Hire People For What They Do Best Business owners are a special breed. Often we are described as stubborn, strong-willed, insane, smart, and lucky. None of those descriptors are negative - or shouldn't be. Business owners are needed just as much as employees. This special breed often allows these words become common practice, for some of you, the thought of handing over important aspects of your company is unrealistic.
Hiring Productive Employees: A Checklist for Assessing Their Appeal The characteristics of job applicants have a strong influence on whether or not they get hired. Their characteristics also indicate the level of their productivity. If you are about to hire employees, consider these characteristics.
Enhancing the Motivational Climate of Your Workplace It has been well documented that employees' productivity and job quality increase when they are made to feel welcome at work. The source that caused them to produce at such high standards came from their employer's attempts at enhancing the motivational climate. As a result, the employees came to work, not because they had to, but because they wanted to. Listening to your employees; they will tell you what you can do to enhance their motivational climate.
Reducing the High Cost of Absenteeism Employers pay a high price for absenteeism, often more than they may realize, in terms of both financial and production losses and employee morale. Managers may view the tasks of finding a substitute employee as a short-term inconvenience; however, absenteeism frequently has more serious long-term effects. Employers can, nevertheless, ensure that employees report in regularly and remain on the job.
The Top 10 Requirements for Your Business to Become and Remain Profitable We live in a relentlessly competitive world. The daily pressure to work "better, cheaper and faster" can make even talented business owners and entrepreneurs lose site of first principles. As you cope with the decisions and details of running your business, focus on the fundamentals! Regardless of the type of business or the products or services you sell, here are my suggestions for the Top 10 Basics that will make your fortune:
25 Super-Practical Steps to Build Your Business! For the past several weeks, we have focused on some wonderful but (to my way of thinking) rather fancy ideas about life. I wrote about motivation (I don't believe in it). I wrote about sorting out priorities (I do believe in that!). And I wrote about the 4 traits of highly successful people. I love that stuff! But I believe most of you subscribe to TIP's for help in actually running your office from day to day. Most of you have told me you're professionals in private practice, or owners of small businesses, or a manager. And that means you must attract clients or customers, serve them very well, and earn their return business - and do it every single day.
Riding the Waves to Success How to determine when the wave is right to catch, and ride successfully into any business decision - and how not to miss the wave and crash upon the shore!
Management: Dealing with Difficult People There's no escaping the fact that difficult people come into everyone's lives at one time or another. Whoever they are, they can cause anxiety, frustration, concern, or anger in us and can even cause us to become like them - someone difficult to deal with.
Top 10 Things Every Business Should Provide for Every Worker - Including the Boss! Doing business and meeting the needs of workers is increasingly complex. Employees and managers often prefer a cafeteria-list of fringe benefits (a "flexible spending account") so they can choose increased health care, child care or more time off as their individual preferences dictate. But underneath these specifics, there are central needs that most of us want from our work. Money can not buy happiness, and by itself it will rarely purchase a loyal, highly motivated staff (even in a one-person professional office or small family business).
Budgets that Damage - The Downsides of Making the Numbers In the January 2005 copy of the UK's leading management journal, 'Management Today', there is a great article about how budgets have taken over corporate life. In fact some organisations spend months and huge financial resources just creating their budgeting process! How crazy is that? But the article hints on a far darker side to budgeting and the after-effects corporate obsession with them creates.
Best Practices Plan: Dissemination of a Great Idea Developing a best practice is only the beginning. It has to be validated, communicated, and implemented for it to create positive change in your company. Here's how the process works and a few pitfalls to avoid.
3 Simple Things the Best Managers Do - And You Can Too! Do these three things really well and you will be a great manager; a superb
manager - and that is a great step ahead, with current standards of management as they are...
Time-Wasting Problems - One Question to Move You Forward Standing back and assessing where your time goes helps to tell you where you
can make time, for the critcal things in the future of your business. But being able to stop wasting time is a starter. Yet sometimes time-wasters are so repetitive...
When Politics Prevent Innovation - Or… Still Fighting Battles and Losing Wars The objective is to beat the competition and make money. Everything a business organization does should be focused on that simple objective, with interpretation through various Vision and Mission Statements. However if we take a survey of how our organizations spend our energy, often that objective is lost in a web of internal politics and positioning. Of course competition is normally good - regardless of whether it is internal or external - to the point we do not lose focus on company objectives as the ultimate outcome of our competition.
5 Questions Great Managers Ask (and They Arent Hard!) Remember the Pareto Principle. Aka the 80:20 rule. Well, here's something much, much easier! Answer these questions every day. Consider your responses thoughtfully, or with your team maybe. Or with your coach, or trusted friend.
Management - Mary Poppins Style! She arrived like magic and weaved her simple ethic of focus, attention to details and fun. What can we learn from this delightful character and apply to our management style? Read on for more...
Planning For Growth If you are like many high-performing business people, you have an annual ritual to set your plans for the coming twelve months. Some people do it in December, others at weird, miscellaneous times of the year, but most -- me included -- tend to do it the beginning part of the New Year.
Performance Management - By Assuming Nothing There are times when tackling a difficult situation can be so easy to put off. Yet in those moments we have the opportunity to minimise pain for all concerned. Dealing with the most challenging people issues can be tough, but it is tougher to waste time stretching it out just because you don't fancy tackling it...
Solve Problems Permanently - Ask WHY Someone once said that the real issue behind a problem, is one or more levels below the problem. So, solving problems by fire-fighting when they arise, is firstly, not going to actually solve the problem for good. And secondly, it's tiring, wearing, distracting and worse, it causes a really demotivating environment. Definately not good - not good at all. So the best thing is to
find out what's really going on, and to do this, you need to go deep. Here's how...
Prioritise Your Day - Keep Focus - Win! It's such an easy thing to say, "Prioritise", yet many of us find it very
challenging, especially in the moment, when the chips are down and everything is going wrong. So what can be done to make the difference to you and your business?
New Attitudes-New Possibilities I AM SO GRATEFUL for meeting challenges head-on; I am so grateful for practicing mindfulness; I am so grateful for being true to myself; I am so grateful for li...
RSS Feeds Just Got Better! RSS feeds are a great way to add fresh content to your web pages, find out now how to improve your rss feeds and improve your web site by adding randomized, shu...
Why Student Loans are Better Than Credit Cards You need some more money for college expenses this semester. Do you whip out a credit card to pay for your books or do you apply for a federal or private loan? ...
Detecting Menopause Through Testing Menopause comes from two Greek words that mean "month" and "to end," and the current medical definition of menopause means exactly the same: the absence of mens...
Bunbury Western Australia The first recorded mapping of what is now Koombana Bay and the eventual City of Bunbury, was in 1803 by the French explorers Nicolas Baudin and Louis de Freycin...
Using Traffic Exchange Programs Part 2 In the last series, I have asked you to join as many Traffic Exchange programs as possible. If you have not then do it now! In this sequel, I will show you how ...
Tips in Choosing the Right Kind of Sunglasses Today, sunglasses have become everyone's bestfriend. We never leave home without them. We carry them just about anywhere our lives take us. But with all the var...
If I Were a Rich (Wo)Man Being happy, enjoying what you do, loving the way your life is going, that is all part of being rich. Don't stay stuck. Don't wait until the right time because ...
Avoiding The Potholes Of Car Insurance Car Insurance is an issue that we all of face in our lives. Do we insure our car or not? For example, what type of policy should you get? What should you look o...
Who Needs Heroes? When we were talking the other day we started to think about our heroes when we were young. After we had discussed the usual film star and sports stars that we ...
Invasion of the Email Snatchers They're sneaky. And stealthy. They're quiet and mostly unobtrusive, but once you've been visited by them, you'll know it. Because you'll be inundated with a see...
Track or Perish If you want to maximize your site's cash flow you'll track what's working on your site. Otherwise you're flying blind. This article reveals pages you should wa...
Should Your Baby Sleep In Your Bed? Should your baby sleep in her own cot or in bed with you? There are advantages and disadvantages - but there are certainly situations when you should not have b...
