Organizational Articles

Business » Management » Organizational | By Art Gib @ Friday, 16th May 2008 @ 10:46 AM

Corporate life is often compared to a big game. It's a game of wits, dedication and of course the use of all of your assets put together, in a fine well-oiled machine. Often, corporate execs and staff feel that to consolidate team leadership and ownership of responsibilities, an exercise of minds between workers in a new environment in a team building element is called for. Scavenger hunting is being used for such an occasion as this type of event has proven pretty interesting for a number ... more...

Business » Management » Organizational | By Acey Gaspard @ Friday, 25th April 2008 @ 8:33 PM

Getting your most important tasks completed is not always the easiest thing to do. You may even be putting off important tasks for the unexpected issues that pop up in front of you during the day. It's hard to stay on track, especially on demanding days. You may have more tasks for the next day and feel guilty because you didn't complete all your work today. Then you start the next day with a sense of being overwhelmed rather than starting the day fresh and energetic. Jan... more...

Business » Management » Organizational | By Bea Fields @ Thursday, 24th April 2008 @ 5:41 AM

We are at a very important time in history. Over the next five years, approximately 62 million Baby Boomers, who have helped form our business world for the last 20 years will be retiring. As they exit out of the workforce approximately 40 million Gen X, born between 1965 and 1977, and 72 million Generation Y, born after 1977 will fill their shoes. In this day and age, our businesses cannot thrive without young talent. And, if our businesses are not thriving, the economy will become more an... more...

Business » Management » Organizational | By Melissa Vokoun @ Thursday, 17th April 2008 @ 10:55 PM

The old maxims "if you want something done right, do it yourself," don't address the busy manager with assignments and deadlines facing them everyday. Many managers find themselves limited simply by the hours in a day to meet the many demands confronting them. Giving up control and authority is a challenge that many managers fear more than working twelve hours a day six days a week. But the effective manager is one who understands their limitations and has confidence in b... more...

Business » Management » Organizational | By Melissa Vokoun @ Thursday, 17th April 2008 @ 10:13 PM

The value of work groups to accomplish complex projects achieve company goals is now widely accepted. Few would argue that teams are the best way to approach both short and long term projects. But who should make up these teams to maximize their effectiveness? Putting together a winning team is like orchestrating a piece of music and it doesn't happen by chance. It requires a great deal of information, careful thought, and sound resource management. The first step in cons... more...

Business » Management » Organizational | By Thomas Lavin @ Friday, 11th April 2008 @ 8:54 AM

In order to run a successful online home based business, you need to create a simple work-at-home schedule that allows you the opportunity to get all your work done each day. Even though you work from home, you still need to be productive in order to earn a living. If you are the type who procrastinates, then you may want to reconsider working from home opportunities. Those who are able to motivate themselves usually are successful. But this does not mean that people who lack self motiva... more...

Business » Management » Organizational | By Moe Tamani @ Saturday, 5th April 2008 @ 1:34 AM

Even the smartest or the most proficient businessman cannot be an expert in everything. He may be good in one or two business functions, but for all others, he may require the specialization of somebody else. It's the same thing if you're talking about getting your website optimized. You can perhaps only count with your fingers those business owners who are also knowledgeable about search engine optimization and their technical roles in the business. After all, what they'r... more...

Business » Management » Organizational | By Martice E Nicks Jr @ Thursday, 3rd April 2008 @ 8:07 PM

So you want to improve your sales team's performance. There are so many places to try and squeeze additional performance improvements out of your team. The question is...where do you start? Do you start with better tools like Sales Force Automation (SFA) or Customer Relationship Management (CRM)? Maybe implementing opportunity, account, and territory management methodologies would work. How about improving sales skills? You could train them in value/relationship/consultative/c... more...

Business » Management » Organizational | By Stewart Baker @ Wednesday, 2nd April 2008 @ 8:43 PM

The decision to lease your employees is not quite as simple as deciding whether to lease or buy a car, or rent or buy a home. However there are some basic fundamental similarities. Ultimately the decision requires you to weight the costs and benefits of each, and leasing PEO is not for everyone. For some employers their business operations do not warrant a leasing PEO, others could benefit greatly. Just like choosing to buy or rent a home, you have to assess your personal needs and the needs... more...

Business » Management » Organizational | By Martice E Nicks Jr @ Monday, 24th March 2008 @ 7:56 AM

I met with a prospect the other day and he asked me "What do high performance managers do differently than average managers?" I paused for a moment, scanned the long list of behaviors in my mind; distilled my answer down to the critical few things and told my prospect... High performance managers: * clarify their understanding of their roles and responsibilities * set non-conflicting short and long term priorities * use a logical, transparent and du... more...

Business » Management » Organizational | By Martice E Nicks Jr @ Monday, 24th March 2008 @ 7:55 AM

I spent a number of years as a consulting nuclear chemist and radiation protection specialist at commercial nuclear power plants. Which means I love physics! I've always been baffled by the concept of managing time, because from a physics perspective time can't be managed. The proof is obvious when we consider... it's impossible to manage our time so effectively that we get 25 hours in a day, nor is it possible to manage our time so poorly that we only get 23 hours in a day... more...

Business » Management » Organizational | By Paula Switzer @ Friday, 28th December 2007 @ 11:49 PM

How do you handle the differences in style among your employees? Do you wonder how to motivate someone who seems not to care? Are you dismayed when your management style seems to work with a few beautifully, but misses the mark with others? First, you must come to grips with a rather tough realization: you really cannot motivate another person. Perhaps you can cause them to get motivated for the short term ("If you are late one more time, you are fired!"), but we all know the moti... more...

Business » Management » Organizational | By Saleem Rana @ Tuesday, 18th December 2007 @ 9:15 AM

Many entrepreneurs have given up setting statement of professional goals because they are convinced that such resolutions simply do not work. This may reflect a larger problem, mainly not knowing how to set and reach goals. Achieving income goals is one of the most important things in life. Just because you may have encountered some failures does not mean that you should stop setting concrete goals. To achieve goals, there are guidelines which can be followed. While following them does n... more...

Business » Management » Organizational | By Jim Brown @ Friday, 7th December 2007 @ 3:18 AM

People may come and go in a particular company. Others may stay long and loyal even up to the point of retirement while others leave early on or in a couple of years for certain reasons. Such reasons could either be being offered a better paying job someplace else, deciding to pursue further studies, getting bored with the existing job or basically losing the motivation and drive to stay with the current employer. Employees are motivated to work by several factors. Of course, the financia... more...

Business » Management » Organizational | By Donald Mitchell @ Tuesday, 4th December 2007 @ 5:48 PM

Many people look only to gain 5 or 10 percent higher performance. When they focus on such small opportunities, vastly bigger profit sources will often be ignored. Based on working with executives around the world, I've come to realize that seeking breakthroughs needs to balance incremental improvements. By a breakthrough, I mean a 2,000 percent solution, any method of accomplishing what your organization does now with zero-to-four percent of the current time and resources, or acc... more...

Business » Management » Organizational | By john mce @ Sunday, 18th November 2007 @ 12:40 PM

Confused by the types of finance available to your business? Want to expand your operations but don't have the liquid capital available to invest in things like equipment? If so a leasing agreement could be right for your business. How does it work? Essentially all leasing agreements work on the principle of renting an asset from a third party, usually a financial institution, for a fixed period. This type of contract is typically referred to as a lease. Leasing plays a... more...

Business » Management » Organizational | By Robert Bylett @ Thursday, 15th November 2007 @ 11:02 PM

You can't tell if you're winning if you don't keep score! Food industry performance indicators simply help you work out how well your business is doing. Performance indicators are simply financial and non-financial metrics used to express the performance of a business based on the goals and objectives it has set for itself. Let's take a school for example. One performance indicator may be the failure rate of its students. This rate will show whether or not th... more...

Business » Management » Organizational | By Martin Haworth @ Monday, 5th November 2007 @ 11:12 AM

Taking the time to build a succession planning strategy doesn't take that long, so here are a few ideas that will get you started. Instances where key positions may become suddenly a gap in your business include, in the most severe case, death, sudden transfers, domestic emergencies, sudden resignations and more. For this you need to be ready well beforehand with a plan in place to make good the shortfall really quickly. And another reason for getting your succession plan proc... more...

Business » Management » Organizational | By Obinna Heche @ Sunday, 28th October 2007 @ 7:29 PM

When it comes right down to it, most people who have a home business are working for themselves for many reasons. They probably love what they do, they have a passion for it and the idea of working from home is also something that they can do because it allows them to be at home, to take the time off that they need and to be in complete control over their lives. However, there might be a point in which you, no matter how you feel about the reasons you are working from home, get frustrated and wa... more...

Business » Management » Organizational | By Hugh Roberts @ Wednesday, 10th October 2007 @ 6:57 PM

I have always thought that picking out upscale office design is sort of an art. It is much more difficult than picking out dining room design or other home design. You see, most people don't spend very long on any of the chairs in their house. They will sit down for a meal, hang out on the recliner in front of the TV for an hour, and that's it. By contrast, you spend hours and hours in your office. A typical executive might be sitting still for 40 hours or more every week in his office... more...