Tipinions

Volunteers:  Does your company utilize and require volunteers? If so, a key element to keeping, maintaining and sustaining volunteers is having an organized environment. Many businesses operate with the advantage of incorporating volunteers, especially for fund raising and as support staff.  Many people like to volunteer and enjoy the feeling of making an overall difference […]

Volunteering:  Have you taken the opportunity to volunteer to assist in something? There are so many businesses, places, organizations, non-profits, and senior’s homes that utilize and need people to volunteer their time. If you have time, it is well worth the effort of volunteering. I started volunteering when I was 12 at a Senior’s Home […]

Unified Front:  It is highly important when dealing with customers, that the business have a unified front, especially those front facing. If different departments or individuals are giving different advice, pricing or information to the customer, that causes confusion and then the customer doesn’t know who to trust or believe. Make sure your team has […]

Helping Others:  Are you helping others out of the goodness of your heart, for them, or are you helping others because you get something from it? What is your agenda when helping others? Sometimes, we help others because it fulfills something in our lives.  For example, I have helped others in my life because I […]

Work Clothes Allowance: Some companies have this, and some don’t. If you require your staff to purchase items that they only need for working there, you should consider giving them a clothing allowance.  For example:  steel toe work boots.  If people are required to purchase these in order to work in the business, they should […]

Phenomenal People: I have had the amazing pleasure throughout my life to get to know numerous Hutterite people, on a personal and professional level. They are a tremendous community of generous individuals.    When they hear of a need, they do their best to fill it and help out. They just helped to feed supper […]

Make Life Easier:  Sometimes, we get tired of the regular routine – especially about this time of year.  I think it has something to do with the cold, snow, and just hanging out in the house… Around this time, I get tired of doing the dishes, cooking, cleaning, laundry, shoveling, etc. So, give yourself permission […]

Impact:  I briefly touched on this word yesterday. As we go through this next week, I believe we will start to have a greater understanding of this word on our lives. The definition of the word impact is: a powerful effect that something, especially something new, has on a situation or person: (taken from) https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/impact Think back over a time in your life, […]

Distance:  There are times during our relationships that we must spend some time apart. I recently saw a saying that said “Distance doesn’t matter when the roots of your relationship are strong enough”. We have all heard that “Distance makes the heart grow fonder”. To me, there are a few things that go with the […]

Freedom Convoy:  I am all for freedom of speech, for our rights and freedoms, etc. and I support and commend those who are willing to stand up for their rights and the rights of others. As I have stated previously, I remain neutral on a lot of the things that have happened during the past […]

Our children:  This pandemic has changed many things throughout the last two years.  The one that I think it has impacted the most is our children.  All ages – wearing masks all day and many not understanding why. The germ free environment of chemicals being used to keep them from getting sick.  Missed school days, […]