Performance Appraisal - Should I Go To HR If I Disagree With My Review?

What should you do if you disagree with your manager's evaluation of your performance during your employee review? Find out if you should approach human resources to lodge a protest.

HR Needs It Signed on the Dotted Line

You've been having problems with your employees that haven't been resolved. It's time to escalate to written documentation designed to get your point across and protect the company.

Business, Opportunity & Success

How do you take the Opportunity to make your Business succeed? When a business decides to try and outperform the competition with their opportunity it is necessary to provide an alternative solution to what exists - this may seem obvious but is not so to most of the working world.

Work as a Symphony

Have you ever seen an orchestra producing some truly amazing and inspiring music. I remember seeing an orchestra playing at the Sydney Opera House. I was so impressed with the way all the different instrumental groups blended together to make this magical sound. The conductor's role was very important in keeping all the sections on task and in time. However, all the groups must be able to work together (compliment each other) to produce beautiful harmonics. In a good orchestra, the wind instruments are not in conflict with the brass or percussion instruments. They all have a job to do, and they must be able to complete their task as well as support all the other musical sections in the process. So how does a business work together like a symphony?

Knowledge Management

If knowledge is omnipresent, then knowledge management is the discipline that helps put information in the right context and perspective.

Business Management A Skill To Learn!

Management is a skill, some have it inborn and some have to inculcate it by learning and taking courses. However, all of us have to learn business management, since business...

Cutting Call-Center Costs

Imagine call-center, with just two or there operators, answering a very important product related or sales questions. By the way, this call-center generates profit for you.

Metrics to Measure and Control the Performance of Sales Department

If you have money and time to do just one thing - then measure and improve the performance of your Sales department. You will have results immediately and will be able to improve them regularly.

Developing a High Performance Project Team

Much is written in Project Management journals about every conceivable facet of project teams. Topics about their organization, culture, communication with clients, problem solving skills, etc. are virtually endless. There are lots of rules, tips, and suggestions about what they should do but not as much on how to do it. For example, “high performance work teams” has been a catch phrase for a long time. Everyone wants to create one or think they are a part of one but how would a PM actually develop one? If you aren’t sure, this will get you started in the right direction.

Your Project's Team Building Success Potential Index

Project managers and those associated with projects typically like to measure things. You use words like tons-per-day; cubic-feet-per-minute; megabits-per-second; and so on. Here is a new one for you. Would you be interested in knowing the team building success potential index (TSPI) of your next project? If so, here is a non-scientific, but very pragmatic, way to predict it.

Avoiding a Hostile Workplace- Fairness in Employee Discipline

The environment of your workplace is vital to employee satisfaction, reduction of turnover, and productivity. It is also vital to the legal stability of your business. A hostile work environment can be the basis for many types of employee complaints and causes of legal action

Starting Your New Employees Off Right

When starting a new employee into your business it is crucial that you make the right first impression. Do you have an induction plan?

Art Of Empowering

This article describes the need for empowering in a organization. It also gives a different perspective in building successful relation ship with co-workers and subordinates

Performance Management

Systematize your life for success. Expect more and execute better every time with process improvement. Seek out a business coach to guide you through your steps to success.

The Death Cycle In Retailing

The death cycle in retailing is a series of events which, if not caught and corrected in time, will cause the financial demise of the store/business as surely as the sun rises in the East. The death cycle usually starts as a result of buying more merchandise than the Store can sell profitably.