Training and Development - Employee Retooling is Critical to Long-Term Success

We all know the importance of training and developing our staff. It keeps team members motivated, generating increased productivity. They eagerly use their skills to the benefit of the business. So why is it that we continue to take short-cuts with training?

World-Clock - What Time Is In Japan Now?

Running international business is a hard task as you might be here, and your partners might be thousand miles away. I'm sure before calling someone, you spend few minutes trying to calculate what time is now there?! I guess you need some good world-clock.

Electronic Document Management (EDM) - Steps Towards Better Workflow

With the electronic mail revolution and with computerisation in general, business communications have undergone massive changes in recent years. Traditional corporate communication methods have been downgraded in terms of importance for day-to-day business communications. But with the changes have come some fresh challenges. Here Jimi St. Pierre highlights two of these, and the solutions provided by EDM.

Management - How to Be a Great Manager

How would you like to be a great manager? One who got things done and didn't have to worry about all the fluff? You can ... read on and see how one man delivered stellar results and you can too!

Training Needs Analysis (TNA) - The Use Of Online Surveys In The Training Needs Analysis Process

A well constructed staff skills audit and training needs analysis process will assist with training vendor selection and budgeting, help improve employee retention levels, and help to significantly improve overall staff satisfaction.

Being Businesslike With Business Debt Collection

One of the big mistakes many businesses make when collecting business debts is not having a clear policy and timetable for dealing with debtors

How to Get Other People to Follow You

Learn all about how you can improve your leadership and get others to follow you.

The Debt Collection Act Dos And Don'ts

The debt collection act is a federal law and is concerned with regulating the practises of those who regularly collect debt on behalf of others. It is now common and has been adopted in many States.

Being a Christian in Business

Being a Christian in Business To listen to some Christians anyone would think that business is something of a lower calling compared to other pursuits. In reality, the Bible has heaps to say about business – much of it positive. I remember sitting down to lunch with a famous evangelist a few years ago and asking him how he managed to afford to hold such huge crusades in poor, third world nations. I'll never forget his reply...

Career Advice - The Secret Key To Motivation

The ability to get things done through other people is the greatest skill you need to become a successful manager. Achieving this capability is easier said that done. However, there is secret key that successful organizations and managers use to open the door to motivation.

Roles, Power And Uniform

It's not the uniform that matters, but the context in which it is worn. And the same is true for our mental uniforms, the roles we adopt in our working lives. Dr Leandro Herrero says leaders must create environments where power is exercised appropriately and for the common good.

Benchmarking Deviance

Conventional wisdom says that organizations need rules, systems and standard operating procedures. But instead of punishing those who don't conform, managers should try to capitalize on the potential for change offered by deviance.

Innovation - The Bright Light in the Night Sky

When innovation shifts the mindset of an industry, those companies designed to construct and distribute the older model are typically averse to adopting the new shift. This aversion allows new players into the industry often times leaving the industry leader under the old mindset, lost, scrambling, or simply, trying to figure out what happened!

Opening a Dollar Store - Excess Inventory Costs Money

Are you considering opening a dollar store? Then begin by establishing rules about receiving and the placement of merchandise into back room excess stock areas. If there happens to be excess merchandise find a place to store and display that merchandise on the sales floor so that there is a chance for it to sell.