Visitor, your SEPTEMBER 2020 FocalPoint Newsletter is here

Whether you’re an employee or an employer, you need to understand the roles of both the hard skills (technical abilities) and soft skills (social and interpersonal abilities).

The problem is that many applicants don’t know how to communicate soft skills on a resume and many employers don’t know how to look for soft skills in an applicant’s background.

Let’s fill in that knowledge gap today so you end can build a talented, powerful, and successful team.

With racial tensions on the rise, growing global markets, and shifting demographics, business-based diversity training has become a necessity. But it shouldn’t be seen as merely a sign of the times, it’s much more.

A healthy and diverse workforce gives your company a wide range of advantages in today’s global market and business environment.

Trust us, after you understand all of the benefits diversity training delivers – as discussed in this concise article – you’ll be wondering why it took you so long to get on board.

If you're a business owner, you know that it often feels like there are not enough hours in the day. This can lead to an unorganized and inefficient attempt to get things done.

However, if you adopt some proven principles and strategies, you can take control of your time, rack up the accomplishments, eliminate or reduce stress, and put you and your business on the road to success and greater growth.

Who doesn’t need these things? Your first step is fast and easy: read this article.

Whenever you can pick the brains of the country’s top marketing minds, it’s a good thing.

Right now, uncovering how they are fine-tuning or making wholesale changes to their strategies to best deal with the pandemic would be incredibly valuable business intelligence. Agree?

Well, not to worry, because those insights are beautifully laid out for you in this article.

Think of how many hours every week you and your team members spend on routine repetitive tasks. Or how you take info from one app and plug it into another to get something accomplished.

Wouldn’t it be great to automate a long list of actions you take around the office?

You could reclaim time and significantly boost productivity. Enter Zapier, the easy-to-use office automation app that can streamline all kinds of time-consuming workflows.

Need to know more? Jump into this guide and get the skinny.

The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed companies’ efforts at building their online assets into overdrive. In the process, it has created a heyday for hackers so it’s more important than ever to make sure you are doing everything you can to protect yourself from cybercrime.

First, you need to understand the major threats and your major weaknesses. Next, you need to know what steps you can take to plug the holes.

Fortunately, with just a few minutes of your time, you can get your cybersecurity understanding up to date and ready to implement the right security upgrades.

Good communication is the lifeblood of any business and phone systems still play a vital role. For generations, our business phone options were few and far between.

Fortunately, that has changed and today businesses of every size have a wide array of cost-saving and efficiency-boosting options.

Check out this article to get a handle on the latest telephony advancements – it may be just the wake-up call you need.