Enhancing the Motivational Climate of Your Workplace
It has been well documented that employees' productivity and job quality increase when we are made to feel welcome at work. In other words, when the motivational climate is enhanced to meet their needs they produce quality work at the 100% rate.The source that caused them to produce at such... Read More
Can Your Corporate Policy Pass the Monkeys, Bananas, and Water-spray Experiment?
Five monkeys were placed in a cage. A banana was hung on a string and a ladder was placed below it. Each time one of the monkeys started climbing the ladder, all the monkeys were sprayed with a blast of cold water. This experiment was repeated for several days. Then... Read More
What Your Employees Want You to Know (But You Might Be Afraid to Ask)
This is a challenge for every company owner and manager. You have tremendous plans for growth and expect a lot of your employees. But do you know if the company is meeting your best employees' expectations? Are you providing the type of environment that supports high productivity and high quality?... Read More
People Are Our Most Important Asset!
How many times have you heard or uttered this phrase in the last 5 years or so. As a "reformed accountant" this phrase makes me cringe more than any other business euphemism being espoused today.What exactly is an asset? The dictionary defines an asset as "A valuable item that is... Read More
Why Do Managers Create Low Morale? Or Does My Bum Look Big In This?
Why do managers create low morale as a product of their management and what can we do about it?The answer to the initial question is easy.We all know what managers do to the workforce that causes the workforce to feel the way they do about their jobs.The managers never listen... Read More
Beyond Management Coaching: When Things Are Getting Out of Control
Leaders and Managers often ask us, 'What do you do when you have tried to coach and counsel an employee about a performance concern, and the employee has not responded?Unfortunately, we see far too many cases where the leader hasn't, in good faith, tried to coach the employee or to... Read More
Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing in a Business Perspective
Business IntelligenceBusiness Intelligence has become a very important activity in the business arena irrespective of the domain due to the fact that managers need to analyze comprehensively in order to face the challenges.Data sourcing, data analysing, extracting the correct information for a given criteria, assessing the risks and finally supporting... Read More
The Top 10 Things They Don?t Teach You In Business School
Here are 10 subjects that academia should be teaching their students in business school:1. Generate revenue for your companyWhat academia doesn't teach you is that the real purpose organizations hire you is to generate revenue. Pure and simple. How do you do that? Look around and ask yourself, how can... Read More
Your Organization Is Only as Good as Your People
Let's begin by singing the jingle from an old US Army commercial. Ready? Sing! "Be all that you can be, in the Aaaaarmy." Now, don't you feel better?"Be all that you can be." Why do you suppose the army selected this slogan? They selected it because there was a certain... Read More
Whadda Jerk!
If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool. Carl Jung Sadly, public discourse today seems to have degenerated into warring parties spitting epithets at one another. With little inclination to see the other's point of view, the parties are reduced to name calling,... Read More
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Managing After Downsizing
So, you survived the downsizing. Your company did something that... Read More
Creativity and Innovation Management - Turning Ideas into Action
The phrase "turning ideas into action" is a Russian doll.Managing... Read More
The Death Spiral
Sometimes things just happen. Maybe we lose focus and take... Read More
4 Simple Steps to Successful Delegation
Last month, my featured article was about creating a "Stop... Read More
Smart Staffing: Replacing a Key Manager
Have you been in this situation? One of your top... Read More
Ten Secrets of Super Successful Meeting Planners
Whoever said that being a meeting planner was easy, lied!... Read More
Measure for Measure
Can you imagine playing hockey without a goal? Basketball without... Read More
Appraisal Systems - Not Living Up to Their Objectives
Almost, if not all organisations have them, they've been around... Read More
Marketing Miracle: Outsource Your Creative Services
The current economy is causing most companies to tighten their... Read More
Competion or Cooperation?
It has been said, there is no better way to... Read More
Meaningful Diversity: Creating Cultures of Inclusion
In the fitness room the other day, I caught a... Read More
The Fairness of Office Politics... Integrity and Political Motivation!
I hear many complaints daily about the "unfairness" of politics... Read More
Making Assumptions - A Critical Communication Mistake In Business And In Your Personal Life!
We draw conclusions about people through observation, their behavior, past... Read More
A Rare Leadership Skill: Dealing With People Who Want Out By Offering Crowns For Convoy
As a leader, you'll inevitably be faced with people wanting... Read More
Tales from the Corporate Frontlines:Choosing an Effective Employee Recognition Program
This article relates to the Recognition competency, commonly evaluated in... Read More
Hiring Great People And How to Be One Yourself: Five Secrets
Bad news.Your senior vice-president, your marketing director or your accounting... Read More
Leadership Skill: How to Handle Difficult Conversations
A good leader has the ability to empower others. It... Read More
Management Team Section of Business Plans
Writing an award winning business plan is a great skill,... Read More
Bullying and the Not for Profit Organisation
Where there is people there is politics! Bullying is now... Read More
Better Management Performance - The Easy 3-Step Way
Managers make three mistakes when they try to run businesses.... Read More
Got A Meeting Planned? Ask This Question
Meetings ? they are a fact of our business lives.... Read More
Is Your Management Style Assisting or Hurting Your Business?
Many times business owners can have significant differences in management... Read More
Sending Documents Through Email? Dont Get Burned by Metadata!
During a recent seminar I gave located in the suburbs... Read More
Temporary Employees and Operational Problems; Your Use of Temps Might Reveal Warning Signs
A recent Washington Post article, described the life of temporary... Read More
Keeping and Motivating the Best Employees
Keeping and Motivating the Best Employees ... Read More
Management to the Vision-Contribution and the Role of Compliance
As a manager our role is to:1. Establish the vision,... Read More
What Every Manager Should Know About How to Become An Effective Executive
In his book, The Effective Executive, Peter Drucker pointed out... Read More
Magnificent Meetings - 5 Tips for Success
Your impact at meetings will determine in a big way... Read More
Organize your Office- Seven Solutions
1. Create a filing system with broad categories such as... Read More
ISO 9001, What Next?
The overriding goal of ISO-14000. (History 1995)As ISO-9000 becomes a... Read More
Top Ten Tips for Outstanding Customer Service
Remember the 80:20 rule? You may not get everything perfectly... Read More
Innovation, Idea Selection, Valuation
There is no sure fire route to commercial success, but... Read More
A Leadership Screw Driver: The 90 Day Improvement Plan
I was talking with first-line supervisors in a utility company... Read More
Avoid These Seven Deadly Dangers Of Outsourcing
Here are seven dangers of outsourcing your software development. They... Read More
How Can A Communications Audit Help You?
Organizations communicate in two directions: internally to staff and externally... Read More
Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing in a Business Perspective
Business IntelligenceBusiness Intelligence has become a very important activity in... Read More
Future Business Success - What Does Good Look Like?
When you know you need to shift up a gear,... Read More
Overcoming Resistance
Virtually any type of organizational change involves role transitions of... Read More
Better Management Performance - The Easy 3-Step Way
Managers make three mistakes when they try to run businesses.... Read More
Innovation Management ? the power of decision makers
Creativity can be defined as problem identification and idea generation... Read More
6 Simple Steps to Dealing with Difficult Managers
The challenge of managing difficult managers can be rather daunting,... Read More
Lawyers With 2 Hands And Everything Else
I heard this back a few years ago. The boss... Read More
The Leaders Fallacy May Be Howard Deans Undoing
Howard Dean's tenure as chairman of the Democratic National Committee... Read More
Problem Solving
When problem solving, you may recognize that you were working... Read More
Managing Creativity
Creativity Starts Here!The ability of an organisation to create new... Read More
Innovation Management ? Innovation or Profit?
Creativity can be defined as problem identification and idea generation... Read More
Basic Management Skills
Recent studies have shown that industrial supervisors are working at... Read More
Are You At The Mercy Of Computer Geeks?
Many business owners are sabotaging their business without even realizing... Read More
Managers? Biggest Blunders
Nobody's perfect, including the boss. Managers, we polled recently, acknowledged... Read More
Objects in the Mirror are Further Than They Appear
Definition From http://www.merriamwebster.com -- "Virtual: - being such in essence... Read More
Four Corners of a Triangle: Why Organizations Succeed or Fail
When we want to hire people for a corporation or... Read More
Turnover is Not a Problem
"Ha!" you say. "For someone to make a statement like... Read More
Top Ten Tips About Communicating with Your Employees Effectively
Communication is the basis of who you are as a... Read More
Avoiding The Sheep Dip
It is a sad fact that many employees are still... Read More
The Red Phone - Management Consulting in 30 Seconds or Less
Modern business faces complex problems; management often calls upon highly-specialized... Read More
Best Workplaces
The Best Workplaces report (Financial Times, April 28, 2005) notes... Read More
Making Assumptions - A Critical Communication Mistake In Business And In Your Personal Life!
We draw conclusions about people through observation, their behavior, past... Read More
Five Strategies To Strengthen Your Company?s Financial Management
Too many businesses wait until a crisis occurs before they... Read More
Leading Meetings: The Top Three Challenges
What do people really find challenging about leading meetings? Here... Read More
Lean Principles in Action
AbstractThe electrical products industry is one characterized by fierce competition,... Read More
Is Chess Good for Management?
The game of chess has been applauded and taught in... Read More
Unravelling the Data Mining Mystery - The Key to Dramatically Higher Profits
Data mining is the art of extracting nuggets of gold... Read More
Islam in the Workplace
Suggested practice for HR personnelMuslims now form one of the... Read More
Top 5 Services Your Company?s Accounting Department Should Outsource
Accounting is one area which every company has to maintain... Read More
3 Innovation Keys - Do Your Innovative Efforts Need More Power?
Recently, I attended a webinar with nearly 400 other Chief... Read More
The Higher You Go
The higher you go, the cooler it becomes. Really? Let... Read More
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