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If You're DoingThis, You're Not Changing
We were sitting at a table in the Delta Hotel and were discussing Lorrie's participation in the communications program that I was working on, when she started talking about how she was building her own business and what she was doing to do it. As she was talking about marketing, I was totally engrossed in her enthusiasm and in her knowledge, while at the same time I was mentally going through what I wasn't doing in my own business to build it. One thing she said really caught my attention: Unless you're changing the status quo of your business, you're not growing.
Think and Manage Like a Winner; Defense is a Losing Strategy
Recessions over the past 64 years averaged 10 months from peak to trough. This one is 15 months old and there is no bottom in sight. Most employers are cutting "non-essential" expenses to preserve employee jobs. While compassionate, that is a death-knell for most businesses. So what's a business owner to do?
Coaching, Counseling and Development
Counseling is generally considered corrective discipline for serious performance deficits, and can often be avoided with the use of effective coaching techniques. Staff development is a long-term process that´s focused on enhancing people´s strengths and preparing them for the next step on their career ladder. Coaching, on the other hand, is a "right-now" method that helps your sales consultants to improve the work they do today. Its main purpose is to close the gap between the performance standards you´ve set and their actual performance.

Focus On the Basics for Survival
When a company is facing challenges, the key to survival is a focus on a few key areas. The two most important areas for success are your staff and your performance against pre-determined key performance indicators.
It IS Easy Being Green...
How the hospitality industry can benefit by 'going green'.

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Utilising coaching effectively in an organisation
Coaching is proven to be an effective way of increasing and maximising staff productivity – but do HR Professionals have enough first-hand experience to encourage buy-in at the top let alone to communicate the benefits of having a coach. Stephanie Ward explains why a coach is beneficial to staff - whether for intercultural training or the development of business skills - and how it differs from training.
Leadership
Leadership is an ongoing journey that will benefit your business, your staff and your own personal development.
7.1 Recommended actions – policy coordination and leadership: Support for Growth-oriented Women Entrepreneurs in Tanzania, 2005
Staff an official position responsible for women’s enterprise development
Stellar Supervision Enhances Company Productivity
Looking for a framework to use to provide stellar supervision for each of your staff members? Proactive, collaborative supervision is a key to enhancing each staff member's competencies, commitment and optimum personal productivity. It enhances staff loyalty and reduces turnover because staff members feel their career success is a top priority of their leader. Read on to discover the things you can do to help your staff members excel.
Alternatives to redundancies have benefits
The overall cost with redundancies is far more than just the initial redundancy pay an employee receives. You will need to add costs for the recruitment when you require staff again and the cost of training new recruits to have them reach the development stage your redundant staff were at prior to being made redundant. How do you place a cost on this? Then there are the negatives that come from any business making redundancies which includes low morale within the workforce which inevitably reduces production, performance and service. Good quality staff can leave for alternative employment due to the uncertainty which may happen after you have reduced to the number of staff you felt appropriate as they have been offered employment from interviews taken during the redundancy process. What is the cost of this?

Coaching Gen Y? Don’t be like the Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
Are you a wolf - trying to coach your staff to get them to do what you want them to do? Or are you genuinely interested in their development? You can't fool Gen Y.Here are some tips to help you be authentic in your coaching.

What Are You Like at Growing People?
Too many managers are still using 20th century traditions for 21st century staff development. The result? Rapid staff turnover, excessive absenteeism and staff conflicts. We need new ways to look at old problems. People are a part of nature, so what can we learn from growing plants?
12 steps field sales coach plan
The reality is that most sales managers do not spend enough time with their staff in a coaching capacity. Providing constant feedback and being a role model who demonstrates the right skills. Many managers today are still focusing too heavily on short term efficiency and not long term effectiveness. Development of staff through on-the-job coaching is a critical function of modern day managers but can take second place to some of the more urgent, but less important priorities.

Planning for 2011
Budgeting and developing strategy for 2011 should be near the top of your ‘to-do’ list right now or be bedded down already. People complain about being too busy and never having enough time, however if you do not make time for regular planning you will let everyone down. Make time to work on: * Forecasting * Evaluating staff hiring and implementing staff development plans * Ensuring that your marketing calendar is planned through to June 2011 at a minimum
Legal Marketing: Your firm's marketing and business development departments should be in sync
Gain a competitive advantage by bringing marketing and business development together. Most large firms have both a marketing staff and business development personnel. And even though they work for the same team and have the same goals, they often seem at odds with each other. It’s a common, yet surprising, phenomenon that needs to change.
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