The Case for Business Coaching: How It Can Improve Your Performance, Productivity, and Profitability

Although once considered a perk reserved exclusively for senior executives at multinational corporations, today coaches are just as likely to be found at entrepreneurial start-ups and small businesses. Leadership is a particular concern for the small business owner or entrepreneur. It can be quite difficult to go from being the “content expert” (the one who creates the product or service) to the “person in charge of the company.”

Increasing Business Productivity in Your Small Business

What is the best way to increase business productivity? Well there is no exact answer but it pays to understand your team. Larger corporations consider piping music into the offices, adjusting the temperature, having coffee available or adjusting the lighting. All these things work and much research has been done on this subject over the years. Millions have been spent on psychological studies on the subject of increasing business productivity.

Scalable Processes

Sometimes we will develop a process that appears to be a good one, and over time we discover that it does not work as our business changes. It is important to examine how the process will work in both a large and small scale environment.

Work-Life Balance - Working Smart is Working Right

Staying late at work has developed into a culture in today's working society. However, people who stay long past office hours should not necessarily be construed as hardworking and driven because they may not be that productive after all. Companies should be educated properly to eradicate this worthless culture that we are following. It should be realised that working smart is working right.

Swing Into Spring

Are you ready for a new season in your business? It's that time of year when a confluence of events occur. We have the fever of March Madness combined with the eternal hope of Spring Training. This is the time to step up to the plate. To get in the game. Make March count. Create March Madness in your business. Use this Spring Training to prepare for a GREAT Season.

Do You Remind 'Em Before You Remove 'Em?

In my years as both an employee, and later, a business owner, I've observed actions that have created negativity among employees, and as a result, I have learned the keys to building an environment of trust.

Managing Energy In The Workplace

A typical day at the office can make excessive demands on energy, resulting in afternoon brain drain and poor performance. These guidelines help you manage your energy throughout the day at the office and give a few boosters for those special moments.

Project Management - Tips For Helping You Adopt A Process

This article is not a detailed overview of a formal process. Instead it provides an overview of the most critical components common to each, as well as some tips on successfully deploying them. Although many process descriptions do an excellent job of breaking down the various components of the process they rarely cover areas like how this affects your team, how much process to use or offer practical advice on issues encountered in the real world when trying to deploy one.

Grow Your Summer Delight With Care

Well, one is usually aware of the health benefits watermelon has to offer. But producing a good watermelon is not as easy as it seems. It requires a lot of care and attention to grow and harvest watermelon.

The Role of Organizational Design in 21st Century Organizations

How we understand organizational design is in the midst of radical change. Just as the industrial revolution in England and the Unites States changed predominantly agricultural societies to urban societies forever, so is the availability of knowledge markets changing the industrial landscape. History supports the lure of industry pulling large population groups away from farming. Industry made the growth of cities possible. The role of organizational design in contemporary 21st century corporations is to streamline and simplify vertical and linear structure. Traditional lines of supervision tend to create walls or silos, which block free movement of knowledge and block bilateral relationships. In this century, a worker enjoying the sun in Luxemburg City Park may have a work partner in Tokyo. Instant global communications means they can work seamlessly, together, a world apart.

Mentoring: A Key Strategy For Organizational and Professional Success

In this fast paced, high stress, highly competitive marketplace, individuals and organizations are looking for avenues to increase productivity and decrease stress. As technology and information overwhelms us, we often need to go back to basic answers to solve our most complex issues. Mentoring is one of the basic foundations that can address both the individual and organizational needs of our time.

You'll Never Get Stuck In Email Traffic Again

Master Your Inbox was created out of the understanding that the vast majority of the people at the workplace are getting more emails than they can handle. We belief that Outlook is the most neglected software on the planet, because nobody invest the time to learn it properly. The result is that the people are frustrated, permanently distracted by email and literally held hostage by their inbox.

Will The Cardscan Executive Save You Time or Make Your Life A Hassle?

Can a business card scanner really make your life or will it just take up more of you precious time? In this article we will look at the Cardscan Executive to see if will...

The Power of Pause - Improving Communication By Not Communicating

In this noisy world of extroverted personalities, there sure is a lot of talking going on. We filter thousands of words each day and studies show only about ten percent of what we hear actually sinks in. The rest becomes white noise. In communicating at work, there are times when pausing can be more strategic than talking.

A Case Study of Lincoln Electric

Explore how Lincoln Electric's Incentive Management System motivates consistent employee behavior and efficiency.