July 2011
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Ten Tips for Making Your Business More Efficient
used with permission from Cisco

To keep pace in an increasingly competitive world, your business needs to run as efficiently as possible. "Sooner or later, any company not operating efficiently will be out of business," says Laurie McCabe, vice president of small and medium business insights and solutions for research firm AMI-Partners. Efficiency is even more important for small and medium-sized businesses, McCabe adds, because their resources are limited compared to large global companies.

Here are 10 tips for using network technology to help your business work more efficiently, cut costs, improve customer satisfaction, and stay ahead of the competition.

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Often it is our little habits that prohibit effective communication in the workplace. Whether it’s giving too much advice, offering too much leniency, or sharing too much excitement or passion, here are four habits to increase effective communication in the workplace.

Hold your Tongue
When your employees are excited, it means they are engaged, so let them talk. This will take self-control, especially if you love to teach or love to share examples and stories.

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Quick Tips for a Fast World!

In less than one minute learn how the navigation pane helps you find document sections fast! Also, search by word or phrase within a document to quickly find the section you need. Take a look at this quick video tutorial now.

Up Close & Personal with—TJ Turner!

A new member of our team, TJ, has jumped in to help with gusto! He enjoys field work and recently assisted our SecureTech staff with some video camera setup. TJ also completes new PC setup for clients, and is training with several of our staff to prepare for new, future project work. Most recently, he completed training on some Microsoft operating systems. TJ enjoys seeing the outcome, benefits and effectiveness of security and technology projects in action.

Fun times!
TJ is a fan of Spaghetti Works and Big Fred’s restaurants. He enjoys time with friends and family, as well as an occasional weekend getaway to Kansas City. TJ also enjoys football and college baseball. Most recently, he attended the College World Series to watch his South Carolina Gamecocks take home the National Championship.

A hardworking person, TJ spends time on projects at home as well. With the recent wind storms hitting Springfield, TJ has been doing yard pickup and building repair this summer. In his downtime, TJ enjoys watching the History channel and play sports-related video games. Football anyone?

What is CoreExchange?
Hosted by CoreTech, CoreExchange is an informal, educational meeting for business owners, middle managers and staff. Formats and topics vary from roundtable discussions and short product demonstrations to happy hour events around town.

Managing Change in the Workplace?
New applications? New technology equipment? New infrastructure? New processes? Help your team become fruitful and productive in the workplace by attending this workshop on change. Adapting and adopting change can be a challenge, and that's why we're bringing in Mike Abdouch with ActionCOACH for an interactive workshop on change.

For more information, visit our website at www.coretech.us/coreexchange

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Contact Tom Montgomery at 402.398.9580 or tmont@coretech.us today.