How Managers Can Turn Failures Into Successes
Although there are real, external reasons for managerial difficulty ? including massive reorganization after takeovers and the realities of discrimination due to age, sex, and race ? managers fail most often for reasons they themselves create.These reasons include ignoring the application of emotional intelligence, failure to recognize individual motivation to... Read More
Big Company Intelligence on a Small Company Budget
Information is the lifeblood of the economy. That's especially true for businesses, because the ability to identify current customers and locate new prospects makes the difference between boom and bust. So how do successful companies do it? Through targeted market research, which usually means arcane computer systems, large staffs, and... Read More
Inspiring Loyalty and Contentment in Your Workforce
One of the first things I look at when I take over a new department or division is the attitudes of the managers and /or supervisors.I ask myself the following questions;Do they inspire loyalty in their staff?If not, why not?If they do, how do they do it?The workforce of any... Read More
What Every HR Manager Should Know About Hiring Productive Employees
The characteristics of job applicants have a strong influence on whether or not they get hired. Their characteristics also indicate the level of their productivity. If you are about to hire employees, consider the characteristics listed below in checklist form. The candidates who possess them are probably the ones who... Read More
Dissenion Down On The Cubicle Farm
How content and satisfied are American employees? Not very!According to Corinne Maier, a psychotherapist and author of "Bonjour Laziness," corporate cubicle inhabitants are anything but tranquil and joyous. These natives are truly restless.This French writer quotes a Gallup study of employed American professionals showing that:1. Some 17% claim to be... Read More
The Golden Key to Meeting Success
We all attend many meetings. I'm sure you have been to some great meetings and some poor ones. Unfortunately for everyone I've ever talked to, the number of poor ones far outweighs the number of great ones.The fact is that most meetings are too long, unfocused, too frustrating, and unproductive.And... Read More
Is Your Business Ethical?
Ethics - in a profession or trade - is that branch of philosophy which studies the principles of right and wrong in human conduct.Is your business ethical?What I mean is "Does your business do the right thing when faced with that decision?" It's a simple question, which many businesses struggle... Read More
How to Make a Difference Every Day
Every day, everyone can make the world a better place. It's simple; it's quick and it is free. All it requires is a recipe containing you (yes, that's YOU!), awareness and a natural disposition to be brave enough to change the day of everyone you come into contact with in... Read More
I Cant Use This Approach Unless My Boss Does - Power, Accountability, and Consequences
People who work with us often struggle with this dilemma: in theory, they come to believe that it would be very helpful to use our approach with people who have more power than they do, and in practice, sometimes it seems too risky to try. Some examples of things that... Read More
Its All About The Customers, Baby
If you want to ensure a steady stream of customers in your business, you must always remember why you're in business in the first place.Sure you want to earn a decent income for yourself, but you also want to provide a useful service don't you?That second reason should take precedence... Read More
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Five Problem-Solving Success Tips
The ability to solve complicated problems quickly is more important... Read More
Smart Hiring: What Makes the Right Employee?
Good hires do not happen by accident or luck. In... 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... Read More
Meaningful Diversity: Creating Cultures of Inclusion
In the fitness room the other day, I caught a... Read More
Innovation Management ? some ideas are better than others
Creativity can be defined as problem identification and idea generation... Read More
Interviewing: How to Stay Out of legal Hot Water
Some interviewers ask great questions; others ask dumb questions; and,... Read More
Top 5 Services Your Company?s Accounting Department Should Outsource
Accounting is one area which every company has to maintain... Read More
Growing Profits is Easy!
Everyone involved in running a business from the smallest start-up... Read More
10 Ways To Work Through A Business Slowdown
In running any kind of business, it's inevitable that sometimes... Read More
Human Resource Communication Pays Off
Human Resource Communications and Corporate Communications ? are they one... Read More
Creativity and Innovation Management ? Feasibility
Creativity can be defined as problem identification and idea generation... Read More
More Problem-Solving Success Tips
The ability to solve complicated problems quickly is more important... Read More
Innovation Management ? The Need For Knowledge Managers
Creativity can be defined as problem identification and idea generation... Read More
Ten Top Ways for Managers to Motivate Their People
So to help start the ball rolling, here are ten... Read More
Personnel Access Poses a Continued Risk
The Security Consultant's Perspective...Implementing Personnel Security Initiatives should be the... Read More
Meetings: Don?t Just Show Up, Stand Out and Shine
Meetings, whether they're regularly scheduled routines in your company or... Read More
Cultural Differences: Making it Work Virtually
Working virtually adds a whole new dimension to the phrase... Read More
Treat Employees Fairly, Car Wash Entrepreneur sets Industry Standards
I believe that whether corporations expense their stock options is... Read More
Delegating Responsibility
Too many managers waste both time and energy performing tasks... Read More
Innovation Management: What Problem Is Being Solved?
Creativity can be defined as problem identification and idea generation... Read More
Spinning Gold from Straw: Low-Cost Employee Retention and Motivation Tools in a Changing Economy
New York, NY, February 25, 2005 ? Employee retention and... Read More
Loyalty, Motivation And Work-Life Balance
Managers who aren't loyal to their people can't expect loyalty... Read More
The Top 10 Requirements for Your Business to Become and Remain Profitable
We live in a relentlessly competitive world. The daily pressure... Read More
Interviewing Candidates: 3 Ways to Avoid Snap Judgments
Have you ever hired the wrong person? If so, perhaps... Read More
Innovation Management and Brainstorming Management ? why people hate to brainstorm!
Creativity can be defined as problem identification and idea generation... Read More
Islam in the Workplace
Suggested practice for HR personnelMuslims now form one of the... Read More
How to Get Your Procedures Project Done
Wouldn't it be nice for business owners and executives to... Read More
Business Innovation ? Ignoring Content
Creativity can be defined as problem identification and idea generation... Read More
Turbo Charge Your Career With The Most Powerful Leadership Tool Of All: The Leadership Talk: Part 1
Leaders speak 15 to 20 times daily. You speak at... Read More
10 Steps Towards A Stress-Free Introduction Into Management
Becoming a manager for the first time can be an... Read More
Invite Self-Managed Staff
"Treat people as if they were what they ought to... Read More
The Importance of Business Goals
For you to get where you want to go, there... Read More
Six Honest Business Friends - They Guide Me In All I Do
SIX "HONEST BUSINESS FRIENDS" - THEY GUIDE ME IN ALL... Read More
Managing Group Meetings
MANAGING SMALL MEETINGS: Keep the size of the meeting as... Read More
Basic Management Skills
Recent studies have shown that industrial supervisors are working at... Read More
Meeting Your Meeting Expectations
"To get something done a meeting should consist of no... Read More
6 Simple Steps to Dealing with Difficult Managers
The challenge of managing difficult managers can be rather daunting,... Read More
Small Business Checking Accounts
ACCOUNTING AND BILLINGCHECK BOOKSWe recommend that you maintain a business... Read More
Travel the World - for Free!
I have been very fortunate to travel to several countries... Read More
Eight Key Steps to Building B2B Major Account Client Alliances
Audiences who saw the fabled Broadway musical, Chorus Line, marveled... Read More
Its a Training Issue!
There's a common phrase used by Organizational Development and Human... Read More
Five Strategies To Strengthen Your Company?s Financial Management
Too many businesses wait until a crisis occurs before they... Read More
Conference Calling Can Save Your Sales OrganizationTime and Money!
Conference calling can save you money. There is no doubt... Read More
Creativity and Innovation Management in Conservative, Staid Organisations
Conservative and staid organisations generally have a harder time implementing... 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
Integrity... Should It Matter?
In our fast paced work culture, manned by technology savvy... Read More
Learning To Let Go
If you have the entrepreneurial spirit (which clearly you have!),... Read More
Middle Managers Behaving Badly ? How To Stop This Damaging Your Results
More and more I hear and read about a looming... Read More
Dialogue: the Four Dialogic Principles For Successful Communication
"But you don't understand!" exclaimed the manager, "this new initiative... Read More
Human Resources: The Misidentified Subject
Interest in the field of human resources has exploded in... Read More
Focus Leads To Nonprofit Success: Is Your Organization Rowing or Drifting
Picture yourself standing on the bank of a river watching... Read More
Innovation Management and Brainstorming Management ? why people hate to brainstorm!
Creativity can be defined as problem identification and idea generation... Read More
Is Your Business A Dysfunctional Family?
The other day I brought my mother into an appliance... Read More
Inventory Management 101
Inventory management may seem complicated to some, but if one... Read More
Ten Business Reasons Why Asking for Help Works
In fact, bringing your people - any of them -... Read More
Innovation Management ? IBM Opens Lid On Its Treasure Chest
IBM, which registered 3248 patents last year, has decided that... Read More
Can What Someone Does Off-hours Affect Your Business?
Q: How much do I have to worry about what... Read More
Align The Enterprise & Make Beautiful Music Together
Q: Why is a great business like a great marching... Read More
Selective Job Cuts Often Benefits Firm More Than Broad Layoffs Over Long Term
It is difficult to pick up a newspaper or listen... Read More
What Makes A Good Media Story?
Media relations can be difficult, but also rewarding. And the... Read More
Tales from the Corporate Frontlines: A New Managers Tale
This article relates to the Manager/Supervisor competency, commonly evaluated in... Read More
Top Ten Things About Creating a Business Vision
To visualise where you are going, is deeper and more... Read More
Retaining An Expert -- What Every Business Owner Needs To Know
As an entrepreneur, hiring an expert can be one of... Read More
How Invisible Communication Barriers Kill Productivity
Many kinds of interferences or disturbances can confuse a message.... Read More
10 Ways To Maintain Profits In A Slow Economy
1. Sell more back end products to your existing customer... Read More
Parenting Your Employees to Better Performance
Have you ever worked for someone who was such a... Read More
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