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Return on investment(ROI) in Writing a Business Plan (Pt. 1)

When people ask “What’s the return on investment for writing a business plan?” they are actually asking two questions: “WHY should I write a business plan? What’s it going to cost me?” Others ask for “numbers from other companies that show what kind of return they made on their business plan”. As if they could [...]

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11 Changes You Want Your New Manager to Make Overnight – But They Won’t!

This is a new speech that came about by listening to others on a conference call and understanding how little they understood about their new managers, and even some of their used ones. This speech is meant to be both interactive for smaller groups and simply a talk for larger audiences. It is currently written [...]

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About the California Safety, Health and Environmental Conference

For the year 2011 a task force made up entirely of volunteers from ASSE, IAHA, etc. worked, in some cases, for several years to make the conference a success.  Our original vision was to carry forward every other year, so the next would be in 2013. While 2011 was a success it appears that there [...]

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Ten Words Not To Use With Working Managers

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When a person moves from labor into management they enter a whole new realm of communication, including vocabulary. Quite often I hear them talk about and ridicule ‘biz-speak’ or ‘corporate-speak’. It’s not that they cannot grasp these concepts, it’s just that they have never experienced them. Some of them are meaningless to the blue collar [...]

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You Need TRUST Because -

Trust – a simple yet powerful word. Without trust absolutely nothing on earth gets done. Some will argue that there are degrees of trust. I think the jury is out on that, just as it is on whether there are degrees of truth, which is by way of saying it’s okay to tell certain lies, [...]

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Blue Collar University® is consolidating its website and blog

Blue Collar University® is in the process of consolidating it’s blog and website for efficiency.  We should be back online by Friday, July 15, 2011 in the evening. Meanwhile, if you want to talk about Blue Collar University or if you are a manager that needs help or know of a manager that needs help [...]

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