Including a Corporate Chaplain to Your Toolbox

Every Christian CEO or business owner needs a tool box to use as he or she leads their company for Jesus Christ. Some of these tools may be bibles, tracts, booklets, cards, grief kits, or character training materials. I believe that one of the primary tools that are needed in every CEO's tool box is a corporate chaplain program.

Executive Skills - 7 Critical Upgrades for Personal and Professional Use

These are tricky times for the executive suite. Results are expected in compressed time frames and the forces impacting performance more subtle than they seem. The situation calls for a tune up. The only challenge will be the receptivity to learn.

How Best To Eliminate Back Pain At The Office

Sustained and long periods of sitting still at our desks are not good for our backs - this is obvious: but how best to reduce the risks of backache and related stress? Getting up to stretch and walk around at regular interval makes very good sense, but many of us simply do not do it-

Managing Between The Process and The Output

One of the main roles of a judge in a trial is to defend the (fair) process. The judge has only a minor influence in the outcome (or result) of every trial... Business management is much more output driven. This is because people know WHAT they want and this knowledge is a bases to guide the management process. Specification of the output is the main ingredient in project management, but also for operational management. Yet it is not always clear how this output should look like. Then What (or How)?

Confrontation Can Be Positive

Think confrontation is always negative? Think again. Learn how to approach confrontation and come out a winner!

Be A Coach-Mentor - Develop Your People to Their Full Potential

The rapidly changing pace of technology requires that your people continue to learn and grow or be left behind. Smart leaders and managers know that it is important to build and maintain the value of their greatest resource - their people. It's difficult to develop the potential of your people if you have not ascertained their existing skills, knowledge, and abilities - in other words, their competencies.

Accountant To Leader

Accountants are amongst the most talented people either working for or providing services to businesses. They have huge potential yet so often never fully exploit it. Why is that?

Recruitment and Selection

One of the most important decisions facing any organisation is recruiting the right people. Some organisations appear to be highly effective while others struggle. So how can you improve in this area?

Do-It-Yourself Workforce Development - When to Ask for Help

We have become a do-it-yourself obsessed society. You can't surf past more than five channels on any cable TV provider without some expert showing us how easy it is to remodel our home, landscape our backyard, or prepare a gourmet meal in less than 30 minutes. Many organizations try to raise that concept from the personal level to their workforce and discover it may not be as easy as it sounds. This article will help you decide when to ask for help and when to do-it-yourself.

Opening A Dollar Store - Merchandise Handling Equipment

Are you opening a dollar store? If your plans include a larger or a higher volume store, then think about merchandise handling and storage before you open your store. Pre-plan so that all of the equipment is in place and ready to use prior to opening. Pre-plan so that the right amount of space has been delegated to back room storage. Insure that back stock storage shelves have been installed prior to the excess inventory arriving.

Managing Reality - Learning to Love Our Mistakes

Too often I see and hear the impact of leaders not managing what lies in front of them. Rather, they manage what they would like to see or imagine is there. The consequence is usually underperformance. Characteristics accompanying it include crisis management, poor and late decision making.

How To Demonstrate That Your Employee Communication Strategies Really Do Engage Employees

One of the most important aspects of employee communication today is measurement. But so much of that measurement is whether employees access the tools to communicate with them. None of these questions prove that your employee communication tools measure engagement. There is one key reason; you are measuring the acceptance of communication tools, not measuring employee communication strategy. So here's what you do.

Asset Management - Key Part of Business Management

Fixed asset management is one of the important areas of management of a manufacturing enterprise. The profits and long term strategy of the business can be significantly influenced by asset management.