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Newsletter #47
February 20, 2019
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Successfully Managing Toxic Employees

The half-day training equips participants with the knowledge and tools to address toxic employees and lessen future occurrences

With 64% of people affirming they’ve worked alongside a toxic employee and 10% stating they observe toxic behavior on a daily basis, it’s a prevalent problem with many employers unsure of how to handle this adverse situation. Georgia Employers’ Association is pleased to provide a half-day training to equip business professionals and human resource leaders with tools and information to successfully identify and handle toxic employees. 

The training will take place Wednesday, February 27, from 9:00-1:00pm at the Fickling Building in downtown Macon.

Participants will learn how to address toxic employees through attitudes, behaviors and consequences, along with common reactions to expect while addressing these issues. In addition, the training will offer insight into organizational and managerial techniques that are effective for preventing future toxicity.

Leading the training is Pete Tosh, founder of The Focus Group. For over 35 years, Pete has provided strategic consulting and training services to manufacturing and service organizations across the U.S., Canada, Caribbean, Europe and the Middle East.



Why You Should Have Started 2019 With a Business Plan 

It has always amazed me how many business people don’t have a business plan. As Benjamin Franklin said, “fail to plan and you plan to fail”. 

Of the hundreds of businesses we help each year at Business Changing, a whopping 90% come to us without a written business plan. Instead, they’re simply winging it with a vague long-term strategic plan in their head. Or worse than winging it, they’re just focusing on the short-term noises in their business – fighting fires and figuring out how they can improve their current month through immediate (and sometimes desperate) tactics to grow sales at less-than-ideal margins. 

The beautiful thing about creating a business plan is that you get the key people in your business together and you ponder how the future looks and what you need to do to get to that desired future state. In essence, that’s the simplest definition of business strategy: what do you need to do big-picture wise (strategically) to get from A to B, with your team agreeing on the business strategies to get there.

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