Business Coaching #1 - Small Steps Coaching

Somebody asked me recently: how come you don't have a 'big' name to project your business and attract people with the grandeur? As it usually goes together, presenting oneself big implies that there will great results.

Change Management and Competition for The Top

There are a lot of change management issues at the top of any corporation and sometimes when there are many divisions with presidents we see all of them are vying for the chairmanship or presidency of the entire multinational conglomerate corporation.

Organizational Change: Mission Impossible?

Many factors such as globalization, technological advances, deregulation, privatization, mergers or acquisitions coupled with a movement of labor-intensive projects to less expensive locations and changing customer demands are forcing organizations to constantly review their purpose, vision and future strategy.

How to Improve the Management Teams Wins for Winning More Business Part 2: Focus on People Skills

Management can create more wins by focusing on developing the people skills necessary to conduct business. With a click of the mouse, your satisfied client can leave to become someone else's satisfied client. Learn why this strategy can deliver more wins for your business management team.

Change is Predictable

In business and in life change is desirable and in many ways predictable. Each decade offers a combination of opportunity & challenge. As you make wise choices, you will develop new stregths, unearth new talents and really enjoy your life.

Who Designed That?

Ask the people in your company in sales, service, and support to tell you what really bothers them the most about the way new products are launched at your company. You may be wasting huge amounts of money in poor sales performance, larger than expected service and support costs, and out of control operations or information technology infrastructure. Get sales, service, operations, and support involved up front in the product planning process and get your business back on track.

Masters Degree In Criminal Justice

Do you feel a need to take an active part in the promotion of peace and order in your community? Or do you simply need to add more excitement and meaning in your career life? Then, take a masters degree in criminal justice and move on to a new chapter in your life of crime solving, law enforcement, and rehabilitation of criminals. These are just a few things you can do with a background on criminal justice.

The Role of Cultural Due Diligence in Business Integration Efforts

Due Diligence is a phrase that has been traditionally used to reflect the analysis activities that occur during merger and acquisition activities. Recently the due diligence process has been extended to include the evaluation of business affiliation and partnership agreements.

Think Big, Start Small

Some of today's flourishing companies started in garages, bedrooms or living rooms. If you think that your small home-based business will stay that way, draw inspiration from some of these entrepreneurs and start thinking big!

Change Management Practices To Directly Impact Your Bottom-Line

Most companies lose 45% to 50% of their customers every five years, winning new customers can be up to 20 times more expensive than retaining existing customers. Organizations need to change to meet new business challenges. They need to know what makes customers loyal. AG can help ask the right questions and devise techniques to obtain the right answers. Here are some Change Management best practices from AG.

Changing Organisational Culture Requires a Change in Leadership

Changing culture is not so difficult. Culture usually only raises its head as topic when results are not what we want and we provide leadership that allows an unsuitable culture to develop. By all means use some tools to help understand and monitor culture, but we must provide a change in leadership to change culture.

Ten Things You Should Focus on to Transform Your Finance Function

Are you dealing with manual processes, inadequate technology and increasing demands from the organization? Need to develop strategies for shared services, outsourcing and performance management?

Consultants And Getting The Most Value Added - When and How to Use Consultants Cost Effectively

As a CEO I struggled long and hard over any decision to use a consultant. There are many issues that need to be managed by the client to keep a consultant from going overboard on time and costs. Too many need too long to get up to speed on your business (on your dime), cost too much and can not provide tangible results on a limited project basis. Too many are unproductive and do things in ten hours that I know I could have done in 2-3 hours as paying by the hour is often a de-motivator while paying by the task aligns the client's and consultant's interests more.

Focus on Learning, Not Training

Nearly every organization I have ever worked for or with has a serious problem with training. They concentrate on training rather than learning. The first indication of a problem is that the mediums chosen to impart learning are the poorest at retaining learning but are the easiest to organise.

Managing Change; Overcoming Organisational Inertia

Organisational inertia is the lack of ability of an organisation to react to external and internal shocks. The inability to react, for example, to a competitor’s dramatic change in prices, or a new government policy or a rapid decline in a country’s gross domestic product, is organisational inertia. To avoid being part of the organisational inertia we need, in those first six weeks of a new role, to do at least two things.