Are Managerial Controls Pulling Down Your Growth Managing a new and growing business requires a vision far beyond what the average manager can even begin to comprehend or understand. This vision may be the ingredient which separates a leader from a manager.
Conflict Resolution - Managing Workplace Conflict It goes by many names -- conflict prevention, conflict resolution, conflict management, the names go on. These terms were all created to combat a similar problem. For the most part, people who deal with these issues all agree with the same principle:
The Steps in Employee Development You may believe that your company is the only one in the free world that's suffering from poor employee communication and frustrations at every level; We can assure you that you're definitely not alone.
Five Tips for Analyzing an Income Statement In today's article, we'll be looking at the income statement, which is the most deceptively simple of the major financial statements. I say simple because it's just a list of all the revenue, minus a...
Disaster Prevention Tips For Hiring A New Manager It happens over and over in businesses every day. Within large companies, people are promoted to management positions to reward them for performance as individual contributors. After all, the compen...
Getting Your Employees Attention Back to Work It is 9:00 am on a Monday morning. Do you know where your employees' attention is? Is it on work? Picture this. You are at work. The phone rings. It is your aging father's neighbor calling to say tha...
The Narcissist in the Workplace To a narcissist-employer, the members of his "staff" are Secondary Sources of Narcissistic Supply. Their role is to accumulate the supply (in human speak, remember events that support the grandiose s...
Truth or Consequences: How to Give Employee Feedback In the bestseller, Good to Great, Jim Collins discovered that, "the good-to-great companies continually refined the path to greatness with the brutal facts of reality." And, in his recent autobiograp...
Smart Choices: How to Hire the Best Your organization's continued growth and success depend on making smart choices and hiring the best. Today's economy is exploding with talent, allowing you to be selective about the staff you hire. ...
Why All Managers Are Alike Because, like you I suspect, they have key target audiences whose behaviors help or hinder them in achieving their organizational objectives. But even in their own best interests, too few involve th...
How To Prevent Your New Manager From Becoming A Statistic According to a study by the Manchester Group, 4 out of 10 new managers fail in the first 18 months! The top 5 reasons cited: Not building partnerships or teams with colleagues and peers; Unclear e...
Invite Self-Managed Staff "Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being." -Goethe
Virtual Assistance: A Money Saving Opportunity For Employers What is a Virtual Assistant? A Virtual Assistant is a highly skilled, independent entrepreneur who provides business services in a remote or virtual environment. Some have used terms like telecommute...
Use Every Weapon You Have One of the strongest weapons available allows business, non-profit and association managers to begin changing the behaviors of their key external audiences in ways that lead directly to achieving the...
Time Management - How to Have Productive Meetings One of the greatest time wasters of all are unnecessary or poorly run meetings. If you want to dramatically improve your time management skills, then learn how to have productive meetings. "Brian" is...
Time Management Tips for Managers Late last year I was presenting a workshop for the senior managers of a major organisation. Whilst doing a pre-workshop survey to assess the challenges these managers were experiencing it became very...
How To Decrease Profits Without Really Trying Hurting your sales efforts can be accomplished easily with the proper guidance. The following effective yet simple ideas are designed to generate results when implemented into your sales strategy. ...
Visiting the Last Paradise on Earth Costa Rica I'm Lucky, and i've been traveling and writing about places I believe others would love to visit, to unwind from their busy and hectic schedules. Most recently...
Pools Can Add Value To Your Home If you're looking to enhance the value of your home, either to resell or for your own personal enjoyment, you might be looking for a pool to increase that value...
Putting Your Ideas Into Action Ideas are everywhere. Each idea that we encounter, whether we create the idea, synthesize it from somewhere else, or hear it, is a possible opportunity. Just a...
7 Tips for Testing Your Sales and Marketing One marketing technique may work wonders for someone, but that doesn't guarantee that it'll do the same for you. The only way to really know what works for YOUR...
Is There Any Way To Get Out Of Debt? Are you one of the many of us who woke up one morning with the dawning realization that we are in debt? And, not just in debt, but in debt to a degree that we ...
Taking Care of Busines... E-mail In this digital day and age, communicating through email is getting more and more important. This is of course also true for customer service and help desks. L...
What to Do One Week before Thanksgiving You only have seven days until your Thanksgiving guests arrive. Is it time to panic or time to plan? You are going to need a clean house, a scrumptious meal an...
The Lost Art Of Fundamental Copywriting What ever happened to good old fashion, fundamental copywriting? Has anyone seen AIDA? I mean, before you can run, you first have to learn how to walk, right? Y...
Dental Implants in New York Besides the obvious aesthetic concerns, missing or decaying teeth can affect the ability to speak, the ability to chew as well as one's general dental health. ...
Buying a Flagpole The most expensive flagpoles cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, as in the case of some of the more monumental poles. At the high end of the usual spectrum, ...
A Taste of Childhood Well, it's been a long time since I last came across these recipes.
How to Invest Overseas - Intelligently! The pros and cons of the strategies anyone can use to reap the enormous benefits of diversifying your investment portfolio to include foreign securities.
Sell Real Estate Notes For Top Dollar You financed the buyer when you sold your house or investment property, but now you want some cash. How do you sell real estate notes?
