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Achieving success in business online seems to be something that eludes a vast amount of online marketers. Marketing on the internet offers plenty of opportunity for anybody with the proper ambition and focus to become successful online. Strangely enough however it seems more times than not many ... Views: 707
What are the objectives in managing people? This is the starting point for any new Manager or Supervisor. In people management, what are the goals? How will you know when they you been successful? In people management, as with every other endeavour, a clear susses vision will set you on a ... Views: 19200
What are the objectives in managing people? This is the starting point for any new Manager or Supervisor. In people management, what are the goals? How will you know when they you been successful? In people management, as with every other endeavour, a clear susses vision will set you on a ... Views: 19200
If you want to be a leader and to succeed in your workplace, knowing how to negotiate effectively is a must. Attaining good negotiation skills will help you in all areas of your life.
NEGOTIATING PRINCIPLES
Here are four principles I employ for negotiating with skill and ... Views: 2703
Most companies take a good approach to developing leaders, but generally miss the point. There's a lot of emphasis placed on good decision making, effective communication, and team building. And all those are important, but don't address what matters most.
When you get right down to it, the ... Views: 2219
Personally and professionally many of us have been content with the status quo. And it's worked for us. I know you are saying, "Hey wait! I'm innovative!" and you probably are in many ways. Still, we are now presented with opportunities to reinvent our world like never before. Let's take a look ... Views: 1556
Powerful. When faced with Inc. magazine's picture of Jordan Zimmerman, founder of the eponymously named advertising agency, forcefully propelling his bike into the dark, early hours of the day, you can't help but think this is a powerful, motivated and productive human being. In fact, their ... Views: 716
Feel like you’re on a treadmill that will never stop? Too much to do? Too much to get done?
Just as with how the overlap between our work and our home lives has become blurred, and technology has connected us to people and tasks around the clock, we could all be working 24/7 and still feel ... Views: 1746
These days, it seems like we are being pulled in so many different directions. Priorities compete with each other, and it just seems like we can’t get everything done, doesn’t it?
What’s worse, it seems like our daily “to do” lists grow much faster than our abilities to check them off. No ... Views: 1652
Icebreakers are great. When you get people together to work on things, getting them to know each other will spur on other positive results.
I make it a habit to have an icebreaker at just about every volunteer meeting I conduct, whether the group is large or small. After all, these people ... Views: 2688
Are you aware of the unfortunate fact that what science recommends is often not adhered to by business?
Why do I say this? I will get to this further on.
But firstly I want to start off by describing to you two serious problems that exist in many companies and organizations across the ... Views: 1610
How many times have you heard someone say, “I never have enough time!”? Maybe you have even said it yourself. I hate to break the news to you...we all have the same amount of time: 24 hours in a day which means 168 hours per week. There is nothing that anyone can do to change it. For some people ... Views: 2596
“Leadership can be an unpopular business. The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.”
Tony Blair (former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom)
The above quote from Tony Blair led me to the theme for this week’s edition. Throughout my career in leadership ... Views: 4052
If you are a manager, strong workplace relationships built on good communication will help you achieve success. Here are three practical steps you can take to make you a better communicator at work.
We all know people who seem to be natural communicators at work. They communicate confidently ... Views: 3732
You have learned about stocks and how to invest in them. Now you need to learn about mutual funds and how to invest in them. A mutual fund pools money from hundred or even thousands of investors to construct a portfolio of stocks, bonds, real estate, or perhaps another security.
Here are a ... Views: 1272
A partner portal is common these days especially since majority of modern companies have to deal with a great deal of channel partners. It has been proven that utilizing channel management strategies and making the most out of business partnerships and selling products and services through ... Views: 1168
One of the most important elements of ongoing business success is gaining and maintaining competitive advantage. Lots of businesses talk about it, lots of businesses strive for it, but very few businesses really understand it. Put simply, competitive advantage means being different – not just ... Views: 2068
Whether it’s a trainer, teacher, parent, politician or manager, great leaders are hard to come by. That said, being a great leader isn’t something that is unreachable; I believe that the very best and most memorable leaders amongst us should aim to have the following five qualities. ... Views: 3802
Why many teams don’t work well together
Have you ever wondered why the team that you were on didn’t work very well together?
Many teams originally were set up to fail. In sports, you build teams from individuals with best achievements. In business, we hear many times, the sports analogy ... Views: 2010
It is widely accepted that the worst time waster in business today is that ubiquitous meeting. We all know that if the meeting was productive that the time spent would be worthwhile. But typically that is not the case. Most meetings leaders are not schooled to lead meetings.
What follows ... Views: 2029
Payroll and tax administration services are one of the exhaustive services offered by PEOs (professional employer organizations) to client businesses. PEOs offer comprehensive human resource management solutions. The other solutions offered as part of human resource management include human ... Views: 813
In today's business climate, we are experiencing more interest in professionalism. The past five years provided many successes; however, most have been overshadowed by the nonethical behavior of a few. Some people lost most of their retirement savings, and the US population is demanding a ... Views: 2757
Corporations are a vital part of an economy. So are foundations, government, and faith based initiatives. In corporations employees are starving for a new direction to create a new economy and adapt. Corporations are largely responsible for more business transparency because of the push for ... Views: 1313
I HATE MY JOB…
By John Grubbs
…as a supervisor and there is nothing I can really do about it. I accepted this promotion to supervisor because I need to improve things for my family. I can’t stand confrontation and don’t like dealing with other people’s problems. I don’t really know what I ... Views: 1565
Our youngest is a senior at a very nice state college an hour or two north of here. Freshman year he set off with an entire car load of stuff that freshman typically set off with including a nice winter jacket. Now admittedly he was never the winter jacket sort of child once past the age of 10. ... Views: 1968
A good hiring process is built on solid, proven principles and hiring process design that should be taken very seriously. But one principle of hiring process design ranks way up in importance and can have an immediate impact on an organization’s ability to improve hiring and staffing decisions. ... Views: 1305
“Integrity is not a 90 percent thing, not a 95 percent thing; either you have it or you don’t.” - Peter Scotese
Opening up the newspaper or turning on the news can be a really scary act these days, which is why I don’t recommend doing either of these activities on a regular basis. It seems as ... Views: 1150
If you are one that tends to procrastinate, then this post is for you! It is time to put all the evil procrastination aside for good. Many will say that it is easier said than done, but with some help it can be accomplished.
Procrastination is something that will literally suck up all your ... Views: 1449
Some management tools fail to affect any change; but here is one that will if properly implemented.
Mission and Vision Statements have been crafted by organizations for years. The attention to mission and vision is warranted, as studies indicate that organizations that have Mission and ... Views: 2273
Employees are now judged by the way they multi-task. Does this means the more skills I have the better? Or should I focus on sharpening my skills rather than learning too many skills?
Multi-Tasking
Today's employers seek people with experience in diversified fields and skills in many areas. ... Views: 1858
There are three mistakes that an organization should avoid in relation to the strategic planning process. This article describes what these three mistakes are and what you should do in order to ensure you will avoid them.
The first mistake to avoid in relation to strategic planning is not ... Views: 2018
Students are taking into consideration what higher education has to offer, but are deciding that the innovative new courses available at their local further education college are a great alternative to a “highway robbery” degree.
Students starting university courses this autumn can expect to ... Views: 1226
There is a name for what advertising agencies do – rubbish – and our predecessors appreciated much better than us its ultimate destination: ruin!
Almost all of what advertising agencies do is best summed up in one word – parasitical. By creating advertising out of thin air we have reduced ... Views: 1719
Consumers are deaf to the babble of the advertising class. It is true to say that all the advertising in the world won't bring the customers back!
Spending a huge fortune on TV advertising?
Rest assured these days your advertising slipped into the huge gulf of mistrust, disbelief and ... Views: 1818
We've all been there. After countless calls, meetings and an endless amount of work, you just can't get the customer to say "yes" and move forward. There can be hundreds of theories and ideas as to why this happens more times than we care to admit. Let's put all the theories aside and get to a ... Views: 859
There’s no arguing that email use is on the rise. Every day, people tell me how overwhelming it is to address their email backlog and how just opening up their inbox stresses them out. To help remedy this crisis, here are ten surefire ways to manage your outgoing email to reduce the number of ... Views: 2055
An “average” partnership gets better results – and the people involved actually report greater satisfaction – than people working alone. Gallup’s latest research released in 2009 indicates that although many in the workplace today will sadly report never having had a productive and satisfying ... Views: 939
In these trying economic times, we are all looking for opportunities to save costs and increase productivity. Businesses have a huge opportunity to increase productivity staring them in the face that unfortunately has gone virtually undetected.
What is that opportunity? The reclaimed ... Views: 993
Our 24×7 world has a rash … a rash of ASAP. It’s highly contagious and seems to strike from the top of the organizational chart and move down. Everyone has been afflicted by this rash and most have inflicted it on others.
By Any Other Name
Identifying the ASAP rash is not hard. Here is a ... Views: 1994
We all face difficult conversations in the workplace: criticism from our boss, a conflict with a client, a co-worker we find irritating, a subordinate who submits incomplete work -- all might entail a conversation we do not look forward to having. When we anticipate that an interaction might be ... Views: 1678
Women today continue to push to the forefront of small business. In fact, according to an article shown on AllBusiness.com, women-owned businesses make up one of the most dynamic sectors of the new national economy, with the majority of them growing at nearly twice the rate as other companies. ... Views: 1820
What is the difference between a Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process that makes a modest difference in a company's operational and financial performance and an S&OP process that, year after year, enables a company to achieve its operational, business, and strategic goals?
You don't ... Views: 1285
Customizing and designing corporate programs to help organizations take their businesses to the next level is one of my great passions. Large, successful companies always understand that people are their most valuable asset. But not all of them train their personnel about how to positively ... Views: 1218
Lately it seems that almost every day I hear from a human resource professional who is struggling to talk with someone in their organization about their image. Personal image can be a very private, personal, and difficult thing to talk about, after all. Who among us wants to find out that our ... Views: 1489
There are certain components of the strategic planning process that should be in place to develop, implement, and effectively monitor a strategic plan. This article provides a brief overview of the steps involved in strategic planning.
The first component is preparing for the strategic ... Views: 2595
Strategic planning is critical to a nonprofit organization's future direction and survival. As such, it is important to understand what strategic planning is and why it is so important. This article provides a definition of strategic planning and why it is important to nonprofit ... Views: 2054
Corporate Greed- A review of recent events and the need for Corporate Ethics (Part III of III)
At Fannie Mae, the career of well-respected CEO Franklin Raines came to an abrupt end when the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight forced a very resistant Fannie Mae Board of Directors to ... Views: 2864
Corporate Greed- A review of recent events and the need for Corporate Ethics (Part II of III)
The senior executives at Enron have become an icon of corporate greed, massive fraud, dishonesty, unethical behavior, and failed leadership. Andrew and Lea Fastow have fallen from grace, plea ... Views: 2912
Corporate Greed (Part I of III)
Corporate greed has recently dominated the headlines in the United States. The list of fallen and disgraced Chief Executive Officers and Chief Financial Officers is long and alarming, and the stories emerging from the rubble of major corporations are quite ... Views: 4315
Most business executives talk about the importance of collaborating with others. When it comes to execution, however, their behavior often violates this espoused belief. Why? Because "getting things done" becomes a higher priority than "getting people on board."
Fearing being perceived as ... Views: 1495
I recently posted this question on LinkedIn:
Sales Managers: What do you do when your HR group isn't able to identify the hunters you need?
With the incredible costs due to unfilled positions (customers going with the competition, RFPs not completed and generally missed sales ... Views: 2530