5 Best Practices for Retaining Your Best Talent

Because employees now know they are potential free agents, they are looking for the best package, not just more money. Who are the people you would hate to lose? It's time to use these five best practices for retaining your top talent so they aren't as eager to see if the money is greener on the other side of the fence.

How to Gain Business Management Success through the Law of Karma

A brief review of Karma and how to apply the law of Karma to successfully managing your business and dealing with customers... The idea of Karma is nothing new. It has even played a special role in the social life of people. Karma has often been described as a negative energy that will ultimately attach to anyone who has done wrong to his fellow beings. It is, however, a misunderstood concept.

Down & Out- Federal Workforce Impacts - Nu Leadership Series

Examine the federal workforce and downsizing impacts. Nu Leadership is a column that explores the changing workforce and social environment as it relates to leadership development.

Measure and Control Human Resources Performance

Any business involve management and control of resources. Human resources are the most valuable part of your business, learn how to measure and control the performance of HR department.

Change Management - 4 Steps to Effectively Manage Change

The most important ingredients to successfully manage change in an organization are: executive sponsorship, effective communication, and accountability. All of these are direct responsibilities of management. Thus, unsuccessful change initiatives are most frequently caused by poor management performance.

Telecom Expense Management Defeats Billing Errors

Telecom billing errors can amount to many thousands of dollars at large corporations.

The Invasion

This subject pertains to the traveling team that invades offices or businesses that are not living up to expectations. The dreaded moment when corporate sends in their team of so called experts to FIX the problems. I have repeatedly seen these so called teams of experts come into locations only to leave it worse then it was when they arrived.

Can a Husband and Wife be in Business Together?

Millions of small businesses are run by husband and wife teams. If you are in this group, this article is directed at you.

What is ACH?

An overview of ACH (Automated Clearing House) and how electronic funding can save your business money.

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.

What are Your Employees Doing Behind Your Back?

It is your role, as a supervisor, to actually supervise your direct reports. The easiest way to do this is with frequent, productive communications.

It's Official, the Employee's Eyes Have It Now

When discussions with your employee haven't netted the results you want, it's time to start making it clearer by recapping the discussion in writing. This protects you, but it's also a great way to ensure the employee understands the issues.

Human Capital White Paper

Human capital is just one of an organisation's intangible assets. It is basically all of the competencies and commitment of the people within an organisation i.e. their skills, experience, potential and capacity.

Best Practice Guide To Project Success

As a project sponsor how can you improve your project success rates. Here are 25 practical ways in which you can improve your rates of project success.

Performance Improvement Countdown - 90, 89, 88...

It's a serious decision, but sometimes putting your employee on probation is the only way you can force performance improvement. Probation is often the employee's last chance and it needs to be handled well.