Get Your Performance Appraisal Discussions Off to a Good Start
In a previous article I shared a couple of tips that will reduce the feelings of discomfort that often come when a performance appraisal is discussed — gather your materials in advance, make a list of the key points you need to cover, and pick an appropriate place for the discussion. Here... More...
E-learning - Singing from the same hymn sheet
E-learning gives you the opportunity to deliver and measure whether or not, you are achieving your goals. But the term E-learning has a certain internet geeky stigma attached to it. It sounds complicated and technical. But the truth of the matter is it's neither. Take the E out of E-learning and... More...
Wet Floor Signs Are A Great Way To Protect Yourself Against Costly Lawsuits
Slips on wet and newly refinished floors is a million dollar industry in the United States for people in the law profession. If someone falls and gets hurt on your floors after you've either mopped them or refinished them and you don't have the area marked correctly with warning signs, there is... More...
Will You Be a Good Manager? Test Yourself
Manager means to manage any work or an organization. To manage is not that easy. Imagine the size of some of the large organizations. Their turnover exceeds GDP of many countries. But the companies have to be managed effectively and efficiently and good managers are needed to do that. It applies... More...
Dealing with Your Difficult People
For leaders managing constant change, conflict is built into the very fabric of their organizations. When conflict is not dealt with well, it can create strained relationships and grow to sap the time, energy, and productivity of even the best teams. Dealt with positively, conflict can also be a... More...
10 Reasons Why Friendliness Is A Leadership Necessity
We've heard it many times, "It's a dog eat dog world." The trouble is, some leaders actually believe it. They conduct themselves like the alpha dog in a pack, holding sway through intimidation. This instinctive behavior helps insure survival in a dog world, but applied to the... More...
Commercial Toilet Paper Information
Every year in America billions of dollars are being spent on restroom supplies and sanitary products. The largest expense in restroom supplies is toilet paper. Americans' use millions of rolls of toilet paper every year without a second thought. The toilet paper industry is so large that it... More...
Corporate Team Building Events: Throw ‘Distancing’ to a Distance
If someone just studies a few recent corporate recruitment advertisements, there will be at least one thing he or she will find common in almost all of them. The recruiters are putting much emphasis on hiring a one-team man rather than a one-man team, in the management category at least.... More...
Recruiting Software VS CRM (Customer Relationship Management)
What is CRM? If I buy CRM software will I be a better recruiter? Should recruiting software have CRM features? Do recruiting software vendors include CRM in their product? I think CRM is a lot of smoke created by some very good marketing people who could sell ice to Eskimos. A... More...
Drive a tight agenda, don't let it drive you
Excerpted from The Truth About Getting your Point Across...And Nothing But the Truth at http://www.leadingonedge.com/truth A colleague of mine was responsible for running a bi-weekly two-hour team meeting. He took great care to develop a very full, detailed agenda. As we would get... More...
Transform Your Organization With Facilitative Leadership
So, facilitative leadership: is leading by committee ... not! It is not about getting everyone together and asking, "what do you and you think?" Everything cannot be decided via committee! Especially if your work involves things like law enforcement or the military. The front lines are... More...
Managing Cultural Diversity- A Key to Organizational Success
Organizations around the world has been realizing the cultural diversity within organization is not a negative aspect, rather can facilitate organizational stalk for glory (Papers4you.com, 2006). However it is not an easy task to manage employees with different cultural backgrounds. Nevertheless... More...
Duty of care
Company car and van drivers are involved in over 1,000 fatal accidents on Britain’s roads each year and almost 100,000 are injured while driving on company business. Driving at Work: Managing Work-Related Road Safety Guide To address this, in September 2003, the Health and Safety... More...
Organizational Change: Mission Impossible?
Many factors such as globalization, technological advances, deregulation, privatization, mergers or acquisitions coupled with a movement of labor-intensive projects to less expensive locations and changing customer demands are forcing organizations to constantly review their purpose, vision and... More...
Ensuring Effective Teamwork in Organization
It has been becoming a common practice in organizations to produce high productive results through ensuring effective teamwork (Papers4you.com, 2006). Many experts have argued that teamwork is really an effective tool in organizations where work is highly interconnected and demands up to date... More...