10 Critical Questions to Ask Before Hiring a Consultant (13 Jun 2006) Talk to as many consultants as you can before hiring one. Even if you have one person or firm in mind, interview at least a few others as a sort of due diligence. You'll probably find that each inter...
10 Fool Proof Ways To Intensify Your Profits (13 Jun 2006) 1. Create benefit intensifiers for your list of ad copy benefits. Example, The Benefit: "Save More Time", The Benefit's Intensifier: "Never Seen Before". 2. Use a little humor in...
10 Resolutions For The New Year!! (13 Jun 2006) If you want to jump start your business for the new year, here are 10 resolutions that will guarantee your success!!
10 Steps When You Need Help in Your Business (13 Jun 2006) You start off alone. Be it as a solo business owner or a manager looking after a part of a larger business. It gets busier, you get distracted from what you want to do, because there's only one of you and you've only got one pair of hands. So you need to find help. Sometimes you need to find help fast, but there are things you can do to prepare.
10 Ways New Managers Become Great Leaders (13 Jun 2006) Congratulations, you've been promoted. Now what? New leaders often do not realize the extent of the change and the skills required to be a success. Learn to be a super not blooper leader.
10 Ways To Maintain Profits In A Slow Economy (13 Jun 2006) 1. Sell more back end products to your existing customer base. You already created rapport, trust and proved your credibility to them. 2. Make it a practice to up sell to new and existing customers....
10 Ways To Work Through A Business Slowdown (13 Jun 2006) In running any kind of business, it's inevitable that sometimes business will slow down. This might occur due to an upcoming holiday, seasonal variations, or uncontrollable circumstances. As a small-...
1000 Managers Turned Their Plans Into Energy! (13 Jun 2006) This article shows leaders how to train, advise and
encourage people using their strategic plans as a guide for
making improvements in skills, behaviors, performance and...
14 Ways to De-Stress Employee Vacations (13 Jun 2006) Employees go on vacation to rest and recover from the daily stress involved with their jobs. Why is it that so many miss out on the anticipated rest and come back to work just to rest up from the stress of the vacation? Here are 14 ways you can help employees take the stress out of their time off.
2 Pieces To The Puzzle Of Organizational Change (13 Jun 2006) Dr. Mike Beitler explains 2 of the 10 major concepts necesary to understand organizational change: Forcefield Analysis and the Three-Stage Model of Change. This article is based on excerpts from chapter 2 of "Strategic Organizational Change"
25 Great Ways to Find the Right People and Not Break the Bank (13 Jun 2006) Are you trying to hire dozens of hourly workers or a senior executive? Where do you look and how do you get the word out? There are many ways to find the right people besides placing want ads. Learn 30 innovative and inexpensive ways to expand the pool of potential applicants. Pick and choose the ones that "fit" your company and your budget.
25 Super-Practical Steps to Build Your Business! (13 Jun 2006) For the past several weeks, we have focused on some wonderful but (to my way of thinking) rather fancy ideas about life. I wrote about motivation (I don't believe in it). I wrote about sorting out priorities (I do believe in that!). And I wrote about the 4 traits of highly successful people. I love that stuff! But I believe most of you subscribe to TIP's for help in actually running your office from day to day. Most of you have told me you're professionals in private practice, or owners of small businesses, or a manager. And that means you must attract clients or customers, serve them very well, and earn their return business - and do it every single day.
3 Ingredients of Highly Profitable Organizational Change (13 Jun 2006) As waves of organizational change sweep across the business landscape, a huge question arises: What must a leader do to make sure change produces highly profitable results? I uncovered exactly what executives did who planned and implemented organizational change that produced $10-million - $1-billion in profit improvement. I discovered that highly profitable organizational change requires three key ingredients. If any ingredient is missing or incomplete, then even the best plans will fail to achieve the desired results.
3 Innovation Keys - Do Your Innovative Efforts Need More Power? (13 Jun 2006) This article shows leaders how to help people innovate, add
value, improve quality and enhance competence in every task,
product and service - to ensure their work is performed
and be done in highly innovative ways...
