Consensus: The Right Team Decision Strategy?

Consensus is the appropriate decision strategy for the most important group decisions. Every member of your team needs to understand what consensus really means. A common misconception of consensus is that it means everyone agrees with the decision 100 percent.

Building Your Dream Marketing Team

Freelance copywriters and designers can help you grow your business while saving you time and resources. This article covers the key considerations and steps to hiring freelance copywriters and designers.

Intercultural Team Building

The make-up of employees within businesses today are becoming increasingly diverse. The 'intercultural team' is now a commonplace feature of most multinationals and corporations. Although many culturally diverse teams can be positive and creative, many perform badly. Why?

Cross-Cultural Communication: Grin and Jump In!

Multiculturalism is a reality in North America and for those of us who do business globally. The US has more legal immigrants yearly than all the other countries in the world combined. Also there are...

How to Boost Morale In Your Organisation

Who keeps the wheels turning in your organisation? Who holds it all together when chaos reigns supreme? Who can you rely on to run your department/business in your absence? Generally it's the admin/s...

What's Wrong With You, Why Don't You Understand Me?

Recently while waiting for our lunch to be served in a nearby restaurant, my husband Michael and I were discussing our son’s upcoming science fair project. Michael was describing the steps that my s...

Having Trouble Motivating Others? Try WIIFM

Recently my fourteen-year old son Matt dressed up as Santa Claus and attended a Christmas caroling event for one of my professional organizations. Was my son excited about the idea of spending one o...

Do You Want to Get Others to Improve Their Performance? Then Expect the Best

Get your team to reach higher performance levels than ever before. It's easy when you follow these simple steps.

Finding The Leader Within (Keys To Zen Leadership)

Most believe leaders are born not made. Nothing can be further from the truth. There are Zen keys to leadership, which when acted upon, allow any individual to inspire others and to devlop the leader within.

Recruiting Government Workers As Franchisees

Many believe a leaner government promotes better freedoms with respect to free enterprise and the right to free contract. Leaner governments make fewer laws because of their enforcement capabilities. Under our current direction with high government debt loads and low unemployment we will begin to see a downsizing of government at every level.

Team Work and Team Building

So much has been written on this subject; Team Work, it’s almost hard to add any thing at this point. T E A M; TOGETHER EVERYONE ACCOMPLISHES MORE. That is really easy to say and it makes for a great acronym. It seems it has even hit corporate America. They have integrated it into TQM “Total Quality Management”. They call it “team building”.

Conflict Is Cool

Having experienced more than my fair share of conflict over the years, from street fighting to more sophisticated law cases, I have become an avid student of the subject of Conflict Resolution. My bookshelves are full of literature on the topic and the public library is thinking of charging me for overuse.

Franchisor Award Programs; Ideas and Innovation

Franchisors should also be heavy on the award side of motivational material. Award certificates and plaques should be given out to franchisees who perform above expectations. Each franchisor needs to take a look at their business model and find ways to best motivate the team.