Cutting Costs With Six Sigma

Six Sigma is rarely thought of as a method to cut costs. This article shows you how Six Sigma has evolved into an effective cost-cutting tool.

Six Sigma In The Insurance Industry

Six Sigma is increasingly being used in many different industries. Industries such as insurance, which rely heavily on statistics, are ripe for using Six Sigma methodologies.

Supervisor Training: Training Your Supervisors To Train

Do your supervisors really know how to effectively train employees or are they simply telling employees what to do. There's a big difference between training and telling. Companies use many different forms of training yet they all have different success rates when it comes to actual learning and retention.

Nine Questions About Baby Boomer Retirement That Your Company Must Answer

The Baby Boomers in your company will be eligible to retire soon. Here are nine important questions to help you assess the threat to your operating excellence.

Business Management A Skill To Learn!

Management is a skill, some have it inborn and some have to inculcate it by learning and taking courses. However, all of us have to learn business management, since business...

Project Failures and Project Success

Some organizations and project managers tend to resort to simplistic view when it comes time to judge if the projects they are assigned to manage is a success. The tendency is more due to the most popular success criteria to measure the success from just the triple constraints of CTR or cost, time, and resource performance points of view.

Likeable Bosses

Do bosses need to be liked? People respond to authority; that is, until the next opportunity presents itself. Western conventional wisdom suggests that it is important to build trust, credibility and respect; there is no need to be liked. When those characteristics are combined with strong leadership, people will follow...as long as they are realizing benefits for themselves. The question then becomes if we can combine trust, credibility, respect, leadership and likability, can we drive even greater results?

Avoiding a Hostile Workplace- Fairness in Employee Discipline

The environment of your workplace is vital to employee satisfaction, reduction of turnover, and productivity. It is also vital to the legal stability of your business. A hostile work environment can be the basis for many types of employee complaints and causes of legal action

Keeping Employees For The Long Run- Employee Retention

Every year companies spend millions in recruitment due to employee turnover. Turnover and its associated costs are a burden that used to be just the cost of doing business. But more and more companies are investing time and effort in making better hiring decisions and doing more to keep the employees they do hire. Employee retention is now a buzz word in today’s business world.

Case Study - Learning as a Growth Management Tool

Since David Williams acquired database marketing agency Merkle, Inc. in 1988, the firm has grown at a compounded annual rate of 25 percent. Read about the unique learning tool the company uses to manage growth and retain top talent.

The Four Biggest Mistakes a Supervisor Can Make

In the twenty-plus years I have been working in human resources, I have been able to see first hand the mistakes most often made by new and seasoned supervisors, managers, and others who lead employees. Over time, I have consolidated these common errors into four major mistakes. See if you or someone in your organization is making these mistakes needlessly by reviewing the following list.

Business Process Improvement

Success begins with a plan and goal setting. Take your life and business to new realms with three steps.

Health Savings Accounts Article: Participating in Your Employee's Future

According to the American Health Insurance Providers (AHIP) the number of individuals enrolled in an HSA-type insurance plan went from 438,000 in 2004 to 3.2 million in 2005 a seven fold increase in one year! And, by the year 2010, the Treasury Department projects 40 to 45 million people will be covered.