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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to hold effective staff meetings
- Many people believe that they conduct effective meetings, when all they really do is host a party. Or worse, they deliver a monologue. In either case, their meetings produce little.Here's how to hold an effective staff meeting.1) In general. Keep them short. Most staff meetings should last less than an hour. You want your staff to spend their time working on things that earn money fo...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Why would anyone hold a bad meeting?
- Pssst, want a stock tip that will make you rich? Okay, here it is: phone a public corporation and ask to speak with the CEO.If a secretary tells you that the CEO expects to be busy in meetings for the next six hundred years, call your broker and sell the stock short. Any company unable to manage an activity that should last an hour is on its way down the financial tubes.Although it's...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Effective meetings - quick survey
- Here's an easy quiz to check the health of your meetings.1) Who leads your meetings? a) No one, b) Everyone, c) A facilitator2) What happens to the ideas in your meetings? a) If we had to think of ideas, it would be work, b) We make fun of them, c) A scribe writes them on a chart pad3) Are results obtained in your meetings? a) We eat all the donuts, b) And we drink all of the ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Employee motivation: it?s more than a paycheck
- Managers often ask, usually with exasperation, "How can I keep my employees motivated? I pay them decently. What else is there?"Offering competitive salaries is certainly important. But a paycheck is what helps people get to sleep at night, not what gets them going in the morning.What keeps them committed to come in on the weekend or stay late or go that extra mile is more ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Employee surveys: a strategic tool for positive change
- Do you want to measure your workers' level of satisfaction? Or change policies and procedures to make them more effective? Or find out if your supervisors are stuck in out-dated ways of managing? Good Idea! But how do you make sure you are getting reliable information to make sound management decisions?When it comes to conducting quality research, a pound of prevention is worth much more th...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Quality hiring: are you doing it right?
- Quality hiring is more than running ads, screening, interviewing and checking references. It is a series of specific procedures that can bring in top candidates or create bottlenecks and inefficiencies. Here are six ways to enhance the entire recruitment process.Select the right sourcing method. While the typical sourcing channels include in-house recruiters, employee refe...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Employee turnover: is it eating up your profits?
- Keeping the cost of doing business down, yet providing a quality product or service, is one of the most critical components of success for today's leader. What many fail to realize is that employee turnover can represent a very substantial price tag to a company's productivity and its bottom line.Turnover is costly ? just how costly? Research studies have shown that the cost of replacing a ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Another use for meetings
- Every meeting is a laboratory where you can observe and learn important things about the people who attend. In fact, you can use meetings to identify people who merit being promoted into leadership positions. Watch for:Is it planned?Effective leaders always begin with clearly defined goals and then prepare plans for achieving them. They have the courage to set a direction and then ma...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Why training fails
- Sometimes when I conduct my workshop on Effective Meetings, one of the participants will ask, "Where's my boss?"And I say, "Your boss claimed to be an expert on holding effective meetings."Then the person laughs. "My boss needs to attend your workshop more than anyone in our company. And without our manager's support, no one will use this."This is bad because if no one uses th...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Interviewing: how to stay out of legal hot water
- Some interviewers ask great questions; others ask dumb questions; and, worst of all, some ask questions that can get them into legal hot water.Every recruiter, hiring manager, executive, and department manager must realize that asking the wrong questions or making improper inquiries can lead to discrimination or wrongful-discharge lawsuits. These suits can be won or lost based on statements...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Recognition: a quick, low-cost way to motivate employees
- Recognizing good performance through praise or other positive action is one of the simplest and most cost-effective ways to motivate people. It provides three major benefits: It lets people know that their performance was valued, and increases the likelihood that they will continue to perform well. It builds confidence so that people are willing to try new things, and develop further ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Change management: avoid havoc in very uncertain times
- Escalating gas prices...tensions and turmoil in the Middle East...a struggling world economy. Leadership, in times of uncertainty, is not that much different from that of 'normal' times. What does differ is the degree to which basic tactics of change management are applied. In times of uncertainty, leaders must pay even more attention to the people issues in change. Here are five ways to av...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Managers? biggest blunders
- Nobody's perfect, including the boss. Managers, we polled recently, acknowledged making a number of mistakes, from not recognizing staff accomplishments to inadequate communication to poor hiring decisions. Here is a sampling.Withholding praise was a problem cited by many: "I didn't give recognition to someone who turned out to be one of my best employees and soon lost her." ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Employee motivation: make everyone a cheerleader for your company
- Do you manage by walking around? What do you see? People excited about their job or people just going through the motions? Here are seven ways, that do not cost much if anything, to turn the "it's just a job" employee into one that is powered up and willing to give their best every day.Spend time out in the field. Ask your employees how you can help make their jobs easier. ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Increase in-house nursing homes collections
- The following nursing home collections report outlines 11 guidelines you can follow to increase the amount of in-house long term care collections your facility collects.1] Have A Defined Long Term Care Collection PolicyOne of the major causes of delinquent nursing home receivables is that the facility has not clearly defined to its residents/responsible parties and business office st...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Bullying and the not for profit organisation
- Where there is people there is politics! Bullying is now a major workplace issue that has invaded our not for profit organisations. Take the following example.Cheryl was the General Manager of a Not for Profit organisation in a major Australian City providing specialist supervision for young adults. She had recently received complaints of intimidation and harassment against a supervisor by ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to prepare for your companys financial future
- Sooner or later, most business owners need to look for outside financing. Whether it's a line of credit with a bank to handle predictable cash crunches or a significant capital investment to improve plant and equipment, virtually every business will need access to additional funds at some point in its life.But the time to start thinking about how to make the best impression with bankers and...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How you can learn to be a better manager
- When you first take over a department, expectations are usually high but operations are sometimes in disarray. The staff is disorganized, goals aren't being met, and hours are spent on unproductive tasks. Just when you think the company would never get on track, the CFO recommends that you learn more about something called operations assessment.Crucial Management Skills Help Avoid Mistakes...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Building trust in your business relationships - 10 steps
- There are some simple things you can do with your people to ensure that they start to trust you. As a letter from Mike Emmott of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development in the UK says, in April 2005's UK Management Today says:-"Our surveys show that only one in four employees trust senior management to look after their interests"Is that not appalling? How on ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Leadership styles - the ten top qualities the best leaders show
- Top leaders...Are Visionary Top leaders have a very clear understanding of where the organisation is going and a clear strategy for getting there.Communicate Really Well Great leaders ensure that their message gets across to all in the organisation - clearly.Are 'People' people Having a love for people helps these top performing lea...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Document management : a dream of paperless office
- What is document management: When we think about "Document Management" we usually see a picture of paperless office. It is not an easy task to make an office paperless due to several existing problems based on Industrial needs. Even it is very much difficult to make a shop paperless using document management. Document management is about to manage the document in such a way so that it can be withi...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Money, motivation, success and who?
- It was 7:30 on a Saturday morning, and I was setting up to do the opening keynote for the conference. For some reason--I have no idea why--the sound man thought his ten year old daughter would enjoy my presentation. He'd brought her with him to work.Watching her father wiring this and plugging in that, the girl was soon as bored as only a ten year old can be. Eventually, she sauntered over ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Planning a productive retreat
- What value is there in leadership or team-building retreats? Just consider the following. An executive committee of an association, deliberating on strategic planning issues, identified "who we are" in terms of their membership. By focusing on the challenges and opportunities represented by certain membership segments, the committee created specific strategic initiatives for t...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - When change is in the wind...heads up!
- In these days of takeovers and mergers, of downsizings and lean management, chances are that you are going to be caught in a job upheaval at least once in your career. Probably more than once!Change in the wind may come like an invigorating breeze on a hot humid night. For instance, your boss is promoted to a new job and you have to get used to reporting to someone new, who turns out to be ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Time management tip: stop micro-managing employees
- If I was a fly on the wall what would I hear your employees say? Would it something like this? "They won't allow me to make even the simplest decisions." "The red tape here makes it very difficult for me to do my job." "Management has to sign off on everything; they don't trust me."A big time waster for managers is micro-managing - paying extreme attention to small ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Smart staffing practices: don?t confuse activity with results
- Does your hiring process consist of proven practices or just a hodgepodge of activities that get into gear when someone says, "I need more people" or "Sally has left and we need someone to take her place NOW?"Smart hiring is more than running ads, screening, interviewing and checking references. It is a series of specific procedures that can work well or create bottlenec...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Hire winners: avoid these 10 interview no-no?s
- Have you ever hired someone who did not live up to expectations? I'm sure many of us have at one time. The purpose of the interview is to obtain good information about an applicant to make a wise selection decision. It may sound simple but then why are there so many poor hires? The reason is that many hiring managers make 10 key interviewing errors that prevent them from hiring the best people....
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The new five truths of employee motivation
- Motivation is a term that is so widely used, yet many managers know little about how it really works. But it doesn't have to be confusing-in fact, it's quite simple. Treat your employees as valuable assets and you will reap the rewards. Here are five truths to pay attention to in motivating your workforce. Most managers think money is the top motivator-but, it's not.Sure c...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Dãƒæ’ã‚â©jãƒæ’ã‚â vu mci to qwest international inc: can this corporate marriage survive?
- Current Situation:As of this writing, the MCI Board of Governors has given Verizon Communications Inc. one week to sweeten their $7.5 billion offer, otherwise they have no choice but to accept Qwest Communications' $9.74 billion offer to purchase MCI Inc. If the Board does not receive a counter offer from Verizon Communications by May 3, 2005, then it will recommend its shareholders vote fo...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The challenges of human resource management
- IntroductionThe role of the Human Resource Manager is evolving with the change in competitive market environment and the realization that Human Resource Management must play a more strategic role in the success of an organization. Organizations that do not put their emphasis on attracting and retaining talents may find themselves in dire consequences, as their competitors may be outplaying ...
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