Management Articles & News
Fundraising: Art, Skill And Work
If you have attended school in the last 50 years, you are well acquainted with the word “fundraiser”. It would seem in this age of corporate sponsorship, advertising, and community involvement, fundraising would not be the difficult process that it is. But this is not so. Fundraising is big business, and requires much skill on the part of the organizer. Occasionally, you are involved with a fundraising event, and everything seems to flow as if it were an everyday occurrence. Then, you have the ...
When It Pays To Use Incentive Programs
Non-cash incentive programs and fringe benefits can have a powerful influence on attitudes, which should in turn improve results. You can give employees the greatest incentive program, but by impairing a sense of ownership in the organization. If you don’t know what kind of incentive programs to employ so as to motivate your people to work and increase productivity, here are some tips that you can use: 1. Sharing the shares. Use ...
Ten Tips For Creating A Terrific Employee Appraisal System
Face the facts: Creating a new performance appraisal system is a difficult undertaking. It’s even more difficult if the organization doesn’t have a logical, well-tested, step-by-step process to follow in developing their new procedure. Based on my experience in helping dozens of companies create performance appraisal systems that actually work, here are ten tips that will help any company create a new performance evaluation system that will provide useful data and be ...
A Guide To Performance Management
Nowadays, a great significance is being given to Performance Management, as companies incorporate them in their effective management strategies. However, a lot of people find this process a complicated one, mostly because of the many options that it offers – on the organization, a specific department/branch, a product or service, and on employees, among others. In order to minimize this confusion, the items below will give you a general idea of what Performance Management is ...
Meeting Customer Expectations
As I was in the airport today waiting for my flight, I was next to a gate for Southwest. For those that don't know, Southwest doesn't issue reserved seats like most airlines. Instead, ticket-holders are issued one of three boarding groups, each of which lines up before the flight. It's very similar to general admission seating at concerts. And as I was waiting for my flight, I watched maybe 200 people standing in line, each hoping to above being sandwiched between two 6'7" fat ...
How To Make A Million Dollars
The brainiacs at Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine just posted some good advice from millionaires on what it takes to become one. The stories of the nine people featured are worth reading and have parallels with the music business. The information can be summarized with these tips: TIP #1: Go balls out. - Like a successful music business career, earning this kind of money isn't something you can halfass. TIP #2: Support ...
Director Of Managed Services
CRM (Customer Relationship Management) Kyliptix Solutions, Inc. have developed an advanced customer relationship management (CRM) software solution with collaboration capabilities that offer interoperability and integration between a variety of complimentary applications and technologies. Our product provides a full-featured, robust and secure CRM solution for small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) and allows customers to integrate their diverse environments and applications in a ...
Employee Retention: It's A Changing Game
As a management consultant, I have seen some poorly conceived retention policies at otherwise well-run companies. The philosophies underlying these policies lack some basic knowledge of two things:
6 Steps For Establishing Yourself As An Expert
Like the Internet itself, online marketing resources such as blogs, chat rooms, and user groups are vast and puzzling. On one hand they offer that elusive “promise land” of free and effective marketing. On the other, they embody a “time sink” of astronomical proportions. They have addictive qualities and their effectiveness is measured only by your own self-control.
Stepping Into Possibility Thinking
Our thoughts really belong to the collective consciousness of the world in all of time. Our individual minds process the cumulative database recorded on the physical and subtle levels and devise interesting combinations, unique interpretations, and random permutations. When this assemblage of information is startling enough, we hail it as an expression of genius. The pattern of human thinking is designed to hold homeostatic belief systems. This has great survival value for establishing ...
Jack Welch -- Winners Get Back Up On The Horse
A few months ago I had the opportunity to spend a few minutes with Jack Welch, past CEO of GE. A fantastic opportunity.
Is Your Business Healthy?
Most business owners I work with want to grow their businesses. I guess this probably applies to most businesses in general. But growth for the sake of growth alone is not always healthy for a business or its people.
What Is Leadership?
Leadership is what every organization needs and so few have in adequate supply. Part of leadership is what the first President Bush called “the vision thing”. It’s the ability to see what does not exist and then gather, mold and shape the resources needed to make it happen.
Characteristics Of A Good Leader
It’s interesting to hear the responses from executives when I ask them, “What are the characteristics of a good Leader?”
Identifying Candidates For Leadership
A critical task in the succession planning process of any organization is identifying candidates. Traditionally, candidates have been identified based on past performance. While this seems logical, it is problematic in practice. Past performance always measures success in a lower-level position. What is needed in succession planning is a system to identify potential for success in a future higher-level position. The best predictive model I have found is the Leadership Pipeline ...
Advice For New Managers
Here is the transcript of our interview with Darryl Gee, a.k.a the madmanager. If you had to give a new manager some advice, what would it be? Wow. There are so many things that I would want to say to them. What’s the most important, impactful thing you can think of on the spot? Don’t let it go to your head! Now explain what you mean by that? As a manager you are the “boss.” You hold all the authority - Yes. But don’t let that go to your head. Think of yourself as a servant to your ...
Work Life Balance - Getting It Right!
I have previously covered the importance of business strategy, and achieving work life balance is an important factor in developing an ability to think and plan strategically.
Management Titles In Business
Management is both art and science. It is the art of making people more effective than they would have been without you. The science is in how you do that. There are four basic pillars: plan, organize, direct, and monitor.
Action Learning: It's More Than Ojt
For centuries companies have used on-the-job training (OJT). OJT works because it follows much of what we know about adult learning theory. For example, we know:
Six Disciplines For Excellence
Too often, the majority of business improvement books are long on theory and short on practicality. The ideas are good (or great), but most business leaders do little to incorporate the ideas in their businesses long enough for positive change to take place.
How Sarah Helps You Achieve Your Goals
Do you know where your company is going? Do you have a vision of where you want to be? Often in an attempt to get company staff to have a shared view of where they're all going a vision and mission statement are prepared. Unless you're a large company it's a waste of time. Mainly because your company works to the beat of your drum. You're the one who sets your own company's agenda. Whether you realise it or not. Your whole attitude to risk, customer service, planning, ...
Mentoring At Its Best
Mentoring at its best A daunting challenge facing South Africa at present is the creation of employment. This requires people with either qualifications or capability to be drawn into the economically active sector. Most important of all, it requires a commitment from as many skilled South Africans as possible, to mentor other people without expectation of a return. How do you develop people capable of eclectic, creative, visionary and usable thinking? The first challenge is that ...
Management Miscommunication
Striking at the heart of Management mis-communication There’s a new disease spreading rapidly through marketplaces. Its main symptom is employee unhappiness. The cause is simple: management is out of touch with the concerns, needs, and aspirations of their co-workers. I refer to them as co-workers rather than employees because that’s what they are. ‘Employees’ implies a sort of indentured servitude. If one takes into account the global preponderance of young people in most populations, we’d ...
Passion Equals Profits
Many people often ask me why I do what I do. That is, why do I spend so much time during my waking hours working on my internet business?
Auto Loan Options For People With Bad Credit
Internet surfers with bad credit looking for an auto loan are bombarded with advertisements most days. Many of these ads are truthful in their bad credit auto loan options. However, there are many things to avoid, and this article will describe some of those.
Manage Your Gray Moments
Short-term memory lapses are a fact of life as we grow older. Would you believe memory loss begins increasing at age 25? For every fact of life there's a management solution!
Is Busyness Affecting Your Business?
I’m too busy; I’d love to but I’m very busy; I’ll get round to that when I’m not so busy. How often have you said any of those phrases? How many times a week do you hear someone else say those phrases? They’re very common and busyness seems to have become a way of life for many people. I’ve just finished writing my first ebook called Take Control of Your Time: 7 Straight Shooter Strategies for Success, and when I was doing some research two of the most common problems people said they faced ...
Is Your To Do List The Problem?
You start each week with great intentions. You are determined to get a grip of your workload. You are determined to write a to do list, you even promise yourself that you will stick to it and use it and reprioritise each day so that you finish what you want to every day.
Will Your Epilogue Be - i Got All My Emails Done?
Work life balance is the new Holy Grail; that search for nirvana; the need to find peace and contentment, the desire to achieve that fine sense of equilibrium that we can be happy with.
How To Accelerate The Return On Investment (roi) Of Your Senior Talent
If you were given £100,000, how would you feel? If that £100,000 was then withdrawn and you were asked for another £150,000 how would you feel? You might question whether you had made the right decision to take the £100,000 in the first place. You might also feel annoyed, frustrated and bewildered to have to pay 2 ½ times that amount for the privilege. Well believe it or not, every time a newly appointed senior executive with a £100,000 salary doesn’t succeed, your overall cost is £250,000. ...