Tales from the Corporate Frontlines: The Responsibility for Job Security (13 Jun 2006) In today's often volatile or contingent labor market, it's crucial to understand the level of security your employees feel about maintaining their jobs. Studies show that employees who do not feel secure in their jobs are less likely to be committed to best assisting customers. This short narrative tells the story of two employees-with two completely different ideas of what to expect from their company in terms of employment security.
Tales from the Corporate Frontlines: The Role of Character in Leadership (13 Jun 2006) Senior management is often defined as the team of individuals at the highest level of management who have the day-to-day responsibilities of operating the organization, as well as for the development and implementation of the corporate vision and direction strategies. This article illustrates the importance of having a senior management team that has the character to abandon unsuccessful strategies, admit failure, and move on.
Tales From the Corporate Frontlines:Going International and Learning about Cultural Diversity (13 Jun 2006) Research shows that an organization can create a success-oriented, cooperative and caring work environment that draws intellectual strength and produces innovative solutions from the synergy of its people. However, a diverse workforce means that the managers within your organization must be capable of capitalizing on the mixture of genders, cultural backgrounds, ages, and lifestyles present in your staff to respond to business opportunities more rapidly and creatively. Today's multinational business environment presents new challenges for workers around the globe. This article provides insight and advice for successful communication between employees from different countries and diverse cultural backgrounds.
Tap Employee Passion For Business Success (13 Jun 2006) Meriwether Lewis set the stage for the Corps of Discovery's success before one single "employee" had been hired. From the outset Lewis and Clark engendered a communications culture that brought in the right prospects, then kept morale high and increased the productivity of those eventually hired.
Teaching Large Companies To Think Like The Little Guys (13 Jun 2006) The fact that innovation and entrepreneurship run rampant in smaller companies, but is often suppressed in larger companies is nothing new. Management guru Peter Drucker first addressed the issue in his 1985 book, Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Drucker wrote that one of the most often-asked questions in many a 1985 boardroom was, "How can we overcome the resistance to innovation that plagues most organizations?"
Team Motivation - Tough Enough to Care (13 Jun 2006) Successful managers and business owners know that to get the best out of their people they need to concentrate on the human interactions and make that emotional connection.
Teamwork Training: Learning to Build a Successful Team (13 Jun 2006) Teamwork: We Have Met the Enemy and They Are Us, a book by Dr. Steven Stowell and Matt Starcevich, describes actual teams that have participated in a variety of outdoor teamwork training programs.
Technology & Communication (13 Jun 2006) With more managers communicating through new technologies, rather than travel and face-to-face meetings, we need to consider what can happen to important messages when they are transmitted through the new media.
Telephone Techniques: Boost Your Productivity With Effective Phoning (13 Jun 2006) Telephone calls, both making and receiving them, are one of the greatest disruptions to the flow of the day and to our ability to concentrate on the task at hand. Boost your productivity and telephone sales with effective phoning.
Ten Business Reasons Why Asking for Help Works (13 Jun 2006) When you are in charge of a team, or a business, it is easy to fall into the trap of being invincible. Asking for help is something that's easy to do - yet, to the uninitiated, it feels like a weakening position. But there are a number of reasons that is not so.
Ten Problem Solving Techniques (13 Jun 2006) Don't just worry about it - find a solution. Here are ten problem solving techniques for any type of problem.
Ten Relationship Traits And Skills For Good Leadership (13 Jun 2006) As a leader how well do you relate to your people? Relationship is an important factor in having a motivated team that works together to achieve outstanding results.
Ten Secrets of Super Successful Meeting Planners (13 Jun 2006) Whoever said that being a meeting planner was easy, lied! Rather, it should be classified under the tough and demanding job category. But, along with being tough, it's also fun, exciting, exhilarat...
Ten Steps to Take the Work out of Work – Replicate Yourself! (13 Jun 2006) Managing can be hard work - if you try to do it all yourself. But if you don't do it all yourself, you run the risk of the work not being up to the high standards you require. So how do you go about getting both needs met, high standards and a life for yourself? Read on to find out…
Ten Tips for Creating a Terrific Appraisal System (13 Jun 2006) 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.
Ten Top Ways for Managers to Motivate Their People (13 Jun 2006) Motivating people is a sure way to get the best from them - yet it is not something for a to-do list. Motivation comes from consistent cultural shifts from within.
