How to Select a Facilitator Facilitation is a complex activity. Thus, you want to make sure that you engage someone who knows how to help you get results. Here's what to look for.
IT Asset Management – How Times Have Changed IT Asset Management has changed over the years. Donna Johnson Edwards shares her insight on the direction she feels IT Asset Management is heading.
Problem-Solving Success Tip: Avoid Bug Mentality Fixing bugs fixes symptoms: like taking aspirin for a headache, it may provide temporary relief but does nothing to prevent the next headache. It's ok, and often necessary, to relieve the symptoms but you have to dig deeper if you're going to prevent problems from recurring.
How Culture Affects Sharing Information in an Organization Knowing yourself, your limitations, weaknesses and strengths provides an advantage when considering the ability to share and use information effectively. The same is true with an organization made up of people. The synergy experienced by a free flow of relevant information has great impact on your organization's ability to leverage its information assets.
Interviewing Overqualified Applicants A manager of a small business recently posted a job opening for a mostly clerical type job. A degree is not required and generally neither is judgment. She also put the level of compensation clearly on the job posting and worked very hard to not over exaggerate the importance of the position.
How To Make Meetings More Productive Meetings are a fact of business life, but most most of them are frustrating and time-consuming. The results are rarely worth the time and effort of the many people involved. Yet meetings, if they are well planned, well organized, and have good leadership
are the best way to have discussions and solve problems.
Hey Mr. Manufacturer-- Distributors Are not Catfish Some manufacturers may think of their distributors in the same vernacular. They may believe distributors are slick, quick, and eager to feed on the almighty dollar. They say distributors "bottom-feed" on rebates, discounts and special promotions, preferring lowered prices (i.e., dead stinky bait) as opposed to the hard work of selling value. Manufacturers believe some distributors have grown large and lazy, demonstrating the "Cadillac and Boat" syndrome. "I have all I need, a Cadillac and my bass boat, so why break my neck trying to capture even more market share?"
Management Coaching: Inside the Eight Steps Our research identified 47 qualities that distinguished great coaches from their opposites. We chose the key themes that did the best job of teaching what we had learned, and built our management coaching model with them.
Three Motivation Mistakes Managers Make Smart companies know that as the competition for talent heats up, they can no longer afford the luxury of another bad manager.
Catastrophic Events = Business Purchase Opportunities Sometimes the best source for finding a quality business to purchase results from a catastrophic event - be on the look out for once-in-a-lifetime opportunities!
Catch Your Staff Doing Something Right As a manager, are you constantly juggling problems that crop up unexpectedly? Do you end up reacting to things instead of being ahead of the curve? Or, do you simply wish you were more plugged in to the every day workings of your department? There's a simple cure for all these problems. Read on...
Test Your Hiring IQ Great hires are always the result of good preparation, good information, and good decision making. Have you hired anyone recently? If so, how well did you do? You can probably teach a turkey to climb a tree - but it is easier to hire a squirrel. Test your ability to hire the right people with the right skills for the right
Smart Staffing: Replacing a Key Manager In today's hurry-up and get-it-done work world, many people are unwisely promoted to management positions. Basically, their abilities do not match or are insufficient for the new job role. Before you place someone in a management or supervisory position, take heed of three key staffing principles.
Morale Boosters: Feed the Troops First When economic conditions turn tough or when the heavy work load seems never-ending, leaders tend to forget the "basics"-building commitment beyond the paycheck. It's the small things everyday that can bring down morale and it's the small things everyday that can raise performance. Learn to quickly boost morale.
Employee Discipline: How to Nip Problems in the Bud Disciplining employees is so dreaded by so many supervisors that many look the other way when trouble develops, perhaps in the hope that the matter will correct itself. But most of the time it doesn't - it tends to go from bad to worse. Learn coaching techniques to prevent a potential problem from becoming a real problem.
Fashion with a Conscience While wristbands have become a fashionable way to show our geopolitics we often forget that we can make an even bigger impact on poverty and the environment thr...
Avocado - Ooh, What a Lovely Pear! Many people avoid avocados thinking them to be fattening, but the truth is they are packed with Essential Fatty Acids (EFAs) which burn fat so actually they mak...
RSS for Bloggers If you have any interest in blogs or weblogs as a publishing format, then you have undoubtedly come across the term R.S.S.
Are We Serious About Fuel Alternatives? As you can see from some of our previous articles, government agencies predict about 40 years of petroleum still remains. As usage climbs, the amount of time r...
Achieve Anything, One Step At A Time No matter how ambitious your goal, you CAN achieve it. You do it by taking one little step at a time. Here are a few tips to help you.
Article Queries That Sell Queries are not written like business letters or emails; they are specifically designed to sell your articles.
Six keys to keys build vision - point four When in the midst of the kinetic like activities that vision attracts, it is all too easy to lose sight of its humble beginnings. Many an individual and organiz...
Creditability In Advertising Building a brand name takes longer than a day or a dollar. Not one person on my mailing list has the Microsoft arsenal of marketers, nor do they have the brand ...
Virtual Casino Etiquette There are a few points of virtual casino etiquette that one should adhere to when gambling online.
How To Put An End To Loneliness Loneliness and separation are the real anxiety of our times. However, when we understand its causes, and become able to let go of the games we play, true commun...
What is Design Psychology and How Will it Help Me? "I wish I had learned all this before we bought our first house 25 years ago, and before we had our children. Not only would our homes be more harmonious, but s...
Breathing Out Stage Fright Breathing exercises from the Yoga tradition, to help performers deal with stage fright.
Why Your Web Designer Should Know About Web Marketing Many excellent web designers know next to nothing of web marketing, and this can be a big problem. Marketing a site in search engines requires that the site be ...
Baby Shower Gift Ideas A few guests can get together and get a big laundry basket. Place in it a long clothes line with outfits, diapers, bibs, etc. pinned to it. It can also be used ...
How to Create a Decorative Garden Window Do it yourself decorating project instructions. If you have a sunny window in a room where you don't have to worry about privacy, this décor idea will provide a...
7 Unique Ways To Make Someone Smile Learn 7 new ways to put a smile on someone's face. You won't know how many people are encouraged by your kindness because smiles are contagious. Try out one or ...
Steps to Easier Speech Writing The process of writing an effective speech can certainly consume a lot of your time. But let me share with you some proven steps that can shave a large amount ...
Networking Networking: Is it who you know or what you know that counts? Who you know gets you into the door, what you know keeps you there! Majority of the people who ar...
