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Business Coaching
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What to do About 2011, by Lorenda Phillips
We are at the beginning of another business year, and it is natural that we reflect on our balance sheet of profits, losses, successes and failures of the previous year. We may have mixed emotions as we ponder the ebbs and flows of the past year, but whatever our results, we need to close the books on 2011.
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| Breakfast Door Prizes |
Promote your business by donating a door prize!
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| Technology Committee Monthly Column |
What Warranty Should You Get on your IT Equipment?, by Jeffrey Fox
If your microwave oven breaks, you can heat your food some other way while it gets fixed under warranty. But your IT equipment, with invaluable software and data, is something else. Downtime can cause significant financial loss.
So what part should manufacturer warranties and service offerings play in protecting your investment and ensuring business continuity?
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| Health Insurance |
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A New Year and New Beginnings, by Barbara Schmalz
January is always a month of new beginnings filled with the good intentions of getting organized and being in control of our your budget.
Why not taking this energy and review your health and life insurance needs? Although the health insurance changes are less significant than two years ago, they are still impacting your life significantly.
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| Chamber web site |
 Be sure to visit the chamber web site often for information on events, special offers and generally cool stuff!
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Quotation
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| "Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out."
John Wooden
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What's the Word?
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What's the Word for January 2012, by Bob Goold, Newsletter coordinator
The word of the month for January is: Forward. Traditionally we take pause at the beginning of a new year to view this division of time as a new chapter in our lives, a new arena of opportunity to achieve desired goals...I've noticed in the past few years an increasing tendency to mark this point of change as "good riddance to the past year"
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| Speaking is Sexy |
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It Takes Two to Tango, by Marion Claire
The usual reason we give a speech is to convince someone of something. It'll be a lot easier if we remember to ask the audience to dance with us.
"Whoa!" I hear you saying. "My job on the podium or at the lectern is to convince my audience of my point of view. Where does dancing come in?"
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| Real Estate Tips |
Westside Real Estate - What's Ahead for 2012?, by Bob Goold
"Eenie meenie chili beanie, the spirits are about to speak" was the chant Bullwinkle the Moose used to intone to see into the future. (If you're not old enough to remember him  and Rocky, you missed out on some good satire.) Just as Bullwinkle is fictional, so is the possibility to accurately predict the future of real estate. What we can do is look at recent trends to see where the momentum might be headed.
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| December Holiday Mixer |
The WLACC 2012 Holiday Party.
Great food, great entertainment, great people -
a great time!
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Herbal Health
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Winter Herbal Health, by Becky LaPlante
Winter has arrived, the holidays are over, and we are left with a new year to fulfill our resolutions and choose consciously to be healthy and complete our goals. Most of us, after eating sweets and lack of exercise during the holidays, may find it difficult to follow through with their New Year's resolutions to quit smoking, eat healthy, exercise more, or whatever you have chosen as your resolution. So, what we need to do is reach deep down inside ourselves and access the latent energy reserves within, to complete our goals!
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| Business Training |
Top Ten Mistakes of New Supervisors, by Sue Robins
Do you have new or struggling supervisors? Did you promote from within? Often times business owners and senior managers look to their highest performing employees to become supervisors when a position becomes available. The hope is that these employees will teach and motivate others to be as good as they were in that position. The reality though, is that leading and teaching are very different from implementing instructions from others or taking initiative on one's own.
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