People management skills are crucial for business success. These skills can be developed and studied. It can be an advantage to have a innate affinity for managing with people, all the same there are numerous skills you can learn to help the process.
The state of the economy requires that profit can most simply be enhanced by reducing overhead, not a increase of income. A simple and frequently forgotten asset when doing so is employee performance appraisal software.
A 2010 job hunting campaign is by nature quite involved. While the net has offered a variety of new channels, it also creates multiplied rivalry for great jobs and potential hurdles for job seekers.
Job hunting needs to be thought of as a highly individual, highly targeted marketing and selling process where you […]
It’s a popular misconception in a lot of companies that, when all of their employees have sufficient health and safety education, they have everything they need to prevent a disaster. The reality is that, irrespective your industry, staff require more than just education in health and safety and risk assessment. You need to provide your staff with an enthusiastic supervisor, not to mention provide the right safety gear and give them the opportunity to practice.
Visit the business section of your local bookstore and you’ll probably find a section on “teams” or “team building”.
Listen to executives, professionals, consultants and academics, and they’ll inevitably gush about the wonders of teams and teamwork.
And why not? Companies are teams, or at least they’re made up of teams. A “team” being a group of […]
It is a fact of organizational life - negative, unacceptable behaviors will happen. When they do, the leader must address them.
I normally emphasize the benefits of encouraging positive, productive behaviors over punishing negative ones. However, my clients and seminar participants often ask questions like:
- “What about team members who don’t want to play […]
This groundbreaking leadership research has received extensive endorsements and enthusiastic reviews from well-known prominent business, political, and academic leaders who either participated in the study or reviewed the research findings. You will discover the proven success habits and secrets of people who, in spite of difficult or life threatening challenges shaped their own destiny to […]
I was scheduled to appear on “Dateline,” the NBC show, and that morning, as usual, I went for a jog in the park.
Stepping into a hole I didn’t see, my foot twisted, audibly broke, and I had to hobble to the radio station where I had my own show, and from which we were doing […]
Every business is concerned with security or at least should be. This is especially true when using the Internet. Protecting networks, computers, email, and software applications from the ever-present threat of virus and worm infection is part and parcel of doing business in a connected world.
And of course it goes without saying that physical security […]