Tackling The Truth of Turnover

When it comes to understanding their employee turnover, many employers don't know what they don't know. And just when they think they know, there's usually something else.

First, Grab a Sharp Pencil...or...Which is Best? Generating Sales, or Reducing Expenses?

What should you be concentrating on, generating more sales, or reducing operating costs? Actually, the ideal is to do both simultaneously. Here's How...

Treat Employees Like Dogs To Boost Loyalty

We Americans love pets, especially when it comes to dogs. You might be wondering how treating employees like dogs is going to have anything but a negative effect on your business. But I suggest just the opposite is true.

The 5 Most Common Mistakes with Employee Benefits

A new MetLife study reveals that 55% of employers rank 'employee retention' as their No. 1 benefits objective. Unfortunately, the same study showed that only 33% of workers feel strongly that their company effectively educates them on their benefits options. If you're going to use benefits to build a solid workforce, here are the five most common mistakes to avoid.

Managing In Today's Business Environment

Managing a business, as you know, is both an art and a science. You can learn quite a bit from materials available in the market. However, you can get the feel of the business only when you apply those lessons and suggestions, interact with people experienced professionals and then go back again to your lessons. Now you are armed with your own valuable experience. But the question is - what is so special about today's Business Environment? Is today's business environment something different than what it was earlier? The answer would be a firm 'yes'.

Is Your Underperforming Employee Incompetent Or Is It AADD

Mistakenly, people have believed that ADD was a childhood condition that often disappeared at the onset of adulthood. That is not always the case. It has been proven that ADD often persists into adulthood and can have a dramatic impact on an employee's performance at work. It has been reported that more than 50 percent of children diagnosed with ADD carry the condition well into their adult lives. However, ADD in adults is difficult to recognize. Sometimes when an employee has difficulty starting a task, staying focused and following through it is simply considered poor performance or incompetence. The inability to pay attention for long periods of time is a common symptom of ADD. The inability to complete assignments, lack of organization and talking excessively are also common symptoms.

Work At Home Tips To Getting Things Done Everyday

One major hurdle working at home is going to provide you is how do you get things done. I'm talking about accomplishing things everyday working for yourself just like you would if you were a job with a boss to answer to. Here are some tips to help you get things done everyday while working at home.

Global Corporate Priorities For 2007 - Doing Business With China And India

Never before has the economic outlook been so positive. A recent report produced by the Economist Intelligence Unit highlights a hugely optimistic outlook for 2007 with nine out of ten senior executives regarding prospects for business over the next three years as good or very good. However, with globalization and the emergence of new markets, CEOs are required to manage across increasingly complex and differing environments. Whilst 2007 promises to deliver much, executives need to be realistic about the complexity of the task ahead.

A 10 Point Diagnostic For Your Business

Most businesses can benefit from a regular health check - a business diagnostic to identify priorities and potential solutions for better performance. Here is a list of 10 check points and some approaches to consider for raising your business performance to the next level.

Three Characteristics Of Leadership - Competence, Consistency, And Character

Indeed, how does one stay on top and continue to have people follow years and years in the business world? 1. Competence There is no substitution for the ability to perform.

Plan Your Time - Manage Your Time, Invest Your Time

Number of hours in a day will not change. There will only be 86,400 seconds in a day. It is up to you, how you manage and use each of those seconds. One needs to invest each second. As, it has been rightly said, time once passed will never come again. Busy people are very satisfied, happy and do everything that they want to do in their life. Those, who show that they are busy, end up with frustration, burn-outs, stress and most of the time failure in life and profession.

When Business Is Slumping, Make Sure Your Assets Are Producing

When many companies go downhill, they never recover. Far too many of them continue to fall right into oblivion. They either go out of business or just become irrelevant companies. We saw this vividly in the 2001 bear market. The vast majority of the Internet companies were gone within a year.

Companies Too Big to React Will Fail

In 1996, my brother and sister-in-law decided to retire... leave the Chicago area. They chose to move to the Colorado desert-mountain city where I live. As a banker, I've heard so many excuses about why businesses fail. However, during this move, I saw at least a dozen, sound reasons that cause either failure or lost profits.