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Credit and Debt Management – Tips for Lowering Debt
Canadian consumers are bombarded by news about new credit policies and procedures, as well as new offers for ever-more sophisticated credit systems that each make claims of having the ability to clean up smudged credit. To learn more about credit and debt management, it’s important to stick to a few simple basics. Learning about how debt management works and seeking out a few tips in order to keep on track can mean the difference between poor or fair credit, and correspondingly whether or not you are able to make large purchases, including a home.
ARE YOU MANAGING FOR RESULTS
If you manage others in your organization, you are responsible for identifying business objectives, establishing a clear set of expected outcomes, creating policies and procedures to guide daily activities, aligning appropriate resources, and providing the development and support necessary to maximize the likelihood that expected outcomes are achieved. How would you grade yourself in all of these areas?
Personnel Policies and Procedures for Nonprofit Organizations
Every nonprofit organization should have personnel policies and procedures, in addition to its regular policies and procedures. Policies state what the organization believes in and supports, and reflect those laws they need to adhere to. Procedures are the steps or actions that need to be taken to support a specific policy. This article provides a list of personnel policies and procedures that all nonprofit organizations should have in place.

"Don't Look for Customers, Look for Fans"
What level of customer service are you operating on? Find out here and how you can transform ordinary customers into diehard fans.
Board Member Job Descriptions - Which Roles and Responsibilities Should You Include?
Prior to developing a job description for board members, take time to determine what you expect from them. What roles should they adopt and which tasks, projects, and activities do you want them to be responsible for? This article provides some items you should consider including in board member job descriptions.
Open Enrollment Health Plans
There comes a time during the year where health insurance companies open their doors for open enrollment where consumers have the ability to make changes to their current plans. Open enrollment refers to a time period where all members within an insurance group can enroll in particular benefit packages. When a health insurance company has these periods of open enrollment, they are obligated take on applicants without assurance of insurability. There are certain exceptions, so applying early on and being diligent in understanding your specific health insurance policies and procedures will help you get the best deal.

What You Should Consider Before Entering Into A Collaborative Agreement
Collaborative efforts with other agencies are valuable and can have many advantages. However, there are some items you need to consider prior to entering into any type of collaborative relationship. You'll want to ensure that when you enter into a collaborative relationship, it is a win-win situation for your clients, your organization, other stakeholders, and for your collaborative partner. This article addresses some questions you need to ask and issues you need to consider before establishing a collaborative relationship.
Increase Productivity and Profitability by Simply Eliminating Gossip
Do your employees gossip? Have you ever considered the financial impact to your bottom line? What can you do to eliminate it?
Employee Disciplinary Action - Steps You Can Take To Protect Yourself and Your Nonprofit Organization
Disciplining employees can be time consuming, difficult, and challenging. However, if you want the disciplinary action process to go as smoothly as possible, it is important to develop clear policies and procedures that will result in a strong disciplinary action program. By having a solid program in place, it will help to protect you and your organization. This article provides some steps you can take to develop and implement an exemplary disciplinary action program.
What To Include In Personnel Files For New Staff Members
To protect themselves as well as their new hires, employers must ensure that personnel files contain all documents required by the federal government and by their respective organization. This article provides a list of items that should be included in a personnel file.

Top 5 Reasons To Develop An Employee Handbook
Do I really need an employee handbook? This question comes up so many times, especially from small business owners, and the answer is YES! But the reasons may not be what you think.
Don't Be Afraid of Accounts Receivable
Many small and midsize businesses (SMB) we consult with are afraid of implementing policies and procedures to better manage their accounts receivable (A/R) because they are scared of losing customers. Is this fear preventing you from achieving AR best practices?

Leadership Tips for the Manager Who is Too Easy
The Plant Manager was becoming increasingly frustrated. His production manager was struggling to meet plant performance targets and was not getting his team to take ownership of achieving results. The initial diagnosis was that the production manager was being too easy on his team. As with most management problems, only two or three behaviours cause the majority of aggravation and frustration. Here we examine how to help an easy-going manager achieve what needs to get done.
Increase Sales By Remembering It is All About the Little Things & Not the Big Things
Are you so focused on the big things with your sales that you are forgetting the little things are what count?
What the Heck is Public Relations Anyway?
Public Relations is more than publicity and promotion. It's a way of thinking about relationships between segments of society and public issues, and the act of educating those publics about your value in the market place.
Evaluating Your Company's Culture
I believe a company's culture is the single most important factor that will determine whether the company is sucessful or not. Business owners and executives should consider what they want their company culture to be and how they can shape it. This article provides many practical tips.
New laws governing the confidentiality of social security numbers affect Connecticut employers
Summary of new regulations that cover Connecticut employers and employee privacy.
Working With Accounts Receivable
A brief explanation of the mechanics of how the accounting of an accounts receivable systems works.
Internal Control: A Preventive Maintenance Program
A discussion of what “internal control” is, why it is important and some suggestions as to used internal control procedures when handling cash.
APPLYING FOR A BUSINESS LOAN: PUTTING YOUR BEST FOOT FORWARD
Some tips on how to prepare properly before sitting down with a loan officer at the bank. Understanding what criteria the loan officer will be looking for.
Employee Policies – Policies For Office Christmas Parties
Hands up who likes office Christmas parties? The one time of the year when ideally everyone gets to relax, celebrate the year and get to know people a bit better beyond their normal work roles. Generally employee policies and procedures don't cover the essential rules about the office parties.

Employee Policies About Blogging & Electronic Communication
Blogs and blogging are a fascinating social phenomenon and employee policies and procedures generally have not kept up. Blogs are similar to on-line bulletin boards. People use blogs as a way of self expression, saying what they think or feel about a topic or an issue, or in response to someone else’s thoughts. Many people have their own personal blog to journal their day or their lives. It is also an interesting phenomenon that people feel more “open” when communicating via email, text or a blog. By this I mean many people use the process of writing as a form of “dear diary” or therapy. They put their deepest thoughts and feelings down without pausing to think or reflect on the impact their words may have on others. They respond instantly, without many of the usual social niceties coming into play.

The Power of a Sales Playbook Embedding Discipline and Best Practices in Your Sales Force
Sales people have a bad reputation in the business world. With movies like Boiler Room and Glengerry GlenRoss, Hollywood has only reinforced this. Frankly, some of this bad reputation is deserved. In many companies, the sales people may be hitting their numbers, but management knows they are only operating at a fraction of their potential. Is there a way to put discipline into the sales function? Won’t discipline kill the spirit and motivation of a good sales team? Good sales people are typically high-energy, relationship-oriented people with a low tolerance for structure. Their talents lie in handling the nuances of multiple relationships in an uncertain and dynamic environment. A Sales Playbook is the answer.
Communicating Success: Shut Down the Gossip Factory and Get the Right Information to the Right People
Communication is key. If you ask employees to name an area that could be improved in their organization, they will always say there isn't enough communication. You can never communicate enough to employees. But what kind of information do they need? How do you communicate that information in the best way? How do you improve communication to prevent gossip and small problems from transforming into morale-crushing nightmares? In this article, we discuss the importance of effective communication.

Motivating People: Why it doesn't work
When a business has a clearly defined purpose it begins to act as a magnet, attracting the kind of people who will further the purpose; people who are like-minded. Not only will having a purpose attract the right people, but it will also act to retain them.

6 Smoking Ways To Keep Affiliates Motivated
In an ideal world all net marketers would have top performing affiliates who poured in traffic and created sales. However, we don't live in that world. A merchant is lucky to have one affiliate who is constantly motivated and selling. The rest may never make a sale and, after a month of trying, will lose the ambition to keep pressing forward.

Starting A Home Based Business Online? Things To Consider
It can be fun, yet challenging starting a home based business online. For most, this will be the first time they aren't working at a company with a boss watching their every move. If you are tired of an overbearing boss, the idea of starting your own business from the comfort of your home can be very tempting.

How to Manage Your Business by Focusing on Two Important Aspects
The purpose of business management should first of all be to at least maintain and to increase the most important number in any business... the net profit margin. What else matters more than this lifestyle creating number?
Back to Basics: HR Lessons the Boss Needs to Know
Building a happy and productive workforce doesn't have to be rocket science. By maintaining fair policies, providing good feedback and cultivating a respectful and positive work environment, organizations can reap huge rewards. But organizations sometimes forget to cover the basics of proper human resources management. From absenteeism and a demoralized workplace atmosphere to outright sabotage, the consequences to a company of not implementing some basic HR techniques can be devastating.

Flawed investigation leads to monetary compensation for former employee
In a recent unfair dismissal case brought before the AIRC, the AIRC found that while an employee's conduct warranted dismissal, the dismissal was nevertheless harsh, unjust and unreasonable because of the procedural fairness failures by the Company.

Are Employment Policies or Handbooks Really Necessary?
Among my clients and many other businesses the question often arises: Do we need written employment policies or employee handbooks or manuals? The following is what I usually advise and why.
Have you had your annual check-up?
With the business enviornment changing so quickly it's important to not only do annual check-ups, but quarterly check-ups.
Major Crisis don't just happen!
When a business finds itself in a major crisis and out of control, hindsight usually indicates a series of events that lead up to the crisis.
HELP I hired an Idealist
Using the ideals of your more youthful staff can be a great strategy for creating buy-in and ownership at the staff level
Green Biz Idea #32 - Certify Your Business as Green
If you’re wanting to green your business, one avenue you could take can be in the form of certification. A few local (and some national) organizations exist that will help you in greening your operations and practices, and certify you as green, once environmental standards are reached.
You Get What You Reward
More often than not an organization says one thing in its literature, on nicely formatted signs in hallways and conference rooms, but unfortunately does not practice what it preaches. As your organization decides what it wants its culture to be, look closely at what it will reward. Remember…You get what you reward.
A Life Transformed
Pentamma's story - India

Small Business Consulting
a discussion of the problems facing small business owners with regard to the difficulty they face in realizing the need for professional management consulting assistance.
10 Tips for Avoiding the Employment Tribunal
You have an idea, you raise the finance, you get it off the ground; then you have to spend thousands in compensation because you overlooked one or two employment problems. This is a classic story, but one that can be avoided. Sarah Duchart of HR Response has used business knowledge to compile these 10 Tips for employers to help them avoid the employment tribunal.

10 Tips for Avoiding the Employment Tribunal
You have an idea, you raise the finance, you get it off the ground; then you have to spend thousands in compensation because you overlooked one or two employment problems. This is a classic story, but one that can be avoided. Sarah Duchart of HR Response has used business knowledge to compile these 10 Tips for employers to help them avoid the employment tribunal.

Other policies and procedures Related Articles

What does it mean to grow a healthy business?
Ask yourself these questions to reveal new possibilities for intention and action and see where you can let go of outmoded policies, procedures, and attitudes. By regularly reviewing what you have and what you want, you generate a healthy structural tension -- a tension that can impel you to grow your business in a holistic, grounded, and integrated way.
Business Procedures
Business procedures and policies are not just for the big corporations with thousands of employees. Having processes written down can save a lot of time and worry for even micro businesses, so maybe it's time to consider some for your business?
DOING BUSINESS WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT – PART II
This article deals with the standards of conduct when doing business with the Federal Government. The policies and procedures for avoiding improper business practices and personal conflicts of interest and for dealing with their apparent or actual occurrence are defined in the Federal Acquisitions Regulations (FAR) Part 3.
Don't Be Afraid of Accounts Receivable
Many small and midsize businesses (SMB) we consult with are afraid of implementing policies and procedures to better manage their accounts receivable (A/R) because they are scared of losing customers. Is this fear preventing you from achieving AR best practices?

More Discrimination Lawsuits Expected in 2010
More discrimination suits can be expected in the future and employers need to make sure they have proper procedures and policies in place so as to mitigate the risk of such claims.
BE DiFFERENT Rules System
Rules, Policies, Procedures, Administrative Routines... business development tools that are related in most organizations to an internal control role. Successful organizations build their Rules System to SERVE the customer....
Personnel Policies and Procedures for Nonprofit Organizations
Every nonprofit organization should have personnel policies and procedures, in addition to its regular policies and procedures. Policies state what the organization believes in and supports, and reflect those laws they need to adhere to. Procedures are the steps or actions that need to be taken to support a specific policy. This article provides a list of personnel policies and procedures that all nonprofit organizations should have in place.

How Inspired Leadership Creates Dream Jobs
Studies have shown that more than 80 percent of U.S. employees don't believe they're working in their dream jobs. What if leaders could change this? What if they began to inspire their people with why they do what they do, instead of the what and the how of company policies and procedures? What if 80 percent of your workforce actually thought they had landed their dream jobs?
Marcus Asay and Economic Development
The economic development next segment comprises varied development programs and policies, which plays a major role in the monetary as well as financial arenas. Basically, fiscal policies have been ascertained as the significant procedures needed to apply for economical planning towards development models.
Wal-Mart v. Dukes: 7 Employment Takeaways from the Recent Supreme Court Ruling
The recent case of Wal-Mart v. Dukes impacts the way employers address human resources practices, and other HR policies and procedures. Even if a company has recently updated its employee manual and management practices, they should once again review these policies in light of the Supreme Court decision. Here are seven important takeaways.

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