When Jeff Bezos was asked by CNN what the single most important feature of Amazon’s success was, his response was telling – “the most important thing is to focus obsessively on the customer.”1 With 90% of American consumers citing customer service as an important deciding factor in doing business with a company or not, providing great customer service can give companies a competitive edge.2 But what exactly does good customer service entail?

Interested in the hybrid workplace model? Many employees would prefer to work from home full-time, even after the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent lockdown. However, firms need to have at least a few members in the office to upload files to the system server, meet clients, attend urgent team meetings, etc. Fortunately, companies have started to introduce a work arrangement that satisfies every employees’ requirements — the hybrid workplace model.

Looking for tips to manage hybrid teams? Most teams used to work on-site before the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent lockdown. Now, the work model has changed — some employees work remotely, while others work from the office. As a manager, you may face difficulties executing this hybrid workplace model due to the lack of proper communication, ambiguous guidelines, etc. In this article, we’ll cover 8 tips to help you manage your hybrid team.

The main point of identifying and tracking specific metrics is to measure your progress toward specific goals. But not all metrics can give you the information you need right away. Lagging indicators take a long time to change, and show the later-stage results of your efforts. Leading indicators, on the other hand, measure the activities you think will help you reach your goal, and can be tracked on a more ongoing basis. Because of the different time frames required by leading vs.

The world is changing and so is the way we shop. A few years ago, consumers made it clear that it’s no longer just about which tee is the softest. They wanted to know if the tee was made in a sustainable way, without using forced or underpaid labor. Now, coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic and social uprisings of 2020, shoppers also want—and expect—brands to speak up for social justice.

The first step in enhancing cybersecurity is acknowledging that cyber attackers do not rest, especially now that most transactions are online. Africa has recently experienced frequent attacks on cybersecurity, increasing the global risk for information leakage. Cyber threats usually target those in the financial sector, and today, the probability is higher due to lockdowns and sudden high reliance on digital processes.

Improving corporate governance should not just be a one-time thing but a continuous initiative. There are different development styles per country in Africa, which makes it important for governing leaders to assess the situation in their locality before planning out their goals for developing sound corporate governance. Africa has seen great efforts in achieving sound corporate governance in the past years. Corporate governance is now considered a prerequisite for economic development.

Reports show that almost 70% of freelance workers handle about 4 projects at one time. This means freelancing work involves communicating with multiple people on different deliverables, creating outlines for each of these projects, creating schedules to be on-time, invoicing for each work done, and much more. This is a huge chunk of administrative work that every freelancer goes through. It may read easily on paper, but it can take a toll on you if you are not organizing your work.

Good customer service is the key to business success: A PwC customer experience report even found that customers are willing to pay 16% more for premium service. More importantly, one-third of customers will walk away from a brand they love after a single bad customer service experience. So, what does stellar customer service look like in 2021? According to the same PwC report, 80% of U.S.

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