive or not possible to utilize with standard landline services.
The vital secret of a tollfree number is the redirecting technology that comes with it.
Send it forward
Certain businesses permit you to make use of your number like a key communications point. It?s up to you as the customer to control how the calls which you spend on are routed and answered by your workers. 800 numbers along with VoIP technology forward calls made to the special number to your local number. When there is a chance to forward calls to one local number, why don?t you route the call to many?
A few businesses let you specify which equipment answer outside calls and how they may be answered. You will get all your devices or just a principal set answer calls. At a specific time, if your primary items are unable to answer, the call is routed to secondary devices.
For those who have separate operations for day and night, you can ask that your morning units answer calls during daytime and your night time units after daytime. An extra practical mechanism is timed call redirecting, that allows you to set the time machines are allowed to answer a call at a specific time frame.
Customer-friendly
Global calls have to have the suitable message, tunes and language, and a few companies may arrange this for you. Sometimes, your service may include ringback tones and waiting messages. But will it set the right tone for the location where the potential customer is calling from? A ringback tone is a short audio tune message which can be played while a caller is put on hold, waiting to be answered or routed.
For instant use
In case you already have pcs, 800 numbers are often very accessible and all set to utilize. You simply need to participate in a simple purchase, and you are provided with a number quickly without having to wait around for technicians and representatives to arrange a system up. You can also operate with whatever system you?ve got in place and just include everything using the special number. The number you were provided can send and receive calls once it?s assigned to you, and extra functions are also in place at once.
Free trials
There are several offers for free trials in case you still are not so positive that a change in number works for your company. It will be possible to examine for yourself whether or not business will strengthen and the efficiency of your phone system increase with the use of a toll-free number.
Discover more about tollfree and 800 Numbers. Choosing business phone systems for your communication requirements is a significant task. Find out how toll free numbers, 800 numbers and vanity numbers converge offering major savings for your business.
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Is California preparing for climate change?Public release date: 29-May-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Susanne Moser promundi@susannemoser.com 831-234-8219 Stanford University
Results from new climate adaptation survey
A majority of California's coastal planners and resource managers now view the threats from climate change as sufficiently likely that practical steps on the ground need to be taken to protect against growing threats, according to results from a new survey published by Stanford University's Center for Ocean Solutions (COS) and the California Sea Grant.
Survey respondents acknowledge the need to prepare for changes along the coast that might result from rising sea levels and other impacts, such as more floods, loss of beach access, coastal erosion and potential damage to transportation infrastructure, including highways, roads and ports.
The new survey an update on a similar one conducted six years ago shows a strong uptick in California coastal professionals' attention to preparing and planning for climate change. Results reveal that managers are ready and willing to develop adaptation strategies, despite tighter belts in most local and state agencies in recent years. But lack of money to prepare and implement plans, insufficient staff and lack of technical know-how are significant challenges.
"Communities are willing to adapt to the reality of climate change, but they are struggling. This is a story that needs to be told when billions of dollars in assets are at risk," said Susanne Moser, Director of Susanne Moser Research & Consulting in Santa Cruz and a Research Associate of COS. She worked with colleagues at University of Southern California Sea Grant, California Sea Grant and the University of California, Berkeley, and an unprecedented collaborative of 12 other coastal organizations in California to systematically probe coastal professionals' knowledge and attitudes toward global warming, their level of preparedness for the future, and the challenges they face in taking action.
The survey shows that 40 percent of coastal professionals who are responsible for protecting natural resources, property and human safety have begun trying to understand the risks they face, and another 40 percent are actively planning for climate change impacts, such as sea level rise, coastal flooding and erosion. Yet, only about 10 percent are actually doing things on the ground that may reduce the full brunt of climate change.
"The big take-away from the survey is that coastal managers are knowledgeable and understand the importance of preparing for climate change," said USC Sea Grant Associate Director Phyllis Grifman, a co-author of the survey report, Rising to the Challenge: Results of the 2011 California Coastal Adaptation Needs Assessment. "And they are doing what they can even before there is a mandate to develop adaptation plans. They know it is important, and they are concerned, both personally and at work, but they need help."
Most of the nearly 600 coastal professionals who responded to the survey describe a work environment that is already consumed by other pressing issues and constrained by limited fiscal and staff resources. More than 70 percent also indicate that they believe the severity of their leading management challenges, such as protecting water quality and wetland habitats, will further intensify in the next five years, creating yet higher hurdles in meeting the state's call to prepare and plan for rising sea levels.
The survey also allowed coastal managers to identify the information, training needs and tools that would make their work more effective. According to Juliette Finzi Hart, Regional Research and Planning Specialist at USC Sea Grant and lead author of the survey report, "The organizations that worked together on this survey have an opportunity and a responsibility to help California coastal managers meet the challenge of climate change. Information alone won't solve the problem, but we can help build coastal professionals' capacity to make our coasts a safer place to live and work."
Today at the Headwaters to Oceans (H2O) Conference in San Diego, Grifman will moderate a discussion of the survey results at a session on climate adaptation and coastal management. Panelists include Hart and co-authors Monique Myers of California Sea Grant, and Julia Ekstrom, a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley.
In a second panel today, co-author Adina Abeles of COS will moderate a session of several survey partners addressing what California coastal managers need, in terms of information, training and tools, to deal with sea level rise and other climate change impacts, and how these organizations are helping to provide this technical assistance.
The current survey revealed a strong increase in adaptation activity compared to the very low level observed at the time of the first coastal adaptation survey conducted in 2005/2006. That survey conducted by researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, including Moser found that among the local governments in coastal areas that were surveyed, only two counties at that time had begun considering climate change in their planning efforts, and another six cities and four counties were in the process. Five years later a marked shift is evident: today 93 percent of all survey respondents (including representatives from local, regional, state and federal entities) say they are in the process of understanding their climate change risks, assessing their adaptation options, or implementing a strategy.
"The survey results are timed perfectly with ongoing state efforts to update the 2012 California Climate Adaptation Strategy," said Abe Doherty, a project specialist at the Ocean Protection Council, one of the 15 organizations that collaborated on the survey. Others include the California Coastal Commission, NOAA Coastal Services Center and Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System.
"It is important to get feedback on what coastal managers are using for information and what they need for technical assistance and training," said Doherty, who is currently drafting the ocean and coastal resources portion of the climate adaptation strategy. "The barriers are mostly fiscal for communities. We know we have limited funds, so what is the best approach for moving forward? We have to craft strategies and focus staff time strategically. The survey results help us prioritize staff time and resources."
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The USC Sea Grant and California Sea Grant programs are part of a national network of 32 programs of marine research, outreach and education activities and part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), U.S. Department of Commerce. Sea Grant is dedicated to helping citizens use scientific information to support a vibrant economy and ensure ecological sustainability.
The Center for Ocean Solutions is a collaboration among Stanford's Woods Institute for the Environment and Hopkins Marine Station, the Monterey Bay Aquarium and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. Across these institutions, COS draws from about 80 scholars, researchers and educators who work on coastal and ocean ecosystems in the natural, physical and social sciences. COS also works with experienced conservation practitioners and policy experts. Located at Stanford and in Monterey, California, COS is uniquely positioned to leverage expertise and develop practical solutions to the most urgent and important ocean conservation problems.
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Is California preparing for climate change?Public release date: 29-May-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Susanne Moser promundi@susannemoser.com 831-234-8219 Stanford University
Results from new climate adaptation survey
A majority of California's coastal planners and resource managers now view the threats from climate change as sufficiently likely that practical steps on the ground need to be taken to protect against growing threats, according to results from a new survey published by Stanford University's Center for Ocean Solutions (COS) and the California Sea Grant.
Survey respondents acknowledge the need to prepare for changes along the coast that might result from rising sea levels and other impacts, such as more floods, loss of beach access, coastal erosion and potential damage to transportation infrastructure, including highways, roads and ports.
The new survey an update on a similar one conducted six years ago shows a strong uptick in California coastal professionals' attention to preparing and planning for climate change. Results reveal that managers are ready and willing to develop adaptation strategies, despite tighter belts in most local and state agencies in recent years. But lack of money to prepare and implement plans, insufficient staff and lack of technical know-how are significant challenges.
"Communities are willing to adapt to the reality of climate change, but they are struggling. This is a story that needs to be told when billions of dollars in assets are at risk," said Susanne Moser, Director of Susanne Moser Research & Consulting in Santa Cruz and a Research Associate of COS. She worked with colleagues at University of Southern California Sea Grant, California Sea Grant and the University of California, Berkeley, and an unprecedented collaborative of 12 other coastal organizations in California to systematically probe coastal professionals' knowledge and attitudes toward global warming, their level of preparedness for the future, and the challenges they face in taking action.
The survey shows that 40 percent of coastal professionals who are responsible for protecting natural resources, property and human safety have begun trying to understand the risks they face, and another 40 percent are actively planning for climate change impacts, such as sea level rise, coastal flooding and erosion. Yet, only about 10 percent are actually doing things on the ground that may reduce the full brunt of climate change.
"The big take-away from the survey is that coastal managers are knowledgeable and understand the importance of preparing for climate change," said USC Sea Grant Associate Director Phyllis Grifman, a co-author of the survey report, Rising to the Challenge: Results of the 2011 California Coastal Adaptation Needs Assessment. "And they are doing what they can even before there is a mandate to develop adaptation plans. They know it is important, and they are concerned, both personally and at work, but they need help."
Most of the nearly 600 coastal professionals who responded to the survey describe a work environment that is already consumed by other pressing issues and constrained by limited fiscal and staff resources. More than 70 percent also indicate that they believe the severity of their leading management challenges, such as protecting water quality and wetland habitats, will further intensify in the next five years, creating yet higher hurdles in meeting the state's call to prepare and plan for rising sea levels.
The survey also allowed coastal managers to identify the information, training needs and tools that would make their work more effective. According to Juliette Finzi Hart, Regional Research and Planning Specialist at USC Sea Grant and lead author of the survey report, "The organizations that worked together on this survey have an opportunity and a responsibility to help California coastal managers meet the challenge of climate change. Information alone won't solve the problem, but we can help build coastal professionals' capacity to make our coasts a safer place to live and work."
Today at the Headwaters to Oceans (H2O) Conference in San Diego, Grifman will moderate a discussion of the survey results at a session on climate adaptation and coastal management. Panelists include Hart and co-authors Monique Myers of California Sea Grant, and Julia Ekstrom, a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley.
In a second panel today, co-author Adina Abeles of COS will moderate a session of several survey partners addressing what California coastal managers need, in terms of information, training and tools, to deal with sea level rise and other climate change impacts, and how these organizations are helping to provide this technical assistance.
The current survey revealed a strong increase in adaptation activity compared to the very low level observed at the time of the first coastal adaptation survey conducted in 2005/2006. That survey conducted by researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, including Moser found that among the local governments in coastal areas that were surveyed, only two counties at that time had begun considering climate change in their planning efforts, and another six cities and four counties were in the process. Five years later a marked shift is evident: today 93 percent of all survey respondents (including representatives from local, regional, state and federal entities) say they are in the process of understanding their climate change risks, assessing their adaptation options, or implementing a strategy.
"The survey results are timed perfectly with ongoing state efforts to update the 2012 California Climate Adaptation Strategy," said Abe Doherty, a project specialist at the Ocean Protection Council, one of the 15 organizations that collaborated on the survey. Others include the California Coastal Commission, NOAA Coastal Services Center and Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System.
"It is important to get feedback on what coastal managers are using for information and what they need for technical assistance and training," said Doherty, who is currently drafting the ocean and coastal resources portion of the climate adaptation strategy. "The barriers are mostly fiscal for communities. We know we have limited funds, so what is the best approach for moving forward? We have to craft strategies and focus staff time strategically. The survey results help us prioritize staff time and resources."
###
The USC Sea Grant and California Sea Grant programs are part of a national network of 32 programs of marine research, outreach and education activities and part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), U.S. Department of Commerce. Sea Grant is dedicated to helping citizens use scientific information to support a vibrant economy and ensure ecological sustainability.
The Center for Ocean Solutions is a collaboration among Stanford's Woods Institute for the Environment and Hopkins Marine Station, the Monterey Bay Aquarium and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. Across these institutions, COS draws from about 80 scholars, researchers and educators who work on coastal and ocean ecosystems in the natural, physical and social sciences. COS also works with experienced conservation practitioners and policy experts. Located at Stanford and in Monterey, California, COS is uniquely positioned to leverage expertise and develop practical solutions to the most urgent and important ocean conservation problems.
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OTTAWA/VANCOUVER (Reuters) - The Canadian government will force striking workers at Canadian Pacific Railway back to work with fast-track legislation aimed at restoring rail service by Thursday, Labour Minister Lisa Raitt said on Monday.
The government introduced the legislation in the House of Commons on Monday to end a work stoppage by 4,800 locomotive engineers, conductors and rail traffic controllers at CP Rail, Canada's second-biggest railway.
"From past precedent, we'd like CP Rail continuing to roll on Thursday. But we'd like it sooner, quite frankly, and that's the message today," Raitt said in Ottawa, flanked by Canada's ministers of transport, energy, agriculture and industry.
The unionized employees have been on strike since May 23 over pension issues and work rules, shutting down CP Rail freight operations across Canada for nearly a week. The latest round of mediated talks between the company and workers broke down at the weekend.
The government fears the strike could hurt an economy still recovering from recession. Raitt has said a strike would cost C$540 million ($530 million) in economic activity each week.
"It is very clear that the government of Canada must act now to resume rail service at CP Rail, as the prospect of ratified agreements in the short term is highly unlikely," Raitt told the House of Commons earlier in the day.
"Simply put ... the strike can't go on. We need to get the trains running again."
An accelerated back-to-work bill will become law after it passes through the House and Senate.
The majority Conservative government has resorted to legislation to end strikes at Air Canada and the Canada Post mail service, prompting criticism from the New Democrats, the left-leaning opposition party.
"If employers know they can count on the government to intervene on their side to put an end to collective bargaining, then there is less need for them to have good faith negotiations at the bargaining table," said NDP finance critic Peggy Nash.
The CP Rail union, the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference, said the two sides could likely reach a deal if CP backed down on its pension plan demands.
"They don't want to do that because they want to take the money from our pension plan and they want to give it to the shareholders," Teamsters chief negotiator Doug Finnson told reporters in Ottawa.
CP wants to reduce pension plan funding by 40 percent, the union says. CP has said it needs to cut legacy pension and post-retirement benefits to bring them in line with the rest of the industry. The railroad says it has contributed C$1.9 billion to its pension plans in the past three years due to funding shortfalls.
SEEKING NEW ROUTES
Companies across a range of industries have scrambled to find alternative ways to ship their grain, coal, fertilizer, autos and other goods while CP trains sit idle, and some industry groups have urged the government to step in.
The Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers' Association said on Monday its members, which include General Motors of Canada, Ford Motor Co of Canada and Chrysler Canada, were incurring extra logistics costs of C$100,000 a day due to the strike.
The strike is also frustrating grain handlers. Companies such as Cargill Ltd, Richardson International Limited, Archer Daniels Midland Co and Bunge Ltd are crushing canola at a record pace, producing vegetable oil and meal to feed strong global demand.
"It's causing some anguish because we need all the rail capacity we can with the larger crush volumes and larger rates of export," said Bob Broeska, president of the Canadian Oilseed Processors Association.
The Canadian Wheat Board, which holds a monopoly on marketing wheat and barley from the 2011/12 crop marketing year, has said the strike affects up to 162,000 metric tonnes of grain shipments per week.
Miners who produce potash, a globally sought after crop nutrient, mostly use CP for exports. Canpotex, jointly owned by producers Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc, Mosaic Co and Agrium Inc, ships some 40,000 to 50,000 metric tonnes of potash by rail each day.
But Agrium spokesman Richard Downey said the company was not yet contemplating any slowdown in potash production at its Vanscoy, Saskatchewan mine.
"If the strike is for a week or two, it's not a big issue. If it goes beyond that, it becomes an issue for all the potash producers."
Potash Corp has also not slowed production at this stage, a company spokesman said.
Raitt said CP's larger competitor, Canadian National Railway, has tried to help CP customers but it was "too much" for the bigger railroad.
CP's routes are mostly in western Canada and in the United States. The U.S. operations are not affected by the strike although any freight destined for Canada is being held up.
CP's stock price was down 2.1 percent at C$75.54 on the Toronto Stock Exchange on Monday. The shares have risen 0.8 percent since the strike started.
The strike comes at a difficult time for CP, whose chief executive and chairman quit 11 days ago after losing a boardroom dust-up with the company's largest shareholder.
The shareholder, Pershing Square Capital Management, has vowed to improve CP's operating performance, which is the weakest in the industry.
($1 = 1.0253 Canadian dollars)
(Additional reporting by Euan Rocha, Rod Nickel, David Ljunggren and Louise Egan.; Editing by Janet Guttsman and Frank McGurty)
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