People Issues in Project Management

Project managers are often assigned as proposal managers and asked to plan and put an estimate to arrive at an acceptable proposal during the project proposal stage; and upon winning the project to manage the projects with little or no authority, dictated time frames and deliverables, and essentially told to just get the project done! The reality to remember is that project executions rarely fail due to technical problems but rather because of people problems.

Distribution Leadership - Lead Wolf - Lone Wolf or the Narcissist

CEOs or Presidents, who attain positions of power, reach these positions for a variety of reasons. The reasons are not always a result of competency and hard work; these positions are not always earned. As a result employees find themselves under the rule of various kinds of leaders. Even those leaders that have earned their position can be impossible to work for and it’s difficult to be happy and satisfied doing it. Presidents and CEOs are typically seen as sources of motivation and direction. But what's often overlooked is the fact that they not only motivate their management team but they receive motivation and even direction based on the responses from the employees below them.

Note that Employee's Negative Behavior

When you give your employee feedback, it's important to make note of it for future reference. This is even more important if the feedback was negative.

The Big Wave of After Sales

The After Sales market represents today one of the most promising and attracting sector and emerges today as a great business opportunity. This article provides a very brief introduction to this topic.

Tracking an Employee's Success or Failure

If you have given your employee a deadline for performance improvement, then you have also given yourself deadlines for following up on the status. Letting deadlines slide benefit no one.

Employees - Your Best Resource or Biggest Threat?

Small employers often feel they can afford to be exempt from complying with employment laws because the government has its hands full just with the larger employers. However, employees can easily give the government a reason to look your way.

Six Sigma For The Service Sector

Not just for manufacturing anymore, Six Sigma has begun being used in the service sector. This article gets to the heart of how and why Six Sigma can effectively be used to enhance services offered.

The Leadership Crisis

Todays businesses are experiencing a worrying lack leadership, not only to lead current businesses forward into growth and expansion but to mentor, support and encourage leadership with in the business for the future. Managers will continue to just manage if they do not have positive role models to learn from and aspire to be.

Eliminate the Cost, Hassle and Time Associated With Printing and Distributing Enterprise Reports

This case study explains how report management helps magazine and other industries alike improve their reporting process to be more cost and logistically efficient.

Lean Manufacturing and Value of Retaining People

Lean manufacturing is a system based on people. When people leave an organization the wealth of knowledge that person has can not be transferred completely. Especially the synergies of the teams will be lost.

Metrics for Talented Employees

The rule 80/20 works in HR too, 20% of talented employees will generate you 80% of your income. So how to find, employee and work with talented people?

Passion For Home Business

It might be easy to take the first 3 steps and join a company. The actual work begins after that and sometimes the utmost challenge lies within you.

Project Failures and Project Success

Some organizations and project managers tend to resort to simplistic view when it comes time to judge if the projects they are assigned to manage is a success. The tendency is more due to the most popular success criteria to measure the success from just the triple constraints of CTR or cost, time, and resource performance points of view.

Keeping Employees For The Long Run- Employee Retention

Every year companies spend millions in recruitment due to employee turnover. Turnover and its associated costs are a burden that used to be just the cost of doing business. But more and more companies are investing time and effort in making better hiring decisions and doing more to keep the employees they do hire. Employee retention is now a buzz word in today’s business world.

Running a Business or Managing a Business?

Growth of a business requires people to work on and not simply in the business. It is a very small amount of directors that actually understand what they are meant to do when they are a director.