If you’ve ever thought of being the manager of a company, you’ve probably considered the amount of training that needs to go into company management.
The reward of becoming a an effective manager is not only a healthy paycheck but also in using leadership and competent managing skills to directly improve employee efficiency and inspire [...]
The current state of the economy makes it very difficult to inspire employees to perform at their peak levels. They worry about losing their jobs, and this fear diverts their attention from producing at the levels needed to succeed.
In order to promote productivity, you need to help your employees figure out what to focus on [...]
Senior level support of an initiative is always a key goal of any group manager or project director, in order to ensure success of a project.However, in over 10 years of work with change managers, convincing senior management to approve a proposal continues to be a main source of frustration among group managers.
To try to [...]
If you have experienced the following scenario, you are not alone.With only a few minutes to present to senior management, you must communicate a proposed project on behalf of your team.You labor until you perfect the delivery, only to see that the executives were unmoved by your proposal.What caused the unenthusiastic response?
In my work with change leaders over [...]
While businesses are struggling to survive in a turbulent economy, it is very easy to avoid communicating with employees. This avoidance can affect overall company performance for a number of reasons. If not addressed, employee anxiety reduces productivity and may ultimately impact the bottom line via stress-related illness, absenteeism, and decreased employee engagement and loyalty.
Here [...]
Whether you are a US company, or just a company with links back to the US, you may be required to know about the Sarbanes Oxley act. If you’re an American company and haven’t heard of it previously, you have already learned something about the act. It’s an act in the United States.
The Sarbanes Oxley [...]
We all have lots of appointments every day, hundreds of chores to do, dates to keep in mind. It is almost impossible to keep track of everything, to remember every telephone number you might need. It might not be a tragedy for some of us, but for others, it could be vital, and a [...]
Its amazing to consider just how much our dependence on IT has increased since a decade ago.You can’t find a single department in an organization these days that doesn’t depend on computers to work. Indeed, IT has been the core of the competitiveness of successful organizations.
What comes hand in hand with this reliance on [...]
So here is the scenario: you were good, you went to college and you got that Bachelor’s degree, then you got a job and settled into a nice routine. Now you are stuck in a rut. Perhaps you have stalled in your current career and want a way to jumpstart it or maybe you have [...]
Regardless of the size of your business, it is imperative to be incredibly focused within your business. In depth focus can only be achieved through proper planning.