Some Thoughts About Knowledge Management

What should be your focus when you are to manage knowlegde.

Brainstorming - Don't Cloud Your Mind

Brainstorming is a great way to share ideas, the crazier the better. Just be yourself and let the conversation flow.

How To Deal With Over Bearing Colleagues In The Work Place

I worked for many years in an office environment and would have enjoyed the experience if it was not for a number of over bearing and annoying colleagues. These people seemed to spend the whole day bitching and gossiping about other people which can make life at work very stressful and uncomfortable.

Employee Time Clocks

Employee time clocks, also known as payroll time clock systems, were invented over hundred years ago and play a key role in many businesses. They are designed to assist organizations in keeping track of employee hours for payroll purposes.

Why Good Advice is Hurting Your Productivity and What To Do About It

Although usually given with the best intentions, advice always reflects the needs, experiences, and now science tells us, the thought process, of the giver. More often than not, the needs of giver and receiver don’t match, creating frustration all around. Instead, some well-chosen questions can inspire creative insights that the logical analysis of a problem can’t.

Performance Management

Measurement of actual performance does not only mean knowing what has happened, but also what is likely to happen. It means that deviations are predicted in advance, which helps the management to take corrective action in advance for the achievement of goals. As such, it is desirable to measure performance as soon as the operations are completed. Not only this, it can also be measured while the activity is in progress, so that appraisal would be possible in time.

Performance Appraisal Systems

Performance appraisal is a nine-step process. At the first stage, performance standards are established based on job description and job specification. The standards should be clear, objective and incorporate all the factors. The second stage is to inform these standards to all the employees including appraisers. The third stage is following the instructions given for appraisal measurement of employee performance by the appraisers through observation, interview, records and reports.

10 Tips for Improving Social Intercourse

Ten commonsense tips to help you develop better relationships with your coworkers, your vendors, and your customers.

The Role Of The Business Storyteller

A major role of senior management is to motivate people to reach certain goals. To do that, they must engage their emotions, and the key to their hearts is story.

Effective Email

When is email effective in your small business?

The Apprentice: Learning Lessons From Eccentrics

Recent incarnations of The Apprentice featured some very unusual people. While I’m sure they were chosen to spice up the format, none of them seemed to possess the skills or expertise needed to compete on that level. While the show and more conventional candidates may not have benefited from the antics of these bizarre applicants, serious viewers can certainly profit from their mistakes and eccentricities.

A Proactive Approach to Dealing with Conflict in Organizations

Conflict is inevitable in business and relationships. How you manage it determines its impact on your company, yourself and your employees. The worst thing a company or manager can do is ignore conflict and all too often, that is the strategy being used by many in today's organizations. Learn how NOT to avoid conflict and transform the way you, your team and the organization can develop a healthy and productive relationship with conflict.

Are Your Communication Skills In Line With Your Ambitions?

While this time of year compels us all to make changes in our eating and exercise - code words for changes to our bodies - just think of the effect on our lives if we also spent time making changes to our communication skills. Good communication skills are important in our social and professional lives. This article describes those skills and encourages you to make them a part of your tool kit for success.

Work Place Communication for Air Traffic Controllers

Believe it or not many business executives do not feel that workplace communication is an important thing to consider or concentrate on in their businesses. However, for these executives who do not believe that workplace communication adds the incredible synergy

Employee Attitude Surveys

Employee surveys are an ideal way to understand the feelings of employees. They help to feel the pulse of the employees, which can determine the cause of several problems like high absenteeism, high turnover, organizational conflict, disputes, and high employee dissatisfaction. These, in turn, would help to determine the steps that have to be undertaken to reduce the incidence of such issues, as well as to improve employee morale and productivity.