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The main advantage of active listening is that, thanks to her, is allowed to complete the communication process, providing the reader understand the message you want to transmit the receiver. Its advantages include:

1. Provide more and better knowledge of issuer: longer heard his message and checked their strategies. The meticulously observe verbal and nonverbal transmitter serve to approach its intentions.

2. Lets relax the tension and conflict situations: creating an understanding between partners minimizing potential stress. In addition, decreases anxiety from the transmitter to communicate because it is safer to use active listening.

3. Gives more time to think active listening allows more time to think about possible answers, organize and evaluate arguments more substantial options.

4. For greater efficiency in the agreements: when performing this type of listening is avoided disruption of the issuer. Furthermore, since there is a greater willingness to dialogue will facilitate working together and reach agreement more easily.

5. Provides security when making decisions: active listening provides feedback, so that helps them gain confidence about the message and detect the positions of the issuer.

Barriers to Active Listening

1. Serve only to what matters, this causes a lack of attention throughout the message, sometimes due to lack of time, in others by lack of interest in the conversation. If you pay attention to only part of the message, according to the preferences or tastes, you will not understand the entire message, and therefore do not understand our interlocutor. If you keep the interest to the speech of another person, you get to raise their self esteem, learn new songs and have more options to solve problems.

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The business world sure you’ve heard of the MBA stands for Master of Business Administration English. More recently, however, are emerging a series of alternatives to study an MBA and an MBA Online Degree Program through the whole Internet and hence have a number of questions arise about which of the two options is better. I think the choice will depend a lot on what we want to study an MBA and if we are able to follow or not an Internet Distance MBA.

Here are some considerations to take into account:

1. What we want to study an MBA?. If we pursue an MBA only to find out more about businesses will not make much difference Mba Online or distance or do an MBA classroom. But if you want the MBA to improve our curriculum vitae or resume, because we want to apply for a new job or classroom work, then the MBA is the most recommended as a traditional theme is given more weight than the traditional MBA Online .

2. If the networking is very important for us to face MBA should be preferred to an online MBA. Occurs in an MBA class time will learn not only business people but also know that online programs is impossible to know in a similar manner. Those people in our MBA class will then face potential business opportunities as each one of the companions of our class work in various companies.

3. No time or our times are difficult the Online MBA is better. Many times every day we are prevented from attending a regular class sessions and in this case the Online MBA is our only option if we want to study an MBA.

4. To analyze whether we can take a course online. Beyond the previous considerations sometimes MBA Online will be our only option for a given budget issues that usually are cheaper Online MBA. But beyond the budget issue we must consider if we are going to have the discipline to follow a course online and then the best advice is that you enroll in a pre-course or virtual seminar is delivered online as well to see if you can adapt to this system of education.

The Government Spain needed to allay the distrust of markets in the Spanish banking sector, has decided to increase to 8% core capital (equity plus reserves) to be kept on their balance sheet entities, compared to 6% today.The Government’s financial vice president, Elena Salgado, said yesterday afternoon the new measures. “This is to restore market confidence and eliminate any doubts about the solidity of our bank.”

One of the most controversial decisions of the announced is that the Bank Restructuring Fund (FROB) may enter the capital of those institutions that do not meet the new criteria established credit. The financial vice president made an estimate of capital needs that have domestic financial institutions to meet the new standards. He estimates that the sector will need more than 20,000 million to reach 8% of core capital ratio. In September 2010, the average core capital ratio was 8.5%.

The big banks play very well with the new criteria for creditworthiness. Santander and BBVA 8.5% 8.2%, respectively. People, after the merger with Crédit Mutual, slashing 9.4%. In contrast, medium banks have more difficulties. Sabadell is at 7.8%, while Bankinter only 6.5% (6.76% at end-2010).

Another of the peculiarities of the new regulation, to be adopted by royal decree during the month of February, is that it imposes additional capital requirements to those more traditional boxes. According to Economy Minister explained, those non-listed financial groups (banks and credit unions) have no significant private investor and who have a dependency on wholesale funding markets over 20%, must have a ratio fall of core capital to be “in any case” more than 8%. Although Salgado declined to detail how much it would raise the bar for these entities, some sources suggest it could reach 10%.

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In the U.S. already started to see the spectacular sales of the company’s tablet of the block (up from 7.4 million units between October and December) as an economic indicator. And in this case as a possible indicator of U.S. economic recovery.

The words spoken by Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer in the conference call with investors and analysts that followed the presentation of the company’s results were clear. “Demand for iPod for employees at the corporate level remains strong and the response to the device continues to be very significant,” said the manager.

He added that those responsible for technology companies (IOC) are incorporating the iPod to their list of electronic devices at a rapid pace. Ultimately, companies want their workers to use the iPod in their various tasks.

Similarly, Oppenheimer noted that currently, 80% of companies that are part of the Fortune 100 are developing services and applications tailored for the above tablet, over 65%, reached in the quarter that ended in September. He also noted that among the last corporations are adopting the iPod include financial institutions such as JP Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo, as well as companies like Cardinal Health, Archer Daniels Midland, DuPont, and Sears Holdings.

Also in Spain some companies are launching projects based on the iPod. For example, Iberia will implement a system in Barajas is going to allow their employees access to all the information you need, anywhere in the airport to inform the customer.

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BNP Paribas posted a net profit of 6.293 million Euros by September, an improvement of 50% over the same period last year. In the first nine months of the year the turnover Gallo’s largest bank by market capitalization reached 33,560 million Euros, 11.4% more, while the resources allocated to credit risk provisioning fell by 43.7% to the 3,640 million.

BNP CEO Baudouin Prot, expressed his satisfaction with the accounts of the institution and highlighted the results achieved in the retail banking division, while it maintained the “hard” business results of corporate and investment banking.

The French company said that the integration of Fortis assets have allowed the bank noted synergies in the first nine months of the year amounting to 292 million Euros, in addition to the 120 million recorded as early as 2009, of which more than half correspond to the division of corporate and investment banking.

Also, BNP Paribas said that in the coming quarters recorded additional synergies expected amount of 200 million Euros, allowing the body to accumulate aggregate synergies of 612 million six months ahead of schedule.

A survey in Europe shows that 4% said the Directorate General of enterprises as the main responsible for the marketing errors. Only 25% attribute it to lack of professionalism of the sales team.

The vast majority of professionals, up to 73%, believe that they are the company and its marketing strategy to blame for the reduction of customers, according to the results of market survey “Why lose customers?” by RMG & Associates. In this sense, up to 41%, pointing to the address as the main cause, compared with 32% who blame the absence of a marketing policy.

However, only 24% of respondents give this responsibility to the lack of professionalism of the sales team. The lack of solutions to current customer needs and no added value to their expectations are the main causes of the loss of customers in organizations, as 57% of respondents.

The survey results relegated to second place other reasons such as the existence of lower prices in competition (15%), or the mismanagement that often makes claims (11%). As to what are the best ways to build customer loyalty, 30% of respondents indicated that add value to the management and 23.44% cited the loyalty programs. Only 6.7% named promotions and discounts.

In the business world can respond quickly and strongly, the fact is that many times you forget what a customer for company and we neglect the attention and care they deserve.

The client is a figure that is always present, of course, is accusing the products and services that companies offer and what they get consolidated in the market and earn income and returns to position themselves and survives.

Then why is there sometimes is ignored and neglected the importance of the treatment they deserve?

The answer is complicated but some reasons are:

“That the company is not able to transmit to the persons composing the importance of this figure to the survival of the, that certain steps are a little more time consuming and can delay the other tasks, that there are no clear guidelines for action to any incident..Etc.

It seems that the above does not make much sense when investing large sums of money and resources to investigate new lines of business, create new products or services, attract customers, make known, advertise…

The truth is that everything mentioned above is important, but to dedicate a part of that effort to involve and educate the workforce of the companies in the care and customer service is essential.  What are the customer and its importance?

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