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- Prepare A Winning CV By Mel Dunn
There is every chance that elements of this article may not be appropriate for everyone in every situation – and that’s precisely the point! Every situation is different. No two projects are the same. No two Curriculum Development Specialist roles are necessarily identical, but for name. Context, duration, region, sub-sector and many other factors are likely to create requirements that are unique, even when very similar. So a standard CV, or your most recent one with a date change is not …
- Managing Employees Is A Little Like Herding Cats By Tim Knox
Q: I started my small business about a year ago and it's grown steadily. I like having my own business, but I'm having a tough time managing people. I have 5 employees now and it seems like I spend half my time making sure they are doing what they're supposed to be doing and the other half of my time doing things they didn't get done. Things were much easier when I was a one man shop. Any suggestions?
-- Paul C.A: Ah, Paul, welcome to the wonderful world of employee management, the bane of man…
- Communicate and Prosper
How much has poor communication cost your company in the past twelve months? Chances are, you have no idea. Chances are even better it's a lot more than you can afford.But you won’t find the numbers in the financial statements or year-end departmental reports. Nothing shows up saying 'lost productivity due to miserable meetings' or 'missed business opportunities through sorry selling skills' or 'employee quit because there's no communication around here.'Why? Because most people aren't sure what…
- Can A Business Still Be Profitable When People Skills Are Absent?
In our current world of rapid and amazing technological advances, many entrepreneurs have managed to dramatically limit the need for staff in highly profitable operations of all kinds.It is therefore tempting and believable to imagine that with every passing day, the need for people skills is diminishing. In fact most entrepreneurs are convinced that one no longer requires people skills to run a highly profitable enterprise. After all technology can do it all for you.This is both an unfortunate…
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- Effective Data Management
Mining data is one of the keys to running an effective business. Here's a primer on effectively managing your business data to maximize the efficiency of your business.
Effective data management plays an essential role for any growing business. Information technology has generated advanced tools for analyzing and managing data. Use of these tools can improve the performance of almost any operation. Steps made in capturing mass data electronically have developed the need for effective management …
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You Can't Afford the Luxury of Disengaged Employees By Jim Donovan
In today’s business environment with increases in staff reductions and rapidly changing roles and responsibilities, it is crucial that all of your team members be fully engaged in the tasks at hand. According to a Gallup survey, 350 billion dollars are lost each year in American companies due to disengaged employees. How then do you minimize the impact of this costly problem within your organization? Below are key strategies to help you grow your people toward peak performance and enable you t…
- A Corporate Facelift With Sound Bytes By R.J. Paradee
If Baby Boomers can get botox and tummy tucks, then why don’t companies receive facelifts to improve their image as well? The telephone is the lifeblood of any business. Use it respectfully. Don’t leave your clients on-hold to listen to radio static or elevator music. With digital recording and delivery of sound files, professional production of on-hold advertising is both economical and necessary for a positive image. That’s right – it’s imperative that the first impression a client receive…
- How Much Is Poor Time Management Costing You?
* If you were paying you to prioritise emails over coaching your team, would you feel you were getting a good return on your investment?* If you were paying you to waste time on trivia rather than planning your next quarters sales plan – would you think you were getting good value for money?* If you were paying you to sit in numerous unproductive meetings would you feel that was a worthwhile contribution?I suspect that the answer to those questions is no and yet, in effect, that’s exactly what y…
- Business Knowledge Management By Lucas Rodriguez Cervera
In the last few years a lot has been written about Business Process Management, and about technologies supporting it such as BPMS, SOAP and Web Services. Most of these theories, tools and techniques refer to processes of a highly structured nature.Typically, BPM theorists and practitioners have focused on highly structured processes, like back-office processes of industrial or administrative nature. These processes are highly standardized and repeatable, produce a consistent output and are lik…
- Why Employee Satisfaction Surveys And Employee Exit Surveys Make Good Sense By Martin Day
In a competitive world with the need for businesses to be more streamlined and productive a company can often find itself with a workforce working under pressure resulting in low moral and high staff turnover. The benefits of a company having a highly motivated workforce can be considerable and the two goals of having a workforce that is both motivated and productive should not be regarded as being mutually exclusive to one another.Left unattended employers run the risk of alienating their emp…
- Is ISO 9001 2000 Right For My Business? By John Oakland
Firstly you should decide your own reasoning behind considering ISO 9001 2000 registration for your business.Is the number of registrations in your market sector increasing?Are your competitors seeking registration?Are your customers asking about registration?Are registrations increasing in your industry?Are your customers asking you to become registered?Have your group HQ asked you to gain registration?Do you want to reap the financial benefits of registration?Have the number of customer or c…
- Employee Motivation: It’s More Than A Paycheck By Marcia Zidle
Managers often ask, usually with exasperation, “How can I keep my employees motivated? I pay them decently. What else is there?”Offering competitive salaries is certainly important. But a paycheck is what helps people get to sleep at night, not what gets them going in the morning.What keeps them committed to come in on the weekend or stay late or go that extra mile is more than money – it’s the day-to-day ‘stuff’ like respect, fairness, recognition and feeling in control of their small piec…
- What is the Best Incentive? By Bill Ritchie
Incentive schemes have been much criticised in recent years, and it is quite true that some schemes have been singularly unsuccessful. Their failure, however, has often been the result of inadequate planning, rushed introduction, or not thinking through such a scheme properly. These points should not be used to generally condemn other more successful applications.Whether any particular incentive scheme achieves long term success depends initially on the thoroughness with which the current work…
- Training Managers and New Trainers By Andrew E. Schwartz
Training managers use many of the same interpersonal and analytical skills that other types of departments use. In particular, they need to be good communicators, and highly skillful in interpersonal relations. They need to delegate effectively, support their staff emotionally, give accurate and timely feedback, and set departmental goals that are consistent with organizational goals. Barbara L. Thornton, an independent training consultant in the St. Paul area, says that training managers need…
- The Role of the Machine Metaphor in Mixed-initiative Organizational Leadership By Jidé Odubiyi
“Can This Marriage be Saved?” So reads the title of the cover story in the August 15, 2005 issue of BusinessWeek (www.businessweek.com). The article describes the seven-year (1998-2005) story of the merger of Daimler and Chrysler Corporation. As of this writing, the board of the merged companies decided to terminate the reign of the current chairman, Jürgen Schrempp. At the end of this year he will be replaced with Dieter Zetsche, the current head of the company’s operations in North America. …
- Five Essential Hiring Practices By Jan B. King
Recruiting and hiring are often done in haste, leaving the company to repent in the long run. Today, there’s a reason to be concerned about negligent hiring. Negligent hiring means you and your company can be sued if one of your hires injures other employees, especially if you could have foreseen a problem but did not do a thorough check of the new employee before hiring.The following list of five essential hiring practices establishes the minimum you should follow:1. Require outside testing. …
- Eight Skills of Highly Successful Consultants By Kevin Eikenberry
With deference to Dr. Covey and his very popular Seven Habits of Highly Effective People (all habits that will make us better consultants!), here are eight skills that all of us as consultants can work on to improve. This article will start with three overarching skills, then describe five more specific skills to consider in your ongoing development.
One way to look at your total skill set as a consultant (internal or external), is to consider your relative strengths in the three major porti…
- Who do you talk to?
Many of you reading this will be running businesses, or parts of, whether they are your own or not. This means that you have many things to deal with on a day to day basis plus trying to do the long-term thinking needed to lead and run the business. You probably find yourself being very busy, possibly working long hours and, if you are honest, being reactive most of the time. When do you get (or make!) time to really think about your business or the way you are operating personally? (Working on …
- Cheat Sheet; Understanding The MSDS and Your Obligations In The Workplace To Employees By Lance Winslow
MSDS SHEETSMSDS stands for Material Safety Data Sheets. MSDS sheets contain nine sections. These sections are:I. General InformationII. IngredientsIII. Physical DataIV. Fire and Explosion Hazard DataV. Health Hazard InformationVI. Reactivity DataVII. Spill, Leak and Disposal Procedures
VIII. Special Handling InformationIX. User’s ResponsibilityAt the top of each sheet is a square on end. It looks like a diamond shape. It is broken into four squares inside this diamond shape. The …
- Learn About Commercial Collections Agencies Fees By Steve Austin
As with any other service, there are good and bad commercial collection agencies. Beware of any agency that offers you cut rate commissions far below the accepted Commercial Law League rates, offers you kickbacks on commissions, or makes outlandish promises about recovery success.You should investigate, evaluate and rate the commercial collection agencies that you plan to use just as carefully as you do with customers when you grant credit. Here are some suggestions:
Use Commercial Collection …
- What Does Your Staff REALLY Want? Part 3
The 2005 'Best Places to Work' program study showed that, contrary to popular opinion, employee satisfaction didn't depend on salary. The most given answer as to what makes a company a great place to work is employee empowerment.
And what constitutes employee empowerment? I believe it comes down to a few basic principles, the third of which is effective communication.
EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION
Millions of words have been written on this subject, and yet it's still a huge problem, especially in th…
- Delegation for Business Leaders - How Letting Go Works By Martin Haworth
A leader’s role is to focus on those areas of operation where he or she can deliver the greatest value and this requires huge shifts in perspective of the role. Leaders differ from managers in terms of accountability.Whilst a leader is accountable for the strategic growth of the organisation and the delivery of results, a manager is more responsible of delivery of shorter-term results through people.These are, of course, generalisations and roles vary.Developing others through delegation is a…
- How to Make a Difference Every Day By Martin Haworth
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 a positive way.Appreciating what people do for you, whenever you come into contact with them is the first step. It may not sound much, but saying a sincere 'Thank You' means much to many people - it is not what they exper…
- The Myth Of Relationship Selling Revealed At Last By Rich Harshaw
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 from all the others and the only effective way for their salespeople to sell is to build buddy-buddy relationships with their prospects and customers. We hear it from printers, bankers, jewelers, …
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Colleagues, I feel your pain on this issue.Scenario #1: You've got a critical position that needs to be filled by a qualified candidate, and quick. For every day the position doesn't get filled, your in-box fills up a bit more with work to be done because your unfilled position hasn't been staffed. You see tons of resumes and have interviewed scores of candidates, but the rock star you're looking for isn't emerging. You refuse to "settle" for a mediocre candidate, but the work is piling up and…
2. Work Life Balance - Getting It Right!
I have previously covered the importance of business strategy, and achieving work life balance is an important factor in developing an ability to think and plan strategically.In recent years working practices and hours have become more flexible and it has become normal practice for employers to grant maternity and paternity leave. This has enabled many workers find a better balance between their work and personal lives.However, owner managers face a more taxing situation. Many think they have n…
3. New UK Laws on Staff Dispute Resolution and Disciplinary Procedures By David Miles
October 2004 saw the introduction of the Employment Act 2002, which has brought a new approach to staff dispute resolution.It has long been acknowledged that disputes in the workplace are disruptive, stressful, and costly – both for employers and employees. Once time and legal expenses are taken into account, the average cost of an employment tribunal for a UK employer is £2,000. In addition, it is said that 50% of employees who take a case to a tribunal end up in lower paid or lower sta…
4. Creating Unlimited Belief for Success!
What's holding your team back from experiencing 'breakout performance'? It may be those Old beliefs and Personal Insecurities (aka: conceptual barriers)? Conceptual barriers are the barriers that are right behind the eyes, DEEP within the brain. 'Beliefs' which were planted at a very young age and re-enforced over a long period of time - which is why they are so hard to 'dislodge'. Use the following exercise to help your team members identify their limiting beliefs and feelings. Then explain how…
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