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Practical Productivity Improvement and Cost Reduction
Inexpensive and quick actions to raise output and / or lower input in your organization, whatever your line of business. Act to raise profits or output, to ease bottlenecks, to refine operations that have lost their sharp focus over time or start effective new ones. My Amazon book, Cost Reduction How to Survive, Recover, and Thrive, offers examples of practical ideas to effect real cost change.

Cost Control in this Economy
Cost control is not just a checklist, but a way of thinking that cost effectiveness is the primary objective. Focus on results, not the process. And please, don’t just look at direct hourly people for improvement. That is probably not where your big costs are. Show me the money. For a deeper analysis, my book called Cost Reduction; Survive, Recover, Thrive offers actions for any phase of the economy, for all levels of the organization chart. It is listed on Amazon, search by the title please. It is available in a Kindle edition as well as paperback.

Sales force productivity: Eight Practices to Ensure Your Sales Success
We have never needed to improve sales productivity more than we do in this dreadful economy. For decades, businesses have embraced productivity and cost controls in operational functions like manufacturing and distribution; programs like Total Quality Management (TQM), Six Sigma and LEAN are thriving all over the map. Except in the sales department. We suggest that sales organizations can benefit dramatically from adopting some basic principles of productivity management, simple business techniques that lower costs, improve customer profitability and retention, and reduce sales-person turnover. This article explores the eight key practices that contribute to productivity. If the practice is in place in your usiness, it will contribute to productivity. But if it is not, it will actually inhibit productivity and drive up costs.
Supply Management - 8 Tips for Keeping Your Supplies in Order
So how many push pins and paper clips do you really need at your desk? Office costs are going up by the minute and we are frequently to blame! Walking by the supply room... we grab a few boxes "just in case" not really knowing if we need the item or not. So, we end up with a bunch of stuff in our office or cube that takes up room and that we do not use! So, consider these tips for your space.

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PRODUCTIVITY, EFFICIENCY, EFFECTIVENESS, and FOCUS – Doing the Next Right Thing
There has been an exponential explosion of information available for increasing personal productivity, so much so that it’s become known as productivity porn (or, for those active on the Net and looking to avoid spam blockers, productivity pr0n). Productivity Pr0n consists of those techniques, tools, and all-out systems for getting more organized and maximizing personal productivity.
It's All About Passion and Purpose
Productivity seems to be the Holy Grail of the twenty-first century. We spend tons of money, and even more time, on things like effectiveness training, time management, planners, goal setting instruction, and general productivity tips.
Productivity Leadership - Part Four 'Development'
“Productivity Leadership” is Part Four ‘Development’ in an integrated approach to human resources management. A mere 5% productivity improvement would vastly energize any organization. We bet you can do better. Part Five 'Compensation'.
Sales force productivity: Eight Practices to Ensure Your Sales Success
We have never needed to improve sales productivity more than we do in this dreadful economy. For decades, businesses have embraced productivity and cost controls in operational functions like manufacturing and distribution; programs like Total Quality Management (TQM), Six Sigma and LEAN are thriving all over the map. Except in the sales department. We suggest that sales organizations can benefit dramatically from adopting some basic principles of productivity management, simple business techniques that lower costs, improve customer profitability and retention, and reduce sales-person turnover. This article explores the eight key practices that contribute to productivity. If the practice is in place in your usiness, it will contribute to productivity. But if it is not, it will actually inhibit productivity and drive up costs.
Time Management & Productivity: Can You Really Manage Time?
Time Management is an oxymoron. We can't manage time. Time moves at a relentless, constant pace. Productivity and time are closely related. If time can't be managed, how do we increase productivity? This article offers a radically different view of "time management".
Productivity, Wages and Prices - What's This About?
A company that consistently raises productivity can increase profits and wages while keeping prices stable so as to compete more effectively in the marketplace, build company value, and attract and retain the best people in the labor market. Focusing on consistent productivity growth is a most important aspect of management responsibility.
Monitoring Inside Sales Productivity
Most organizations have a very difficult time quantifying the productivity of their inside sales departments. If you don’t have a phone system that captures accurate dialing, contact, and other productivity metrics, use a simple manual process instead. Download our Sales Productivity Metrics(Daily), Sales Productivity Metrics (Monthly), and Sales Productivity Metrics (Quarterly) reporting tools. How can you Measure Inside Sales Productivity?
Sustainability Coaching: How to Realize Long Term Productivity Gains in Business
Business owners and company executives want an optimized company, which means that productivity is at its peak. To achieve these, failure proofing by addressing these three factors is key. Productivity gains are sustained through simple but effective project planning, incorporating benchmark change management strategies and being passionate about the productivity goal and following through.
Extreme Time Management & Productivity Secrets for the Information Age
Success is determined by your daily agenda! In this article I will cover five secrets to extreme time management & productivity secrets for the information age. 1. How to Break Free From the Time Management Myth. 2. How You Can Tackle Being Overwhelmed. 3. The #1 Stealer of Your Time. 4. How Your Environment Plays an Important Part in Productivity. And 5. How to Calculate an Important Dollar Value on Your Time.
How to Motivate Employess - Without Breaking the Bank
They are age-old management questions: how to motivate employees for higher productivity and how to get them to produce over and beyond established goals without busting the budget. Fortunately, there are several solutions. We must remember that while employees need money to survive, they often are motivated by other elements in the workplace. As humans, we all have different motivators. In my consulting practice, I've found that - besides money - there are eight primary employee needs which, when satisfied, become motivators for higher productivity. When management can determine and then best satisfy its employees' needs, it will create a process that promotes productivity without going over budget. Following are the eight needs with some tips on how to best use them to motivate.

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