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How we manage employees has some striking similarities to how we manage anything in business. And one striking difference!
Managing anything is simply directing or controlling the use of that thing. Managing in a business environment would also entail making the most effective use of that ... Views:2090
Many managers extol and even demand teamwork, then set up situations that destroy any possible team spirit.
Tip: Don't expect team players, if you haven't made it a team sport.
If you want team play and then set up competitions in which one employee wins and others lose, you aren't going to ... Views:2533
Ask any group of managers if they view themselves as an elite within their organization and you can be sure they will deny it. You'll hear comments such as: "I have an open-door policy" and "I take pride in always being accessible and approachable."
And in most cases, these managers will ... Views:1917
Knowing the law helps protect you from legal liability for the behavior of others.
You have a right to refuse to rent to or allow people to live on your property, based on legitimate business criteria. People with poor credit, poor maintenance habits and poor public records are not likely ... Views:2590
While the business world and Corporate America tend to evoke visions of wealthy business people consumed by themselves and their bank accounts, there is a growing movement of companies whose owners and leadership want something different. Known as conscious business, company owners strive to ... Views:1039
Expert event planning and event management requires a keen sense of detail. It's important to consider all of the elements of your entire event and how it will flow. However, even with the highest attention to detail, many last minute items may arise that need to be addressed. You should be ... Views:2135
Coaching is discussed everywhere and many management consultants have taken to offer Coaching services to their clients and prospects. Is it for you? Should you look into it or just ignore it as a fad?
In a country where stiff upper lip attitudes still prevail, who needs a personal Coach?
The ... Views:894
What are the tips and tricks to organizing spectacular events and yet able to be in control of stressful situations? What are the essential requirements for those who wish to be a professional events planner?
Here are 12 tips to being a successful corporate and private events planner:
1. ... Views:1541
Some companies and athletic teams use the words teamwork or team to describe how their organization works. That's extremely important. Some don't mention teamwork or team. These organizations are the ones that experience stagnation. My research indicates while many companies and athletic ... Views:1856
I empathize with you because the economy is in the dumps. All of us feel the effects, however, by empowering your mindset and motivation you will see it doesn’t matter what the economy does. It matters what you do. I know if you take spirit-enhancing action to produce spirit-enhancing results ... Views:1159
It doesn’t take long for a manager to bump into an employee with an “attitude.” Evaluating an employee as having an “attitude” also depends on what bothers a manager, as the same behavior may be just fine with another manager. Yet, there are certain behaviors that ... Views:3624
Often, as leaders within an organization, you are asked to lead a team of people in a certain direction and you do so to the best of your abilities. But then, you get a call from the powers that be requesting that you change the direction your team is headed and to do it quickly. This can be a ... Views:1816
I shared in last month's article the frightful statistics that predict continued - if not - growing problems with employee retention. In that article - "Gaining Employees" - I also shared my thoughts on how to alleviate those issues by hiring better candidates. In this article, I'd like to focus ... Views:1574
Effective task management is essential to completing any project successfully whether working solo or with a team. There are several tools available with many features that make the task management process much more efficient and convenient for individuals and teams.
1. Daily Task Planning
At ... Views:9075
Leadership is one of the biggest challenges managers face. How to be an effective leader, that effectively motivates staff to get their jobs done and with the quality of an owner.
One way to look at leadership is situational. In this model we tailor our behavior as leaders to the employee. For ... Views:912
The CHALLENGE of leadership is CHANGE. A manager or administrator can keep the status quo, but it takes a leader to create change. Traditionally, leaders have approached change as addressing problems. They use problem solving skills and critical thinking. Most often it has been a top down ... Views:977
For most employers, the objective of filling a staff position, is to find the right person, with the right attitude, with the right skills. Quite often, once that's done, we cross off that 'To Do' item, give a sigh of relief, and move on to the next issue that's demanding our attention. However, ... Views:803
Most employees start out as a new employee, develop competency in their roles, and then move forward to the expert stage. As you work with employees on development, it can be helpful to look at the stage they are in to appropriately plan with them their career development.
Why is employee ... Views:1270
I recently read the McKinsey & Company Report on Global Leadership in which they site the two primary concerns for global executives: 1 - The Economy; it's recovery has not been as strong and doesn't look as if it will be as strong as anticipated six months ago, and 2 - Retaining Employees: how ... Views:679
Have you ever been hungry for lunch and not able to focus on anything, let alone accomplish anything, until you get some food? Your focus is on one thing: getting food -- now. That becomes your foremost goal and the direction of your actions. Everything else is put aside or is addressed only ... Views:707
For a couple of years now, I’ve worked with clients regarding the impact that conflicting intentions can have on a person’s success, but it wasn’t until the year – 2005 - that I got to experience the impact firsthand.
Before I tell you my experience with it, let me ... Views:879
Here's something you already know: it's hard to find good, well-skilled employees. However, here's a truly scary fact: according to The Herman Group, national surveys are predicting that within 12 months, 75% of today's workers will be employed somewhere else.
That fact alone should be enough ... Views:805
According to an article in the July 2006 issue of Benefits & Compensation Digest entitled: Balance Short-Term Profit with Long-Term Investment in Human Capital: "The Labor Department...recorded by 2008 the growth of the U.S. Workforce is projected to drop to near zero and remain at that level ... Views:748
NO-NONSENSE “P” POINT MANAGEMENT
By
Bill Cottringer
"A shortcut is the longest distance between two points." ~ Annonymous.
Management information, like everything else today is on overload, so here is a quick system of No-Nonsense “P’ Point Management to help you accomplish a lot by ... Views:776
Keeping your talent is one of your main responsibilities as a manager…you are measured by your ability to handle this important function within the company. Losing people doesn’t have to be inevitable even for positions that traditionally have large turnover.
This is such a broad subject ... Views:1570
The March 2006 issue of the Harvard Business Review had a great article by Robert Morison, Tamara Erickson, and Ken Dychtwald entitled "Managing Middlescence." Their article addressed the mid-career employees, aged 35 to 54, who "should be at their peak of productivity," but instead "are the ... Views:781
A client recently told me she believes one of her key employees may be looking for a different job. My client was nervous and a bit "defeated." Her employee is smart, efficient, organized, and articulate. She gets along with everyone, works on any project you ask her to, and is willing to try ... Views:2999
You Can DOUBLE Your Productivity and Have More Out of It
by Dr. Steven Lee (Ph.D)
Job overloaded is one of the biggest problems nowadays.
The ideas here can help you to reduce the unnecessary works and only work on those important tasks. And it is not just time management but also help you to ... Views:720
I just got off the phone with a prospective client. They have serious employee and management retention issues. They have few managers with the right skills to be effective managers, let alone develop into effective leaders, they have a multitude of staff with less-than-effective front-line ... Views:785
It is Friday afternoon and you call John Thompson in to your office. You have had numerous talks with him but today is the one you dread. Today you need to tell him he is fired. This is quite possibly the worst part of your job; the part that stresses you out the most. And you just think, ... Views:864
A manager recently asked me, "My back-up person is incredible. When she retires -- which she's eligible do at any moment -- we'll be in big trouble. My problem is: How do I train someone else to do her job, without taking responsibilities away from her? I don't want to hurt her feelings and make ... Views:897
A client was experiencing some employee performance issues and asked us to present training to their managers on a new employee performance evaluation form. Terrific. However, they weren't thrilled when I told them that the training should only focus about 10 percent of the time on the actual ... Views:776
By taking the time to gain new insights into ourselves and our business, we create an opportunity to see things in a different light – to truly see things as they are. Once we do that, we can much better determine whether we need to take a new and better approach to building our business ... Views:777
We recently started a six-month leadership training program with a new client. The participants are accepted into the program only after they have been nominated by someone at or above their position in the company, and they have successfully passed the program's interview process.
This ... Views:777
I know an insurance agent in my area who, every time we run into one another, asks me if I have any good ideas as to how to find new clients without actually having to talk to people. This guy is in the wrong business. He needs to re-evaluate his life and decide to either change his attitude or ... Views:754
To be successful in managing employees you have to build a repertoire of skills to motivate employees. Creating a strong working relationship with each of your team members occurs when you increase trust with each member of your team.
A team is a group of people, each one influencing the ... Views:2137
You're a manager and don't have the time to do the all of the recruiting for your open position, so you rely on other people to help you in your talent search. Whether you depend on your Human Resources Department or outside recruiters to find the right candidates, it's important to know what ... Views:1193
A number of years ago, Holiday Inn built an advertising campaign around the slogan "The best surprise is NO surprise!" That slogan would also make good advice today to managers when it comes to giving performance reviews.
Few managers enjoy giving performance reviews. Why? There seems to be ... Views:3515
Year after year our company runs an associate survey. Year after year the same items score low: relationship between compensation and productivity, retention of the best associates and associate motivation via reward programs. If your company (whether large or small) is struggling with similar ... Views:1502
Employee retention is a hot topic. Every employer knows it's terribly expensive, time consuming, and disruptive to operations to repeatedly recruit, hire, train, and then lose employees. There are many reasons employees leave their jobs. However, time and again, employees leave because of ... Views:4630
When you have a home business, there are many things that you are going to want to think about. One of the things that you should always think about with your business, whether you run it from home or from somewhere else, is that you are going to want to try to have a business that is going to ... Views:682
The answer is “No”.
Let me clarify that. I don’t believe we can change our true destiny – that is, the destiny we secretly know to be true - for the truth is the truth. But we can and should change that “destiny” or fate that we have resigned ourselves to accept. You see, that “destiny” isn’t ... Views:1166
The other evening I was out having a cigar and a beverage. While sitting around a fire pit (an outdoor wood fire), I overheard an interesting conversation. [We were all sitting and standing pretty close to one another and this group was talking fairly loudly, so one couldn’t help but hear.] This ... Views:923
Nowadays, people work in global offices with colleagues from different worldviews, religions and attitudes. It is important to be aware of cultural differences and how they affect team dynamics, communication and management style. Multi-cultural workplaces also offer a wealth of new experience ... Views:1133
Six points have been recognized as the essence of good management. Keep these techniques in mind while developing a stronger working relationship with your employees.
1. An effective boss builds an atmosphere of open communication. Open communication is a major factor in employee satisfaction. ... Views:1696
We've all had this experience at least once in our professional lives: We've held off firing an employee because we didn't want to be mean. We didn't want to hurt the person's feelings, cause more disruption in his or her personal life, or we simply didn't want to have that difficult ... Views:525
You are reading this because you’re in a position of leadership. You may have some people working for you who are not quite cutting it. So, you have three options: live with them, get rid them, or help them. Said differently, you can surrender and do nothing, you can “manage” ... Views:2200
To be a leader you need to make the right choices. In our lives if you stop to think about it we always have at the minimum of two choices in everything we do. Back in school we learned of Newton’s physical law, the law states that with every action there is an equal and opposite reaction and ... Views:1157
For the last 25 years, I have been a Manager and one thing as a manager you must master is: Getting Things Done. Even more important getting things done through others, i.e. staff members.
As a manager you have to be there for your staff. You have to be available, supportive; advising, ... Views:1399
I totally believe if you want to improve a certain skill then you should model yourself on someone who already has had success in that skill.
I am a huge lover of self-development especially management and leadership, and a few months ago I became aware of a book by a guy called Allan Leighton. ... Views:2012