Testing Subordinates

Always test your newly promoted subordinates. Here are a few ideas for ensuring those test provide uselful results.

Time Management 101 - Plan Your Week

Being a manager is not an easy job. There is a lot to it. There is never enough time in the day to get everything done. However, to achieve success, you must address the most important things first. Then the other things will fall into place.

Strategic Business Tips On How To Deal With The Departure of Key Executive

One of the events that occurs in business is the departure of a key executive. This has the potential to be very disruptive and can have a significant emotional impact on employees. So how do you deal with these feelings? Your strategic thinking business coach has some tips on how to deal with the departure of a key executive.

Is One Of Your Employees Holding You Hostage?

Best-selling author discusses the impact of overlooking negative behavior of top-perfomers in companies.

How to Successfully Offer Rebates and Incentives

When it comes to offering rebates and incentives, a company can end up losing money as opposed to generating more interest in their business or product if they do not find the correct and most successful offers to make available to their clients or potential customers. Rebates and incentives are traditionally a good approach, but it is important to make sure that they are accessibly and influential in the life of the average consumer. There are many companies that offer, for example, rebates to their customers when they purchase a particular item or product. In some cases the rebates are instant savings, but in other they are offers that need to be mailed in to the manufacturer.

Social Distancing is the Key to Minimising Bird Flu Infection in Your Business

Social Distancing is a new term we are hearing more and more as businesses start to gear up their plans for a Bird Flu pandemic. Learn what it means and what you can do to minimise the chance of bringing infection into your workplace.

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...

Black Belt Strategies For Small Businesses

The first company to deploy Six Sigma concepts and methodologies was Motorola. The main objective of the company at that time was to reduce wastage and defects by improving the efficiency of existing business processes. Since that time, this has become a standard and is applicable for both manufacturing industries as well as the services sector.

Effective Online Six Sigma Training

Six Sigma implementation projects are meant for reducing wastage in business processes. However, for ensuring the success of Six Sigma implementations, it is necessary to provide adequate training to everyone involved with the implementation.

What The Heck Is Right With You?

Managers and bosses have to give feedback to the teams that they lead. The other day one of our hygienists remarked that she hated performance reviews because she worries that I'll tell her something about herself that she won't like. She generally gets very edgy to the point of almost panic before a review. I told her she never again has to worry about a performance review. I never tell anyone anything bad about themselves in a performance review.

Tracking Time Was Never So Easy

We are into the glooming 21st Century and are slowly moving from paper pads to notepads in every segment in various industries. What we used to do using papers, like writing accounts using pen and paper, maintaining employee records in registers etc are done using computers.

How Do You Know It's Time To Fire A Client?

As a business owner, you're no longer sitting in your too-small cubicle waiting to be called to HR for yet another downsizing in yet another company. No more being told when you can take lunch, make a personal call or, heavens forbid, go to the bathroom. Owning your own business comes with lots of perks. One of them that is frequently overlooked however is that you now have the ability to fire a client.

What Your Employees Won't Tell You - The Number One Secret Revealed

Employees keep seven secrets from their boss and one of them is the real reason they are quitting your company. If your company has turnover don't believe the reasons employees give you. Instead, look in the mirror.