The Corporate Dinner - A Window Into Corporate Culture

Over the years, I guess I've attended thousands of corporate get togethers over dinner. I have, either as an out-of-towner or hosting out-of-towners attending a conference or workshop, observed the behaviour of individuals and teams at dinner and how they reflect the corporate culture. There are five corporate cultures which I have identified with behaviours at dinner.

NASCAR's Sonic Boom

You sure you didn't hear the sound of that sonic shift? Not only has NASCAR broken free from its roots of backwoods southern bootleggers, they are setting the trend for sports to follow as the fastest growing spectator sport in America. In fact, they are demonstrating to American business, how to run a business.

Two Prospects, Two Drinks and Two Easy Decisions

While enjoying a little R&R at the Rio in Las Vegas I watched as a woman showed up for a job interview to be a dealer in the poker room at the Rio. She spoke well, was dressed properly and had years of experience as a dealer; however, it was her one accessory that made the interviewer fold that job interview faster than a 7/2 off-suit: Her drink.

Time Management 101 - Plan Your Week

Being a manager is not an easy job. There is a lot to it. There is never enough time in the day to get everything done. However, to achieve success, you must address the most important things first. Then the other things will fall into place.

Are Meetings Killing Your Business?

Too often in my many years toiling in the Corporate world I had to sit through poorly facilitated meetings that started late, ended late and had no clear stated purpose.

5 Ways To Improve Workplace Morale

Increased turnovers, costly decreases in productivity and overall employee dissatisfaction are all ramifications of low morale in the workplace. Moral is a vital component of any organization or business for it to thrive and achieve success.

How To Offer Wholesale Promotional Products To Benefit Your Company

There are a number of different businesses that may want to successfully offer promotional products to their clients of consumers in order to increase consumer loyalty or word of mouth about the company. However, some business owners may be afraid of the cost of this type of investment and they may worry that they will not be able to make up for the overhead that providing these types of materials to the clients and consumers in a way that would make them beneficial in the long run.

14 Tips to Make Performance Feedback A Critical Part of Employee Growth

Want to increase productivity, profits and morale in your workplace? Need a process to get the best out of every employee working for you? Follow the advice offered in this article and all these things can and will transform your workplace.

Maximize Teamwork and Project Data Management with Online Collaboration Suite

Provides comprehensive information on collaboration suite and features to look in for in online collaboration suite. Also offers tips for buying the right collaboration suite for your business.

Six Sigma And Finance

Six Sigma can be described as a set of management initiatives that aim at reducing defects by improving the efficiency of existing business processes. The only problem is that the success of Six Sigma initiatives depends on the level of support provided by all the functional departments in an organization.

Six Sigma Tools For Process Control

For ensuring the success of Six Sigma implementation projects, businesses will have to rely on the services of Six Sigma professionals such as Black Belts, and on the correct use of different types of Six Sigma statistical tools and techniques.

How To Become a Good Business Leader

A business leader will develop a clear mission statement and vision for the business and communicate them effectively to all stakeholders. This action will enable the leader to pursue an organizational culture that is centered on being the best - but other aspects of being a good business leader must be considered.

What Lifestyle Entrepreneurs Never Do - About Time Management

Lifestyle Entrepreneurs understand that everything is about balance. This also applies to the way they manage their time for work. Understanding some basic principles helps you to get much more out of the time available to you. I decided to publish a short article about this, originally written for my associates who experienced challenges in this area.

Tracking Time Was Never So Easy

We are into the glooming 21st Century and are slowly moving from paper pads to notepads in every segment in various industries. What we used to do using papers, like writing accounts using pen and paper, maintaining employee records in registers etc are done using computers.

How Do You Know It's Time To Fire A Client?

As a business owner, you're no longer sitting in your too-small cubicle waiting to be called to HR for yet another downsizing in yet another company. No more being told when you can take lunch, make a personal call or, heavens forbid, go to the bathroom. Owning your own business comes with lots of perks. One of them that is frequently overlooked however is that you now have the ability to fire a client.