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Signs of a Declining Business
The tell tale signs of a business in decline.
How to Improve Your Effectiveness as a Manager
Quick thoughts on how you can become a more effective manager by simply thinking a little more about your behaviors.
Helicopter Parents Descending onto Your Organization
Has your organization seen an increase in the number of "helicopter" parents involving themselves with their child's work, social and personal life? If so, you're not alone. This trend has definitely taken an upswing the past few years, and has become so common that there are organizations trying to devise strategies on how to combat this phenomenon.
Workplace Education to Drive Canada’s Talent & Competitiveness
Arupa Tesolin takes a look at how workplace education is making Canadian companies more competitive
Trust Withheld; Micromanagement Unveiled
Micromanagement and lack of trust are cries often heard in today's business arena. Learn about the unexpected gifts that come with taking the risk of trust.
Delegate! Do you know how?
Delegating is a skill that is very difficult for many professionals to master. Either they do not give enough responsibility the assistants that they have, or they micromanage them way too much. Successful business people are able to empower skilled individuals to handle administrative tasks, while they focus on keeping current clients, growing relationships and reaching a new client base. So, why is delegation so hard? Well, for many it is because the skill has not been developed. You have to learn how to delegate just like any other business skill. Here are some great web resources to help you do just that!
20 Ways to Tell if Your Employees Hate You
In the history of leadership there has been a consistent trend where employees dislike their leaders. This doesn't happen by chance, it takes a great deal of concerted effort by those running the organization. Find out if you do things that make your employees hate you.
Important Qualities for Work from Home Employees
With more and more people wanting to work from home so they can spend more time with their families, companies are starting to understand the value of hiring off-site employees. Not only do they save money on office space and equipment, they have a vast pool of potential workers from which to choose the best.
Tyrant or Bully?
What single adjective would you use to describe your boss? Hopefully it is a positive one, but at some point, you have probably worked for a tyrant or a bully. In this article, I compare these two negative descriptors and give some insight as to how to manage them.

Special Secrets to Micro-Managing Employee Performance
In general, micro-management is frowned upon in the management sphere. Yet there are occasions when by getting into the small stuff, there are benefits to managers and their people too.
6 Tips to Avoid Being Micromanaged
Being micromanaged is something most of us have complained about at some point. We get a task to do, then the boss keeps badgering us with details of how we should do it. The result is a feeling of exasperation or even helplessness. Clearly, having a micromanager for a boss reduces our empowerment and energy to do the task well. Usually we blame the boss. This article turns the logic around and suggests that we can do things to prevent being micromanaged.

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Delegate! Do you know how?
Delegating is a skill that is very difficult for many professionals to master. Either they do not give enough responsibility the assistants that they have, or they micromanage them way too much. Successful business people are able to empower skilled individuals to handle administrative tasks, while they focus on keeping current clients, growing relationships and reaching a new client base. So, why is delegation so hard? Well, for many it is because the skill has not been developed. You have to learn how to delegate just like any other business skill. Here are some great web resources to help you do just that!
Your CUSTOMER Satisfaction Is Tied To Your EMPLOYEE Satisfaction
WHAT DO YOUR CUSTOMERS REALLY THINK ABOUT YOU? We constantly endeavor to achieve 100% CUSTOMER SATISFACTION. We invest our time and money developing surveys and devising ways to improve our rate of return on those surveys. We empower the information gathered to correct individual problems and micromanage our way to solutions. In fact, much of the comments we act upon don’t really reflect upon the way our business is actually being conducted. These knee jerk reactions create more problems than they solve. The most important feedback never makes its way to our “gatherers”. Our BEST customers don’t respond to surveys and the truly DISSATISFIED customers will never give us a second chance.

Cruising with no driver?
It is important to make sure that as much of your business as possible is set up so that it runs itself – that you have systems in place and you do not have to micromanage. But your business still needs a driver – or a manager. And if you are the driver – if you need a break you need someone to be able to step in and take the wheel. Yes, your business can run on cruise control – but you need someone to steer.

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