Recruit Employees Effectively: How Do You Recruit Good Employees For Your Team?

Many small business leaders struggle with long hours rather than recruiting their first employees. With a team of staff, recruited properly, the SME will grow even though the owner works fewer hours.

Team Leadership: Does Your Leadership Team Really Talk? Part 2

It's the ability to engage in quality conversations that sets high-performing teams apart. And there are significant commercial advantages, too - not least, better decision-making, improved efficiency and delivering organisational change more effectively. Team Performance expert Philip Houghton has come up with the key questions leaders must ask their teams. Part 2 covers questions about capability.

Working Together - Team Building Advice for Small Businesses

When time is money, spending time on team building activities can be seen by some as a waste. As a manager or small business owner, it is up to you to decide what's the best route for you and your team. Do keep in mind that when a team functions, and when there is mutual respect and understanding between the individuals, it can move mountains and achieve more.

The Seven Characteristics of a High-Performing Team

If you lead a team, you know that the journey to high-performance is ongoing. It's the rare team that achieves high-performance and just stays there. In my business life, whether I've managed a team within an organization, or run my own company, it’s been unusual to keep the same team together for longer than a year. Team members come and go, driven by the needs of the organization and their own career goals. And every time the members of a team changes, the team needs to regroup and refocus.

The Virtual Team: The Changing Face of Business

Virtual teams are the way of the 21st century and are changing the face of the 21st century. However, managing a virtual team requires a different approach to team building.

An Empty Mind: The Key to Great Teamwork and Communication

To really connect with the people around you, it is vital that you have an empty mind.

Talk Less, Listen More

he simple key to working well with others is to listen more and talk less. This is also one of the hardest...

Corporate Performance Management 101

Evaluating the performance of people, groups, and organizations is an ordinary practice of all societies. In some cases, the appraisal processes are planned and officially sanctioned. On the other hand, they may be an informal and essential part of everyday activities. Corporate performance management forms a major part of managerial staffing. It is the basis for determining whether certain employees are capable of being promoted or not.

Strategic Alliances for Productivity Increases

I believe you too will want collaboration in your corporate culture. Will strategic alliances help you increase your productivity? I believe they will. First, this philosophy must be developed in the executive suite and carefully delivered throught the organization in a method that will allow middle management and line workers to see the benefits they will receive. Otherwise, sabotage will your organizational norm.

Business Coaching: A Growing Business - It's Official!

Those of us in the coaching business have known for a long time that the need for our specialist skills are growing and growing, well now its official. Nigel Griffiths reports on a survey published by CO2 Partners.

Think Like A Leader

In sports, coaches often talk about senior leadership as an important aspect of a championship team. In business and community groups, we frequently hear how experienced leadership is responsible for the growth and success of an organization. Leadership is constantly associated with people who have been around the block or have advanced to certain job titles, and rightly so. But you don’t have to be a veteran or have a title to be an effective leader in your organization.

Celebrate Your Achievements! No Matter How Small

Do you ever stop to think how successful a hockey team would be if they did not celebrate each and every goal they score? Or any sports team every time they put a point up on the board? You would sit in the stands and wonder what was up if they didn't. Hockey teams celebrate all goals. It doesn't matter if they are losing- they still celebrate each and every time they put the puck in the back of the net.

Team Work And Team Building

Nowadays teams are becoming very important in every company and are the essential part of the human resource management study. However, there exist various forms of them - from natural teams to 'virtual' ones that might never physically meet. Some projects require a team formation that exists a certain period of time for project elaboration.