Oasis in a Cash Flow Desert - Four Resources That Increase Small Business Capital Streams
For small business owners, an enthusiastic vision for smooth, steady growth can become nothing more than a mirage once company cash flow problems begin to heat up. Most will struggle with the timing of payment from clients or customers at some point, all while attempting to pay their own bills... Read More
Performance Evaluation: How To Create Change
STEPS TOWARDS GIVING A GOOD APPRAISAL INTERVIEW: Give specific feedback. Statements such as, "You're doing a good job" and "You'd better shape up" are almost without value unless accompanied by specific feedback on what the employee is to continue doing or to stop doing. If you evaluate with the word... Read More
Make the Most of Your Time - Focus on Strengths
Once working and focused in tune with what they do best, your people are freed up to deliver their very best performances. They encourage others to work to their strengths too. Thus, each is far more effective. By recognising this in each other, there is another benefit. Everyone realises the... Read More
Hire Winners: Ask the Right Questions
How do you as a manager, supervisor or team leader hire winners? One very successful interviewing technique is behavioral interviewing---selecting the right person for the right job using a job-related rather than a gut feel approach. A job-related approach is asking for a behavioral example of skills and traits that... Read More
ISO 9001 2000, Getting Started on The Route To Registration
ISO 9001 2000, Getting startedBefore starting the ISO 9001 2000 route to registration you will need to have the top management on board. This can be achieved by highlighting to top management the cost benefits to the business of ISO 9001 2000 registration.If you feel unable to sell the benefits... 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
Proven Secrets to Keeping Your People and Increasing Your Profits
Why are people changing jobs so quickly these days?Here are a few reasons why:They have a boring job therefore they feel they are not achieving anything.They have no leader to follow.They feel unappreciated.They work long hours and want a life.They are not paid what they are worth.The above reasons are... Read More
5 Steps to Identify Core Processes
Part Two of Creating Well-Defined Processes SeriesNext Week: ImplementationLast week, we raised the question: how do you know where to begin? How can you identify a gap in one of your company's core processes?The answer: follow the money trail?But how do you follow the money trail, and what will that... Read More
The Myth Of Relationship Selling Revealed At Last
The second you quit being the 'best deal' for your customer, he'll drop you like a hot potato. Regardless of how many lunches you've bought him or birthdays you've remembered.Every business we've ever consulted tells us the same thing about their sales force. They say that their industry is different... Read More
Sarbanes Oxley 404 Compliance - How Nov. 15, 2004 Deadline Affects You
Fast Relief for Sarbanes Oxley Section 404 ComplianceSection 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires management to confirm the effectiveness of their IT and financial controls in an "internal control report", which is contained within the annual report (10-K) issued to the public. But what exactly is an internal control report,... Read More
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3 Simple Things the Best Managers Do - And You Can Too!
If it's so simple, why don't managers all over the... Read More
Problem-Solving Success Tip: Use Your Time for Problems that are Truly Important
Use your time for problems that are truly important.Hard as... Read More
Well-Defined Processes ? How to Create
Interested in learning how to reduce development time, save money... Read More
Executive Performance -- Whos to Blame for Incompetent Managers?
A recent article in the Wall Street Journal raised the... Read More
Phone Sex is Bad for Business
On August 3rd/2005, Reuters reported that a German man had... Read More
A Journey of a Thousand Miles
You can't build a reputation on what you are "going"... Read More
Assertiveness Helps Accomplish Everything
When trying to get something accomplished, assertive behavior is the... Read More
How Can A Communications Audit Help You?
Organizations communicate in two directions: internally to staff and externally... Read More
Employee Success! - 7 Ways Feedback Works
By sharing how well you are doing and how well... Read More
How to Manage Your People Well: Tips for Managers of Training
As a training manager, there are two important aspects to... Read More
Tales from the Corporate Frontlines: Adapting Human Resource Functions
This article relates to the human resource functions competency, commonly... Read More
Tales from the Corporate Frontlines: The Organizational Structure of Our Growing Business
This article relates to the organizational structure competency, commonly evaluated... Read More
Delegation for Business Leaders - How Letting Go Works
A leader's role is to focus on those areas of... Read More
Tales from the Corporate Frontlines: Improving Workplace Safety
This article relates to the Safety and Working Environment competency... Read More
Climb out of the Box - How to Hold Effective Meetings
Out of the box thinking is a popular fad today.... Read More
It?s Not All About Cheese: The Missing Component in Employee Development (Part 2)
In part one of this article I told you about... 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
Human Resource Communication Pays Off
Human Resource Communications and Corporate Communications ? are they one... Read More
Training Managers and New Trainers
Training managers use many of the same interpersonal and analytical... Read More
Important Communication Tips For Managers
The following tips will help you communicate more effectively with... Read More
Reflections in the Glass Ceiling
The recent news about one of America's most powerful woman... Read More
Effective Email Communication
Email, when used properly, can generate additional direct sales and... Read More
What are Your Best Practices?
Best Practices StudiesThese studies can be defined as inquiries into... Read More
Use QA As Your First Step To Outsourcing
Quality Assurance, or QA, is often given short shrift in... Read More
Employee Retention: Five Leadership Fundamentals
Are your management practices on the right track? Retaining your... Read More
Creating Your Own Business Upturn - Powering Business Development
We all see it . . . business markets are... Read More
Top 7 Methods to Empower Employees
How many times have you asked someone to do something... Read More
Leadership: Stoking The Success Train
Everyone wants to succeed yet everyone has a different perception... Read More
Can Your Corporate Policy Pass the Monkeys, Bananas, and Water-spray Experiment?
Five monkeys were placed in a cage. A banana was... Read More
Integrity... Should It Matter?
In our fast paced work culture, manned by technology savvy... Read More
How to Hire the Right People
One of the biggest challenges any business owner or manager... Read More
Innovation Management ? Raw brainpower versus experience
Creativity can be defined as problem identification and idea generation... Read More
How to Help Your Company Become a World Class Company
Most people think real change in an organization occurs as... Read More
How to Make a Difference Every Day
Every day, everyone can make the world a better place.... Read More
Forget The Sandwich Technique
Do you remember being told to use the "sandwich" technique... Read More
A Corporate Facelift With Sound Bytes
If Baby Boomers can get botox and tummy tucks, then... Read More
6 Ways to Keep Things Simple
Six Ways to Keep Things Simple We can have greater... Read More
25 Super-Practical Steps to Build Your Business!
For the past several weeks, we have focused on some... Read More
How to Overcome Your Fear of Firing
OVERCOMING FEAR OF FIRING "It was obvious that this employee... Read More
What Every Manager Should Know About How to Maximize the Two People Inside
Every one of us, in reality, has two people inside:... Read More
2 Steps For Increasing Company Profits or Performing Business Turnarounds
1. Eliminate wasteEliminate reports, habits, products, duplicate input, and processes... Read More
The Top Six Reasons to Buy Rather Than Build an Inventory Management Solution
Is building your own inventory management solution really your best... Read More
4 Tips on How to Avoid Communication Lines Breakdown
For example, in a small, two-person company, there is often... Read More
Truth or Consequences: How to Give Employee Feedback
In the bestseller, Good to Great, Jim Collins discovered that,... Read More
Warning! Meeting In Progress; May Be Hazardous To Your Career
There ought to be a sign posted on every closed... Read More
How to Create an Operations Manual
An operations manual can act as a tool for training... Read More
Creativity and Innovation Management :- Thought Leadership
Leadership is only sustainable when leaders consistently come up with... Read More
How to Attract and Retain the Right People
If you're one of the many executives struggling with finding... Read More
Team Motivation - Tough Enough to Care
Sir Alex Ferguson has just celebrated his 1000 game in... Read More
Marketing Miracle: Outsource Your Creative Services
The current economy is causing most companies to tighten their... Read More
Think Before You Talk
What you say to other people can make or break... Read More
A Winning Way to Handle New Ideas
Janet DiClaudio, who was charge of medical records at two... Read More
Help for the Meeting-Weary Manager
Most of us have found ourselves working on a team... Read More
Is Your Business A Dysfunctional Family?
The other day I brought my mother into an appliance... Read More
Motivating For Higher Performance
Employee motivation is probably the most important single manageable factor... Read More
Training Adults, Not Teaching Children
Adults are vulnerable to personal and professional embarrassment from poor... Read More
Creating Advisory Boards
There is no substitute for soliciting the opinions of the... Read More
The Higher You Go
The higher you go, the cooler it becomes. Really? Let... Read More
Attract and Retain Positively Great Employees - An Action Plan for Employee Training
Everyday a business owner, CEO, or manager somewhere is complaining... Read More
Shrinkage Control
What has been your store's shrinkage experience for the last... Read More
The Seven Cs: Partnership Danger Signs - Conflict Becoming the Norm ? Part 2
A series of articles exploring the seven critical areas that... Read More
Your Organization Is Only as Good as Your People
Let's begin by singing the jingle from an old US... Read More
What Personal Assistants Really Want
What would happen if the personal assistants in your organisation... Read More
Business Opportunity - Leverage Your Employees!
As a business asset, they don't sit well on the... Read More
Effective Meetings: Why Most Meetings are a Waste of Time
Whether your company holds one meeting a week or dozens... Read More
Managers? Biggest Blunders
Nobody's perfect, including the boss. Managers, we polled recently, acknowledged... Read More
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