Another year is just about ready to finish and it is time to start thinking about next year. If you own your own business or you manage a business division, then you need to ask yourself if all of the expectations that were set forth at the beginning of the year were met. If not then maybe what stopped you was a lack of goals and objectives, or just a lack of a good process to use when planning them. The goal setting process is essential to the success or failure of the busin…
Will You Be a Good Manager? Test Yourself
Manager means to manage any work or an organization. To manage is not that easy. Imagine the size of some of the large organizations.
Scheduling Retail Employees
Scheduling my team has always been one of my least favorite tasks as a retail manager. Its tedious, it takes hours and even when I think I have it right, I probably dont. What makes scheduling a challenge is that you are balancing the demands of individuals on your team with the demands of your business. This can be a very time consuming and frustrating.
Lets say you complete a schedule which took you 2 hours to create. You have carefully made sure everyone has at least…
Hiring the Best – Interviewing Strategies that WORK!
Hiring continues to be key to a companys success. Hiring the right staff with the skills AND characteristics required for success requires behavioral event interviewing. This article provides insights into effective interviewing and hiring.
Managing Upward – Working WITH Your Boss
Increase your effectiveness by working WITH your boss.
Beware The Busy Manager
Only about 10 percent of managers work purposefully to complete important tasks, according to a 10-year study of managerial behavior across a variety of industries. The other 90 percent self-sabotage by busily engaging in non-purposeful activities, procrastinating, detaching from their work and needlessly spinning their wheels.
In a revealing study over a 10-year period, 1993-2003, authors Heike Bruch and Sumantra Ghoshal tracked behaviors of managers in a wide variety of …
Does Your Dress Code Address Flip Flop?
Are your employees wearing flip flops or low rise jeans to work? Maybe its time for you to define a dress code.
Career Test – Are You A Crisis Creator And Manager?
Management by crisis has become one of the most popular terms. These people allow a crisis to develop and then act upon it.