Delegation with Confidence - Five Essential Steps

The effective manager is one who understands his or her limitations and has confidence in both their ability to delegate and their subordinates. There are five steps that insure that the delegation process will yield the best results for the manager and the recipient of delegated tasks.

At Work With Employment Laws

Imagine having to wade through the complexities and multitude of employment laws that exist today. It is not a choice for employers but a legal obligation yet most employers particularly small businesses do not have a firm grasp on the one area that can actually have a significant impact upon their bottom line.

What's in Your Culture?

Many managers unwittingly breed a culture of fear, distrust and disloyalty which results in inferior performance. There are simple steps one can take to guard against a climate of fear while creating a climate of success.

Creative Thinking - A Powerful Tool To Sustain Organisational Success

Creative thinking skills are critical to survive and grow your business. In the present world is flat situation, your employees need to think differently so that you can continue to create new ideas and products.

People Issues in Project Management

Project managers are often assigned as proposal managers and asked to plan and put an estimate to arrive at an acceptable proposal during the project proposal stage; and upon winning the project to manage the projects with little or no authority, dictated time frames and deliverables, and essentially told to just get the project done! The reality to remember is that project executions rarely fail due to technical problems but rather because of people problems.

Distribution Leadership - Lead Wolf - Lone Wolf or the Narcissist

CEOs or Presidents, who attain positions of power, reach these positions for a variety of reasons. The reasons are not always a result of competency and hard work; these positions are not always earned. As a result employees find themselves under the rule of various kinds of leaders. Even those leaders that have earned their position can be impossible to work for and it’s difficult to be happy and satisfied doing it. Presidents and CEOs are typically seen as sources of motivation and direction. But what's often overlooked is the fact that they not only motivate their management team but they receive motivation and even direction based on the responses from the employees below them.

Human Capital White Paper

Human capital is just one of an organisation's intangible assets. It is basically all of the competencies and commitment of the people within an organisation i.e. their skills, experience, potential and capacity.

Supply Chain Risk Management: An Introduction

Risk management concepts have been around for several years since now, but they have generally been bounded to the financial or safety area. Today, the supply chain is where risk management is assuming a critical role, since it is where risk becomes most damaging for a company. Despite this, supply chain managers have so far kept on striving their efforts on efficiency gains, responding to the cost squeeze at the expense of increasing the risk of disruptions. This article provides a brief overview of some basic concepts related to Supply Chain Risk Managment (SCRM).

Cutting Costs With Six Sigma

Six Sigma is rarely thought of as a method to cut costs. This article shows you how Six Sigma has evolved into an effective cost-cutting tool.

Eliminate the Cost, Hassle and Time Associated With Printing and Distributing Enterprise Reports

This case study explains how report management helps magazine and other industries alike improve their reporting process to be more cost and logistically efficient.

The Mindset of Successful Doctors

A synopsis of the attitudes and actions in todays Chiropractic and Medical Practices that are absolutely essential to success and prosperity.

Essential Startup Business Questions... Failing To Plan is Planning to Fail

Failure to answer a few important questions might doom your business before it even gets started.

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.