How Long Are You Going To Put Up With It?

These days we're meeting a lot of people with a particularly frustrating problem: their business is in a constant state of crisis. We're talking about when making the numbers always turns into a frantic sprint to the finish - and you have no real time to recover before you're in the middle of the next sprint. What can you do about this?

Habla Espanol?

How much would you pay to find your next manager or future franchisee? Companies routinely spend thousands of dollars to find applicants outside their company. Why not spend a bit of time and money to provide current employees the necessary skills? For many employees, it begins with learning the English language.

Do not play the game of blame and shame

“Blame your parents when you have no food and blame the government when your business is bad.” Such wrong attitude provides a bad start to solving your problems. Shame and blame are not justifiable. Take responsibility.

Human Resource Courses and Trainings

There are significant points to remember in filling out entry-level jobs. Employers look for employees who may have majored in Human Resource courses.

Setting a Goal to Overcome Organisational Inertia

Organisational inertia is like a cancer. It eats at personal ambition and genuine creativity. At first, it limits progress in organisations which eventually descend into a dysfunctional morass to be reorganised, down-sized or right-sized. In some cases, organisations do not survive.

But No One Else Is Doing It!

Does your company foster creativity? Or does it go about business every day mocking change?

Your Low Cost Competitors Want To Eat Your Lunch

Your low cost competitors will not just nibble at your low price segment, they want to eat your lunch

Human Resource Professionals: A Big Help for the Growth of Your Company!

The selection of qualified applicants to be future employees of your company is a responsible of your Human Resource Management. Therefore, they should be familiar with the totality of the company – its organization, vision, priorities and objectives. They are accountable on gathering precise information from these aspiring employees so as to avoid misleading and would save time and money.

Your Propensity to Change - How Far Would You Go?

It is easy to dream about an exotic island. It takes a bit more to prepare a trip to this island and spend some time there. But the real challenge is to take your stuff and migrate to this little island. Knowing your propensity to change is knowing - in advance - how far you would go.

Downsizing is Akin to Amputation – It Creates Negative Side Effects

Downsizing is like an amputation, which removes part of one's body but creates side effects such as low staff morale and bad reputation.

Running Businesses Are Like Parenting - If You Love Them You Must Let Them Go

Evaluate your businesses, some may fare better if they are spun off. For others, which are terminally ill, it may be better to close them down and bury them.

Better Health With Less Fats - Do Better With Less

In today's competitive market, the ones that outlast and survive are those that can do more things and programs with lesser resources.

Why Change Fails

With increasing pressure in the workplace, managers are required to continuously improve productivity, grow or contract their operations, outsource or insource, new system here, manage the legacy system there, acquire and dispose. The working environment is continually changing inside organizations, and for our customers it isn’t any easier. There isn’t always a willingness to accept the reality of change inside organizations, but since it’s a reality why do we always make it as hard as possible for ourselves. The key is that although we communicate more than ever, we aren’t good at managing the people-impacts of change.

How You View Change Is How You Do Change - Part Two

The perception we have of ourselves and the world is shaped by our need for stability and security in our lives. Driven by our need to survive both as a body and as a person we default to a perception of change as being threatening and frightening. Of course, if we remain as we are we cannot grow beyond our self-imposed limitations and limiting notions about what we can become and the contributions we can make. Most of us realize this and do make attempts from time to time to get out of the physical, psychological and spiritual ruts that keep us traveling along the same smooth, well-worn paths within our private comfortable universe. Unfortunately, most of our efforts to change go nowhere and wind up fueling our fears that change will be for the worse, not for the better. This failure to launch and consummate change serves to reinforce our pessimistic attitude toward it and harden our perception of the world as being antagonistic to our self-interests.

Sustaining Improvement: Is It a Pipe Dream?

This short think piece, which has been co-authored by Mark Eaton and Simon Phillips, aims to help readers start to think more broadly about the improvement programmes that they are planning (or implementing) to transition or transform their organisation.