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 Do You Remember? Business leadership can be exhausting. So take a break, and indulge and reflect on glorious memories of   our National Pastime. It’s springtime in Chicagoland, and thoughts, at least on the north side, again turn toward the perpetual saga of the Chicago Cubs. After endless agonizing decades, three short years ago,   the Cubs managed the seemingly impossible, and rose again to the status of World Series champions. And now, each year, anxious fans wonder, “Are we going to have to wait for another 100 years?” In 2016, millions of lifelong fans, and new fans, and miscellaneous believers in miracles, agonized over every pitch, every catch, every breath, and every decision by the coaching staff. “They should pull the pitcher now!” “Why did they pull the pitcher?” “Why is he starting?” Several million armchair coaches screamed, and groaned, and shouted their managerial input to anyone remotely nearby. Countl...

Topic: Ways to Improve Customer Service focusing on Customer Service Training, Leadership, Communications, Telephone Skills Training, Sales, and Attitude. Guest: Nancy Friedman , The Telephone Doctor Join host Ray Pillar, Owner of Molly Maid Aurora-Naperville, and co-host Fred McMurray of Mediavine Marketing, as they discuss the Pillars of running a successful franchise and interview franchise owners and experts. Listen live on Thursdays at 4:00pm Central time. Call in to comment. (323) 580-5755. Listen to past episodes  

Our Topic: Risk management issue/opportunities for the franchisee. How to grow your franchise while minimizing your risk with Jesse Parenti of the Stratton Agency Our guest is Jesse Parenti As a proud partner at Stratton Agency , Jesse Parenti offers over 25 of years of hands on experience in the restaurant industry and 14 years of commercial lines risk management, specializing in protecting restaurant groups nationally. The Stratton Agency in currently licensed in 48/50 states, managing 2500 restaurant locations and growing. Mr. Parenti’s key client base includes fast casual, fine dining and pizza with delivery. He helps create custom solutions as a risk advisor using safety, consulting, HR and insurance placement. As program director of PizzaSurance, a specialty division of Stratton Agency, he dominates a very specific niche that less than a handful of agents can write nationally. The restaurant industry is very complex and Jesse knows it better than anybody. His family has...

Our Topic: Risk management issue/opportunities for the franchisee. How to grow your franchise while minimizing your risk with Jesse Parenti of the Stratton Agency Our guest is Jesse Parenti As a proud partner at Stratton Agency , Jesse Parenti offers over 25 of years of hands on experience in the restaurant industry and 14 years of commercial lines risk management, specializing in protecting restaurant groups nationally. The Stratton Agency in currently licensed in 48/50 states, managing 2500 restaurant locations and growing. Mr. Parenti’s key client base includes fast casual, fine dining and pizza with delivery. He helps create custom solutions as a risk advisor using safety, consulting, HR and insurance placement. As program director of PizzaSurance, a specialty division of Stratton Agency, he dominates a very specific niche that less than a handful of agents can write nationally. The restaurant industry is very complex and Jesse knows it better than anybody. His family has...

We all cringe at the thought of sitting through yet another weekly meeting in which we hash out the events of the seven days and discuss what each team member feels is top priority moving forward. These meetings can seem mundane and tiresome as can the time spent creating an agenda leading up to them. In “The Advantage” Patrick Lencioni addresses how to eliminate the fuss and capitalize on time to ensure your dreaded weekly meeting not only serves purpose, but makes it enjoyable. According to Lencioni “there is no more valuable activity in any organization than the regular staff meeting of a leadership team.” He has designated weekly or bi-weekly meetings for tactical purposes. These meetings are to quickly create a real-time agenda and assess top priorities. The challenge is evaluating the importance of each priority brought up by team members while eliminating topic distractions. Lencioni suggests assessing progress and priorities by using a simple color code ...

Web conferencing is important for sharing information, effective collaboration and active communication. It is efficient and saves both time and money while bringing groups together from all over the world. An excellent collaboration tool for law firms, corporations and other organizations, web conferencing allows organizations to tap into expertise that is geographically dispersed. In the future think of web conferencing for increased interactivity, engagement and accessibility from any device (Smartphones and tablets), improving presentation tools, simplifying shared documents, and enhancing Q and A. There is solid growth for business web conferencing. This form of meeting has gone mainstream. In a recent Frost and Sullivan survey of C-Level executives in N. America, 78% indicated an awareness of the benefits of web conferencing and 60% of these respondents use it routinely. Prices continue to decline making this technology available to all, from large to mid-sized and small busines...

Tamara Leigh, Host of Tamara Leigh’s Trend On and Founder of Tamara Leigh, LLC In the lull weekend before # SuperbowlXLVIII match-up between the Denver Broncos (my 2nd favorite team) and the Seattle Seahawks (not a fan of the #badrefcall # Touchception against my # Packers , but am a fan of former # Badgers QB # RussellWilson ) and with 2013’s Superbowl airing no less than 5 politically underscored commercials, and with this year likely to see some again (but please no # PajamaBoy or “ talking to your kids ” about # healthcare during halftime spots), it’s as good a time as any to ponder (as in think, not Vikings QB ) the connection between football and politics — which is not any bigger than making a # LambeaLeap . Brent Hamchek, Founder Segueway Solutions and Co-Host Segueway to Success on the Linked Local Network So what do the following all have in common? # SuperBowl2014 # PeytonManning # Omaha # Charity # RichardSherman # Rant # ...

On September 3, 2013, Jeffrey Gitomer released his newest sales book: 21.5 Unbreakable Laws of Selling: Universal Truths for Making Sales Easier, Faster, and Bigger NOW and FOREVER With the release of the book he is doing a select-city book tour where you can see him speak LIVE about the Unbreakable Laws of Selling. He will […] 21.5 Unbreakable Laws of Selling: Universal Truths for Making Sales Easier, Faster, and Bigger NOW and FOREVER comes to Chicago on October 16/17