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Arnold Beekes

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The ProPer Way
Netherlands

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Educational History

  • Erasmus, Master’s degree.

Professional History:

  • Master of Service Innovation, The ProPer Way

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Skilled leader, business-focussed employee engagement professional and service innovator with more than 20 years of hands-on experience and an exceptional ability to develop human capital to drive service excellence. Contribute to organisational productivity by building effective teams and solving problems. Help businesses improve processes by skilfully aligning human resource...

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Member Blog | 0 recommendations | November 04, 2008 5:42 am
Last week my car had to have maintenance. I went to a general service provider, so not a brand dealer. They are located close to where I live, the pricing is excellent and the...
Member Blog | 0 recommendations | October 30, 2008 3:52 am
The current state of the economy is ideal for making a fresh start. There is so much changing inside and outside of the organization that you need to formulate an adequate...
Member Blog | 1 recommendation | October 21, 2008 6:56 am
Last week I had two quite distinct experiences with the customer service offered in retail stores. In the...
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Comment: This is absolutely true. However that requires a total new way of looking at it. A 'new set of glasses'. If you look at service innovation from a product perspective, it will never work. Services is...

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Success Common Sense

Success Common Sense is a blog devoted to helping people succeed in their lives and careers.  It is written by Bud Bilanich, The Common Sense Guy, and based on the information in his book Straight Talk for Success.

Bud posts on a different topic each day on Sucess Common Sense.  Monday's topic is self confidence; Tuesday, positive personal impact; Wednesday, outstanding performance; Thursday, communication skills; and Friday, interpersonal competence.

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Starting and Growing Green Businesses

We face important environmental problems, but these problems are also huge opportunities for businesses that help to solve them. 

In this blog I'll describe green business opportunities in a broad range of fields, including businesses providing clean water, healthy food, green energy, efficient buildings, and more.  I'll also talk about how to grow these businesses, with insights from a broad range of entrepreneurs who are building successful businesses while doing the right thing. 

The opportunities are not just for the greenest of the green or the life-long environmentalist.  People from almost every background are finding the right opportunity to join the green business revolution and build a successful business.  The hardest part in the journey is often taking the first step, but now is the time - let's get started.

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Leading Change

Change leadership is about re-inventing the world, bringing people together to co-create the future. Success relies on enthusiastic engagement and committed buy-in. Seth Kahan, designated a Visionary by the Center for Association Leadership, draws on his unique background in improv street theater, storytelling, and rites-of-passage to help leaders succeed in getting traction for revolutionary ideas. His clients include the World Bank, Shell, NASA, Project Management Institute, and others.

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The 24/7 Customer Evangelist

Author and world bicycle adventurette Lynette Chiang, Galfromdownunder.com lives a 24/7 seamless worklife as Customer Evangelist for Bike Friday. After switching careers from left brain (IT professional), to right brain (Saatchi & Saatchi award-winning ad copywriter), to no-brain (traveling the world for 7 years on a folding bicycle), she bundled it all together to share tales of total-brain commitment to the "church of the customer". 

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Innovating with Meaning

A forum for discussing the search for meaning at work, the creation of meaningful workplaces, and the design of innovation systems, products, services, processes, and policies that make a positive difference and are truly meaningful.

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Recent research by Kelly Services in 33 countries indicates that 29 percent of the employees perceive their work as unhealthy. One in eight (13 percent) employees report being...
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Last week I had two quite distinct experiences with the customer service offered in retail stores. In the...