Once you leave the comfort of your home, whether or not other people will conform to your expectations on various types of etiquette is out of your control.
To do it right and match your expectations to a model portfolio, advisors need your truthful disclosure about risk tolerance.
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Be sure to clarify your expectations (specifically around things like confidentiality).
If the economy has been better than expected (for instance, you sell into housing construction), will it revert to your prior expectations, or should you dial up your plan for the remainder of the year?
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"Rather than trying to optimize for profit on this one spike, you should do everything in your power to exceed your customers' expectations and convert the huge influx of new customers into lifelong fans, " says Troy Henikoff, co-founder and chief executive officer of Excelerate Labs, a startup boot camp in Chicago.
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Talk to me about your expectations for gross margins and ASPs for the company next year, again, your baseline view vs. an upside view.
If you are in a leadership position and want to shakeup the status quo make sure to communicate clearly your expectations and how you in vision it playing out in the work place.
What this means to your bottom line is this: if you fail to meet their expectations, or become greedy, your customers will search elsewhere for a better deal.
Recognize the risk when you decide to part with your money, and manage your expectations when it comes to highly ambitious projects.
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So consider this Valentine's Day an opportunity to set aside your outdated expectations and embrace a new mindset.
You need to lay out your professional expectations before hiring your friend.
Replace that with a culture and roles obsessed with aligning to the expectations of your prospects, lost accounts, current customers, and target markets.
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But learning about the successful strategies of the masters that went before you is a great way to ground your projections and expectations in reality.
"The more you can communicate directly about your expectations to your employees, the more apt they are to follow your agenda than their own, " Ms. Brown says.
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Conversely, choosing the right right cloud computing industry for your company, will result in services optimized for your needs and that are designed to match your performance, reliability and security expectations.
When developing your approach to engaging customers via mobile, it is key to ensure your strategy accounts for the rising expectations your customers have for this important channel.
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Your responsibility is not to always agree with your boss, but rather exceed her expectations.
Use negative feedback as a chance to clarify expectations and goals around your position.
Hiring and working with millennials, whether you yourself are one or not, is going to require schedules to get chucked out, time management on specific projects as well as specific examples of your expectations, and constructive feedback that really does help to be on the agenda.
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Discuss goals, expectations and how to evaluate your performance during your time with the organization.
But not when your expectations have been raised to extinction-event-size asteroid objects.
The aim is to quickly clarify expectations between you and your team, and get some of the uncomfortable and difficult dynamics out on the table.
They will even tell you when and how they want to engage with your sales teams and their expectations of what, for them, makes a valuable customer experience.
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Switching between the stereo-speakers and headphones is as simple as throwing the physical slider along the right-side of the unit -- speakers that sounded pretty decent as long as your expectations are set appropriate to the unit's physical size.
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In many respects, your employees have the same expectations as your customers: they have the same desire to remain connected and to accomplish their tasks where and when they choose, on the phone, tablet, or computer they prefer.
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That is, to understand what your users want and exceed their expectations.
Of course it'll take more listening to make a definitive call, but we don't think you can really go wrong with the Navigators as it stands, so long as your expectations are in-line with the price -- and try not to confuse them for your shades.
Dialogue with your brand evangelists in social media to learn their expectations of how the brand could be strengthened.
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