Effective Staff Appraisal

How can you make appraisals effective and powerful sources of staff motivation?

Can Leadership be Measured?

Organizations depend on leadership for direction, momentum and a plan for sustainable success. How do we recognize leadership exists? How do we develop leadership? How can leadership be measured? These are questions this article seeks to explore.

Ask Seven Powerful Questions to Design Your Organisation Around its Purpose

Too many organisations are not built to suit their purpose. A periodic review of organisational design against the business purpose helps wipe away inefficient and ineffective structures. Ask these seven powerful questions to determine appropriate structures for your business purpose.

How to Conduct Benchmarking in TQM Implementation

Is Benchmarking sounds familiar to you? It has been a common terminology whenever organization seeks opportunity for improvement. Or try to do something new. This TQM article is about how the author dealt with Benchmarking in TQM implementation. It highlights what to as well as how to benchmark.

The Steps in Budget Planning

When it comes to budget planning there are several important steps that you need to follow to ensure you create a budget and follow it. Believe it or not but budget planning really is the easy part.

Document Management Systems and Benefits - An Applied Example

An overhead view of accounting processes and the application of document management technologies to improve those processes.

Conferences to Change Attitudes

Conference planning and meeting planning article bring outs how a thriving conference can change human attitudes.

Managing Your Fleet Is Now Easier Than Ever

Fleet Management help, tips, and ideas.

Document Management, What's in it For You

Understand why organizations buy document management systems, a straightforward needs and benefits overview.

Building Added Value Professional Support Functions

As a professional support function, how can you start to build credibility and really demonstrate the value you deliver to your organisation?

Why We'll Beat the Fast-Rising, Tech-Savvy Underdeveloped Countries

This article expresses the turn-around underway in how US companies will regain our position as the number one economic engine in the world.

Deadlines Matter, But Only If You Enforce Them

Imagine if your local newspaper didn't show up one morning because those operating the press at the paper just didn't make their deadlines? How would you feel? What would happen to those employees the next day? Imagine if all of the local gas stations had bags over the nozzles because the deliver trucks were behind on their deadline and the pumps were empty? How would you feel? We take for granted that some suppliers we count on always make their deadlines, so why are we not as expectant for our business deadlines to be met?

Addicted to Praise

Some experts think that the young people coming in to business today are narcissistic and addicted to praise. Are they right? And what does that mean for you as a manager?