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Does Your Boss Have Kids?

If so, do you find that the status of “parent” makes him or her more sympathetic when your daycare calls demanding that you pick up your puking, feverish child NOW… and NOW is 10 a.m.? How does your boss react when you consistently leave the office at 4:30 on the dot to pick up your children from their after school program while the rest of your colleagues remain at the office until 6 or 7 p.m.? Does your boss feel your pain as you struggle to juggle career and family or does he or she resent your late mornings and … Continue reading →

Make Sure You’re Talking to the Decision-maker

When considering communication and how to build your home business through the relationships we have with prospects, customers and clients, it is important to remember that we need to make the most efficient use of our time and energy. This means making sure that we are making our sales pitches and presentations to the individuals who actually have the power to say “yes” or “no” to doing business with us. Have you ever been in a situation where you have made your full presentation and pitch—pulled out all the stops and done your best job at trying to convince someone … Continue reading →

Who Really Wants to Be Told What to Do?

Like many American families, we tend to be having battles of wills and autonomy around here all the time. Either my kids are trying to tell me how things should be done, or I am trying to provide them with necessary directions in life. What I have learned, however, is that it does not seem to matter how old or how acquiescent we seem to be, nobody REALLY wants to be told what to do… For me, acknowledging that my kids do not really want to be told what to do any more than I do, it helps me to … Continue reading →

Who’s the Boss Around Here, Anyway?

As many of you know, my children are nearly grown—or so THEY think. With one about to graduate and another close on her heels and one more in high school too—it is starting to get tougher and tougher to tell who is in charge anymore around here with all the know-it-alls. I have always felt like I was very solidly the ruler of this roost, but to hear everyone else talk any more, you’d be hard-pressed to figure out who the boss is—or how many bosses we actually have! Everyone is an expert anymore and in the course of an … Continue reading →

Make Sure They Know Who Is the Boss

One of the big myths of single parent homes is that the chicks rule the roost. People assume that with only one parent in the house—especially in families where the children outnumber the parent, the kids run wild and the parent is not actually in charge. This does not have to be the case. Just because you are the only parent, does not mean you can’t be the boss. I have written before about how my kids probably have more of a say in things like the grocery list, what we have for dinner, etc. than they would if our … Continue reading →

Act Like the Boss

I am not by nature the slightest bit interested in being the boss of anyone. That is one of the things that draws me to the type of work I do and the way I do it—I don’t want to have to tell anyone else what to do and I don’t particularly like it when someone tells me what to do! BUT, as we go about the running and operating of our home businesses, we do need to remind ourselves that we ARE the boss—there are plenty of times when we need to act like the one who is in … Continue reading →

Home Business – The Cost of Being “Boss-Free”

Have you ever considered the cost of being boss-free? I haven’t given it much thought until last week when I had an interview for a part-time Program Coordinator position with a local non-profit agency. As I was discussing the benefits, the pay and other details with the interviewer, I was so excited that I could literally feel my heart start to race. It has been so long since I have had a regular schedule, a consistent paycheck (with benefits to boot). The pay for the position was almost twice what I’d earned in a similar one and it was a … Continue reading →

Top 15 Unusual Excuses For Not Showing Up To Work

Okay, confession time—how many times have you called in sick when you simply wanted to sleep in or run a few errands? Don’t worry. You’re in good company. Or, at least that’s what a new survey by CareerBuilder.com found. The survey found 32% of workers have used sick days as “mental health days” to relax in just the last year. And, that’s not all the survey also found that one in 10 admitted to doing so three times or more in the last year. One in four workers said they consider their sick days to be equivalent to vacation days … Continue reading →