Good Business Strategies - The Key to Success

The Basics Of Business Management

Managing From The Side - 7 Great Ways To Lead People Who Don't Report To You

How can you get results when managing a group of people over whom you have no authority? Manage from the side. While heading up a project group - by definition - involves directing individuals who do not report to you, in an increasingly competitive, rapidly changing business world, even in day-to-day management, the conventional approach of issuing orders and delegating down is giving way to a lateral style. where one leads by facilitating - rather than directing - the contributions of others. This how-to article gives 7 great tips for effectively leading non-reports.

What Makes a Good Boss?

According to Rob Sheehan, director of executive education at the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership at the University of Maryland, “Being a good boss is important in any organization, but it’s particularly important for small business.

Internet Surfing in the Workplace

When considering the computer resources available in today's workplace, management has a daunting task ahead of them. They have to determine the best method to protect one of their most valuable resources... the ability to communicate via their network. Whether they are sending an email or updating the companies website, more and more organizations are relying heavily on it's companies infrastructure. Writing clear company policies and choosing the right monitoring software is a step in the right direction to ensuring the line of communication remain open.

Do Your People Skills Match Your Contracting Skills?

How many times have you as a contractor had to bite your tongue? This 'biting of your tongue' and not saying exactly what you're feeling has probably saved your business. How so? Well, put yourself in your customer's boots. If you weren't happy with some job that a contractor had done for you, do you seriously think if they went 'head to toe' with you in an argument trying to convince you that you should be happy with what you ended up with, do you seriously think they would convince you?

Adjust Your Expectations

What do you do when your staff wants part time work but you have full time needs and seasonal needs. Sometimes the wisdom of your staff can help you plan the best situation. Read this short story about a rural CPA firm and how they grew a business with a variety of staffing opportunities.

Role Of Metrics In Decision Making And Management

Information is power. In most cases, information is made up of building blocks of numbers. These numbers, when arranged in a meaningful way, tell a story and that is the information that is useful to businesses as well as individuals. The numbers and the ratios that are used to construct meaningful information is commonly referred to as Metrics. This note is a brief introduction to the role numbers and metrics have come to play in every day life.

Opening a Dollar Store - Creating a Job Description

Are you opening a dollar store? If so take the time early on to develop specific job descriptions for all positions within your business. Investing that upfront time will mean that every employee knows exactly what the job that they are performing consists of.

Management Diets Don't Deliver

Just as most of us know what it really takes to lose weight, most are also aware of what is necessary to manage well. Both things are simple, but they are by no means easy. Much as being healthy requires a lifestyle change and a return to the basics, so does being a good manager.

How to Conduct Benchmarking in TQM Implementation

Is Benchmarking sounds familiar to you? It has been a common terminology whenever organization seeks opportunity for improvement. Or try to do something new. This TQM article is about how the author dealt with Benchmarking in TQM implementation. It highlights what to as well as how to benchmark.

The Steps in Budget Planning

When it comes to budget planning there are several important steps that you need to follow to ensure you create a budget and follow it. Believe it or not but budget planning really is the easy part.

Documentation and Audit - How to Do It in TQM Implementation Project Part 8a CONTROL Phase

This TQM article is Part 8a issue, it is a continuation of Part 7b published on [May 17, 2007 09:47:30 am]. This issue will deal with Documentation and Audit in the CONTROL Phase of the D.I.A.C. Improvement Methodology. This two tools are essential to sustain the improvement effort and the targeted results.

The Importance of a Customer Focused Vision

It takes commitment and an obsession about customers to win business. Over the years, my experiences have taught me that it is simple to create a customer-focused culture, but it certainly isn't easy. If a company gets it right, however, the customers and profits will be easy to attract and keep.

Get 'Em Organized Through Business Card Holders

Who doesn't have a business card? Business cards are the most affordable, portable, and versatile tool for self-marketing. No other medium for exchanging contact information is as readily accepted as the business card. Over the years, the role of business cards in every conceivable industry has only gained more importance. Today, a business card is no longer a means for leaving contact information. It has been turned many times into an ad, a mini-coupon, a brochure, or even a CD-rom presentation. Business cards have become the hip and cheap way to grab attention and keep it.

Getting Fired - Facing the Facts - and a Possible Solution

Your boss called you in and said you are difficult to get along with and are causing problems not only for him but for other people in the office. He says you resist direction and don't take criticism well. And he says you're too critical of everybody else. But you really think he's exaggerating. You think the people around you are more of a problem than you are, but on the other hand, your wife or girlfriend says the same thing about you that your boss does. What do you do?