Turn Your Speech Into A Leadership Talk
My experience working with thousands of leaders world wide for the past two decades teaches me that most leaders are screwing up their careers.On a daily basis, these leaders are getting the wrong results or the right results in the wrong ways.Interestingly, they themselves are choosing to fail. They're actively... Read More
Effective Meetings by Phone - Part 1, How to Plan a Teleconference
Teleconferences can be a boon or a bust. On the positive side, they allow people at different locations to attend meetings without having to travel. On the negative side, they can degenerate into frustrating struggles with uncontrolled babble. This occurs because people lack visual contact, which hinders effective communication and... Read More
Virtual Assistance: A Money Saving Opportunity For Employers
What is a Virtual Assistant? A Virtual Assistant is a highly skilled, independent entrepreneur who provides business services in a remote or virtual environment. Some have used terms like telecommuter or working from home.Employers are looking for alternatives to having a full-time employee. Hiring a skilled Virtual Assistant helps to... Read More
Todays Employees and Their New Needs: What You Need to Know
Today's employees are not only interested in security or in pay and fringe benefits. They are often placing increased value on being recognized and involved in reaching personal growth goals. As a supervisor you must be aware of these new values. Keeping your employees' interests and priorities will help you... Read More
Employee Surveys: a Strategic Tool for Positive Change
Do you want to measure your workers' level of satisfaction? Or change policies and procedures to make them more effective? Or find out if your supervisors are stuck in out-dated ways of managing? Good Idea! But how do you make sure you are getting reliable information to make sound management... Read More
How Bad Communication Can Hold You Back and How to Break Free of It
The reason jobs are often not done right and employees are fired is because of lack of skill. Right? Wrong! Poor communication and ineffective human relations are the major causes. Remember: Communication is a "meeting of meanings." It's getting through to the other person what you mean in a way... Read More
The Silent Assassin - What to Do When They Visit You?
IntroductionThere are a group of people in the community that will some time in their career visit your business; the silent assassin.The silent assassin displays all the qualities of a serial killer as they silently wreck havoc in your business through unrest, sabotage, bullying and non-productivity.Modus OperandiThe silent assassin is... Read More
Across The Interview Table!
Job interviews are easier for the interviewer or the interviewee if you plan and prepare and use proper interviewing techniques. On this page are job interview questions and purpose of each interview question, because there is a purpose behind each and everything that we do and similarly there should be... Read More
Vampire Meetings and How To Slay Them
Meetings can be like mythical vampires ? sucking the life out of intelligent and creative people. And sucking the funds out of businesses. Unfortunately, there are too many of these meetings in business today.A UCLA study said the "typical" meeting includes nine people. If you have nine people in a... Read More
Best Practices Plan: Dissemination of a Great Idea
Good news spreads quickly News of the invention of the wheel must have traveled in every direction as quickly as horse or camel could run. Those who learned of its advantages over the litter and the sledge adopted it right away. And no sooner was it adopted than it began... Read More
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IT Expenditure - Why Businesses Spend Huge Amounts on Ineffective IT Investments
Another IT White Elephant!It seems that almost every day we... Read More
The Seven Cs: Partnership Danger Signs - Conflict Becoming the Norm ? Part 1
A series of articles exploring the seven critical areas that... Read More
Employee Retention: Its a Changing Game
As a management consultant, I have seen some poorly conceived... Read More
Business Innovation ? Ignoring Content
Creativity can be defined as problem identification and idea generation... Read More
Why Outsourcing Could Be The Best Thing You Do For Your Business
While it's probably not true to say that the traditional... Read More
The Diamond Cutter
Geshe Michael Roach is a Princeton graduate and a Buddhist... Read More
ISO 9001 Okay Now You Have It How Do You Market It?
Marketing ISO 9001 2000.Lately we've been seeing a lot of... Read More
Creative Writing - business principles produce more quality work, faster
Maximization methodologies have long been used in business to produce... Read More
Think it Over
You can't solve a problem with the... Read More
Paretos Law- Your Formula For Success
A 'dirt-world' retail business I used to manage had a... Read More
Focus on Outcomes to Keep Your Business On-Course
Did you know that an airplane in flight is off... Read More
Build Your Business (On A Shoestring): Hire a College Intern
Starting up a new venture or business can be one... Read More
Improve Operations by Restructuring
Transitioning from Vertical Hierarchies to Decentralized / Flatter OrganizationsThe need... Read More
Organize your Office- Seven Solutions
1. Create a filing system with broad categories such as... Read More
Its All About The Customers, Baby
If you want to ensure a steady stream of customers... Read More
Out of Control?
There are papers on the floor, across the desk and... Read More
Problem Solving the Problem Solving Meeting
We go to meetings to share information, to report on... Read More
How Your Business Can Pick A Software Developer
Eventually, your business is going to need to have some... Read More
Diversity in the Workplace
As you look around your office, is everyone just like... Read More
What To Do When Your IT Project Is Late, Over Budget, and Looks Like It?s Never Going To Work
Here's a scary statistic. According to four prominent research firms,... Read More
Can What Someone Does Off-hours Affect Your Business?
Q: How much do I have to worry about what... Read More
Are You A B.O.S.S. -- Boisterous, Omnipotent, Self Indulgent, Sociopath
Boisterous, Omnipotent, Self- indulgent Sociopath. Avoid the B.O.S.S. syndrome with... Read More
Organizing The Information
Putting a piece of paper in a file folder is... Read More
Quality Hiring: Are You Doing It Right?
Quality hiring is more than running ads, screening, interviewing and... Read More
The 5 Obsessions of a Passionate Employee
A recent report entitled "How Google Grows?and Grows?and Grows" stated... Read More
Travel the World - for Free!
I have been very fortunate to travel to several countries... Read More
Difficult Staff - It Pays To Get To Know Them Better
It's very easy for a business owner or manager to... Read More
How to Deal With Salespeople
If you are an executive, you may sometimes feel like... Read More
Medical Malpractice: Three Myths That Cost Your Hospital Millions
What's the use?Nothing you do will hold down the cost... Read More
Its a Training Issue!
There's a common phrase used by Organizational Development and Human... 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
Tales From the Corporate Frontlines: Diversity in the Workplace: Ethnic Considerations
This article relates to the Diversity in the Workplace Competency,... Read More
How to Fire an Employee
One of the most difficult tasks you will face as... Read More
How to Beat the Turf Mentality
Want to hear a fascinating story? Let's sit in at... Read More
What To Do When Your IT Project Is Late, Over Budget, and Looks Like It?s Never Going To Work
Here's a scary statistic. According to four prominent research firms,... Read More
Group Meeting Disrupters
MEETING DISRUPTERS: If two participants are carrying on a personal... Read More
How to Make a Difference Every Day
Every day, everyone can make the world a better place.... Read More
Dont Sweat the Small Stuff with Your Credit Policy
Do you know how many customers you have that are... Read More
Delegate, Dont Abdicate
One of the key skills for the leaders of growing... Read More
6 Shared Factors of Successful Executives
These factors where determined by interviews with and books from... Read More
Strategic Outsourcing: Testing the Outsourcing Waters and Staying Afloat
Before Gertrude Ederle began her historic swim off of Cape... Read More
Performance Evaluations Can Be Beneficial
THE PERFORMANCE REVIEW MEETING: It's a fact - most supervisors... 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
Business Innovation ? Ignoring Content
Creativity can be defined as problem identification and idea generation... Read More
Feedback - Make it Descriptive
Have you ever heard yourself say to a team member... Read More
Innovation Management ? Time to Market or Time to Success?
Creativity can be defined as problem identification and idea generation... Read More
How To Decrease Profits Without Really Trying
Hurting your sales efforts can be accomplished easily with the... Read More
Group Decision Making : Are the Decisions Really Made by the Group?
GROUP DECISION-MAKING: Many managers feel they are well-versed in areas... Read More
HRM: Contributing to Well-being or Ill-being at Work?
If you were to take the people out of an... Read More
3 Reasons Why CRM Strategies Fail
Customer relationship management (CRM) is one of the most effective... Read More
Employee Surveys: a Strategic Tool for Positive Change
Do you want to measure your workers' level of satisfaction?... Read More
11 Strategies on How to Work in An Open Plan Environment
Many work environments now are open plan, with only a... Read More
Think Before You Talk
What you say to other people can make or break... Read More
Four Ways To Make the Case For Outsourcing
How do you convert outsourcing leads into clients? You may... Read More
Cheat Sheet; Understanding The MSDS and Your Obligations In The Workplace To Employees
MSDS SHEETSMSDS stands for Material Safety Data Sheets. MSDS sheets... Read More
10 Steps When You Need Help in Your Business
If you think ahead and plan, many nightmare panic and... Read More
Einstein - Definition of Insanity
Insanity in the Sign & Graphics IndustryEinstein's DefinitionAlbert Einstein once... Read More
Characteristics/Attributes of a Lean Operation
Fundamentals in Place? There is a designated place for everything... Read More
Is Your Employee Newsletter Management Propaganda?
It should not be. If it is an effective newsletter,... Read More
Disaster Prevention Tips For Hiring A New Manager
It happens over and over in businesses every day.Within large... Read More
Creating A Vision ? Bringing Your Dreams Into Reality
Do you have some goals you want to achieve or... Read More
One Bad Apple
One Bad Apple I know what... Read More
4 Steps to Success In Life, Business, The Universe And Everything
Everyone wants to succeed in life. And no one starts... Read More
5 Steps to Continuous Process Improvement
Part One of Creating Well-Defined Processes SeriesWhat if your sales... Read More
Marketing Miracle: Outsource Your Creative Services
The current economy is causing most companies to tighten their... Read More
Interviewing: How to Stay Out of legal Hot Water
Some interviewers ask great questions; others ask dumb questions; and,... Read More
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