How to Sell High Tech Solutions
How to Sell to High Tech Solutions Many companies are looking to improve upon the speed, security, and accessibility of business technologies, especially satellite and broadband connections to the internet. While customers are becoming more savvy,...

Organization and the Opposite Sex
In many of the companies I have worked in, there is a very high proportion of male managers to females. This causes a major challenge in the work environment, (although many of them are unaware it is an important issue). The women know that with a...

How to be Healthier and Happier In Your Organisation
Did you know your work environment can actually make you sick? The affects of airconditioning Research has shown that airconditioning can cause allergies, respiratory infections, asthma, fatigue and headaches. And that's just a few things. If you...

Organization Tips - How To Get Things Done
What stops you from 'getting things done?' Have you ever started your day with good intentions of completing a task or project only to find that by the end of the day you've hardly worked on it? Or have you ever set a goal to attend a seminar,...

Organisation - Getting Back To Basics
If you look at any major organisation, there is this trend for executives to use "palm pilots" in conjunction with software schedulers such as Microsoft Outlook. What's really interesting is even with all this technology (and many of these execs...

Organization Tips - How to Organise Your Computer Files
Everytime Mary had to find a file on her computer, she always had great difficulty. And it was no wonder why. Every file had been saved under the folder "Mary" and that was it. There were no other categories. Consequently every time Mary searched...

Organization Tips - How to Set Up Your Database
What's in a Name? Everything. What do you do with all the contacts you make in your organisation? Do you: Collect business cards and throw them in the bottom of your desk drawer hoping one day one of these people will ring and do business with you?...

Surviving the Workday in your Organization
Most people suffer from stress at some time during the day. When you recognise your own peak and low energy levels, you can work with your body clock to maintain high productivity and alertness. It makes sense to tackle the hardest tasks at...

People Are The Heart Of Your Organization
Do you let your people express their thoughts about the roles and responsibilities they have in your organisation? Don't just take it for granted that everything's fine because no one complains. Organisations often spend a fortune on purchasing...

How To Organize Your Paperwork
Many people have a huge challenge coping with the incoming paperwork. (Whatever happened to the paperless office?). Paperwork lands on your desk and somehow finds its way into your in-tray. Eventually the in-tray becomes so high it explodes and...

I Just Lost My Job: How Am I Going To Tell My Kids?
One of the responsibilities of a human resources professional is to let employees know that their job has been eliminated. It is seldom easy to do and often painful for the person who is hearing the news. Just recently, I was involved in...

How Managers Hit PR Paydirt
As a business, non-profit or association manager, you’ll know it’s PR paydirt when you’re able to persuade your key external stakeholders to your way of thinking, then move them to take actions that lead to your department, division or subsidiary’s...

Starting a Small Business: Balancing Risk and Reward
In a perfect world, starting a small business would be risk free, but just as with everything else; the degree of risk determines the value of the reward. According to the National Commission on Entrepreneurship, at any given time, 6% to 9% of the...

Extended Enterprise In The Nesting And Cutting Business
In Italy there are a lot of small and medium enterprises (SME) that often act as subcontractors to bigger firms. For example, most of the Italian shoes come from industrial districts, where the organization heavily relies on subcontracting. Many ...

Web Conferencing: A Boon to Businesss
It is Sunday evening and you are preparing again to go on a business trip. Monday morning the alarm goes off at 4:00 am, you drag your body and your briefcase to your car, drive to the airport, wait in a long line, get on a plane, get off a plane,...

SWOT Analysis
If you’ve ever listened to Warren Buffett talk about investing, you’ve heard him mention the idea of a company’s moat. The moat is a simple way of describing a company’s competitive advantage. A strong competitive advantage, or a wide moat, gives...

7 Top Home Business Time Wasters
What I call "Time Wasters" is any action interfering with running your home based business. What Are The 7 Most Common Time Wasters? Check Out The Following! 1. Email. Email is without a doubt a very important factor in operating your Online...

How To Take The Pain Out Of Performance Reviews
The Painful Approach For many years, "performance management" was of an annual event dreaded by both the management and the workforce. For a week or two every year the manager would virtually isolate himself and ponder the stack of review forms...

The Best PR Has to Offer Managers
How cool is this? You’re a business, non-profit or association manager. You decide to get serious about your public relations and shift the spotlight away from communications tactics. You implement an action blueprint that (1), helps you persuade...

Not Getting the PR Results You Want?
The reason might be this simple: as a business, non-profit or association manager, you’re too focused on communi- cations tactics and not on a workable blueprint for dealing with those important outside audiences whose behaviors most affect your...

Managers: Are You PR-Fit?
Can you honestly say that your business, non-profit or association’s key outside audiences behave in ways that help lead to your success on-the-job? Or, have you pretty much ignored the reality that target audience behaviors can help or hinder you...

Take This Job and...Re-staff It
Deciding to leave a job isn’t easy. In fact, quitting a job requires courage, especially in today’s soft economy when the unemployment rate has reached 6.4%. However, in a tight job market, some people consider leaving their jobs without having...

Developing Multiple Streams of Income for Your Home-Based Business
Many home-based business owners have a single service or product they provide. They may sell e-books or crafts or speech-writing services. Specializing in one area is good for many reasons. For one, it makes marketing easier and helps that business...

10 Secrets of Successful Entrepreneurs
Running a one-person business is a creative, flexible and challenging way to become your own boss and chart your own future. It is about creating a life, as it is about making a living. It takes courage, determination and foresight to decide to...

10 Lessons for Every "Shoestring" Entrepreneur
Starting a business requires adequate capital. However, many entrepreneurs are finding that capital alone is not a guarantee for success. Some businesses start out with millions in the coffers, yet end up in the dumps. While a few businesses with...