Employee Engagement - Competence Trust and Confidence Trust - Why Leaders Need Both

Employee engagement leads to reduced turnover, higher customer loyalty and increased profitability. Trust is the foundation of employee engagement. What is trust and how can both managers and employees demonstrate it?

Is One Of Your Employees Holding You Hostage?

Best-selling author discusses the impact of overlooking negative behavior of top-perfomers in companies.

How to Successfully Offer Rebates and Incentives

When it comes to offering rebates and incentives, a company can end up losing money as opposed to generating more interest in their business or product if they do not find the correct and most successful offers to make available to their clients or potential customers. Rebates and incentives are traditionally a good approach, but it is important to make sure that they are accessibly and influential in the life of the average consumer. There are many companies that offer, for example, rebates to their customers when they purchase a particular item or product. In some cases the rebates are instant savings, but in other they are offers that need to be mailed in to the manufacturer.

Open a Dollar Store - Empower Your Employees

A great deal of time and money is spent on locating, interviewing, hiring, and training employees when you open a dollar store. One of the ways to minimize the ongoing expense is to retain employees who are performing well. In addition to the savings associated with the staffing process, there is also a savings in the costs associated with training. Finally, employees who are trained and performing contribute much more than new employees who are struggling to learn their jobs and become assimilated into the organization.

Push or Pulling Too Hard? Don't Use Up All Your Energy Trying to Have Employees Follow Your Rules!

Many small business computer consulting companies share a familiar headache and frustration-- how do you motivate or have employees follow the rules of your company? Employees can be using your firm as a stepping stone to something bigger, a place to get their feet wet. They are not there for the long run or to win the longest serving employee award. It is time to stop dreaming that you will have employees that will be with you forever. It just isn't going to happen.

The Real Secret Of Success In Business

Are you struggling with something in your business life? Try being the same person at the office as you are at home, at the game, with your family: there's an ease and honesty to that that will make your business life so much better!

Social Distancing is the Key to Minimising Bird Flu Infection in Your Business

Social Distancing is a new term we are hearing more and more as businesses start to gear up their plans for a Bird Flu pandemic. Learn what it means and what you can do to minimise the chance of bringing infection into your workplace.

Maximize Teamwork and Project Data Management with Online Collaboration Suite

Provides comprehensive information on collaboration suite and features to look in for in online collaboration suite. Also offers tips for buying the right collaboration suite for your business.

Treat Employees Like Dogs To Boost Loyalty

We Americans love pets, especially when it comes to dogs. You might be wondering how treating employees like dogs is going to have anything but a negative effect on your business. But I suggest just the opposite is true.

Profit Covers Many Sins - Ten Principles for Success in 2007

Profit Covers Many Sins - Ten principles that can help us maintain our focus, uncover some of those sins that may have been covered by profitability in 2006 and create the kind of success in 2007 that you can be proud of:

Three Characteristics Of Leadership - Competence, Consistency, And Character

Indeed, how does one stay on top and continue to have people follow years and years in the business world? 1. Competence There is no substitution for the ability to perform.

The Difference Between Moving Bolts and Moving People

Those who attempt to apply mechanical principals to managing and motivating people will find that the laws of physics seldom apply to influencing human decision making.

Why Businesses Succeed!

How does a small company become successful? It's such a provocative question that it prompted me to do some research. Despite the bad news we so often hear about businesses closing or moving, I found some encouraging news. After interviewing and working with many small companies, common trends began to emerge regarding what they did to be successful. There are a total of fourteen principles and the successful companies implement most, of not all of these principles: attitude, sales, business strategy, marketing, information technology, risk taking, process improvement, company culture, work-life balance, customer service, finance and budget, general advice, discipline and training.