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You Cant Afford the Luxury of Disengaged Employees
In today’s business environment with increases in staff reductions and rapidly changing roles and responsibilities, it is crucial that all of your team members be fully engaged in the tasks at hand. According to a Gallup survey, 350 billion dollars...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Jim Donovan
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Train Me -- But Follow Through
My mechanic has me trained. When I take my car in for an oil change, he places a sticker in the upper left hand corner of my windshield to remind me what date and mileage I should have my next maintenance completed. But every once in a while, he fo...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Denise O'Berry
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The Email Trap
If you sit at a computer for most of the day, it's tempting to constantly check your email to see what's new. But that's a time management disaster if you're trying to make progress in your business. Resist the temptation. Here are some tips to hel...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Denise O'Berry
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Are You Measuring Something Meaningful?
Avoiding inert measures that anaesthetise your performance management.
INTRODUCTION
You sit before the monthly report, which might be an inch or so thick, and you contemplate whether it's the best use of your time to paw through the pages to check ...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Stacey Barr
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Are You Cascading Your Strategy, or Fragmenting It?
INTRODUCTION
The typical approach executive teams use to cascade, or roll out, their strategic direction is to produce a clear set of goals, objectives, critical success factors or a scorecard and then get each departmental or functional manager to...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Stacey Barr
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Employee Retention: Its a Changing Game
As a management consultant, I have seen some poorly conceived retention policies at otherwise well-run companies. The philosophies underlying these policies lack some basic knowledge of two things:
1. human nature, and
2. the changing world around ...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Michael Beitler
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How to Build Your Business and Still Take Time Off
We all know people who are like human dynamos. They seem to make an art form of building their business and still enjoy quality time with friends and family. It isn’t magic, you can do it too.
The world of business ownership or management is inhabi...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Hannah McNamara
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HRM: Contributing to Well-being or Ill-being at Work?
If you were to take the people out of an organisation you would be left with some stock and machinery that would be of little value, and possibly some property. It is the people that make an organisation function, so having the people functioning ...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Eddie Blass
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Are You A B.O.S.S. -- Boisterous, Omnipotent, Self Indulgent, Sociopath
Boisterous, Omnipotent, Self- indulgent Sociopath. Avoid the B.O.S.S. syndrome with five leadership principles that translate academic leadership theory to real world, 21st century application.
There are many academic theories published on leaders...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Rick Johnson
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Jack Welch--Success Is Getting Back Up on the Horse
A few months ago I had the opportunity to spend a few minutes with Jack Welch, past CEO of GE. A fantastic opportunity.
Some of the things he said about who they hire and what they are looking for in managers sort of hit home with what I am telling...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Alan Boyer
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Power of Pinpointing Accountability
I have always said that if I were to write a book on effective management principles, the first chapter in that book would be about the importance of pinpointing responsibility among an owner’s or a general manager’s reporting units. After all, on...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Bill Lee
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Sending Documents Through Email? Dont Get Burned by Metadata!
During a recent seminar I gave located in the suburbs of Philadelphia, I discussed something called, "metadata". When I asked whether anyone ever heard of metadata, I was confronted with blank stares. This is exactly why I decided to write here ab...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Anthony Licate
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Manage Your Time - Save Your Business.
If you work from home, chances are you already know that you’re really pulling “double duty”. You probably work on your business while doing the laundry, corralling the kids, or fixing dinner... and let’s not forget all the phone calls from family ...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Edward Charkow
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The Cheapest, Forget It !
Wouldn't it be great if we got get the cheapest price on everything. I know I wouldn't want it. Would you? Do you strive to get the cheapest automoblie? The cheapest mobile home to live in? The cheapest place to eat? Rather than look for the cheape...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Steven Schneidman
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Know the Source of Business
One of the first questions we ask a prospect or new client is, “How did you get the business you have so far?” Some can answer exactly. Others aren’t as certain.
When we begin our first discussions with a new client, our preferred modus
operandi...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Darcie Davis
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Action Learning: Its More Than OJT
For centuries companies have used on-the-job training (OJT). OJT works because it follows much of what we know about adult learning theory. For example, we know:
1. Adults learn best when new learning can be applied immediately.
2. Much of classr...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Michael Beitler
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Which ITIL Process Should We Implement First?
The following question is usually debated a lot amongst IT managers. “With which process should we start when implementing ITIL?” Everybody has their own views, but here are my takes on it.
Some consultants sat that one must start with Service Leve...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Arno Esterhuizen
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Is Your Business A Dysfunctional Family?
The other day I brought my mother into an appliance store to purchase a television. By the time we left with her new television, she was completely disgusted. Unlike most of us, she comes from an older generation that actually expects salespeople a...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Bill Knell
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Discover the Astonishing Power of Words Today!
Picture all the people you know who are dynamic, successful and self-confident. The ones who are the stars of every gathering. The people who are witty, intelligent and entertaining. The scintillating personalities who can be relied upon to light u...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Gerard McLoughlin
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Take Control of Your Paper in 3 Easy Steps
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 ...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Mike Shannon
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Growing Profits is Easy!
Everyone involved in running a business from the smallest start-up to a major corporate dreams about how to achieve sustained profitable growth.
I'm a great believer that business is simple - it's only us human beings that make it complex. If you...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Roger Harrop
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A Facilitators Guide to Running a Stakeholder Analysis Workshop
This facilitator’s guide to running a stakeholder analysis workshop is for people whose success depends on getting other people involved with their objectives.
It contains two exercises, one to work with stakeholder groups, and one to emulate stake...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Tony Marven
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Leadership Skills
Recent studies have shown that industrial supervisors are working at less than 60% of their potential. Basic management skills training is guaranteed to change all this and at such little cost.
Introduction
There is no doubt that the single most i...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Christopher J Thomas
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