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  1. How to Coach Your Emplyees and Increase Motivation By Andrew E. Schwartz
    It is easy to spot the difference between a work team that is “motivated” and one that just goes through the motions. The motivated team produces at or above the level expected by top management, has only occasional absences or tardiness, and low employee turnover. The second group has trouble meeting its goals, greater absenteeism, and higher turnover. In addition, members of the latter work team may be more apt to argue with one another or to band together against their supervisor. Can a sup…


  2. The Silent Assassin - What to Do When They Visit You? By Philip Lye
    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 a work of art! They stalk their victim/s purposely as they maintain an outward veneer of respectability towards management and those that have authority. They…


  3. Motivating Unmotivated People
    Motivating Unmotivated PeopleBy John Strelecky- Author of The Why Are You Here Café If you walk around a Walt Disney World resort or theme park, you are likely to witness something that in most other settings would seem bizarre. Not the presence of a large animated character, although you may witness that also. Rather, at any given moment, a person in dress clothes will be walking from one destination to another and will stop, pick up a piece of paper, a cup, or other piece of trash someone dro…


  4. Einstein, The Universe, And Leadership By Brent Filson
    Every since serving a hitch in the military, I have been nagged by the question that's been hanging around leadership since time immemorial: How can some leaders persuade people to believe in them and follow them and other leaders can't? But it wasn't the military that provided me with a framework to answer that question. It was Albert Einstein and his quest for the unified field theory of the universe.Einstein is well known for his special and general theories of relativity, two of the cro…


  5. Recycling, Reverse Logistics and…..Candy By Vernon Stent
    The candy box is a container for all your favourite chew bars, gum and all your other favourite candy. A must-have for all kids and a great fashion accessory! The marketers are desperate for kids to user their box - so much so that they will soon be giving them away! There will be more about this new development later in this article, but before we get there, please consider HOW we get there: Pressure to Recycle The pressure for us to recycle and reuse goods has been steadily …


  6. Better Manager Skills - How to Learn By Chris Anderson
    When you first take over a department, expectations are usually high but operations are sometimes in disarray. The staff is disorganized, goals aren’t being met, and hours are spent on unproductive tasks. Just when you think the company would never get on track, the CFO recommends that you learn more about something called operations assessment.Crucial Management Skills Help Avoid MistakesAt first, you aren’t sure how operational assessment skills would help you manage better, but you quickly …


  7. Emergency! Gas Fire!
    Woooooooo……Woooo………The siren sounded. All of us looked at each other with excitement. The time has come for us to go into action.From all over the building, we can see Emergency Response Team members coming out, some looking a bit dazed. A general alarm had been sounded and the ERT has been activated!At the command post, the 'Commander' quickly briefed all the ERT members about the situation. There was a fire at the LPG storage tank, and there was an urgent need to put out the fire before the ta…


  8. Sales Compensation: Creating Performance Clarity
    A prospective client called several days ago and asked: 'What should I pay a great performer and what should I pay a salesperson who doesn't meet expectations?' Assessing sales compensation effectiveness from the perspective of expected market pay levels is far too limiting. Sales compensation should be evaluated within the context of the entire performance and pay range for the job performed and results delivered. Furthermore, sales compensation plans and pay levels should be created or critiqu…


  9. Communicating In Chaotic Environments By Robert Abbott
    How do you, or would you, communicate in a chaotic environment?That question was put to me by a reader who works in big, frantically-paced telecommunications company. Many projects operate at the same time, and many connections exist among the project teams.In this environment, teams work independently, but at the same time depend on each other for critical information. Without that information, time is wasted and progress slowed.In a broader sense, the challenge is to create communication sys…


  10. Conflict at Work, Don't Take It Personally By Pat Wiklund
    Conflict at work is inevitable. And, it can even be helpful, supporting a healthy organization.But, step over the edge and you'll quickly find yourself getting caught up in who's right rather than what's right. Having the argument without end, replaying the same issue over and over, without resolving your differences. Or, angry blow ups or sullen silences. You can get stuck on "She's doing that just to make me angry," or "He needs an attitude adjustment."Step back, stop avoiding, solv…


  11. Innovation Management: The Hype Cycle By Kal Bishop
    Creativity can be defined as problem identification and idea generation whilst innovation can be defined as idea selection, development and commercialisation.There are distinct processes that enhance problem identification and idea generation and, similarly, distinct processes that enhance idea selection, development and commercialisation. Whilst there is no sure fire route to commercial success, these processes improve the probability that good ideas will be generated and selected and that in…


  12. On The Job Training is Something You Can’t Afford to Skip By Cavyl Stewart
    Trained employees are more productive employees; there’s no doubt about that. Whether you’re your only employee or whether you’ve got a growing staff, put OJT (on the job training) at the top of your To-Do list.Every job, no matter what it is, is done better and faster when those responsible for doing it are properly trained. In theory this sounds good. But in reality, small growing companies rarely have money in their operating budgets to cover training costs.Job-related training …


  13. Lower the Bar By Lorrie Morgan-Ferrero
    "Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." Ralph Waldo EmersonI'm so excited. I got a cool new power point template with orange and yellow flames. It's not too much (well, maybe it is), but I don't care. I like it.So I transferred my regular presentation to the new template. I got some mesmerizing slide transitions like Jim Edwards used (spinning boxes and such that the audience at Big Seminar were oohing and aahing about). My handouts were ready to go.Then I find out -- they don't …


  14. The Do’s and Don’ts of Giving Feedback By Inez Ng
    Being able to give effective feedback is not just a good skill to possess in business, it is a great life skill to have. Because when you are masterful at giving feedback, not only can you help your employees to sustain continuously improving performance, you can also improve the performance of the baseball team you coach, the cleaning lady at home, or the performance of your own children on completing their chores. Any person’s performance in any activity can be positively impacted by effec…


  15. The Walmart Cult By Julie Pierce
    The CultBecoming a part of the Cult, consists of being recruited a member of the cult, as a person that can be relied on to assume responsibilities and accomplish all or almost all things requested.Depending upon the position you hold and the person that you are attached to the most, any position can be engaging and can be so different from any other experience that you have had prior to Walmart in almost any retail sector that you feel you are being chosen for great things.Along with morning …


  16. Evidence-Based Decision Making
    A rapidly spreading movement in the medical profession is evidence-based decision making. The business community has also begun to take notice. Pfeffer and Sutton's recent 'Harvard Business Review' article argues for evidence-based decision making in business management. Physicians using evidence-based decision making are committed to identifying, disseminating, and applying the latest research that is soundly conducted and clinically relevant. While this makes common sense, it is not common pra…


  17. Balancing Your Business: Making Change Easy By Madeline Lewis
    “Perfect balance in a business exists only in the organizational chart. A living business is always in a state of imbalance, growing here and shrinking there, overdoing one thing and neglecting another.” (Peter F. Drucker)I believe the three major trends in organizational processes are: discontinuation of the old way of doing business (re-engineering); migration and starting a new way of doing business (organizational change).One of the most often sited reasons why many re-engineering project…


  18. Managing People - Why Is It So Difficult? By Alan Fairweather
    Managing, supervising, being a team leader is the hardest job in the world and I'll tell you why. Imagine what it's like to drive a car. You turn the key to start the engine, select drive or the gear you want and press the gas pedal. The car then moves off and if you want to turn you rotate the steering wheel to the right or left and to stop, you press the brake pedal. All this was quite difficult when you first learned to drive but its easy now.If I asked you to drive my car, you might take a…


  19. When Being A Facilitator DOESN'T Help By Roger Schwarz
    I talked with a group of internal consultants last week - they felt they had to wear too many hats in their work. They had to be consultants, facilitators, coaches and trainers - sometimes in the same one-hour session. They weren't always sure what role to be in and they felt that all this role-switching was draining them and was decreasing their credibility and effectiveness.After learning a bit more, I suggested two things to them:1) At times they were trying to serve as facilitators when an…


  20. The Value of the Sales Team Assessment to the Sales Executiveďż˝
    The Sales Team Assessment is almost an unheard of event for most companies. Primarily because most consulting firms don't do it. They may provide some form of critique of the sales teams' effectiveness while reviewing the companies overall operations, but a real Sales Team Assessment is rare. A Sales Team Assessment can be of two varieties. The first is to get a broad overview of the workings of your sales team in light of the objectives and resources of the company. This also includes an analys…


  21. People or Objects? - - You Decide
    'How you think determines how you act. How you act, in turn, determines how others react to you.'- David J. Schwartz – The Magic of Thinking Big'…no matter what we’re doing on the outside, people respond primarily to how we’re feeling about them on the inside.'- The Arbinger Institute – Leadership and Self-Deception --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Becoming a great leader requires people to behave in rather unnatural ways. Most people will focus on …


  22. Influencing Change - A Guide for Sellers, Coaches, and Supervisors By Sharon Drew Morgen
    When people or groups make a decision to purchase something, they go through the same decision cycle that an individual goes through to decide upon a personal change, or an employee goes through to change behaviors at a boss’s insistence.Until now, our communication rules have assumed that when we kindly or persuasively offer others good information that could solve problems and achieve successful results, or coach them toward making a much-needed change, or even just pitch a product they sore…


  23. Organizing The Information By Sue And Chuck DeFiore
    Putting a piece of paper in a file folder is easy; finding it again is the hard part. There are ways to make your files easier to use and your papers easier to find. Invest in a sturdy, four or five-drawer file cabinet. Spend the extra money it takes to get quality and durability. You’ll spend more money replacing a cheaper file cabinet a few times than buying a reliable one in the beginning. You may not have enough files to fill the cabinet now, but believe me, you’ll need it in the future. …


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  25. Be a Change Agent ( Part 1) By Henrique Plöger-Abreu
    Aligning business organizations to be successful in the present and keep on doing this in the future means to develop a new style of Leadership. To celebrate success in our days a leader most is able to craft a strategic vision, define objectives, design, implement and monitor the execution of a strategy and be a change leader in those same organizations.The success of these change initiatives depends largely on leadership and each leader’s ability to not only face change but to welcome it and…



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1. Managing People for Performance By Graham Yemm
“People improve productivity, not organisations.”Managers who have had any form of training will be familiar with the idea of setting goals or objectives, and probably with the principles of appraising performance. With this in mind, why is it so many managers keep asking about how to motivate their staff or how to get more from them?This whole area is a key differentiator of good managers and is a large part of what managers are being paid for! In this article I want to offer some ideas to …

2. Factoring Financing: How to Grow Your Business Without Debt or Loans By Marco Terry
What is invoice factoring?Accounts receivable financing, also known as invoice factoring, is a powerful financial tool that has fueled the growth and success of a number of companies. Factoring enables companies to capitalize on their unpaid receivables by selling them to a factoring company for immediate payment. With factoring, companies immediately get paid for their invoiced work from the factoring finance company, while the factoring company waits to be paid by the customers. Factoring st…

3. A Facilitator's Guide to Running a Stakeholder Analysis Workshop By Tony Marven
This facilitator’s guide to running a stakeholder analysis workshop is for people whose success depends on getting other people involved with their objectives.It contains two exercises, one to work with stakeholder groups, and one to emulate stakeholders where it is not easy to bring them all together. The aim of both is to engage stakeholders in dialogue, brainstorming and decision-making to secure their buy-in to an idea, project, or plan.There are five key principles underpinning success in…

4. Who Has the Keys to Open the Door of Success? By Larry Galler
There, right in front of you is the golden door with a sign above it. The sign says “SUCCESS.” All you have to do is open the door and walk through into entrepreneurship’s holy grail. You grab the handle and pull. “Drat!” the door is locked. Who has the key?We all have the key. It’s right there on our key ring. But there are many keys on the ring and we have to find the right one to open this lock.If there was one key that opened every door it would be easy. The problem is that each bu…