| Duties Of Asset Management by Bunty Mann | | The duty of your asset management company is undoubtedly to make a proper management of your business' reserves - better known as assets - but there are several other things that the asset management company must look into. Let us look into the duties that an asset management company is supposed to ... Full Article | | Views: 6; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 447; Article Characters Count: 2749 |
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| Smart Management - The Next Best Thing To Cloning Yourself by David A. Goldsmith | | Business management can be both exciting and frustrating: sometimes both at the same time. Hopefully, you've got more of the exciting and less of the frustrating, but in any case, there are things that you can do to make life in the office more pleasurable for you and your staff.
Let's look at ...
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| STRENGTHS VS. WEAKNESSES by Al Gates | | One area in organizations I have noticed over the years is their inability to adequately utilize their employee's strengths. Yet most managers during the recruitment and hiring process spend considerable time and effort exploring the potential employee's strengths.
It would be more appropriate ...
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| Why Executive Coaching by Edw M Burns Sr | | Why Executive Coaching
Bottom line, it's protecting a company's most productive investment, its people and when problem occur then its time to take action. They look to a coach who becomes or is a personal mentor, sounding board and teacher. He or she defines and addresses issues that seem to ...
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| Inject Fun Into Your Business by Bill Todd | | This is the single most powerful, yet least understood, competitive advantage available. Tom Peters, America's foremost business guru, states that 70% of all consumers would switch suppliers today if they simply could find one they perceived as being more fun. If you have any doubts, seek out an ... Full Article | | Views: 31; Rating: 5.0; Article Word Count: 245; Article Characters Count: 1515 |
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| Using Performance Appraisals to Enhance Employee Performance by Donna Price | | The annual performance appraisal is an opportunity to enhance employee performance and create greater success for the company and the individual. My intent is to explore how coaching skills can be used in creating a good performance appraisal experience for both the employee and the supervisor and ... Full Article | | Views: 19; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 2111; Article Characters Count: 12416 |
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| Behavioral Extensions and Its Implications at Workplaces by Ray Titus | | The study of Behavioral extension involves investigating the source of an actual demonstrated behavioral action. According to Behavioral Extension belief, no action can be seen as a disconnected expression. Every action is a result of deep set embedded Behavioral sets that are almost unalterable... Full Article | | Views: 247; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 1061; Article Characters Count: 6545 |
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| Big Company Intelligence on a Small Company Budget by Wendy Cobrda | | Information is the lifeblood of the economy. That's especially true for businesses, because the ability to identify current customers and locate new prospects makes the difference between boom and bust. So how do successful companies do it? Through targeted market research, which usually means ... Full Article | | Views: 455; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 500; Article Characters Count: 3167 |
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| Choices in Appointing International Managers by Brenda Townsend Hall | | Globalization is requiring companies to make important choices about how to deploy international managers. The costs of making the wrong choice are heavy both economically and in the emotional and physical toll it can take on employees and the impact it can have on the overseas branch. ... Full Article | | Views: 304; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 768; Article Characters Count: 4673 |
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| Delegation for Business Leaders - How Letting Go Works by Martin Haworth | | A leader's role is to focus on those areas of operation where he or she can deliver the greatest value and this requires huge shifts in perspective of the role. Leaders differ from managers in terms of accountability. Whilst a leader is accountable for the strategic growth of the ... Full Article | | Views: 251; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 463; Article Characters Count: 2534 |
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| Get It Done. Soft Skills not Hard Tools are Required by Chuck Yorke | | If your organization has people, then interpersonal skills are needed. I work with companies that are on a path they call the lean journey. Whatever you call it, it's based on the Toyota Production System. Some manufacturers embraced it and it became known as Lean Manufacturing, expanded ... Full Article | | Views: 171; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 375; Article Characters Count: 2287 |
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| Group Meeting Disrupters by Andrew Schwartz | | MEETING DISRUPTERS: If two participants are carrying on a personal discussion that interferes with a meeting, direct a clear and simple question to one of them. In order to avoid embarrassing them, address them by name before asking the question. An alternative is to restate a previously ... Full Article | | Views: 495; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 559; Article Characters Count: 3544 |
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| Hidden Consultants Within Your Organization by Harwell Thrasher | | You've all heard the old joke about a consultant being someone who uses your watch to tell you the time, and then steals your watch. There's some truth to the story: consultant recommendations are often the same things that your employees or customers have been telling you all along. But while ... Full Article | | Views: 372; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 1202; Article Characters Count: 7108 |
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| I Said Pareto Chart... Not Potato Chart. by Martin Pl | | Does this sound familiar? You were hired for the new management position. You were tasked to turn the numbers around. You take some time reviewing the current situation. Now it's time to take a look at the current processes and get your staff together to analyze the data. You tell them that you ... Full Article | | Views: 368; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 731; Article Characters Count: 4223 |
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| Instantly Uncover Your Corporate Culture by Michael Mercer | | Best Definition of "Corporate Culture" If you ask 10 people to define "organizational culture," you will get 11 different answers! Fortunately, from my consulting and writing on leadership and organizational change, I created my definition of organizational culture: "Corporate ... Full Article | | Views: 498; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 924; Article Characters Count: 5650 |
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| Make Change Easy - Get Involved. by Martin Haworth | | There are wild variances in how much involvement organisations are brave enough to offer their people in change. From those organisations where they just tell' (sometimes by text message even!), to the most enlightened extreme, where they enable wholesale contribution to the change ... Full Article | | Views: 336; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 451; Article Characters Count: 2556 |
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| Making Powerful Requests That Launch People Into Action by Joe Rubino | | Do you ever wonder why people do not simply do the things that you want them to do? Well, instead of waiting for things to happen, decide to take responsibility for making them happen. The way to do this is often as simple as making an appropriate request. Requests are the engine that ... Full Article | | Views: 499; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 966; Article Characters Count: 5320 |
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| Reprimanding Marginal Employees by Andrew Schwartz | | THE MARGINAL PERFORMER: Every manager must, from time to time, deal with a marginal performer an employee whose work, for the most part, is satisfactory, but who regularly fails in some specific area or areas to maintain a satisfactory level of performance. The work of the marginal performer ... Full Article | | Views: 159; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 383; Article Characters Count: 2404 |
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| Rules for Running a Meeting by Ofer Tirosh | | As an experienced manager, I can announce without a doubt that the primary reason for lack of effectiveness in the contemporary business world is that people don't follow the rules for running a meeting.
Thousands meetings are conducted each day and most of the meeting chairmen have not even ... Full Article | | Views: 430; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 522; Article Characters Count: 3053 |
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| Tales from the Corporate Frontlines:Employee Ideas Achieve Work Life Balance by Josh Greenberg | | Employee Ideas Achieve Work Life Balance This article relates to the Work/Life Balance competency, which investigates how your staff feels with regard to the balance between work and personal life. It explores issues such as priority of family and hours on the job, also covered in this ... Full Article | | Views: 395; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 661; Article Characters Count: 3778 |
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| Team Motivation - Tough Enough to Care by Alan Fairweather | | Sir Alex Ferguson has just celebrated his 1000 game in
charge of Manchester United, probably the world's most
successful soccer team. I have a great deal of respect for Sir Alex as a man
manager. However, I always feel that he's misrepresented in
the media. The press portrays him as this ... Full Article | | Views: 477; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 280; Article Characters Count: 1558 |
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| The 6 Steps to Six Sigma by Michael Nelson | | Step 1 Get the proper level of Six Sigma expertise at the executive level of the company. If the top leaders don't understand the advanced six sigma principles, the company has no shot to attain total quality. This will probably require a hefty budget, entailing the hiring of several... Full Article | | Views: 155; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 726; Article Characters Count: 4262 |
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| What Cross-cultural Training Can Do for You by Brenda Townsend Hall | | International business is more complex than ever before. Success in every sector is now seen in global terms. Yet success in working with colleagues from different cultures is no easy goal. In order to connect, we have to communicate effectively and we can only do this in an atmosphere of mutual ... Full Article | | Views: 346; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 843; Article Characters Count: 4998 |
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| Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery - A Business Not a Technology Issue by Robert Mahood | | Hackers, hurricanes, fires, flooding, power outages, denial of service attacks, application failures, employee error, sabotage and now terrorism are helping companies to focus on the necessity of a business continuity plan. Through the late 1990s as companies prepared for Y2K, many IT ... Full Article | | Views: 403; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 376; Article Characters Count: 2539 |
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| Effective Email Communication by Adam Senour | | Email, when used properly, can generate additional direct sales and leads; can be used as a tool to communicate with your existing client base to let them know of upcoming events which may affect them; and as a means of ongoing promotion for your business. The following is a list of simple ... Full Article | | Views: 531; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 697; Article Characters Count: 4101 |
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| Employees Commit Corporate Fraud by Darren Miller | | Imagine the following scenario; Ten years ago you decided to
quit your job and start your own company. For ten years you
worked hard, made sacrifices, and it paid off in the end.
One of your first employees, a loyal, hard working employee
has been by your side the whole way. Things ... Full Article | | Views: 192; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 554; Article Characters Count: 3238 |
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| How To Decrease Downtime and Increase Productivity by Lawrence Bush | | All maintenance activities of the workforce must be documented, this includes breakdown repairs, callouts, preventive maintenance, replacement maintenance, overhauls, and Testing & Inspection work. Maintenance work by production line employees must be included, whether or not the employee is ... Full Article | | Views: 218; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 744; Article Characters Count: 4584 |
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| Improving Your Inter-Company Communications At No Cost by Martin Bailey | | It's all very well having a flashy (and expensive) advertising campaign, backed up by a wealth of positive PR, but if your staff are not all pulling in the same direction this could be the biggest leak in your plan. Want a more in-depth guide to internal and customer communications, plus a ... Full Article | | Views: 154; Rating: 1.0; Article Word Count: 391; Article Characters Count: 2249 |
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| Measure for Measure by Ed Newman | | Can you imagine playing hockey without a goal? Basketball without hoops and nets? Football without a goal line? Golfing without holes or greens? There may be leagues where it doesn't matter whether anyone is keeping score, but not the big leagues. Champions of the Super Bowl, the ... Full Article | | Views: 220; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 1291; Article Characters Count: 7253 |
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| Profound Knowledge by Peter Andersen | | We all are on a quest for knowledge. Whether its information that will make our lives easier or just small packets of data that in a trivial way allows us to sort out "why things are the way they are on this planet." As intelligent beings we are constantly receiving and sorting information, in ... Full Article | | Views: 469; Rating: N/A; Article Word Count: 576; Article Characters Count: 3338 |
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