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How to Use 360 Assessment Tools
360 assessment tools are tools which are used to provide feedback to employees from their peers, their boss, their subordinates and themselves. This is utilized to help them improve their performance as well as to help recognize their accomplishment.

Don't Forget To Say Thank You

Showing gratitude to your superiors, subordinates, coworkers, clients, potential bosses and anyone else who you come in contact with is very critical to keep the cycle of positive attraction and energy flowing yet it is very overlooked. People hinder their growth and prosperity by neglecting to show gratitude even in the smallest of situations. Below you will find a sample example of how you can effectively show appreciation and adapt this to your own situations. You will find that your clients, friends, employees will respect and call on you more often. The residual effect will be improved business and personal relationships which will result in more profits and an overall higher quality of life.

Make That Decision
Often, we or our subordinates seem to have trouble making decisions. And often that costs.

Lesson #3: Be Ruthless and Rise to the Challenge

“You make the wine and I’ll sell it,” Gallo once told his younger brother. Gallo never wanted to be involved in the fine details of making fine wine. What Gallo wanted was to get out on the sales floor, to hit the streets, and to sell his stuff. He became known as a ruthless businessman for one reason; he was good at what he did and he did not let anything stand in his way. Gallo always got what he wanted because he was never willing to settle for anything less.

LinkedIn and the Art of Avoiding an Asshole Boss
Since blogging about Bob Sutton’s notorious book, The No Asshole Rule, I have received a constant flow of emails from readers sharing their own tales of lecherous bosses and indignities suffered.

How Franchisees Can Gain More Time and Develop Their Employees
This article with shades of Management 101 offers some simple advice on how franchisees and their managers can gain more time and improve the skills of their subordinates.

Selling to C-Level Executives Sales Training Tip 11- Handling the Committees Obstacle
A committees or a subordinate has been delegated the power of awarding the contract. This C-level selling tip will help you handle this tough selling obstacle.

Social Networking and Work
There are some dangers to social networking among colleagues. It's a good idea to have a clear policy in place regarding use of these sites between staff members.

C-Level Selling Tip 8, Getting Past Gatekeepers and Handling Blockers
Gatekeepers and blockers are one of the biggest obstacles to C-Level Selling. This article and the free e-book and videos available from the links provide will never make getting to the Leaders a problem for you again.

Create Large Accounts by Establishing C-Level Relationships
Learn how to move from vendor to preferred supplier in a heart beat. Here’s the path to C-level executive suites. Once relationships are established there, sales come easily and continuously.

C-Level Selling Tip 3: Sales Rejection, What You Didn’t Learn in College
Sales people have 3 role, marketing, selling and relationship development. Most only market because they really don’t know the difference. Then they get rejected. Learn all the skills from this C-Level Selling Tip 3 - Sales Rejection.

C-Level Sales Training Tip 2 – The Prospect Seemed Interested, but the Sales Cycle Is Stalled
Learn to shorten sales cycles in this article by moving those sitting on the fence to closing.

Signs of a Declining Business
The tell tale signs of a business in decline.

Leadership Tips for the Manager Who is Too Tough

Hard-nosed, high achieving managers tend to work long hours, do the work his or her team is supposed to do, be overly critical of others and not keep everyone informed. Despite this and perhaps to some degree because of it, they get great results in the short term. Unfortunately, this type of manager is often disappointed when the team is unable to achieve the desired results. The organization loses because talented subordinates may get burned out and leave or never get the development they need to become future leaders in their own right.

Martial Arts Marketing
Two Basic steps to knowing your key markets & prospects so well, your message matches their needs and helps assure the sale: 1.Identify those few, key major segments that account for most all market sales. 2.Determine that unique position that gives you dominance.

Business Writing Skills, Media Training, Presentation Skills Training (Not PowerPoint) Count On Quality Control

• No matter how clever a writer you may be, failure to edit yourself carefully can harm your business communication and waste your improving writing skills. • The key to media training is building an effective communication bridge to the press. Accomplish that and you're on the way to marketing-oriented business communication that works. • Presentation skills training that succeeds stresses eye-to-eye effective communication and shuns PowerPoint.

I Miss Upward Feedback
Looking at benefits of upward feedback programs.

Should You Care if Your Employees Love You?
What happens when your desire to be loved interferes with your ability to lead...

Getting New Managers to Deliver Quickly

As companies start transforming their businesses in response to changing market conditions, they need their people to deliver. Every CEO faces two main people challenges. The CEO's first challenge is to develop current high performers into good leaders who can put in place a multiplier effect on their talents. The CEO's second challenge is to induct new talented people and get them off the block quickly. Organizations that have a strong process culture can get their new manager's off the block quickly and with less pain.

How to Earn Respect at the Office
Many struggles at work can be attributed to one major symptom: a lack of respect from your co-workers, subordinates or supervisors. But, if you feel there is a lack of respect, how do you go about regaining or earning that trust from those in your workplace? Do you go around demanding that others respect you because of your title or position?

Startup Principles for Success
Behind most great entrepreneur success stories is a long list of mistakes! Unfortunately, for every success story you see, there is an even longer list of failure stories with mistakes that you don’t see. But rather than dwell on the failures, I’ve tried to extract a list of principles that embody the successes.

How Middle Managers are Key to Company Success

In hierarchal organizations, strategic intent flows from the top, while tactical implementation is carried out at the bottom. In the middle of the flow are middle managers: first- second- and third tier supervisors, managers and senior managers who are mandated to proactively deliver the planned strategy's goals. The challenge is that the bulk of their energy is spent tactically (and often) reactively responding to pressures from customers, subordinates, peers and their boss. In fact, how the middle manager responds on a moment-by-moment basis is more impactful to a strategy's success (and an organization's cohesion) than the communication of the plan in the first place.

Hard Working Entrepreneurs– Are Your Staff Efficient?
Are you working very hard but your staff seem to be very inefficient and are holding you back? Maybe the problem is with you and you don’t delegate properly?

Hottest Women's Franchise Business Opportunities
Women are quickly becoming champions of business, and if you think you have what it takes to live up to the standard set by your female gender, here are business opportunities to look into.

The What and Why of Executive Coaching
Driving the trend for executive coaching is the business reality that good people are hard to find and harder to keep. With a constant need to stay competitive, companies are seeing coaching as a way to help valued employees develop swiftly in a rapidly changing business environment.

Using Assessments with Coaching
The astute coach helps the person examine gaps between what they believe they do and what they actually do. This is fertile ground for personal growth and development, but is also the area where people become defensive and resistant. Assesments are a great tool to help identify real needs.

Effective Leadership = Business Success
Leadership plays a vital role in the building of any business and can have a direct effect on the attitudes of colleagues and staff which in turn affects products and services. The attitude and influence of the leader is also reflected in aspects such as staff satisfaction and retention.

MANAGERS MANAGE
Managers need to develop a specific skill set in order to manage and not resort to doing the work themselves.

Your Roadmap To Go From Employee To President In 30 MOnths
These 6 articles are the result of over thirty years of analyzing, interviewing and training thousands of managers and subordinates in every industry, from manufacturing to wholesale, retail construction, agriculture, service industries and health care. These articles are about how you can become a supervisor and move on to become a President of a company.

ATTITUDE CAN DETERMINE YOUR SUCESS AS A MANAGER
When you manage people, your attitude plays a major role in how well you, as a manager, will perform. With the right attitude you can accomplish anything you want to and so can the people you supervise. How you can change your attitude and improve the performance of your subordinates.

How To Go From Mid Level Manager To Top Level Manager In 12 Months
These articles come in a six part series: 1) The essence of managing 2) Re-engineer yourself to be a manager 3) How to go from employee to supervisor in 6 months 4) How to go from supervisor to entry level manager in 6 months 5) How to go from entry level manager to mid level manage in 6 months 6) How to go from mid level manager to top-level manager in 12 months

How To Go From Entry Level Manager To Mid Level Manager In 6 Months
These articles come in a six part series: 1) The essence of managing 2) Re-engineer yourself to be a manager 3) How to go from employee to supervisor in 6 months 4) How to go from supervisor to entry level manager in 6 months 5) How to go from entry level manager to mid level manage in 6 months 6) How to go from mid level manager to top-level manager in 12 months

How To Go From Supervisor To Entry Level Manager In 6 Months
These articles come in a six part series: 1) The essence of managing 2) Re-engineer yourself to be a manager 3) How to go from employee to supervisor in 6 months 4) How to go from supervisor to entry level manager in 6 months 5) How to go from entry level manager to mid level manage in 6 months 6) How to go from mid level manager to top-level manager in 12 months

How To Go From Employee To Supervisor In 6 Months
These articles come in a six part series: 1) The essence of managing 2) Re-engineer yourself to be a manager 3) How to go from employee to supervisor in 6 months 4) How to go from supervisor to entry level manager in 6 months 5) How to go from entry level manager to mid level manage in 6 months 6) How to go from mid level manager to top-level manager in 12 months

The Essence Of Managing
These articles come in a six part series: 1) The essence of managing 2) Re-engineer yourself to be a manager 3) How to go from employee to supervisor in 6 months 4) How to go from supervisor to entry level manager in 6 months 5) How to go from entry level manager to mid level manage in 6 months 6) How to go from mid level manager to top-level manager in 12 months

What Makes A Good Leader Ask Uncle Sam
What do the major generals who are leading the war efforts in Iraq have in common with executives and entrepreneurs who are conducting business back home? When it comes to leadership, the answer is probably a lot more than you think.

What Is A 360 Employee Performance Review

"A 360 is where a person gets feedback on their performance from their peers, their subordinates, their boss and in some cases even suppliers and clients. That's why it is called 360 – you get feedback from all around you." A 360 is a very intense tool and not to be messed with. I have seen it create miraculous shifts in previously stuck managers and I have seen it plunge people into a major stress crisis. I have even seen people totally ignore what all the facts are telling them and stay on their track. It is only a tool for a mature organisation willing to take it seriously and implement it correctly.

Is Your Organization Effectively Deploying the Human Capital It Needs to Compete?

Most organizations understand that effective management and deployment of assets can mean the difference between success and failure. But many organizations fail to consider their most critical asset – human capital. A recent study by McKinsey & Company revealed that “A” performers tend to be 50-100% more productive than “C” performers. Clearly, identifying the “A” performers can enhance an organization’s performance. So, how does an employer identify the “A” performers, and once identified, how does an employer retain them?

Leadership in Crisis

Top executive failure rates are estimated to be as high as seventy-five percent and rarely lower than thirty percent. A McKinsey study found that the pipeline for future leaders is broken. Only three percent of those responding to the survey felt their company developed leaders well. Why is this happening? Simply because leaders -- like the rest of us -- tend to judge their own performance significantly better than do those they work with.

Values: The Importance of Walking the Talk
In the last few years most companies have recognized the importance of documenting their values. Some have gone to great lengths in detailing what would be ideal behavior but it is still the rare company who has leaders who actually walk the talk. Many organizations seem to forget the connection between customers, employees, and financial results.

How to Strengthen Your Organizational Communication Practice
With these six easy steps, you can guarantee that your organization will have the best communication practices possible.

How to Take Good Notes
When a conversation is moving fast over the phone it becomes critical that you are able to take good notes. This means the name, title (get it exact), extension, email, fax, assistant, backups, peers and subordinates for anyone that has an influence on your sales cycle.

Getting Lucky, with Your Boss or with a Lady of the Evening: Speaking of Communication
Horatio Alger is dead. No one is going to take it upon themselves to discover your wonderfulness or the wonderfulness of your ideas. It's been said that if you're doing a good job and nobody needs to pay attention to you, nobody will. Consider it said again.

How to Build a Great Team
Success in the workplace is no different than success in sports. It’s about having the best talent and using that talent, knowledge, skill and strength in the right place at the right time so you and your team can win the game. Do you know who your best talent is? Have you told them? Are you taking care of them? If not…Why not?

Counselling Employees To Build on Strengths

A current management fad is that we only truly improve by building on our strengths. Peter Drucker started this trend back in the fifties, but it has become increasingly popular in the last decade or so, especially with the writings of Marcus Buckingham, et al. Building on strengths is indeed the best way to improve performance and the key to success, whether in business or in life. This article provides some helpful pointers on counselling employees and subordinates to magnify their strengths and minimize their weaknesses.

Classic Leadership Styles
Much has been said over the years about leadership styles. Yet research into the best and most practical overview leads to the easiest conclusion (there will always be variables on these, as well as mixes of them), are that there are four distinct leadership styles. With one to avoid as well!

Bridging the Generation Gap
Young people, we hear, want to play video games all day, while thinking they should be in charge the Monday after they start. They are disloyal and will leave the job at the drop of a hat. Young people need praise all the time, yet they are non-conforming and don’t understand the rules of workplace.

6 Tips for Managing Subordinates
By following these six tips, you can improve your leadership skills while also gaining additional respect and admiration from your team. Isn’t that what every leader wants?

What Is Your Management Action Style?
Do you find it difficult to move from task to task or are you very flexible when it comes to retaining and evaluating a lot of different information? Or perhaps the idea of having to manage others really turns you off? On the other hand, maybe you're the type who has never been bothered by the idea of delegating and loves the challenge of long-range planning.

10 Easy Rules for Editing Your Employees' Writing
This article provides an overall framework for editing business documents drafted by subordinates or colleagues.

Selling Doctors - Fear of the Doctor Is a Sales Person's Biggest Challenge
Sales people must realize that just because they are stuck with the subordinate, it doesn’t mean the subordinates control the decisions of what to buy and from whom. This article explains the situation and resulting problems.

C-Level Selling Tip 9 - Overcoming Executive Intimidation
Powerful people make everyone nervous, but if we don’t deal with it as sales people, we’ll be stuck with subordinates that stall our progress and mislead us on what it will take to win the sale, project or contract.

To Socialize or Not
I am often asked by students if it is a good or bad idea for a leader to socialize with subordinates outside of work. There are a lot of tradeoffs, and this is a complex question. I break down the variables in this article.

Are Managers Mentors?
"Are managers mentors?" is probably one of the most common questions in the corporate workplace today. While a good manager should have mentorship qualities, and the ability to get the most potential productivity from subordinates, are both roles possible for a supervisor?

C-Level Relationship Selling – 6 Tips for Overcoming Executive Intimidation
Meeting with powerful people makes anyone nervous. Unfortunately, if left uncorrected, you’ll be stuck with subordinates who tend to abuse and hold you hostage. So here is how to correct this executive intimidation situation.

Inspirational Leadership: Ask For Feedback
There are at least three good reasons to do this, and why leaders who seek to inspire their teams should consider asking their subordinates for feedback... even advice....

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