How To Decrease Downtime and Increase Productivity (13 Jun 2006) How to set up and a plan to organize and document industrial maintenance activities. Article the suggests ways to utilize documentation to increase productivity.
Planning Your Recruiting Efforts Can Help You Find Great Employees (13 Jun 2006) Like most other business activities, a successful employee recruiting program must be a planned effort. This article provides a number of tips to help ensure that your recruiting effort produces results.
Profound Knowledge (13 Jun 2006) Profound Knowledge We all are on a quest for knowledge. Whether its information that will make our lives easier or just small packets of data that in a trivial way allows us to sort out "why things ...
Service Level Agreement (SLA) Boot Camp (13 Jun 2006) Service Level Agreements, or "SLA's" are tricky but useful mechanisms for managing the risk of an on-going relationship with IT service providers. Unfortunately, most SLA's that show up in service co...
Tales from the Corporate Frontlines: Finding The Perfect Balance (13 Jun 2006) Organizations that enjoy a high satisfaction level in the area of Work/Life Balance will normally exhibit a low rate of absenteeism and experience higher employee retention. This article illustrates how one employee's evolving life circumstances required him to make some career changes in order to achieve a healthy balance between the demands of work and personal or family life.
Five Overlooked Ways To Hire Winners (13 Jun 2006) When hiring employees, what you see is not always what you get! Applicants excel at "faking-out" interviewers and exaggerating how wonderful they are. But most interviewers fail to spot costly such deceptions. Dreadful result: Companies hire many employees they never should have hired. Fortunately, methods exist to give companies the edge when it comes to their needs to hire high-achievers.
Argue Your Way To Business Success (13 Jun 2006) "Jack" (not his real name) is a vice president of a publicly traded company. Recently, Jack's stress and anxiety levels have been high enough to impact both his working and his personal lives. (I'm using an alias because he's concerned about his story becoming public … for good reason!)
Tales from the Corporate Frontlines: Training is in the Eye of the Beholder (13 Jun 2006) Growing an organization's internal knowledge base is crucial to the success of any business and ensuring a growing knowledge base means investing in the training of your employees. A Gallup poll conducted in 1998 reported that eight out of 10 employees said they would be more likely to stay with their present employer if they were offered more or better training. This article conveys the value of corporate training programs to employees, as well as the benefits companies enjoy when they put forth the extra effort and expense and provide high-quality training programs for the workforce.
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.
Creative Writing - business principles produce more quality work, faster (13 Jun 2006) Maximization methodologies have long been used in business to produce quantities of quality ideas, faster. Creative writers who want to rapidly produce quantities of quality work should apply these same principles.
Does Your State Like To Keep Your Workers Compensation Secrets Hidden? (13 Jun 2006) Workers compensation secrets are hidden deep with piles and piles of bureaucratic mumbo jumbo. They sometimes are used as high prices paper weights for over paid government workers who may or may not have been able to get a job in the free market society.
30 Ways to be a Butt-Head Boss (13 Jun 2006) 1. Trust no one. Not your superiors and not your employees. Especially not your employees. They're probably out to get you anyway. 2. Believe that all of your people are lazy, good-for-nothing slacke...
Radical Creativity from Incremental Creativity – large movements from small changes (13 Jun 2006) Positive radical movement is the holy grail of nearly every decision maker. Every CEO wants to radically shift his profit and loss statement into the black, every inventor yearns to find the next killer gadget and every screenwriter wants to make the next significant leap in film.
A Rare Leadership Skill: Dealing With People Who Want Out By Offering Crowns For Convoy (13 Jun 2006) Most leaders eventually have to contend with people who want to leave their team or organization. How you deal with such situations can be one of the most important things you do as a leader. Here is a simple but powerful process, taught by Shakespeare's Henry V, that will help insure you do the right thing.
Satisfied Employees, A Powerful Marketing Strategy (13 Jun 2006) Even in today's still uncertain economic times, there are companies who are doing extraordinarily well. Why is it that some companies are thriving while others are barely making it? You can always bl...
Improving Your Inter-Company Communications At No Cost (13 Jun 2006) It's all very well having a flashy (and expensive) advertising campaign, backed up by a wealth of positive PR, but if your staff are not all pulling in the same direction this could be the biggest le...
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...
Measure for Measure (13 Jun 2006) Can you imagine playing hockey without a goal? Basketball without hoops and nets? Football without a goal line? Golfing without holes or greens? There may be leagues where it doesn't matter whe...
Coaching Champions at Work (13 Jun 2006) The benefits of adopting coaching as a business practice are that people perform better; relationships are enhanced; work is less stressful; the focus is on performance and not on promotion or job grade; and responsibility is placed where it should be - with the performer.
Organizational Culture, Creativity, Innovation (13 Jun 2006) It can be concluded with great certainty that certain organizational cultures inhibit creativity and innovation whilst others foster it. Some organizations are just better at identifying problems, generating and selecting valuable ideas and developing and commercialising them - this is why those firms tend to maintain competitive advantage and remain leaders in their field.
