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	<title>Bill Hogg</title>
	<link>http://www.billhogg.ca</link>
	<description>Leadership That Excelerates Performance!</description>
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		<title>Have you identified your employees as a key target audience?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Much has been written about the need for communicating with employees. People are often put in charge of internal communications and spend their time creating newsletters and memos that get sent far and wide informing folks about what is going on in the organization.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.billhogg.ca/have-you-identified-your-employees-as-a-key-target-audience</link>
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		<title>How to achieve the ultimate customer-focused company</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In May 2007, Ranjay Gulati (Michael Ludwig Nemmers Distinguished Professor of Strategy and Organizations at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management), wrote an article for the Harvard Business Review entitled “Silo Busting: How to Execute on the Promise of Customer Focus”.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.billhogg.ca/how-to-achieve-the-ultimate-customer-focused-company</link>
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		<title>How to provide corrective direction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When discussing the “How to's” of building an engaged culture, we hear lots of talk about "reinforcing the positive" and "catching people doing things right", but what happens when people are doing things wrong and we need to provide corrective direction.   Specific steps need to take place to get the person moving in the proper direction while still keeping them positive and motivated.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.billhogg.ca/how-to-provide-corrective-direction</link>
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		<title>Who do you work for?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most people, when they are honest, answer a, b or even c. But if you answered d, are you really working for your customers, or just paying lip service to it?]]></description>
		<link>http://www.billhogg.ca/who-do-you-work-for</link>
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		<title>12 Steps to improve your customer experience</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Employee engagement and exceptional customer service play a critical role as a competitive advantage in the business landscape. Great customer service built on a foundation of high employee engagement isn't a revolutionary concept. More companies are recognizing just how important a deliberate and intentional customer-focused culture is, but few companies do it well. Here are 12 simple steps to ensure your organization is maximizing this important competitive advantage.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.billhogg.ca/12-steps-to-improve-your-customer-experience</link>
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		<title>Seven steps to a customer-focused company</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are a few common imperatives shared by all successful customer-focused companies. Scholars may debate the exact number or wording, but it is universally agreed that to create a well-integrated organization, these basic characteristics must be in place. If any of these essential ingredients are missing, no organization will achieve its full potential.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.billhogg.ca/seven-steps-to-a-customer-focused-company</link>
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		<title>Seven critical success factors to exceptional customer service</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Employees report that one of the key factors they are engaged in their organization is predicated on how well the organization treats their customers. So treating your customers well will also have a corresponding positive impact on your employees.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.billhogg.ca/seven-critical-success-factors-to-exceptional-customer-service</link>
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		<title>Give your employees the finger!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another successful technique for providing recognition doesn't require talking—that’s right, you can provide positive feedback to anyone without saying a word.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.billhogg.ca/give-your-employees-the-finger</link>
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		<title>Providing positive feedback</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I must admit, I am uncomfortable when someone compliments me about my work. Of course I want people to be happy about my behaviour (performance) and I want positive feedback versus the alternative, but for me, I am uncomfortable responding to praise, or compliments. I'd like to hear something specific about my work rather than some generic comment about me.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.billhogg.ca/providing-positive-feedback</link>
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		<title>Growing in a down market</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, we all know about the recession. I have decided not to focus on the problems but the opportunities (old P&#038;G training kicking in!). So what are the opportunities that we can leverage? For starters, focus on motivating and inspiring your teams. Here are a few things that you can do tomorrow, for little or no money, which will have a positive impact on your business results.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.billhogg.ca/growing-in-a-down-market</link>
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