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Management Tagged Articles
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21 Undisputed Rules for a Leader of the 21st Century
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| Working with organizations for the last two decades across the globe, I have derived 21 undisputed qualities of a leader (not a manager). Sharing with community of at least 42 countries I have learn that leadership is everything (not managerial effectiveness). A leader can be a manager but a manager cannot be a leader. |
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4 Mantras of Leadership
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| 4 Mantras of Leadership by Dr. Shailesh Thaker |
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9 Tips to Improve Trust in Virtual Teams
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| We work in virtual teams more now than ever before. Many people spend most of the career working with people in high pressure situations, yet they have not ever physically met. Here are 9 tips that can improve the effectiveness of virtual teams. |
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Authentic Leadership
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| In organizations, our success as leaders is measured by the degree to which we’ve mastered the external environment and delivered results in the form of revenues, profits, new product breakthroughs, cost savings, or market share increases. |
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2 Ways to Avoid Being Micromanaged
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| Most of us have complained about this well-known situation at some point. What steps do you take to avoid the problem?
My personal view is that if you can accomplish the following two things, the chances of being excessively micromanaged are significantly reduced.
1) Be credible. Do excellent work and anticipate questions that might come up. Do your homework well and take preventive actions before being asked.
2) Over Communicate. If you get to the boss before he or she gets to you, then the potential to be micromanaged goes down.
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7 Times It Is Important to MicroManage
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| I am a macro-manager. I like to lead leaders, so I try to paint the big picture for a team and release team members to do their work carrying out the mission of an organization in his or her own way. |
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Autograph Your Work With Excellence
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| People should understand the difference between job and work. Job satisfaction is an outdated idea. Work satisfaction is a truly possible thought. You must know what you are doing. Leaders always know what they are doing and what they don't. |
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WHAT IS YOUR PERSONAL MODEL FOR THE YEAR 2010?
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| Leaders always plan their year in advance and they visualize the time in advance. They also design their strategy and decide to move forward according to strategy. So , plan and plan in advance and move forward. Remember, time passed never returns in the life. |
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LEADERSHIP: ART & SKILL OF LISTENING
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| Leader always listen, listen and listen. They use the words for the action and delegation and execution.They are passionate listeners and direct the team to achieve the common goal.Active listening is a skill and it should be acquire by the leader. Leader has to understand his people and to understand the people , you must listen them. |
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LEADERSHIP MEANS BREAKING YOUR OWN RECORDS.
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| Leader live with GET!SET!GO !formula.They are always in search of new records and break old records. To create new records they even break their own records.Global leader, always focus on the new horizon. Their eyes are beyond the sky but their legs are on the ground.History is a witness of last century that most of the talent plus person have break their own records. Leader is always on quest and compete with him self only to set new benchmark. |
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Feet Look To The Ground And Eyes Look To The Sky
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| Life is never a yesterday, it is always tomorrow. Even when everything is lost, does not matter, because tomorrow is not lost. A leader is a dealer of hope. Trust me, the biggest hurdle in the race of life is yourself only if we have pessimistic attitude. Leaders are internal driven and full of confident for making things happen. They believe in excellence and excel their talent to accomplish set goals. They believe in realistic world and keep burning desires inside. |
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Tips for Business Financial Accounting Management
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| There are seven important tips that can help in the management of the business financial accounts. The portion of accounting management that plays an important role in overall business growth and development. |
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Can Simply Being Nice Save You Money?
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| It occurred to me (at the tax office of all places) that simply being nice to others really does save us money. This morning while paying taxes, I was pleasant and took the time to be nice and two ladies really did everything in their power to save me some money. As I then drove to my office, I pondered the application of "simply being nice" to a more general business application. Can we as leaders role model being nice and teach our employees to be the same way? Can being nice impact our bottom line? Do we sometimes neglect the very people that mean success or failure in the game of business? |
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10 Organisational predictions for 2010
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| Working with the trends we have observed in 2009 and the continuing harsh reality in the business world, we have predicted the top 10 key issues for organisations in 2010 |
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Taking Leadership On Adequacy By Following Up
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| Adequate is a term that should be reserved for streets, sewers, mops and fast-food restaurants. Yet, we dream: “If we could just have adequate schools … if only.” Nevertheless, it is good to have the “adequacy studies” to confirm for us (and others) what we knew and hoped for. |
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10 Steps To Replacing Leaders
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| If you want an organization to grow you must develop leaders. Success or failure of an organization rises and falls on leadership. I believe it is equally true that the degree of success an organization can attain is directly proportional to its leadership potential. Those can be scary words, because it means that we must constantly be finding new leaders if we intend to continue to grow as an organization. |
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Leadership Today
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| I read lots of business magazines and blogs. I find it helps me with my own management skills. I also believe the Bible teaches us some great leadership principles. Unless you have lived under a rock then you know that today’s workplace is changing. The “new” generation of workers is more value-centered. Through my conversation with business leaders, what I have read and what I have personally observed this new generation of workers love time at home more than time in the office. They value a company that cares for the environment. They want benefits as well as pay. Fairness and honesty in the way they are treated is of utmost importance to them. They want immediate responsibility and authority in their area. They want to dress comfortably and they don’t expect to do what they are doing forever. Finally, they want to enjoy what t |
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Are Business Games worth the money?
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| Business Games are booming in organisations today. So what are they and why should we use them? |
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Vision, Management And Motivation
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| The job of a leader is to constantly improve standards and levels of productivity. And the only way to achieve that is to motivate people to perform their best at all times. A good leader essentially needs to be a motivator. He should be able to consistently inspire his team to strive for quality and excellence in their work. |
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Understand Your P & L
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| While cash flow is the most critical financial measure for small businesses, it is imperative that the P & L us fully understood |
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ARE YOU FANATICAL FOR YOUR CUSTOMER?
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| Is your customer's best interest at the center of your attention |
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Buying Help at Discount Pricing
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| Do you always pay the lowest price for labor? |
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Cash is King
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| In small companies, managing cash is critical. Not managing cash is one of the primary reasons that small companies fail, even when they may be making a profit |
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Dealing with Difficult Employees
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| Managing people is never easy, and some employees make it even more difficult. These challenging employees can try your patience and take a lot of your time and energy. It requires skillful management to turn these employees around and make them into productive workers. |
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Dealing with the Current Downturn
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| The current economic times are challanging, but we cannot "throw up our hands" and just react. We need to take smart, measured actions. |
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Disect Profit, Loss
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| How do you quickly analyse the profit and loss statement if you are not a financial expert? |
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Do You Know Your Breakeven
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| It is critical that all business know their breakeven point and it is even more critical today. |
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Listen to Your Employees
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| If you do not listen to your employees, you are probably making a major mistake. |
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Fraud Prevention
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| Fraud is a problem in small companies |
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Manage Your Sales Force
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| Many CEO's/owners do not feel that they understand the sales process, so they hire salespeople and do not manage them. They just tell them, "Don't just stand there, sell something". Does this ever work? Probably not. Do not fall for the old idea that you must be a sales expert to manage the sales process. |
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Not Enough Meetings
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| Not enough meetings. What a dumb statement. |
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Operations Plans
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| Why should small companies have an operations plan? |
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Performance Appraisals
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| All organizations should have formal performance appraisals. The following is a guide for a good appraisal system. |
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Saving Your Way to Success
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| How many times have you heard small company owners say they can cut costs to save their company? |
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The Need for Strategic Planning
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| Every company should have a strategic plan, no matter what the size. In fact, it is often more important for small firms as they tend to lose focus very easily. |
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Topgrading
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| How do I chose the best employees? |
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Music Industry Jobs? Here is the Ugly Truth!
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| What is the current state of the music industry and where have all the music industry jobs gone? What does the future hold for a music focused career? Is there an answer to the problems of a declining industry and what can you do to protect your future? |
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Employee Motivation Programs - Top Reasons Incentives Work
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| Employee motivation programs - more than likely you have know of them, however if you are not implementing them inside your small business, you are making a dangerous mistake. You see, while you will observe that these reward programs will require a monetary investment on your part, they might bring you incredible returns in the extended run. From incentives to unique prize giveaways, there are so many numerous ideas that you might get your own employee motivation program started and here are a few of the best reasons to do so. |
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Are You Labled As A Bad Manager?
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| The last thing you want to be labeled is a bad manager. A bad manager has many characteristics that has a negative impact on his team. Can you be one of them? |
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Selfish Leadership
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| If you are in a leadership position and guilty of this: don't tell anyone and CHANGE! |
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A Leader is Born Every Minute...?
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| Are leaders born or developed? Leadership is not for the lazy. It comes from having a want and a deep desire to excel and bring others along with them. |
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Performance Measurements (KPI's)
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| Every company must have Key Performance Indicators that they use the manage their company. |
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Planning and Implementation
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| If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail |
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Visionary, Salesman and Pragmatist Model of Business Success
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| Josh Kaufman has posted an article, Are You an Implementor or an Enabler? where he posits that businesses revolve around two complementary skill sets. Here I offer an alternative, hopefully more complete model of what roles are necessary for business success. |
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What Have You Done To Earn A Place In My Inbox!
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| Email management has become a trap. It saps time and energy. It is effective as a delivery system, but it is used more as a free sales channel.
Is it possible that senders of this "stuff" think they're the only ones sending information? What is their calculation that they'll end up in the junk folder?
This is a commentary of my successful ability to build relationships using email and not abusing my contact's trust. Enjoy, and as always, your comments are invited. -mc |
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Helping Supervisors
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| The first line manager, or so-called "Supervisor" has a particularly tough job. This level gets the brunt of worker unrest but also takes heavy flack from upper management. This article deals with some ideas to lighten their load and provide some more recognition for what they are doing. |
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Understand your business’s cash flow and grow your profits
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| By not understanding your business’s cash flow – what it costs to obtain revenue and where those funds end up – will only lead to the decline and demise of your business efforts. If you want to increase profits, you have to manage your business finances. |
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Building A Great Team: The Greater The Delay The Greater The Damage
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| The building of a great team starts with developing great leadership or a great coaching staff - a staff that gets rewarded for building a great, high performance team. One of the most important aspects of management is to hire, train and retain the best talent possible. The longer an organization delays this process of developing a solid staff, the greater will be the damage to the organization. |
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10 Simple People Skills To Successful Management
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| Getting the best from your people is vital if you are to make the best progress in your business or organisation. Much comes from the way you interact personally and there are just ten key actions to take to build great, fulfilling and productive relationships... |
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10 Steps When You Need Help in Your Business
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| 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. |
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Three Reasons Why Leaders and Managers Must Learn to Coach
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| Today’s business and entrepreneurial environment requires a different approach to leadership and management than ever before. |
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YOUR ROLE AS SUPERVISOR AND MANAGER
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| This article is designed to help you develop an awareness of your role and duties as a supervisor and manager. It is the first of the many building blocks you will need to help you better manage the resources of any organization. It is designed to jump start you’re learning with regard to the essence of your role as a supervisor and front-line manager.
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Managing smart or fire-fighting?
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| So many managers at all levels are principally fire-fighting and simply not planning, strategic and thinking deeply enough to provide the best solutions for their own productivity and for the sustainability of their organizations. |
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10 Tips for your Stop Doing List
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| A frequently overlooked opportunity is to create a "Stop Doing" list. Leaders should be especially mindful of this method of shaping priorities. This article shares some technology on how to create and manage a "stop doing" list. |
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Systems for Business Growth
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| What Are Systems?
Now, some people may think of "systems" as sets of technically sophisticated interacting parts, designed to accomplish some complex result (and, in some cases, they may be all of that) but in the vast majority of cases in business, systems can be simple, little things.
For example, you might develop "systems" for answering the phone, handling emails or running meetings. So, one definition of a system might be: "A plan for achieving a desired end result in an efficient and certain way."You may develop a simple system for answering the phone so that you consistently create a positive impression. You might develop a more complex system for opening your office in the morning so that no time is wasted; the alarm is turned off (saving a call from the security firm); your "Open for Business" sign is switched on (saving you |
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Leading Like TIGERS: A Successful Team Building Model
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| Teamwork thrives in a collaborative culture and tends to have problems in individualistic and internally competitive cultures. This article discusses a collaborative value system that supports an organizations vision, mission and core values through teamwork and the concept, "If we in, I win." |
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How to Motivate Under-Performing Personnel
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| It is no secret that the performance of personnel is the largest contributing factor to the long-term success of any organization. Managers may give direction, but in the end, it is the company’s staff that determines how well it executes. It is the staff that must respond to the threat of competition and the shifting interests of shareholders and consumers. Taking this into consideration, one of the greatest challenges facing managers is motivating their personnel to achieve outstanding performance. Whether you are a first-time or veteran manger, these simple strategies will serve as a primer to put you on the right track. |
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Management and Leadership
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| James Dicks examines the differences between management and leadership |
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Hints on managing an ageing multicultural workorce
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| Research has confirmed the commonly held belief that as people age their ability (and often their desire) to change is diminished and that their thoughts, habits, patterns of behaviour, ideas and perceptions become rigid and limited and that it becomes more difficult for them to change in response to events (‘plasticity’ of the brain is reduced). |
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TOP 10 MISTAKES OF LEADERS
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| Usually, leaders make mistakes and think that they are right. Leaders have to understand the situation of their team members when they are leading them. Leaders need to set an example and lead with pride. There are top ten mistakes that usually leaders make. |
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What Do We Do Now?: Options for Allocating Scarce Resources When You Haven’t Planned Ahead
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| Although advance planning for resource allocation is the ideal scenario, many organizations found themselves caught short by the severe constraints imposed by the economic downturn. What are the alternatives when organizations are operating in crisis mode and there is no “Plan A?” Given the need to make decisions about how to curtail their operations immediately, there are two options that can help in the short-run: (1) increase inputs or (2) decrease outputs - each with several alternatives |
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Warning! Values May Be Detrimental to Your Organization’s Health
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| What percent of your employees can identify your organization’s values? How many of those individuals can tell you what each value “looks like” in terms of their own performance? Unless you are able to answer nearly 100%, you may want to consider taking these steps to improve the health of your organization! |
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Guidelines for Allocating Scarce Resources
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| Scarce resources are a fact of business life. In the wake of devastating budget cuts, furloughs, and/or layoffs, however, “normal” levels of scarcity have been exacerbated. The question for many organizations has become, “How do we move forward from here most effectively?” I recommend to my clients that they begin by identifying some crucial information that will guide their subsequent actions and decisions. |
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Educational Videos - SEO & Reputation Management
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| The power of a video is tremendous online. Videos allow users to see a personal side of a company & employees. Videos can quickly help a user understand a website's objectives. A video can even increase conversion rates for products & services for online retailers. |
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Develop a Tolerance for Risk
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| When trying to manage change, leaders often make a huge mistake by not telegraphing a tolerance for risk. This article digs into the issue of risk in making changes and suggests an antidote to this common problem. |
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A Basic Technique to Influence Others
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| Did you know that the word "because" has a profound effect in the way you influence others?
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Do your words promote or demote?
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| What we say and how we say it can have a powerful effect on other people. If you are a leader, what you say has an even more powerful influence... do your words promote or demote others?
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How to Be a Source of Inspiration
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| To be a source of inspiration for others we must reflect a confident and positive image, but how we view ourselves colours the image we project. |
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How to Be an Empowered Leader in a Challenging Business Environment
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| With the economic uncertainties besetting most companies, an empowered leader is needed who can boldly face the challenges in an unpredictable and sometimes scary business environment. An outstanding business leader must not only be capable of being in charge of others, he should also learn how to be in charge of himself.
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How to Influence Others to Reach Their Full Potential
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| A position does not make for a leader, having people that follow because they want to follow makes for an influential leader. Activate these six strategies to empower your people and you will find that you are a sought after leader, mentor and guide who not only positively impacts your organization but is influential in expanding the lives, confidence and abilities of the people you serve. |
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Three steps to creating a Pay it Forward Environment
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| Imagine a world where we all empowered each other. Well all great ideas have to start somewhere with someone, and we can all do our part by not only empowering ourselves, but paying it forward and empowering others. |
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The Difference Between Managers and Leaders is A Lot & Not Much
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| Debate has long surrounded the topic of whether managers differ from leaders and vice versa, and if so, how. Meanwhile, the reason that we never seem able to settle on a single answer is because they are both different and the same simultaneously. What I mean by this is that managing requires getting work done. It’s the nitty gritty of the day-to-day - organizing people, logistics, communication, etc… and making sure that things run smoothly like how the moving parts of a machine work together to create a functional whole. Leading on the other hand is about inspiration, the epitome of ideals, having vision and being able to effectively communicate its tenets. Implicitly workplace leaders have followers. Managers don’t, not necessarily.
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A Lesson For Managers From The World Of Sales
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| Just as successful sales people identify their customers' needs, managers must learn their employees' motivators—wants and fears—and then try to satisfy these, in return for the required performance. |
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BOOK REVIEW: Mindset: The New Psychology of Success (By Carol S. Dweck, Random House, 2006 ISBN #1-4000-6275-6)
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| The author presents the "fixed" and "growth" mindsets, the "internal monologues" that accompany each of them, and how they can either limit or boost a leader's potential effectiveness. She chronicles the tales of several noted growth mindset leaders: Jack Welch (GE), Lou Gerstner (IBM) and Ann Mulcahy (Xerox). The book offers a useful lens through which to appraise your managers–and, of course, yourself–and focus their development. |
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BOOK REVIEW: Quiet Leadership: Six Steps to Transforming Performance at Work (By David Rock, HarperCollins Publishers, 2006, ISBN #978-0-06-083590-3)
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| A thorough and disciplined presentation of on-the-job, real time, coaching techniques to lead employees through the discomfort of new learning and back to comfort again, n the process growing them to a higher level of competence, self-understanding and confidence. These approaches merit a place in every manager’s “coaching toolkit.” |
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BOOK REVIEW: The Set-Up-To-Fail Syndrome: How Good Managers Cause Great People to Fail (By Jean-François Manzoni & Jean-Louis Barsoux, Harvard Business School Press, 2002, ISSBN #0-87584-949-0)
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| Totally unaware, managers can become complicit in the failure of an employee. Describes the negative self-fulfilling cycle where an employee's mistake or lapse begins to shape his/her manager's overall negative view of him/her. In turn, the manager starts treating the employee as if they fit that image of a poor performer. The employee lives up (down?) to those expectation and and the relationship spirals down and down. The book offers some suggestions for managers who see the situation in action and want to "crack the syndrome." |
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Delegation: The Forgotten Management Tool
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| Six reasons why managers resist delegating tasks and decisions, three excellent benefits that will accrue when they do delegate, followed by a six-step approach to doing the hand-off effectively. |
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You Gotta Get’em To Wanna: 6 Roles the Modern Leader Plays
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| The "leader" aspect of being a manager in today's competitive market for top talent has become absolutely critical. Managers, therefore, must master the skills and attitudes that support six specific roles that an effective leader plays. |
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Run Your Business Like Dan Cardone...
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| Dan Cardone is the Athletic Director at North Hills High School. Shortly after the tragedy in Haiti, he felt compelled to find a way to help those in need locally in his community of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He focused his initiative on the concept of showing appreciation for others via the Five Good Deeds On Game Day program. Imagine the impact this simple concept could have on an organization. |
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Sales Secrets from Baja California
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| The successful marketer and the savvy salesperson know that people buy what they value and only what they value and this value is determined by the prospective client, never by the seller or marketer. |
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12 Lessons in Leadership From The Wizard...
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| 12 Lessons for enhancing leadership and personal performance from the Wizard of Westwood and Coach Bru's accompanying questions and insights. |
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Objective Reality
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| If you want to create results that are truly important to you, it is critical to separate your
identity (who you are) from the results you want. Feeling good or bad about yourself has little bearing on the quantity or quality of your results. If you doubt this, consider famous people with extreme self-doubts or poor self-concepts who produced spectacular results. The results of standardized tests indicate that students who "felt good about themselves" often performed lower than the scores they predicted they would achieve.
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ProblemSolving's Problem
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| Problem-solving is deeply entrenched in our business culture. Dave Mather, a 30+ year business consultant, describes the pitfalls of being a habitual problem-solver and why this might hurt business results. |
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Execute Your Strategic Framework Part I
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| Business schools tend to teach strategy development, but executing strategies is the critical factor. The problem with poor performance is rarely bad planning. Leading and executing strategies is a difficult and formidable task. Mather explores why strategies often fail to produce results and what to do about it. |
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Business Tip 3 Getting Profitable Action
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| Few executives successfully connect others to the organization’s desired outcomes. Often what’s missing in their conversation is contrast. |
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Executing Your Strategic Framework Part II
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| Business schools tend to teach strategy development, but executing strategies is the critical factor. The problem with poor performance is rarely bad planning. Leading and executing strategies is a difficult and formidable task. In part two of this series, Mather explores a non-traditional way to produce results by implementing a strategig framework. |
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Business Tip 2: Follow The Money
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| When asked, virtually all executives we interview complain that their margins are shrinking. This is a concern since our market is a global, hyper competitive commodity and price driven, margin battering place. How you made money last year may not make you money this year. |
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Don’t Let the Media Kidnap your Intellect
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| These days it seems the message being sent to everyone is how to survive in this turbulent economy. However, if you are following best practice you should be looking for ways to thrive instead. Media sensationalism tries to kidnap your intellect through continuous coverage about the economic downturns; lay offs, and stock market fluctuations. How you react to this attempt to smother you with negative information is what will determine your success or failure. |
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Its Time to Revisit Strategy
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| This year has been a tough year. Even the most respected economists can’t say for sure when we will see the real recovery. The good news is that there are positive signs. Even better news is the fact that you made through one of the roughest recessions in our history. That means you have cleaned out your closets, weeded your garden, upgraded your work force and created a team of employees that are the best of the best. |
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12 Lessons in Leadership Part Two...
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| March Madness is underway, brackets are busted and there have been more first round single digit victories and upsets this year than ever before in tournament history. Consequently there are still multiple Cinderellas looking to advance to the big dance. The lesson from round one is outmanned does not automatically mean outmatched. If you're not the #1 seed in your industry, this must energize you and your team. |
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The Heroes Plan Their Business
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| We have all heard the directive to plan our work and work our plan. That is pretty much it.
Enough work for now, let us go get some lunch.
After lunch, we can put together a list of actions needed to reach the business goals.
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The Heroes Control Their Business
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| Control. Creative problem solving works well. Control is good, positive, with purpose. Management needs to be in control.
Love is the most powerful force in the universe. We have this power within us. We give it and receive it, try to understand it, share and use it every day interacting and communicating with each other. We try to be less barbaric and more gracious.
Some days are better than others. |
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Easy Management Insights - Leadership Skills Come From Experience
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| Managers need to be leaders too. It's important that these skills are learned and developed where it counts most, working at the sharp end... |
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Live Consultant Thinking: Step Forward for a Good Work Environment
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| Smart business owners, managers and supervisors, whatever the business, know that we are dealing with people, product and profit, in that order. Statistical analysis gives us a picture of numbers relative to other numbers, but the numbers do not talk about themselves. They are talking about you and me. These numbers represent human activity. How we relate and communicate with other people, steps we take to have a good work environment, and honor humanity on both sides of the counter, affects the value of product and the quantity of profit. |
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10 Keys for Reducing Turnover
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| One of the most daunting problems in any organization is turnover. It can cost a business millions of dollars a year and is incredibly disruptive. Reducing turnover should be a high priority activity for every organization, and it is not hard to figure out ways to do it.
1. Develop People
2. Recognize Good Performance
3. Build Trust
4. Reduce Boredom
5. Communicate More
6. Cross Train
7. Don't Overtax
8. Keep it Light
9. Feedback Performance
10. Train Leaders
The following article describes some of the reasons why these steps can help cut down turnover significantly.
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Key Management Insights - Achieving The Vision Needs People
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| Whatever your goals, aspirations and longer-term visions, you cannot make reality come true without people around you to make them come true. The challenge is taking them with you... |
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Delegating in a Distributed World: New Demands on the CEO
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| In a distributed world, a CEO is called upon to adopt new methods of delegation. There's a higher level of writing, documentation and communication skills demanded of the CEO. I recently interviewed Mark Levi and Mark Henricks for a Cisco BizWiseTv interview: "Keys to Delegating in a Distributed World". |
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Dumb is Smart and Smart is Dumb
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| Leaders have a propensity to share their thoughts too early in conversations, especially when there is a decision to be made. Being forthright and decisive are qualities that are generally thought to be advantageous. I think speaking too soon is often a mistake. In many situations, it is better to act a little dumb and let others voice their opinions before weighing in and cutting off creative discussion. Many leaders have a tough time doing this. This article describes the problem and gives an antidote. |
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Mother is an Example of Six Sigma Leadership
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| Mother is an example of leader-manager at home. She serves breakfast, lunch and dinner just in time, with a smile, prior to anybody asking her to serve. She strictly follows Time Management mathematics of 24*7*365 at the rate of 100 percent success. Customer satisfaction ratio is 100%. For all these ordeals, she neither takes salary, incentive, promotion nor any medals. Indirectly, she is proving that internal motivation is everything. She constantly serves for 40 to 50 years at home, non-stop without a single expectation. In most of the cases, family is unable to recognize the quality of high value leadership in her. |
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The More Things Change--The More They Stay the Same
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| With change occurring all around us daily, there are some pieces of advice that stand the test of time (and dramatic market shifts!)
Occasionally, we will revisit an article from previous years at the request of some of our readers. In this particular instance, we discovered that advice that's sound for good times is even more sound during tough times!
Below, you will find an article that I wrote back in Spring of 2005 at the height of the new construction "boom" here in Northern California. The article points out the need to pay attention when things are really rocking in your business. The interesting part is that the advice given as a result of the example in the article holds true today in the midst of a much different marketplace. The more things change, the more they stay the same---pay attention! Gerry |
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LEADERS SPEAKS ONLY ONE LANGUAGE:" RESULT"
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| Leaders love one word " RESULT".High potential leaders never allow be causes, reasons, excuses and arguments.They never play game of " blame" in the organization .Leaders always devote their life to create results.In today's world, result is everything and only thing.True leadership believe in execution.They just deliver.Even , true leaders have attitude of " under commit and over deliver." |
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Accountability - The Secret Ingredients for Execution
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| We all "Talk the Talk". We understand that we must introduce accountability into the organization if we have any hope of achieving our objectives. Yet, many companies struggle, some unknowingly, with this concept for many different reasons. Long term employees can become complacent, competencies can be limited, a free pass is sometimes given for a variety of reasons and the "Peter Principle" is still alive and in existence today; Promoting people beyond their ability to perform. That's not to say that many employees, often the majority, understand the concept and want to be held accountable. But, what about those that don't?
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Interviewing Techniques to Improve Your Success
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| The first thing we need to establish before we go through any interviews are the objectives of the selection process. Interviewing should not be just about filling an open position. Anytime you have an opening to hire someone, you have an opportunity to build bench strength, organizational effectiveness and the opportunity to introduce fresh ideas and new insights into the organization and it doesn't matter what level in the hierarchy the opening exists in. Consider the following key objectives of the selection process.
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Empowerment - Ten Tips to Avoid Micro Management
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| I deal with a lot of leaders that confuse delegation with empowerment. I am often told, "I don't micro manage, I empower my employees." However, when we start digging into specific situations, we often uncover the difference between delegation and empowerment. It is really not that difficult to ascertain the difference. Delegation is simply getting someone else to perform a specific task for you.
"Tom, can you move these for pallets for me to make some room for a new shipment coming in tomorrow?"
Empowerment sets a little higher expectation that encourages the employee to use their own creativity and innovation.
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Five Principles of Effective Change Creation
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| As a leader you must implement change to create continuous improvement. It's a hands-on process. You can't lead from afar. A former colleague of mine used to always say; "It's easy to be brave from a distance." Arguably that may be one of the truest statements made when it comes to the instigation of change. Change is hard work. It requires process tools that are sensitive to your organizational culture. |
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Leadership is about Taking Action
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| Leadership is often measured by your ability to take action. Yes, sometimes that means shooting from the hip by taking "calculated" risk. It becomes a function of how fast you can analyze a situation, take action and make things happen. The more proactive you are, the more productive you will become. This earns trust and respect. There is no greater reward than accomplishing a difficult task. However, you can't complete a project if it never gets started. |
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LEADRSHIP: STORY OF TRUE FRIENDSHIP
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| Leadership is a true friend to his team members. He accepts the friends as they are and love them and motivate them to accomplish the mission. True leaders wants to see there team members at the highest position in there life.True leader understand the need of a team player and satisfy it without occurring words .Real leader lead his team player to a peak level of performance by becoming their true friend.
In Indian Wisdom , Krishna become true friends of Arjuna during the most needed time of life and drive him through wisdom to win over all evils of life. |
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LEADERSHIP IS THE ONLY WAY.
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| A responsible leader gives final confidence to the team members by assuring that even if all things fail, he as a leader of the team , shall not only involve himself in the situation but also find out the solution in the situation. |
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LEADERSHIP: FROM ROLE PERFORMANCE TO ROLE MODEL
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| Do not worry about holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role.Real leader plays multi role. Whatever role requires played by him is an essence of leadership.
People in to the world have to learn that they are role models. They have that quality that which admired the people, society or organization that made them want to be like them.
Leader behaves as role model in all the situations.
Tough,
but leaders are born to meet challenges. |
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Being assertive is good for business
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| Not everyone knows how to be assertive, that is, being confident and firm without being aggressive. It is especially useful in the working environment, as greater assertiveness can help to get the best out of yourself and your people, yielding returns in all areas of your business.
Assertiveness encourages those who are shy or less vocal to become more involved, and helps the more extrovert or volatile to fine tune their dealings with customers, suppliers and colleagues. An assertive person is a positive, resourceful presence in your business. |
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POSITVE AFFIRMATION : POWER TO LEAD
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| Positive affirmations are proven technique to get the start. To start is most important than to still stand. Power of positive affirmation can be realize only by experiences. Affirmations pass with emotions can make huge difference in the life.Dr. Joseph Murphy has contributed in the book "Power of sub conscious mind. I believe 3 words "CAN", "FUTURE" and "RESULT" are the best friends of leader. |
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Management by Walking Around – in the Internet Age
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| In the internet age we still need the essence of management by walking around in order to build community and loyalty, and it needs to be done with a personal touch, now more than ever. |
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Managed Chaos
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| Could be an oxymoron couldn't it? Chaos is disorder, confusion, commotion, disarray and turmoil. When a leader manages something, it's an effort to handle, cope, control, or direct it. For absolute clarity in this situation, here are two practical tips |
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Project management in a small business
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| Before you dismiss the idea of project management as something that only big companies do, think again. No matter how small your venture, implementing effect project management processes can ensure things get done quickly, on time and of the highest quality. Now who doesn't want that for their business? |
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Lead by Example – Do the Important Things Better
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| Modern management practices are often imposed by the forces which require short term results. Back in the 1980s, W. Edwards Deming, a statistician by training, led the charge in seeking to implement a positive alternative for transforming management from this short-sighted objective. We now remember Deming as the philosopher of the “quality movement". |
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Leading Up by Example
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| In my work with leaders across the country, I frequently run into a perplexing question. When working with management layers in the middle, I will frequently hear, “Bob this is great stuff on building trust. I am anxious to build the kind of environment you describe. I have only one problem, my ogre boss does not go for the soft stuff, so I am stuck.” My advice is twofold.
First, there is nothing soft about building trust. It is a hard-edged measure that has more power than any other business variable to impact performance. The skills needed to build trust are not “touchy feely,” they are pragmatic, concrete behavioral actions that can be taught and learned.
Second, you are not “stuck” even if your boss is a dyed-in-the-wool curmudgeon with negative Emotional Intelligence; it does not prevent you from leading by example. |
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Help on How To Kick Those Time Wasting Habits
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| The goal is to slow down and be focused on the highest pay-off activities that will produce the results you desire in the timeframe you want – personally and professionally.
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LEADERS HAVE BLOOD GROUP OF FIRE POSITIVE.
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| 21st century is an era of fire. Steve Jobs have fire inside. It is constantly burning. Bill Gates has fire inside to bring Microsoft to new level .Blake Beery is putting 100 percentages to put his place in the world with the inner desire. I- Phone is pursuing to capture global market.
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a fire inside.
My favourite quotation is "PUT FIRE IN TO MIND OR PUT MIND IN TO FIRE."
Leaders love to die with his fire instead of ice. A whole life is live and is so cold that had never warmed me or my neighbours or peers or society is useless and totally wasted opportunity. |
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What is your DNA of leadership?
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| I would like to write about the 5 secrets of resiliency.
1) Understand yourself
2) Controls your immediate response and make a plan
3) Embrace change
4) Be courageous
5) Never give up!
Usually we live in the outside world. Only few dig deep in to inside of themselves. Know yourself first instead of knowing world. Mutual discovery is a long travel in my eyes and I appreciate people who are involved in it. |
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leadership: problems or possibilities
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| Face the best challenges to grow constantly. Avoiding challenges and problems leads us to an average talent. Problems are a perception to a situation. Creative people see it as an opportunity to make things happen.
Tough time always helps individual and organization to grow. A problem certainly makes us better and more confidence.
Trust me; people are built up by their saddest experiences. Never share your problems with people because 90 percentages are not interested in the listening and remaining 10 percentages are not ready to help you. Problems are not to share or sale .So secret to lead in tough time is to face it and win over. Remember, the rule of success is to win over stumbling blocks as an opportunity to build up future. |
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Leadership means better not bitter
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| Nick Vujicic is an example of leadership.
He was born without arms and legs. He asked God, why you have taken away my hands and legs? Why you have not born me like others? Why you have leaved me on the planet in handicap situation?
Now, I am challenging you .I will show you my power to lead and strike in the life. |
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Leadership is only doing .
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| Leadership is to bring out genius from within. It is always at all level we work. It takes iteration. It takes devotion and determination and results.
Like the best performance which we all have seen last night in 20-20 over matches of cricket at west-indies. Australian player Hussey transfers the game in last 6 balls which was almost impossible for most of the players. But he creates miracle results on the ground. |
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Leadership means not buying applause and money
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| Money can certainly give me luxury but not peace of mind. Money cannot buy mothers love. Money can certainly offer a luxurious bedroom but not sound sleep. Money can help me in eating hundreds of items but ability to digest those items won't buy. Money can put me in front seat by donating but cannot make me legend. Money cannot buy feelings of relationship. Money cannot create gem in the deep sea. Money cannot stop tears of eyes. Money can create spectacles with golden ring but cannot buy insight. Mother has demonstrated in the world that money is not a source of motivation. I laugh on the people who spoil of relationship for the money. |
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Are You a Real Leader or Just an Imitation?
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| The easiest way to suppress discretionary energy, the energy given willingly - no matter what it takes, is a style often used by "Imitation Leaders" that scrutinizes every decision an employee makes. It can kill the employee's spirit. It destroys trust. Leadership imitation is often just a symptom of ineffective planning, too much compassion and the inability to judge performance and develop bench strength. The "Imitation Leader" usually has a shoot from the hip mentality that encourages micro management and does not allow employees to develop their skills and maximize their potential. One of the many warning signs is a high turnover rate. The reason is simple; good employees just won't tolerate micro management and they will leave to find employment that will challenge them and help them grow. |
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Manage your Assets but Lead your People
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| I have had suggestions made to me by owners, presidents and CEOs that would baffle the mind of most professionals that have integrity. For example, I once was asked to fire an individual because his wife's illness had caused the company to reach their catastrophic cap in their insurance program. This same owner would intentionally run mail that contained checks to his vendors through the meter at two cents so they would arrive with postage due. He thought this was a great cost savings idea until the government sent him a cease and desist letter. |
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Check Your Attitude to Avoid The Pygmalion Effect
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| The wrong attitude can create a Self Fulfilling Prophecy. It's called the Pygmalion Effect. You must believe in yourself. You must believe in your own ability, the ability of your team. You must have the will to succeed even though times are tough. You must openly demonstrate the desire to succeed. Look inwardly at your own thoughts. Thoughts are powerful as they shape your attitude and your attitude shapes your beliefs which control your actions. Hard work is a direct expression of your beliefs. |
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Ten Tips on Motivation
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| Tough times weigh heavy on employees. They know when a company is not performing without seeing the profit and loss statement. The good ones start to abandon ship and seek employment elsewhere. Add restructuring and employee terminations to the formula and keeping your good employees becomes the most life threatening issue you are likely to face during tough economic times. Losing good employees has a high cost associated with it. |
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Gutless Management
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| I would doubt that there are many companies out there that don't have at least one or two employee issues that have been overlooked or ignored in the past for a myriad of reasons. Let me tell you a secret, the majority of your good employees know long before you do which employees are carrying their weight and are worth keeping. How many times have you struggled with an employee problem only to finally let them go and your employees said ---- "it's about time." |
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Honesty Speaks Loudly in Many Languages
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| Honesty being a component of integrity is a leadership characteristic with a universal value...leaders looking to lead effectively will not overlook its significance.
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Sustainable Business is Good Business
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| Sustainability is a worldwide movement that is changing the way we do business. Sustainability is a megatrend that reflects a general shift in thinking or approach affecting entire countries, industries, and organizations. Sustainability is the next transformational business megatrend comparable to mass production, manufacturing quality movement, IT revolution, and globalization. |
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Selling Change
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| If we're to learn from history, then we must accept the fact that change - either in the form of innovation, continuous improvement or both - is a critical component of growth and ongoing success. But, truth be told, people tend to resist change; so, how might we, as managers or business owners best go about getting the team to accept it? |
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Hiring Right
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| Have you ever hired someone and found out the person you hired is the evil twin of the person you interviewed? Have you ever hired someone and subsequently had to fire that same person? If you have answered yes to either of these you read on. |
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Are Leaders Born Or Are They Made?
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| It is possible that we had a defining moment in our personal life that can help define us in our professional environment and of course that also works the other way around. A defining moment at work can impact our personal life. |
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Orient Yourself Towards Others And Relieve Pressure In The Workplace
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| Do you orient yourself towards others or yourself? To inspire trust and innovation, it is obvious which type of person is most successful. |
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Clear the Decks and Block Your Time
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| A simple formula for setting priorities every day |
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Best Practices for Sustainability and Communicating Sustainability
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| A sustainable best practices program involves a comprehensive and holistic approach that encompasses everything a business does that impacts the environment. A successful sustainability initiative demands the willing participation of employees. Businesses also need to understand how to communicate sustainability in a way that conveys their environmental initiatives while enhancing their internal and external brand.
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Balance the art of leadership with the science of management and watch your profits soar
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| Sadly leadership has become a buzz word and despite all the fuss about it very few people get it. Of equal concern is the spin-off; many people have forgotten about management. Real leadership needs real management if it is to be of real benefit. |
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Micro-managing or managing minutely?
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| I’m involved in a lot of change management just now, particularly as the economic climate is forcing managers to look closely at getting the very best out of their people. Change often prompts fear for many; fear of the unknown, fear of losing their job. But if you, as the manager, have communicated clearly with your staff, then there will be no room for misunderstanding and doubt. One of the Prime Minister’s buzz words is transparency – making sure his communication strategies are clear and fair. Can you say the same for your own work practice? |
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No worries mate!
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| Is this your attitude towards your staff? Are you so easy going you assume your team will bumble along rudderless, knowing instinctively which direction to take?
Top heavy leadership can be counter-productive. But setting goals is essential. All employees need to feel they are consulted and involved. They must be given the opportunity to contribute their ideas to ensure a successful and cohesively run operation.
So how do you do this? |
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Does Volume Make Up for Low Price?
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| Your ability as a salesperson is not in how much you sell, but in how much you earn for your company...Here’s how to ensure you are not only protecting profit, but also ultimately in a place to increase it!
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Swing Thoughts for Entrepreneurs
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| The golf swing is a tricky thing to master. There are countless moving parts that all have to work together in flawless unison, all in the span of a split second. Golfers turn to "Swing Thoughts" to help make it all work. Entrepreneurs can do the same thing. |
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When I Grow Up I want to be a Leader or Maybe a Manager
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| Well which is it? Do you want to be a leader or a manager? What’s the difference? Can’t I be both at the same time? Why are you asking all these questions?
Good question! Many ambitious people starting out in their career have a somewhat fuzzy notion of eventually becoming “the boss”. After all “the boss” seems to have a great life, earns lots of money, and tells other people what to do. Not bad!
Then one day it finally happens-you get that promotion and wham!! You made it; you’re “number one”, “the head honcho”, “the big cheese”.
Trouble is you are not really sure how to do it; no one has prepared you and you kind of feel out of your depth. So if you are in this situation (or coaching someone who is) here are a few tips to get you started:
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Motivating With More Than Money
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| The old adage still holds true - people don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care. |
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Dealing With Idiots At Work
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| Why can idiots at work drive away your best employees? How do you describe a person with a bad or negative attitude? Can you do anything about it? Stop and ask your self these questions and do they affect you and your work team? |
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How to Find, Hire, and Train an Amazing Self Storage Manager
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| If you are a fortunate business owner then I would suspect you are not doing the day-to-day tasks and delegating those to others who can likely, if trained properly, do the tasks better. Doing so frees up your time for family, friends, or fun. |
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Three Rules of Success, According to Accenture's Chairman
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| Three rules from Accenture's CEO on management success |
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A Better Approach with Purchasing Departments
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| A positive attitude is the foundation for profitable long-term relationship with the purchasing department...Make the attitude adjustments that make a difference.
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The #3 Interview Question That Candidates Find Most Difficult
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| Knowing what interview questions are likely to be asked is half the battle – the other half is answering them in a way that lands you the job. |
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We All Need Mentors
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| Almost all successful individuals in sports, film, and business have had mentors. |
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Instilling Pride ~ A Key to Eliciting Excellence
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| Eliciting excellence in others is the essence of leadership, and one of the most effective means of eliciting excellence is to instill a sense of pride in those around us.
Instilling pride has a myriad of benefits - quality of work and workmanship improves, creativity and innovation increases, collaboration is facilitated more easily, and people are willing to "go the extra mile" to do their best. |
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3 Challenges to Maintaining a Systems Perspective
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| Watching leaders and managers in action, I’ve observed that there are three major challenges to maintaining a systems perspective. |
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A Formula for Flawless Decisions
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| A simple formula for flawless decision making, even for tough decisions. |
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Autocratic Decisions
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| The easiest type of decision is autocratic: It’s a decision you make yourself. |
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Be Aware of Your Behaviors
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| Leadership is not something you learn once and for all. It is an ever-evolving pattern of skills, talents, and ideas that grow and change as you do. |
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Becoming a Decision Manager
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| To lead at light speed, you need to focus on becoming a superb decision manager. |
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Common Mistakes Made in Delegating
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| How you delegate speaks volumes about your leadership. |
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Training Follow-up
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| Managerial follow-up is an integral element in the success of any training program. But it is a step managers sometimes do not take. |
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Assertive Manager Win
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| Often managers are less effective than they could be simply be cause they are trying to be too "politically correct." Frequently, employees suffer because they are not certain what is wanted. Learn to clearly state your wants and needs. Become a more effective and admired manager. |
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How the 1-Minute Manager Mentality Crippled Marketing
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| True Marketing is now a lost art where few of the true pros remain. Professional Marketers bit the dust for 3 big reasons:
1. The myth that multi-tasking increases efficiency
2. The myth that management is a specialty that can cut across all lines
3. Short-term management -- short-term thinking |
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Choosing Employee Assessments - Hand Scoring by Experts Still Safeguards Validity & ROI!
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| Employee assessments are everywhere. With a wealth of employee assessments emerging, the right assessment can seem as elusive as the proverbial "needle in a haystack," yet absolutely worth the diligent hunt. Best practices deployment in this specific arena increases human capital ROI by tenfold plus. The bottom line results of assessments gone right is not contested, and we stand firm that every candidate hired, trained or promoted without this proper intelligence is a profit opportunity missed. And coming from staunch advocates of progressive technology... computers are no replacement for hand scoring. A five criteria process, the following roadmap guarantees ROI and avoids common pitfalls.
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The 11 Most-Deadly Sins in Sales & Marketing -- and How to Avoid Them
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| Why are there so few well-trained Marketing Professionals?
Three Reasons. Three myths:
Myth #1: Multi-tasking increases efficiency. Truth: Research shows it doesn't.
Myth #2: Management is a specialty that cuts across all lines. Truth: Good Managers have to be knowledgeable and skilled in the areas they manage.
Myth #3: Long-term planning is not necessary. Truth: To be successful, a company must have long-term strategies & plans that are supported, understood and executed by the entire organization |
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Six Solution Steps to Employee Retention
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| What's your organization's turnover or churn rate? Has it increased over the last 18 months? If you are like 40% of firms surveyed, you too have noticed a significant up tick in voluntary resignations. |
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10 Ways to Cut Your Training Budget
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| Training managers are often asked to slice their training budget during tough times. Leslie Allan suggests 10 ways of meeting this challenge that will see the training function strengthen its place. |
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Change Leadership: The Keys to Success
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| Responding to and initiating change in today’s organization is a prerequisite to maintaining or gaining competitive advantage. Yet many organizations fail in bringing about worthwhile change. If you are tasked with leading a change initiative in your organization, then this article is essential reading. Leslie Allan provides a starkly honest and compelling overview of what it takes to be a change champion in today’s business environment. |
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Maximizing Retail Growth
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| In these hard times, every customer matters. Retailers must ensure that all customer who contact them have an extraordinary experience which, ideally, leads to better percentage of customers actually purchasing goods and services and larger average sales per customer. Traditional means of increasing store performance, typically training, have not been successful at developing store personnel sufficiently to provide this winning customer experience. |
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Your Leadership Love Cup
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| How well do you do in getting the best out of the people you lead? Can you "read" them well enough to know if you are being successful in stimulating their strengths and productivity? And "What Does Love Got To Do With It?" |
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How to Be a Rockstar Leader
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| When you hear the word “rockstar,” what comes to mind?
Does it conjure up visions of a stage performance where adoring fans groove to the pounding vibe of a mega-celebrity with massive adoration? Does it evoke images of limousines, red carpet struts, and mega-attention? Perhaps it makes you think of an indulgent lifestyle where someone “gets” everything in lavish doses because of their huge persona, swelling fan base and their ability to command an army of servants to grant their every wish? Maybe an image of Mick Jagger, Bono, or even Hannah Montana?
What about in a corporate setting? Have you ever heard of an executive on a rocket ride to the top in the organizational structure being referred to as a rockstar? If you have, does the image make you think of what that person gives, or what he or she gets? |
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How to Lead with Peace
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| Management Question:
Do you approach each new day with a set of logical convictions in your head that help you attain your goals? Are you focused intently on achievement, winning, and gain? If so, bravo! You have a great sense of objective management skills and behaviors. You are being important.
This is needed for results.
Leadership Question:
Are you also checking that “gyroscope” in your heart to see if you are being an actual caring, empathetic, and understanding human being while you achieve your results? Are you getting your results through healthy relationships? If so, then even better! You have a great sense of subjective leadership skills and behaviors. You are now being influential.
This is needed for excellence! |
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Leadership and Management Understood
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| Many people confuse the ideas of what is true leadership and what is management. Many people think the two words are interchangeable and give little thought to the important differences between them. If, however, you take a quick moment and understand their unique differences, you will be better equipped to get better results through better relationships. |
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Management vs Leadership Whats your take
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| To help people get an understanding of the differences between "Management" and "Leadership," a question was posed on the popular business networking site LinkedIn.
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On Leadership and Doing Dishes
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| Leadership is something that has a starting point in everyone who takes up the charge to get something done through and with other people. For some, the starting point in their leadership journey is subtle, progressing and steady. For others, it comes at a moment's notice with a call to duty. For me, it came from leading from the middle of the pack when I was 9-years old. And it all started from a deep hatred. The hatred of doing dishes! |
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On Leadership and Egg Cartons
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| To Serve, Protect, and Defend!
Do you think of your boss as a superhero? Someone who will keep you from harm, provide a safe place for you to perform, and help carry your career to higher places? |
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On Leadership and Laundry Tags
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| People you work with have a picture image of who you are as a leader. But is it accurate? Here is how you can insure that you are perceived correctly. |
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Soft Skills Training Seen as Needed More Then Ever
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| Corporate soft-skills training is increasing as companies are experiencing global growth and cross-cultural communications challenges. Getting a handle on effective training for some "old school" management-types can be even a greater challenge. As domestic and global markets change and employment dynamics shift, organizations need to be effective in how they roll out this type of training. A focus on interactive training can turn the "Knucklehearted" leader into someone that is magnetic and effective in influencing others. |
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LET’S DANCE!
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| I almost got shot the other day! One of my coaching clients called to tell me about a very successful meeting that they had just completed that ended in them getting a very important new customer. This was a real tough one and one that we had worked on to create a powerful strategy plan to sue in the coming meeting…and the plan worked!We celebrated. I celebrated for my customer...and I think everyone should celebrate any level of victory in business today. It's a great way to stimulate the slow or lost passion in the employees, leadership and even ownership! |
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10 Tips for Improving Staff Morale
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| It's often been said that employees leave managers, not companies. Research conducted by the Corporate Leadership Council (2003) provides support for this assertion. This study found that managers have a significant influence on a worker's level of commitment to their job. The study revealed that more than 70% of an employee's commitment is directly related to the interaction they have with their manager. If the manager/employee interactions are negative, low morale will often result. |
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5 Tips for Reasoning with a Bull-Terrier Boss
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| Most people have at some point in their lives had to deal with someone who refuses to lose. No matter how unreasonable their position and how obviously wrong these people may be, they clamp down their jaws as unthinkingly as a bull terrier in a dogfight – and it seems nothing short of death will loosen it. |
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Expecting Excellence - A Key to Effective Leadership
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| The idea of expecting excellence isn't new, nor is the premise that every leader should expect excellence from his or her team. But just like everything a leader says and does, it's not so much a matter of "what" he or she does as much as it is about "how" they do what they do. There's a significant difference between establishing an environment where excellence is expected and one where excellence is demanded. |
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A Guide for Employee Appraisals
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| Employee Appraisals are a very necessary part of a company's managment system. This guide will assist you in developing a system that helps the employee determine his value to the business. |
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How to Make Your Special Event Truly Special
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| Whether a nonprofit trying to raise funds or a commercial enterprise that wants to impress clients and customers, there is a right and a wrong way to put on a special event. If you're going to the trouble and expense of a special event, make sure you get the most bang for your buck. |
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Nine Ways Johnny Carson Can Help You Run Outstanding Meetings
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| Many times we fear going to meetings because we feel, based on past experiences, that they are going to be boring, not relevant, lack information, and we can’t wait until the meeting ends.
Here are my eight techniques used by Johnny Carson to make your meetings outstanding for all involved: |
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Motivate Your Team! Eight Quick Tips to Motivate for Success
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| Motivation is the key ingredient for success in any organization. You can have all the technical skills in the world; however, if you can’t motivate your team, you will not achieve success. As a leader, a majority of your job is to motivate others to succeed so that everyone’s goals are accomplished.
The following are eight quick tips to motivate your team. |
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Five Team Building Secrets to Gaining Credibility with Your Team for Outstanding Results
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| The following are five secrets that will increase your credibility with employees and produce outstanding results for your organization. |
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Eight Leadership Techniques for Outstanding Teams
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| Apply the following eight leadership techniques to create highly motivated, self-directed, and extremely productive employees and teams. |
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Proper Call Centre Management
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| With today's access to virtual technology, it is easy to start a call center business but running a business can be very difficult. The key to any successful call center is training and the right management plan.
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Stop Enabling Problem Employees
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| Supervisors often lose control of the situation by trying to be understanding and kind about following the rules. They make small exceptions that end up becoming habits, and soon the rules are not enforced at all. It is important to be sensitive to emergency or exception situations, but it is equally important to enforce the rules with an even hand. It is an area where many supervisors struggle. This article suggests an antidote. |
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Leadership: Is there an app for that?
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| When I accepted my first management position, my new boss told me his secret to managing people was to treat them like whiny children. I asked him if managing people was his thing, and he bluntly said, "No, because I hate dealing with people and their petty issues." Despite his revelation, we had a good relationship because I didn't ask him for leadership advice and he didn't have any to give. |
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Creating Organizational Change, Motivation and Momentum
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| Change is the one constant that businesses can rely on today. Navigating such change can be a challenge to organizational leadership. Helping employees understand the need for change must be a focus of leadership. Understand the motivational needs of the employee base while clearly communicating the needs of the company will become a much-sought skill for leaders today. This article addresses some challenges faces by organizations within the ever-changing business environment and offers insight into the change process, organizational communication and motivational attributes of the employee base. |
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Developing People ~ A Key to Eliciting Excellence
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| There is tremendous opportunity and satisfaction as a leader in developing others. By effectively developing the people around us, we elicit excellence in a number of impactful and far-reaching ways. Developing others is an important function of effective leadership. |
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The Significance of Customer Service
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| The quality of a business’ customer service to its customers is one of the most visible and significant aspects of organisational performance. Many organisations however find customer service to be one of the most challenging and neglected areas of management. Gary discusses in this article the significance that customer service has to the success of a business. |
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How To Write a Job Description
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| Think of a job description as a “snapshot” of a job. The job description needs to communicate clearly and concisely what responsibilities and tasks the job entails and to indicate, as well, the key qualifications of the job – the basic requirements (specific credentials or skills) – and, if possible, the attributes that underlie superior performance.
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Women in business
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| I was speaking to someone from overseas the other day and he said he never thought he would see the day when Australia elected a female Prime Minister. His perception of Australia was that our culture was very ‘blokey’. So you would think that the appointment of Prime Minister Julia Gillard was the result of great change, an indication of how successful women have become in the workforce. Think again. In the recently published report by the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency it made clear that the number of female key executive managers and board directors in the ASX 200 has hardly changed over the past eight years. In comparison with New Zealand, the UK, Canada, the US and South Africa, Australia has the lowest percentage of women in the most senior positions.
So what exactly is going on?
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From Directing to Delegating
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| Learn how management styles developed in the 20th century from a predominantly directive style typified by Ford to a predominantly delegated style typified by Nissan. |
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Motivation
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| In this article, you'll discover 8 of the approaches to motivation that are used in every business round the world. The trouble is, only one can be guaranteed to work. Which one is it? |
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Management vs. Leadership: What Do You Turn To For Transformational Change?
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| When a company seeks to make transformational change – the type of change that is defined as an organization-wide cultural shift that takes place over time as the result of a change in the organization’s underlying strategy and processes. |
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Could You Be The Michael Scott At Work?
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| How to tell if an office is happy and how to make sure yours is |
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If You Haven’t Already, STOP Doing Annual Performance Reviews
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| Why the most effective annual review is not having one at all |
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Is there really a Labour Squeeze in Alberta?
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| How to recruit the very best people for your staff |
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Small- and Medium Enterprises: Better access to information management and knowledge networks
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| New factors of production and sources of competitive advantages such as various innovations drive the information and knowledge economy in the third millennium. Concerned are practically all industries and all enterprises independent of their size. For instance, a laptop, a car or a cell phone are not produced by one single person or company, cooperative networks are fast becoming the basic units or innovation and production, among them a huge number of Small- and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). They are embedded within information networks communicating with supply chains, technology transfer organizations, share holders, managers, investors, which all contribute to corporate information and knowledge. |
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Leadership Starts With Giving: Three Secrets to Attracting More Success in Your Life by Making a Difference
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| I share this story to illustrate the power of the leader within us. We are all leaders, and we can make a difference in our lives by giving more. The following are three leadership secrets to being more successful by giving more. |
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Does MBWA Really Work?
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| MBWA - Management by Walking Around. Many of today's front line leaders do not do their MBWA because they say it is not their style or how they choose to lead. Hogwash! |
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A Great Lesson from a Stealth Leader
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| A vital lesson not only on sales, but on life, from sales veteran John Moran. |
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PRECISION-Guided Leadership
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| How to Move Your Team With Purpose…On Purpose. |
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Is Your Management Causing Employee Issues and Slow Business Growth?
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| Employee issues are most often symptoms of inconsistent or failing management; deal with supervisor/manager competency and impact and you not only have engaged employees but also an effective, productive and efficient organization.
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Baton Leadership Lessons From LA Philharmonic Conductor Dudamel
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| Maestro Gustavo Dudamel is a much loved orchestra conductor who has some outstanding leadership skills to share. Learn how his philosophy of "love the music and the musicians who play it!" can apply to your industry. |
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How Much Crap Do You Put Up With From Your Sales Force?
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| How much crap do you put up with from your salespeople. How much do they put up with from you? |
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Front Line Leaders in a Merger
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| During a merger or acquisition, the first line leaders in an organization are particularly vulnerable. This article highlights why that is and gives some antidotes to the problem. |
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Tip for Managing Conflict
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| Conflict exists in the workplace on a daily basis in nearly every organization. This article shares some insight about how using Abraham Maslow's famous "Hierarchy of Needs" can help resolve some habitual conflicts. |
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The Leadership Management Scale
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| I often get into conversations with students about the difference between leaders and managers. I have written another article on this topic. This article suggests a visual sliding scale that can help you understand your natural tendencies on this topic. |
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2011 ---- Ten Success Reminders
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| The market forces have been very tough the past few years. However, 2011 is a brand new year and there are encouraging signs of growth in our economy. Creating acceptable levels of growth and profitability in 2011 is a goal that I am sure is shared by virtually 100 % of the individuals and companies that read this article. So, let's review some principles that can help us maintain our focus and create the kind of success in 2011 that you can be proud of: |
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Bosses Gone Wild
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| The reason people follow any leader, especially in the business world, is due to trust. The only way to develop trust is through communication - talking to people with respect to gain their respect. Respect is a key ingredient in developing trust. Trust is gained when people think their employer cares about their welfare and recognizes the role each plays in creating a profit. People have to think that the company not only cares about their problems, but that the company will make every effort to solve them. |
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Top 10 Tips for Managing Down
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| Your words and actions have a direct impact on how others perceive you here are ten tips to help you become the type of manager that everyone wants to work with...
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Are You Genuinely A Leader Or Merely A Manager?
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| Without managers, the visions of leaders remain dreams. Leaders need managers to convert visions into realities. For continuous success, organizations need both managers and leaders. However, as most seem to be over-managed and under-led, they need to find ways of having both at the same time. Perhaps the best way to handle this paradox is for managers to aim to be managers when viewed from above, leaders when viewed from below and to remember that the need for leadership grows as we move up the organization. This is only one of the challenges that can make working life fun.
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Be True To Yourself As A Manager
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| There's a way of sensing when a manager is 'putting it on'. It's a sense many, if not all employees have, to some extent or the other - and they will quickly sniff you out... |
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How To Be A Management Legend
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| Being a management legend in your own lifetime might seem to be something of an impossibility. A dream you sometimes dream when you are having one of those spare moments (like you do!). So, here's the skinny on how to make this possible, with the minimal of effort. |
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Its not fair!
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| As a leader or manager do you aspire to be fair?
If you do, stop!
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You didn’t say I’d be fired!
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| Do you get frustrated when something you say which is obvious gets misinterpreted? |
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Always isn’t every time
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| As a manager, do you and your employees have miscommunications? |
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Just the facts
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| Do any of your direct reports (or for that matter, anyone at all!) continually challenge you in an unproductive way? |
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My employee seems to be sick on Fridays and Mondays
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| Do you have an employee who takes advantage of the system? |
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That person has a difficult personality
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| Does it irritate you when one of your employees, peers, or boss is very difficult? |
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Gen X, Gen Y, Gen whatever
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| Do you have opinions on someone based on their age? |
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The Facebook Revolution
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| Do you wonder what your employees are doing on their computer? |
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Not listening can be catastrophic
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| Do you feel your reports are not listening to you?! |
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Dealing with Morons
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| Do you ever think you’re working with people who don’t know what they’re doing?! |
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The $64,000 Question
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| Do your questions lead to solutions or more problems? |
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Dirt on the car
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| DO YOU STRUGGLE TO EFFECTIVELY MOTIVATE ANY DIRECT REPORTS? |
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Questions, Jeopardy Style
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| Do you find yourself stuck no matter what questions you ask yourself? |
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The questions which lead to nowhere
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| DO YOU FIND YOURSELF STUCK NO MATTER WHAT QUESTIONS YOU ASK YOURSELF? |
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My Door is Always Open
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| Do you ever commit to things which you possibly can’t achieve? |
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How to Organise an effective press conference
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| Do not call for a press conference if you do not have any substantial announcement to make. The key is not to reveal too much information during your invitation but reveal sufficient information to make journalists attend your press conference. |
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Taking the Tiger Mom Approach to Mentoring: 5 Ground Rules To Grow Strong Employees
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| In the society we live in today, so many people have low expectations of themselves and what they can achieve. With my team, I assume strength, not fragility; therefore, they learn to behave very differently. |
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Affiliate Management
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| Using the Phone to Manage your Downline. Many Marketers and Small or Medium Business Owners are Replacing Phone Calls with Internet Chat Rooms or Online Forms. They are missing valuable opportunities. |
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Post Sale Follow Up is really an Opportunity to Sell More Product
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| Many valuable opportunities to make more money are lost when we don't use the phone to follow up after a sale or purchase. Finding out if the buyer is happy is a great idea anyway, but here are a few brief tips on converting those existing clients to more sales. |
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Prospecting Call
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| Calling Customers Who Just Made a Purchase is So Valuable That it Can Literally Double A Small Businesses ROI Overnight. Remember it is ten times less expensive to sell and existing client, than to obtain a new one. |
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Making Outbound Customer Service Calls
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| Converting Customer Service Calls to More Opportunities is vital in a recession, and any time. Learn a few tips on this valuable resource. |
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Compliance: Why Does Your Website Need a Phone Number?
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| Many Internet Marketers eventually run into a conundrum: They Didn't know they'd need a phone in order to run their online empire. |
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Building a Large Audience on Twitter Ninja Tips
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| Here are a few great tips on helping you find good lists to follow on Twitter. Sometimes the answer is right in front of us. |
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New Sales Using Twitter Locality Search
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| Using Twitter to grow a massive local following of potential sales, clients, readers, followers and contacts. |
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Just Be Yourself
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| You find yourself playing different roles according to what you are doing or who you're with. You try to be one type of person at work, another type of person with friends, another person at home, when you're driving a car,or perhaps when you stand up in public to speak. All these hats we wear every day. The big question is when are you really you? What would happen if you allowed the real you to stand up in every situation you faced? There is a person you were born with all the abilities, talents and skills you need to be that person. This article suggests some ways in which you can learn to enjoy just being yourself. |
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No Pressure - Any Time in the Next Half Hour Will Do
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| Managing people at work used to be relatively simple - you only worried about what they did during working hours. Private matters were left at home where there was somebody able to look after them while the breadwinner focused on earning the money. And people didn't lead such complicated lives. Boy! Are things different today! |
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Twitter Advanced Search Tips
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| Twitter Without a Blog or the Intention to Eventually Meet People is almost pointless, and reverts to purely entertainment. This is why many people give up or lose interest, they don't see the value of chatting with total strangers they will never meet. This article explores the synergies of FAST Twitter Growth, combined with goals and a logical end game. |
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Twitter Search Commands
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| Twitter calls their commands "Operators" when using Search. Underrated as a search engine, it is possible to search many ways using a diverse range of tactics. These commands or Operators are taken directly form Twitter's Search Feature. |
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Top Traits of Women Entrepreneurs
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| The growth of women's entrepreneurship in the last few decades has been extraordinary. According to the Small Business Administration, women-owned businesses accounted for a mere 4.5 percent of all businesses in 1977. In 2008, more than 40 percent of all businesses are 51 percent women-owned. However, only 3 percent of these companies gross more than a million in annual revenue.
The Center for Women's Business Research studied this elite group (those businesses grossing over a million in annual revenue) and determined some key characteristics that were common in all of the companies. |
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Twitter Add New Followers Daily
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| Networks that aren't growing, are stagnating. People get bored, they lose interest, they don't understand Twitter. DON'T GIVE UP! Get serious, and grow your network. |
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Senior Management and Critical Information
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| When did Senior Management become sacred? |
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Firing Without the Headache or Heartache
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| It is Friday afternoon and you call John Thompson in to your office. |
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Why What You Say Is NOT What Your Employees Hear
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| He walked into the room to deliver the news that the company was going to be looking at the possibility of outsourcing parts of their IT services. It was actually a part of their database management that IT hated and openly talked about hating. So he knew they would be glad to hear that the company would consider outsourcing it. He walked into the room, delivered his news, and was soon flooded with the resignations from his top talent. |
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Can you have high accountability if you don't have consequences?
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| "What should I do if the leaders in the company whom I need to make the decision come in late to the meeting?" |
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