YArooms Blog
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Get recognition for your work
(and what you can learn from the Bible)
Imagine constantly being between a rock and a hard place. Balancing receiving orders and issuing requests. Being responsible, but not a decision maker. Managing subordinates and dealing with temperamental bosses.
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Priming the Customer - The Key to a Closed Deal
How to use cognitive biases to your advantage
First things first - grab a copy of Thinking, Fast & Slow. It’s a book we highly recommend to pretty much anyone working behind a desk.
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Employee Motivation
Or the end-goal of employee development programs
To try and explain why motivation is important in every journey, be it personal or professional, is a bit like trying to reinvent the wheel. It can’t be done. Motivation is such an intrinsic human characteristic that its presence is axiomatic. Motivation is the main driver of all human actions. In healthy amounts, it makes the difference between success or failure. We specified “healthy” amounts because, as the saying goes, too much of a good thing is a bad thing. Any of the extremes can be harmful – being over-motivated and lacking discipline can lead to a waste of resources, human or otherwise; being under-motivated can lead to failure or serious deficiencies.
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Convince employees to adopt new products
5 easy steps for successfully implementing a new product among your employees
Change is difficult. Stepping out of the comfort zone in order to do things differently can be challenging. The majority of people embrace routine, enjoy it, so interrupting it means causing them distress. However, for development purposes change is necessary. Hence, for the sake of the higher goal, it’s a good idea to make the transition as enjoyable as possible.
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User Management
What your next meeting room manager should be about
The foundation of every work organization is the distribution of roles within a company, especially if we are looking at companies that exceed 5 employees. Assigning tasks according to these roles is essential for the functioning of an enterprise. This is why it is important for your software products to also reflect the structures your company chooses to employ. YArooms does just that through its user management feature.
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6 Tips for Effective Sales Negotiations
(3 old, 3 new)
Negotiating a sales deal can sometimes be a tough feat to accomplish and many people fail to do so in a cordial way. While manipulative techniques are the surest way of reaching your goal, negotiating techniques can also mean trying to make the other person see reason by reaching the best decision for all parties, in a friendly and ethical manner.
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Employee Development Programs
Taking care of your employees means offering them the opportunity to grow
Keeping up with the times in an ever-changing business scenery is vital in order to survive and thrive. To be able to do this, you need to be informed and constantly updated in every matter and department. This is where the development programs come into action, training employees and preparing them for any situation that lies ahead. Chosen or created accordingly, and implemented correctly, development programs are a great way of killing two birds with one stone. They quench an employee’s thirst for personal growth, and, in doing so, they supply companies with proficient workers, who lead the business to success.
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On meeting room space management
and why it matters
When it comes to meeting room managers, it’s hard to say which comes first - meeting management or space management. In truth, they’re both integral to this piece of software and, while other features can make the difference between a good meeting room manager and a bad one, space and meeting management are the essential traits of this type of software.
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Negotiation techniques for office managers
Get others to do stuff
You want to ask for a raise. The project at hand would benefit tremendously from some changes you have in mind, but you need to ask for a deadline extension. Maybe you’d just like the office temperature to go down a couple degrees, but the thermostat is right near that always-freezing colleague of yours. Whatever the reason, keeping a set of general, basic negotiation guidelines close at hand is always a good idea. And here they are.
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YArooms Update
More features, better functionality
YArooms, the meeting room booking software pioneer, has released an upgraded version of the product, with new features that enhance the user experience. This release brings together updates that cater to the needs of small and big companies alike, taking into consideration the fluidity of the room booking process, together with other attributes that simplify user on-boarding.