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1251. Procrastination and JDI! By Martin Haworth
      In a management role procrastination can seriously hold back progress and demotivate individuals and teams who, full of innovation and drive to move forward, get frustrated and confused when action is held up. There are a number of steps that will help the procrastinating manager. Firstly, recognise it is a good and reasonable defence mechanism, which relates to the things which might have occurred in the past. A hurried decision which might have had an unsatisfactory and upsetting result. …



1252. How to Delegate More Effectively By Joe Nicassio
      Do this simple excercise, and transform your life.First, Make a list of recurring "to do's". (Daily To-Do's, Weekly To-Do's, monthly To-Do's, Quarterly To-Do's, Annual To Do's, and "Event-Driven" To- Do's)Then, change the titles to "delegation Worksheet" (Daily delegation worksheet, weekly delegation worksheet, monthly delegation worksheet, Quarterly delegation worksheet, Annual delegation worksheet, and event driven delegation worksheet)You may end up delegating everything back to yourse…



1253. How to Turn a Difficult Meeting into a Positive Meeting By Alan Boyer
      Have you ever heard someone offer a positive idea in a meeting and nearly everyone around the table shoots it down immediately? There seems to be more reasons why it can’t or shouldn’t happen than in ways to make it happen. Many times these meetings become downer meetings, spiraling downward toward failure, and everyone leaves in frustration.Does it seem that your meetings never accomplish anything?Stop fighting the negative and use the negatives to drive toward the positive. Dr. Bluma Zeigarn…



1254. The Myth of the Management Team By Graeme Nichol
      Every business has problems. That is why the average life span of a large industrial company is 40 years. Some are learning disabilities where companies are not prepared to learn from their mistakes. They insist on doing the same thing every time. Even when problems occur no one examines the cause of the problem. The problem is an embarrassment that should be swept under the rug and forgotten rather than be used as an opportunity to learn. Handling these dilemmas and disabilities is the Manage…



1255. Organizing Your Small Business
      A fundamental challenge of small business can be summarized as 'too many tasks, too few people.' Unlike large enterprises which can have whole teams devoted to limited tasks - think 'Task force for the unification of stapler specifications and procedures' - small businesses can have one person covering anything and everything. The time to address 'who does what' in an organization is the time when the organization contemplates adding its very first employee. If you are a 'one man (or woman) show…



1256. Know Your Business! - 7 Key Questions You Must Ask By Martin Haworth
      You need to know all that is going on around you to be successful in business, whatever the size of your organization. Yet how do you keep all those plates spinning? Here are just 7 quick and easy questions for your checklist - use them and they will serve you well. Use them and your business will develop and grow. How am I Doing? Getting under your own skin is the first and most vital thing you should find out about. You are the bellweather of your business or team. If you are truly hone…



1257. Conducting Successful Meetings
      PERMISSION TO REPUBLISH: This article may be republished in newsletters and on web sites provided attribution is provided to the author, and it appears with the included copyright, resource box and live web site link. Email notice of intent to publish is appreciated but not required. Email him at eagibbs@ureach.comDo you announce a meeting and find either no one shows up on time, they come with their own agenda, or the meeting goes on and on? If this is true in your case, then worry no more. He…



1258. Building Trust in Your Business Relationships - 10 Steps By Martin Haworth
      There are some simple things you can do with your people to ensure that they start to trust you. As a letter from Mike Emmott of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development in the UK says, in April 2005's UK Management Today says:-"Our surveys show that only one in four employees trust senior management to look after their interests"Is that not appalling? How on earth can businesses develop, survive and above all hang onto their best people if they are seen to be untrustworthy?It's ho…



1259. Re-energise your Business - Remove sources of Friction and Delay
      Sometimes delays are important, but if you're not adding value, then it is not good. Some level of friction and delay are prevalent in virtually every business. Depending on what you are trying to achieve, they are not automatically bad things. There are times when deliberately slowing down (introducing delay to) an activity is the right thing to do. But where they are a result of poorly evolved processes, lack of training or resources, or lack of knowledge - it's time to take action and remove…



1260. The Business Shaman: Exploring the Mystery of Success! By Jeremiah P. Huck
      Note: This article was written for a internet business site. It is a promo for my work with the business world. I published it here for anyone who is interested in a shamanic perspective on creating success, in both business and life. If you read between the lines, it will offer you some help when dealing with any challange.The sound of the drum is strong and steady. It's cold and damp in the large cave, except near the central fire. There are 40 naked, hairy, human-like creatures in deep cele…



1261. Getting Information From Prospects By Nancy Roebke
      You're at a networking function and you've made that all-important contact. You want to get help from this individual but you know that you need to start working on building a relationship with them first. How do you do that?The hardest thing for people to understand about networking functions is that very little real business gets done on an initial contact at these functions. If you go into the function NOT EXPECTING to get business, but to make contacts, you will have a far greater success …



1262. Creativity Management and Behaviour By Kal Bishop
      What behaviour maximises the chances of thinking of great ideas? What behaviour maximises the ability to nurture ideas until they begin to reveal their potential?To begin answering the above questions we will briefly explore five areas:a) Creativity versus innovation. It is correct that the above questions are separated, as they refer to two distinct disciplines – defining problems and generating ideas (creativity) and selecting those ideas, developing and then commercialising them (innovation…



1263. Your Business Success Checklist
      As a business coach, I spend a lot of time working with people who want to improve different aspects of their business. Many times these aspects are merely symptoms of a more fundamental, underlying issue. If you want your business to truly shine, then there are some basic principles that, if not present, can lead to sub standard performance in other areas. And here they are: 1. Crystal clear purpose The most common reason companies run into trouble is losing sight of the customer and their n…



1264. Take Control of Your Paper in 3 Easy Steps By Mike Shannon
      Do you have piles of paper on your desk. Many do and don't know how to deal with them. They have no working system to deal with the day to day influx of paper, email, magazines and other information. Worse yet, after a while that pile on your desk gets moved to the top of the file cabinet. And the pile on the file cabinet gets moved to the window sill. Pretty soon you have piles of paper all over your office. Are you or someone you know in this situation?That's how my office used to look back …



1265. Can What Someone Does Off-hours Affect Your Business? By Dave Taylor
      Q: How much do I have to worry about what people who are part of my far-flung "virtual" corporation do when they're not working directly for me? I can't share too many details because the situation is touchy, as you might expect, but basically I have someone working for me as a writer, contributing material for my blog, and I have been hearing that he's writing some pretty far out, offensive material on other sites. Do I need to worry about it?A: This is a difficult situation, no question, an…



1266. Running Successful Meetings - The Key Steps To Getting It Right By Peter Fisher
      We all complain about meetings which are a waste of our time and the truth of the matter is that so many are exactly that. We've also seen the "corridor" meeting that takes place afterwards where it seems the real decisions are taken, or the agreed decisions are overturned.You'll get your chance at some point in your career to run your own meeting - is yours going to go the same way? or will you make sure it's effective and does the job it is supposed to?Well run meetings contribute to team bu…



1267. How to Dodge Distribution Difficulties By Cheryl Lockhart
      It happened again. I ran into an old friend while registering for the World Masters Games last month and as we were catching up, she complemented me on a necklace I was wearing. When I told her I bought it in South Africa on my last trip there, she exclaimed, "You have to start importing these. You'd make a fortune!"The Great Import PlanThis is a refrain I've heard over and over again and while there is some truth in it, you can make money being an importer, there is a certain amount of naivet…



1268. Innovation Management – Eliciting Dominant Ideas 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 other useful definitions in this field, for example, creativity can be defined as consisting of a number of ideas, a number of diverse ideas and a number of novel ideas.There are distinct processes that enhance problem identification and idea generation and, similarly, distinct processes that enhance idea selection, development …



1269. My Company's Leadership Sucks! By John McKee
      Maybe it's the season or just a more buoyant job market; but lately I'm sure involved in a lot more discussions about leadership.I'm receiving more requests for help defining the key characteristics which make a great leader; and I'm hearing a lot of negative stuff from clients about their bosses.Most leaders die with their mouths open:I recently read an article in Fast Company magazine which reflected on the issue of leadership. In it, they quote Ronald Heifetz, the founder of Harvard's…



1270. Leadership Defined By Barb McEwen
      The buzz almost everywhere these days is about valueless leaders and corporate deception. As Allan Greenspan so aptly puts it, we are living through an era of "infectious greed." Whether what has gone on was either illegal or unethical, I'm content to let that be determined by the courts and regulators. But, there is no doubt that CEO's have been looking out for No. 1 at great expense to shareholders and the country. We are dismayed and rightly so. Too often we have witnessed those caught up …



1271. Simple Mistakes You Simply Cannot Afford In Project Management!
      From the desk of: Arne Yri http://www.ProjectManagementMadeEasy.com Why should you care about my viewpoints? Good question - you don't know me - but obviously - You're confused and maybe even a bit fed up by your new assignment and it's lack of clarity... Typical problem! My specialty: Getting what I call 'sorry ass - stranded in the ditch - projects up'n running FAST! And by fast, I mean just that... Fast, or instant - in like 90 days or less... And in 6 to 7 months or less, depending on si…



1272. The Leadership Imperative: Making Your Leadership Your Life
      PERMISSION TO REPUBLISH: This article may be republished in newsletters and on web sites provided attribution is provided to the author, and it appears with the included copyright, resource box and live web site link. Email notice of intent to publish is appreciated but not required: mail to: brent@actionleadership.comWord count: 468Summary: The author describes a vision of leadership that you can use throughout your career. It's a vision that will also help enrich your life. The Leadership Impe…



1273. Overcoming the Document Tracking Challenge By Joe Miller
      “Where did it go? It was here yesterday. Wait. Here it is. But it looks a lot like the draft I just sent my team members yesterday. I don’t remember when this change was made. Who made this change? Why is document tracking so difficult?”We have all seen it before. Desk space is being invaded by papers and drafts of rather important information that is in a rather unidentifiable order. When it comes to information, businesses know that time is money. Businesses do not want to spend money for ho…



1274. Getting Other People to Change By Pat Wiklund
      "I get by with a little help from my friends." The words wafted out of my car radio as I was listening to golden oldies.It got me thinking about what we really need as we're challenged to change the way we work and how we work together.It's what we need when we're making changes, expecting ourselves and others to be more than what we have been, expecting our employees to respond. A little help from our friends.Changing how we do work is quicker and more effective when we work together t…



1275. What Makes a Crisis a Crisis? By Azriel Winnett
      If you're old enough and were living in America about 30 years ago, you may remember the scandal in the motion picture industry known as "the Begelman affair" or "Hollywoodgate."A skillful analysis of the crisis that rocked Columbia Pictures, a leading company in its field, is presented by Steven Fink in his book, "Crisis Management: Planning for theInevitable." I am telling the tale over, but not for the sake of relating a "juicy" story (such pastimes being hardly something I care for).Rather…



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