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How to Bring a Partner, Co-founder or COO into Your Business
According to Cisco's Innovators Forum guest blogger Bob Goedjen It's not unusual to realize that as a solo-preneur you've reached the end of your expertise and that you need to bring someone else into your business. Even if you have employees, there are times when a partner can share the load. But how do you find a partner, vet a partner, and protect yourself in such a critical relationship? I've asked our guest experts to give us their insights. We'll be featuring them over the following weeks. Here's what members of Silicon Valley SCORE had to say. ----
Creating an Effective National Accounts Program
This article is intended to help everyone gain a better understanding of National Accounts Programs, including the motivation for creating one and the steps toward a successful process. While it is not intended to definitively answer every question regarding national accounts, it serves as a set of guiding principles for those in the company who are responsible for the success of the program. The executive management needs to be committed to the program and would benefit by understanding the process and concepts.
Reduce Employee Turnover Costs
There are many statistics and complex methodologies to support the notion that employee turnover costs are seriously affecting mid-sized enterprises. On the low end, the Hay Group reports that the cost to replace an employee is 50% of their total compensation, including benefits. On the high-end, Hewitt & Associates puts the cost between 100-150% of annual compensation. While executive management and sales staff are more costly to replace, churn in any function affects the bottom-line.
Zero Based Budgeting in Managerial Accounting
Zero based budgeting is a budget-planning procedure for the reevaluation of an organization's program and expenditures. It requires each manager to justify the entire budget request in detail and places the burden of proof on the manager to justify why authorization to spend any money at all should be granted.

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Develop Your Executive Presence
Individuals in an executive position should develop their executive presence (a person’s manner of carrying themselves) if they want to be more successful. Certain characteristics and behaviors are signs of executive presence and can be developed.
Ten More Compelling Reasons To Hire An Executive Coach
All of today’s true business leaders have either created change, or proactively adapted to change happening around them and their organizations. In today's fast-paced business world, executives often feel the loneliness at the top of their company. What is most important for those executives to recognize is that he or she doest not have to go it alone. In fact, more executives are turning to coaches for outside advice and help. Recently I was preparing for an executive coaching presentation to a group of business owners and senior management staff members. I had been asked to make sure I had a list of ten compelling reasons for executive coaching to pass along to the attendees. Here are the ten compelling reasons that I recalled for hiring an executive coach.

Personality Assessments for Sales - The Definitive Case Study
Nearly two years ago we began development of an exciting new way to evaluate Executive Management Teams. We brainstormed, conducted surveys, performed research and identified 16 qualities that CEO's wanted their Executive Managers to possess, along with 9 Styles crucial to a Management Team's ability to grow their companies.

Save Money Next Time You Promote or Hire That New Exec
According to Michael S. Melbinger, Partner at Winston & Strawn, LLP and a leading authority on executive compensation world-wide, mentoring and coaching for newly-promoted managers and/or newly-hired executives is gaining in importance, even in this economy. Why? One of the reasons is companies can no longer afford the costs incurred from poor management/executive performance. It costs too much to get them, let alone get them productive quickly. In this economy, every dollar counts.

The ROI of Executive Coaching
Executive coaching helps key individuals in the organization thrive not just survive. The executive coach helps executives focus and adjust to new organizational realities as they occur. The executive coach helps anchor the executive being coached to focus on… and achieve specific business/organizational outcomes…resulting in a good ROI.
How to choose your executive coach -1
Executive Coaching centers around the learner on the job. An executive coach helps the learner in identifying key areas of focus and helps in developing an action plan. Executive Coaching deals with the person, the job challenges, and the skills needed. Therefore executive coaching is very effective in developing leadership skills. The question is how to select a good executive coach? The "How to choose your Executive Coach?" series deals with this crucial question.
Competencies from a Non-HR Point of View
Properly defined and applied, competencies-the knowledge, skills and abilities needed for success in a job-can take your organizational strategic vision and plan and transform it into reality. A phased-in implementation, with the input, involvement and passion of the workforce and the executive and management teams, secures the benefits and competitive advantage of a Competency-based HR management system.
Developing Executive Presence - What Really Matters
I've found that the term executive presence can mean different things to different people. Asking penetrating questions to gain more clarity for both the client and executive coach is critical to the executive coaching process when coaching a leader to cultivate their executive presence.

Building Executive Presence - Storytelling for Professional Success
The term executive presence can mean different things to different people. Asking penetrating questions to gain more clarity for both the client and executive coach is critical to the executive coaching process when coaching a leader to improve their executive presence.

Executive Coaching and Debriefing for Corporate Leadership Development Programs
In today's management environment, new forms of corporate leadership development programs have emerged. One of the most popular development tools is executive coaching, as corporate leadership development programs frequently utilize these services. However, the fundamentals of executive coaching have actually been around for many years in the form of debriefing.
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